This week, Martin – in partnership with Guitar World – kicked off the first round of its No Limits Enviornment competition.
The principle quarterfinal round of the competition – which sees eight guitarists face off in opposition to one one more, keeping tunes you might perhaps perchance presumably well not basically affiliate with an acoustic using a Martin SC mannequin – seen Ruben Wan and Helen Ibe score on a pair of funk/R&B classics.
Wan keep an acoustic dash on Future’s Kid’s Express My Title, whereas Ibe took a swing at David Bowie’s Fame.
We requested Guitar World‘s readers – with the lend a hand of GW‘s editors – to weigh in, and vote for their favorite of the two covers. Each were impossible, nevertheless within the discontinue, Helen Ibe’s extremely-funky score on Fame received the day, and evolved her to the semifinal round.
Each round of the competition revolves round two guitarists keeping classics of a certain vogue. The loads of three quarterfinals are ’80s rock, ’90s rock and classic rock-themed, respectively. There’ll seemingly be two vogue-based face-offs within the semifinals, and the winners of those, of route, will reach to the finals.
Plot certain to envision help on Monday to search the following quarterfinal match-up, which is in a keep to evaluate RJ Ronquillo and Colin Scott kind out a pair of classic rock standards.
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Jackson is an Affiliate Editor at GuitarWorld.com. He’s been writing and bettering experiences about novel equipment, technique and guitar-driven track both outdated and novel since 2014, and has also written broadly on the same issues for Guitar Participant (opens in novel tab). In other places, his album critiques and essays procure appeared in Louder (opens in novel tab) and Unrecorded (opens in novel tab). Though delivery to track of all forms, his finest admire has repeatedly been indie, and the full lot that falls under its big umbrella. To that discontinue, yow will stumble on him on Twitter crowing about regardless of big novel guitar band or not it’s miles a have to to plunge the full lot to hear appropriate now.
