Get a private blues lesson from ZZ Top's Billy Gibbons By Guitar World Staff Billy Gibbons teaches you the blues tunes that inspired him to play guitar
Metallica's Kirk Hammett: how to play like Stevie Ray Vaughan By Kirk Hammett Learn how to play like a blues guitar legend, from an unexpected source!
These smooth BB King licks work for more than just blues By Matt Warnock How to use BB's blues ideas in a jazz context
Robert Johnson: Unlock the guitar mysteries of the Delta blues great By Andy Aledort Learn the variety of picking techniques and tunings that Johnson used to craft his timeless, deeply emotional music
Freddie King lesson: go in deep with a blues guitar legend By Andy Aledort King's hard-driving intensity gave his guitar lines and solos a fiery spirit
Guitar modes: how to learn all seven major modes the easy way By Matt Warnock A quick-fire route to mastering the modes
Master some useful melodic tactics for a minor jazz-blues progression By Jimmy Brown In this lesson, learn some cool, musically effective things to play over a rather dark, intriguing set of chord changes
Make your blues solos awesome using dominant seven chords By Andy Aledort Many blues songs are built around major-key progressions based on this shape
Three Essential Jazz Guitar Chord Soloing Lines By Matt Warnock Study three jazz chord soloing lines that will bridge the gap between your study of chord shapes and applying those shapes to a real, musical situation.
Allan Holdsworth's 10 Most Useful Scales By Damian Fanelli Sit back and get a comprehensive lesson in scales from the great Allan Holdsworth.
Melodic Minor Modes Made Easy By Matt Warnock Learning how to play the seven modes of melodic minor is an essential skill any guitarist should have in their soloing tool belt.
Exploring Slide Guitar in Open E Tuning By Andy Aledort Learn how to master one of the most distinctive sounds in blues and rock music.
Essential Guitar Licks: Stevie Ray Vaughan's "The Sky Is Crying" Bends By Guitar World Staff Pick up a useful, Albert King-inspired bending lick by Stevie Ray Vaughan.
An Introduction to the Tritone Scale By Matt Warnock A short introduction to the tritone scale, its construction, how to use it and some basic fingerings for this scale on the guitar.
Colorful Jazz-Blues Chord Substitutions By Jimmy Brown Some commonly used variations that adventurous musicians will often interject into their playing.
Essential Guitar Licks: Albert King Funk-Blues à la “Born Under a Bad Sign” By Guitar World Staff Learn a blistering funk-blues lick in the style of the late, great Albert King.
Five Must-Know ii-V-I Chord Subs By Matt Warnock Learning how to play and apply these subs to your chord work and single-note solos can add an extra layer of harmonic sophistication to your playing.
This Stevie Ray Vaughan Technique Can Help You Nail His Style By Christopher Scapelliti Pick up a whole bunch of cool SRV techniques.
Adding Tension to the Minor Jazz-Blues Progression By Jimmy Brown Learn some cool variations of this progression that feature added chord changes and spicier harmony and voice-leading.
Blues Shapes: Using Triadic Forms as Soloing Templates By Andy Aledort Chord forms can provide useful templates of fretboard shapes for improvising melodic lines.
