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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
