Hear Kenny Wayne Shepherd “play his butt off” on Ann Wilson’s new single, Missionary Man By Matt Parker published 9 March 22 The blues ace makes a scorching detour into classic rock territory in his guest appearance with the Heart singer
Moon Tooth's Nick Lee serves up a prog-metal take on Hendrix in Carry Me Home playthrough By Sam Roche published 9 March 22 Lee's Vigier GV Rock is in standard tuning but with the low E string dropped to B, for a modern take on Hendrix-style leads
Funk up your chords with these minimal vamp-friendly blues shapes By Richard Barrett published 9 March 22 When the mix is crowded by other instrumentation, simplifying your chords can help your playing stand out
Andy Timmons supplies soulful vocal guitar lines aplenty in emotive new single, When Words Fail By Matt Owen published 9 March 22 The instrumental effort is the second track to be lifted from Timmons' upcoming Josh Smith-produced album, Electric Truth
Joe Bonamassa shows you how to get 10 different sounds from a Gibson Les Paul using just the knobs and pickups By Joe Bonamassa published 9 March 22 The blues-rock superstar demonstrates how the Les Paul offers powerful EQ options before you touch your amp, and how this can dramatically change the character of your tone – and playing
Watch Sister Rosetta Tharpe shape the future of blues-rock guitar with an incendiary 1964 performance at an English train station By Jackson Maxwell published 8 March 22 Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were on hand to witness this legendary concert, which was filmed for a Granada TV special called Blues and Gospel Train
Nita Strauss shows you how to sweep pick on guitar By Nita Strauss published 8 March 22 The Alice Cooper guitarist shares a primer on the essential shred technique
Harness Joni Mitchell's acoustic imagination with this lesson on dulcimers, altered tunings and cluster chords By George Howlett published 8 March 22 A deep dive into the singer-songwriter's aptitude for experimental tunings, and how you can incorporate them into your own compositions
Billy Gibbons once played a harmonic with his beard, according to Josh Homme By Sam Roche published 4 March 22 “When he was playing the lead on a Queens of the Stone Age song, his beard gently floated down and hit the strings”
Sammy Hagar: Eddie Van Halen recorded the Right Now solo in "pajamas and slippers" By Jackson Maxwell published 3 March 22 The 1991 hit, Hagar says, came incredibly quickly once he finally fit lyrics to Eddie's long-gestating piano part
Hedras flexes his fusion fretboard prowess in the EDM-infused title track of his newly announced album, Angels By Matt Owen published 2 March 22 The virtuoso's new eight-track effort will arrive May 13 via Blood Blast Distribution, and has been previewed with a track that debuts a new Cort Mutility model
Solo in the style of Robben Ford and Josh Smith with this primer on Dorian blues-rock leads By Andy G Jones published 2 March 22 Ford is a master of modal expression and this in-depth lesson takes us through his style, as well as Josh Smith's, and the ways in which the Dorian mode informs our blues-rock vocabulary
Make an impact with 5 expansive open guitar chords By Richard Barrett published 1 March 22 It’s time to make some noise as this lesson demonstrates how using all six strings can make for some big open chords in the key of E major
Steve Vai announces European leg of his upcoming Inviolate World Tour By Sam Roche published 1 March 22 The trek will commence in Glasgow on June 4, comprising 34 dates in total and wrapping up in Barcelona on July 19
The 10 types of string bending, from blues and boomer bends to tweak and tap bends By Milton Mermikides published 25 February 22 Who could have imagined an everyday act of guitar technique would become so controversial? We take a deep dive into bending and see how it's changed over the ages
Learn the rhythm and lead styles of neo-soul virtuoso Jairus Mozee By Simon Barnard published 24 February 22 The multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist has worked with the likes of Prince and Anderson .Paak, and his style blends alternate picking with hybrid and sweep picking
Watch Eric Gales and Carlos Santana share the stage at the 1994 Woodstock Festival By Matt Owen published 23 February 22 A young Gales featured alongside his godfather for a blistering five-minute performance, which included all the hallmarks of what would become his own brand of blues
How to solo using the CAGED scale By Richard Barrett published 22 February 22 Using partial chords and doublestops with regular pentatonics, this lesson offers a soloing strategy that's easy on the tendons and big on expression
Mateus Asato shares blissful instrumental reimagining of Tears For Fears’ Everybody Wants To Rule The World By Matt Owen published 21 February 22 Harmonic chimes, silky double-stop slides and a surgical combination of three separate musical lines head up Asato's latest fingerstyle workout
5 soloing ideas you can learn from Tony MacAlpine By Charlie Griffiths published 21 February 22 One of Mike Varney’s original Shrapnel shredders, MacAlpine marries speed and technicality with a strong melodic sensibility
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