if you’ve got plenty of feeling but your technique lets you down - try playing the blues

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What Goes On

Cover Versions

Why do them, how do them, when do them.

Now it's time to learn the easy four-chord turnaround: write great pop songs, make money etc.

past archives

The monthly miscellany gets stuck into the trivia

in Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe

Session player Julian Colbeck tells the tale of how he got the gig as support keyboard player for Rick Wakeman on the recent Anderson, Bruford, Wakeman, Howe world tour, and runs through the instrumentation he and Rick used on stage.

keith richard

A look at Molinare video studios

Castleridge Studios

H&SR takes a look at its first Australian studio. The locals couldn't give a Castleridgexxx for anything else.

Andy Partridge tracks up

Framus Guitars

The history of Framus guitars, by request.

Dave Sinclair sorts out seven significant strikers

How much do musicians really earn? The rich ones (ahem) the poor ones (definitely).

Six heavy people choose their 30 favourite riffs.

six heavy metallurgists pick their favourites - Joan Jett, Punky Mendoza, Graham Oliver, Paul Quinn, Mick Ralphs, Paul Samson

Six of our favourite drummers choose 30 of their favourite drum tracks.

the school of self-education

Their trials and tribulations.

what's missing in A Cappella

The World's Best Songwriters

four stars choose their favourite songsters - Fish, Vince Clarke, Edwyn Collins, Chris Difford