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"We’re thinking, why would we do someone else’s song? Why can’t you take one of our songs?": How Simple Minds' Don't You (Forget About Me) eventually became the perfect meeting of worlds – but two other stars turned it down first

They didn't want to record Keith Forsey's song, but it became a US No. 1 for the Glasgow band via The Breakfast Club and fan John Hughes

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“How do you play that right hand?”: Watch Toto’s David Paich and Steve Porcaro playing Rosanna and Africa on the Steinway grand piano that they were originally recorded on more than 40 years ago

We also get snippets of Hold The Line and Michael Jackson’s Human Nature, as Paich and Porcaro head back to Sunset Sound recording studio in Hollywood

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Punk Labs' OneTrick Keys is a lo-fi keys plugin based on a "vintage" physical modelling algorithm developed in the '90s

With six onboard effects, this synth plugin has more than one trick up its sleeve

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"I have tremendous problems with some of my own tunes, unless they’re particularly simple": Remembering the musical mind, self-deprecation and wisdom of Allan Holdsworth

We go back to 1987 with one of guitar's true originals: "The basic major7 chord – the first one you probably learn on the guitar – is absolutely offensive to me"

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“Packs a mighty punch for such a compact sub”: Kali Audio WS-6.2 studio sub review

We get big bass tones from a sub that punches way above its size

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Moog Music is leaving its iconic Asheville headquarters, as company president Joe Richardson says that the workforce had to be “rationalised” following the InMusic takeover

"With any transition like this, where there is an acquisition, there's a number of roles that become redundant or roles that already existed in the organisation,” he says

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“When somebody buys my signature Duesenberg in a store, they're buying exactly what I play on stage”: Dave Baksh of Sum 41 interview

Dave Baksh lifts the lid on the gear used to record Sum 41’s last-ever album and details the benefits of a digital rig and recording remotely

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"What a talent. What a character": Tributes to Steve Harley, Cockney Rebel star, who has died aged 73

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“I think that the whole band was kind of misunderstood by everybody, and it gave us a sort of an edge, you know": The story of Cream's Disraeli Gears

How Baker, Bruce and Clapton transcended their (and their management's) very different ambitions for Cream to track a '60s masterpiece

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“A well-made budget headphone for recording”: the t.bone HD 515 review

We try these new headphones from Thomann’s low cost brand. Can they provide a meaty sound?

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The beginner keyboard checklist: all the essentials you need to start playing today

Our pick of the must-have accessories that will bring music to the ears of every beginner keyboard player

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Capture the essence of one of the most revered guitarists of all time: Learn Allan Holdsworth’s mind-blowing signature techniques

Studying a true guitar-playing original

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"He wrote it for me, but the record company had the power to prevent any other record coming out and they said, ‘This is a number one smash: Beck doesn’t get this’”: The story of the Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck connection

Denied the song Stevie Wonder wrote for him, he instead gifted the guitarist a composition that would inspire one of his greatest performances

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The fearsome 'spider' lick can speed up your guitar solos - here's how to try it

Played at speed, the fearsome ‘spider’ lick is a challenging two-hand workout. Slow it down and you have a great finger exercise for any guitarist…

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“Come for the otherworldly pads, stay for the surprisingly hard-hitting bass”: Baby Audio Atoms review

A network of springs? A shape-shifting violin? We attempt to explain Baby Audio’s new synth…

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“This one thing has replaced 95% of my rig”: ex-Guns N’ Roses guitar virtuoso Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal picks his 3 essential pieces of gear

Bumblefoot talks tone and changes as he returns with new band Whom Gods Destroy: "Over the pandemic, I feel like my vibrato changed"

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Let’s make a track in the style of Fred Again.. and DJ Seinfeld

Watch us build a melodic house track using FM’s Sample Archive in under an hour

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How to grasp the mechanics of polysynths vs monosynths

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The producer's guide to the Pultec EQP-1: "Its beauty lies in the the extraordinary character you get when you disobey what you’re told to do by the manual!"

This 1950s EQ is still one of the most in-demand processors around, so much so that you can find many (many) hardware and software emulations. But just why is the Pultec EQP-1 such a revered machine?

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“Trying to get all of us in here was a game of Tetris”: Justin Timberlake and his 14-strong band, The Tennessee Kids, put on a sparkling Tiny Desk Concert

25-minute set drops to coincide with the launch of new album, Everything I Thought It Was

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“The lesser amount that the guitar shuts the string down the better the guitar is”: Paul Reed Smith explains what makes a good guitar – does yours pass his test?

There are all kinds of factors that go into making a great guitar but the PRS Guitars boss explains how telling good from bad can be as simple as taking out a stopwatch

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Learn 60 guitar chords in 20 minutes with this simple tutorial

Ever felt you didn’t know enough chords? We look at the technique that will take your chord vocabulary into double and even treble figures

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"It’s hard to think of a better or more affordable way of getting into high-quality smart audio than this": WiiM Amp

It looks like a Mac mini, but could actually be the hub of your next music streaming and hi-fi setup

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“Brian May did an entire section, about a dozen guitar harmonies:” Mark Knopfler’s all-star Guitar Heroes charity single, Going Home, is released – but who played what?

Featuring over 50 A-list guitarists, the expanded Local Hero theme opens with Jeff Beck's final solo, has Joan Armatrading rocking on electric and May going harmony mad to raise money for teen cancer charities

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What does the music from Star Wars sound like when played on an MPE keyboard controller? Something like this

The pressure-sensitivity is strong in this one

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