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“These techniques are very effective for giving your lines a slippery, rubber band-like sound”: Steve Vai and Guthrie Govan love these long-slide glissando techniques – here’s how you can bring them into your playing

In his latest column, Andy Wood taps into what he learned from Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan and Eric Johnson and applied to the melodies on his new album, Charisma

Guitar World

“This year has been one long vulgar display of Bowers”: The best guitar songs of 2024 – as chosen by Guitar World editors and pro players

With the help of pals including Eric Gales and Vernon Reid, we run down the songs that lit up the guitar-o-sphere this year, including a remarkable hardcore breakthrough, a virtuoso collab for the ages and the prodigy that everyone’s talking about

Guitar World

“I played the tapped section on the demo almost as a joke, but my engineer said, ‘That has to be on the record!’” Tapping on a country album? Don't knock it ’til you’ve tried it, says Andy Wood

How Eddie Van Halen-style tapping can add spice to a country guitar solo

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Feel like your solos don’t quite sing? The key is using the right articulations to make your guitar “speak” to audiences

Andy Wood walks us through some strategies for making your guitar truly sing

Guitar World

Cook up your own “musical gumbo” with this lesson in how to use bluegrass alternate picking in rock

In Andy Wood's tribute to the Dixie Dregs' Steve Morse, there is plenty of insight into how bluegrass and rock can be great fretboard bedfellows

Guitar World

Understanding and recognizing guitar intervals is a fundamental musical skill – this lesson will train both brain and ear and enhance your melodic sensibility

Andy Wood's debut column for Guitar World is an essential study for players looking to have a greater knowledge of the fretboard and how root notes relate with each individual note in a melody

Guitar World

Andy Wood demos his ultimate Van Halen pedalboard rig and it sounds as spectacular as we hoped

The gear and the chops

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Has guitarist Andy Wood just made the ultimate Eddie Van Halen pedalboard?

Expert choices here – and even the 'board has the stripes

MusicRadar

"This is a song I wrote as a goodbye to my friend Chris Cornell" – Pearl Jam's Mike McCready performs rare live vocal performance with tribute song

Crying Moon is the guitarist's salute to his late Temple Of The Dog bandmate

MusicRadar

“Cameron Crowe said, ‘This is killer, it’s awesome!’”: Jerry Cantrell on how he wrote Alice In Chains’ classic hit Would?

The Alice In Chains songwriter was still grieving the death of Mother Love Bone's Andrew Wood when he wrote the song for Crowe’s 1992 grunge film Singles

Louder

Rock’s 20 greatest one album wonders: the bands that made one album then vanished

They came, they saw, they vanished – these are the bands who made one perfect album then split up

Louder

US Southern Baptist Convention upholds expulsion of churches over female pastors

California-based Saddleback megachurch and Fern Creek Baptist church, a smaller congregation in Kentucky, were both expelled

The Guardian - US

Saddleback Church loses appeal over ouster from Southern Baptist Convention

In a vote by more than 12,000 delegates at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting, Saddleback Church has lost its appeal of being expelled from the convention over having women in the role of pastors; it was announced Wednesday morning.

The Orange County Register

Saddleback's Rick Warren ramps up appeals to Southern Baptists to let church with women pastors stay

Retired pastor Rick Warren, author of “The Purpose Driven Life,” is intensifying a media blitz in what he acknowledges may be a lost cause

The Independent UK

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Guitar World

Download and stream the audio from Guitar Techniques 349

All of the videos, backing tracks and audio from issue 349 of Guitar Techniques, to download and stream

The Independent UK

Saddleback Church appealing its ouster from the Southern Baptists on issue of women pastors

The Southern Baptist Convention says that Saddleback Church is appealing its ouster from the denomination for having women pastors on staff

Insider UK

CBI suspends policy and membership activities after exodus

A second unnamed employee alleged that she had been raped by a colleague in an article on Friday

The Guardian - UK

Business leaders call for CBI to disband in wake of allegations

Lobbying group ‘run its course’ as top firms leave after Guardian revelations over alleged sexual misconduct

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The Guardian - UK

Members considering whether to leave CBI after Guardian allegations

Confederation of British Industry promises to reveal early findings from investigation next week

Crikey

Democracy on the slow train to Goulburn, where the Big Merino rules

The Liberals hold the regional seat by 3%. If it goes, so goes the government.

The Independent UK

Saddleback Church doubles down on support for female pastors

Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California, was one of five churches expelled by the Southern Baptist Convention for having women pastors on staff

Los Angeles Times

'A very dangerous course': What Saddleback Church ouster means for Southern Baptists

Last week the Southern Baptist Convention ousted Saddleback Church, one of its largest and highest-profile member churches, from its ranks. The reason? Because after the Orange County megachurch ordained three women as associate pastors, it named Stacie Wood, wife of the church's senior pastor, Andy Wood, a teaching pastor.

The Guardian - US

Southern Baptists expel Saddleback megachurch over female pastor

Evangelical group says church ‘not in friendly cooperation with the convention’ following appointment of Stacie Wood

The Independent UK

Southern Baptists oust Saddleback Church over woman pastor

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted its second-largest church — Saddleback Church — for having a woman pastor

The Independent UK

Teenager appears in court charged with murder of boy, 16

Elijah Clark, 18, appeared before Colchester Magistrates’ Court on Thursday.

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