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.
Infusing Major Pentatonic Patterns with Chromatic Passing Tones By Andy Aledort Learn some cool approaches to improvising over an Emaj7-Bm7 chord progression.
Killer Vibrato: How to Master Five Essential Performance Techniques By Guitar World Staff Add some personality to your playing with these five essential techniques.
How to Play Jazzy Jimi Hendrix Chords By Matt Warnock Learn how you can take the Hendrix Chord and apply it to jazz guitar comping phrases.
Soloing with the Mixed Blues Scale By Matt Warnock This cool-sounding scale can jazz up your blues solos in no time. Give it a try!
Five Essential Blues Licks from Jimi Hendrix, T-Bone Walker, Elmore James, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Johnny Winter By Guitar World Staff Regardless of what style music you play, it will do your ears and your chops good to go through each of these licks.
How to Create Flowing, Stylish Licks Like Eric Clapton By Andy Aledort When it comes to spontaneous, improvised phrasing, there is perhaps no better blues-rock guitarist than Eric Clapton.
The Most Important Jazz Guitar Chord By Tyler Larson Believe it or not, you’ve probably already played one or two shapes of this chord.
Brian Setzer: How to Shred Like a Rockabilly Master By Damian Fanelli Learn three of Brian Setzer's most ferocious riffs.
The DIY Musician: Five Reasons You Suck at Slide Guitar By Shane Speal Five roadblocks that might be keeping you from sliding.
How to Play Guitar Like Delta Blues Legend Son House By Dale Turner Learn some of the tricks and techniques of blues guitar legend Son House.
Riffs in the Key of Sister Rosetta Tharpe By Damian Fanelli and Jonathan Graham Learn some of the licks Sister Rosetta used and how to apply them into a traditional gospel chord progression and beyond.
How to Play Stevie Ray Vaughan’s “Pride and Joy” Sliding Chords By Chris Scapelliti A guitar solo is the highlight of any Stevie Ray Vaughan song, and the solos he performed in his 1983 hit “Pride and Joy” are among his finest.
