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Joe Bonamassa pays homage to Duane Eddy – and reminds us why the “Titan of Twang” was a great blues player, too
By Joe Bonamassa published
After saluting the late, great Duane Eddy at his tribute show in Nashville, Bonamassa serves up a video and tab lesson that shows us what we can learn from a rock ’n’ roll trailblazer

“I look at guitar playing as a dance between both hands…” John Butler shares his secrets in this stunning masterclass
By John Butler published
Wild tunings, double thumbing and chicken picking. Sometimes with an 11-string. The Australian acoustic wizard's stunning “weird b****** way”, played and explained

Rhythm guitar master Cory Wong shares his secrets to perfect pick-hand timing
By Cory Wong published
Cory Wong's strumming boot camp will sharpen those rhythm instincts

Sue Foley shows you how to nail blues turnarounds
By Sue Foley published
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

The key element that ties together three Led Zeppelin classics
By John Paul Jones published
Zeppelin’s power lay in their timing, the low-end giant explains, but there was more in the method to the band's madness

Jared James Nichols on how to play behind and ahead of the beat in the blues
By Jared James Nichols published
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

Joe Bonamassa invites you to join him on blues shuffle – don’t worry, he’ll show you the notes
By Joe Bonamassa published
Set your phone on silent, your brain on shuffle. JoBo has a blues lesson coming in hot

Cory Wong on the most important technique you can learn from Nile Rodgers
By Cory Wong published
The kingpin of funky strumming defers to the O.G. – as Wong explains what he learned from the Chic master

Decoding the magic of Carlos Santana’s supernatural soloing style
By Richard Barrett published
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

John Paul Jones explains one of the key ingredients of some of Led Zeppelin's greatest riffs
By John Paul Jones published
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
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