Jason Sidwell

Jason Sidwell

Senior Music Editor, Guitar Techniques

Jason Sidwell (BA Hons, MA, ALCM) is senior tuition editor for Guitar Techniques, Guitarist and Total Guitar who has written and edited over 20,000 articles since 1998. As an educator he is an advisor/guest tutor for UK music academies/examining institutions, a director for the International Guitar Foundation (IGF) and author of How to Play Guitar Step by Step (Dorling Kindersley) and tutorials for The Guardian and Observer newspapers. Outside of journalism, he is a classical guitar performer and works regularly for theatre productions and studio sessions.

Latest articles by Jason Sidwell

American rock guitarist and singer Jimi Hendrix (1942-1970) performs live on stage playing a white Fender Stratocaster guitar with The Jimi Hendrix Experience at the Royal Albert Hall in London on 24th February 1969. Image is part of David Redfern Premium Collection.

"He brought the elements of expression that a voice has: sliding, bending and the best vibrato anyone had heard in 1966. Guitar was NOT built to do that!" What Jimi Hendrix means to me – by some of the world's greatest guitar players

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Jimi Hendrix was born on November 27, 1942. Here, Eric Gales, Paul Gilbert, Jennifer Batten, Joe Bonamassa, Kirk Fletcher, Steve Lukather, Joe Satriani and more talk about his enduring legacy

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