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January 2013

Talkin' Blues: Lonnie Mack and the Birth of Blues-Rock

Posted 12/04/2012 at 12:46pm | by Keith Wyatt

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Fifty years ago, during the short interlude between Elvis and the Beatles, there was a brief sighting of that rarest of species: the “instrumental hit record.” Riding on the coattails of surf music came a spate of non-vocal bestsellers in styles ranging from cool R&B (Booker T. & the MGs’ “Green Onions”) to funky piano jazz (Ramsey Lewis’ “The In Crowd”) to shuffle blues (Freddie King’s “Hide Away”).

Metal For Life: Mastering the Art of Vibrato

Posted 12/04/2012 at 12:16pm | by Metal Mike Chlasciak

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Vibrato technique is an essential aspect of guitar playing, and one that, unfortunately, many players often overlook or give insufficient attention to. Every great guitar player you can think of—Eddie Van Halen, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck and Yngwie Malmsteen, to name but a few—has an array of powerful vibrato techniques that makes his playing spring to life with vitality, energy and emotion.

All That Jazz: The Art of Songwriting, and How to Play “War Torn Johnny,” Part One

Posted 12/04/2012 at 12:14pm | by Wayne Krantz

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This month, I’d like to address the sometimes tricky process of songwriting. Most of my songs start as a germ of an idea that comes to me during an improvisation. I’ll have a cool little nugget of “stuff” that catches my interest enough that I am inspired to investigate it further and perhaps forge a composition from it.

Prog-Gnosis: Making Odd Meters Feel Natural, and How to Play “Cylindrical Sea”

Posted 12/04/2012 at 12:12pm | by Tosin Abasi

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A signature element in the songwriting techniques I use with my band Animals as Leaders is the incorporation of unusual time signatures, also known as odd meters. In the quest for fresh-sounding new music, we will often superimpose different meters and/or syncopations on top of one another, a technique explored to great extent by many of today’s progressive rock and metal bands, such as Periphery, Dillinger Escape Plan and, of course, Meshuggah.

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