Artist Lessons

Turnarounds come around within the last four bars of a 12-bar blues progression and getting them right puts the cherry on top of the sundae

Zeppelin’s power lay in their timing, the low-end giant explains, but there was more in the method to the band's madness

Taking what he learned from Leslie West, Eric Clapton and Paul Kossoff, Jared James Nichols shows us just how to work the pocket and give our playing the personality it needs

Set your phone on silent, your brain on shuffle. JoBo has a blues lesson coming in hot

The kingpin of funky strumming defers to the O.G. – as Wong explains what he learned from the Chic master

Stay cosmic with this lesson in how Carlos Santana took the blues as practiced by B.B. King and Peter Green, plus the new radical rock styles of the '60s, and put his signature spin on them

They may have played a huge role in bringing heaviness and triple-digit onstage decibel counts to rock, but as bassist John Paul Jones explains, Zeppelin were also masters of silence

Albert King played upside down, in a weird tuning, and influenced SRV and Hendrix alike, and he did it without a pick. So it's no surprise Nichols is a huge fan – he breaks down King's magic

Foley returns with four ways you can freshen up those blues licks and assert your personality upon the material

Eric Johnson's playing is inspiring but bamboozling. How does he sound so fluid? Well, Joe Bonamassa has some thoughts (and four examples) on how we can nail Johnson's style