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It worked for the Beatles on Yesterday – add intrigue to your songs and solos with the melodic minor scale
Get to grips with this invaluable and interesting addition to the songwriter's vocabulary used by Paul McCartney and jazzers alike
Judith Hill on her journey from backing singer for Michael Jackson, Prince and Stevie Wonder to fronting her own band
The 20 Feet From Stardom singer worked with – and learned from – the biggest names in pop before she seized a six-string and formed her own group
Learn the trailblazing style of John McLaughlin, one of the true pioneers of jazz-rock fusion
McLaughlin's experiments with complex harmony, Eastern scales, and chromaticism – in conjunction with the rigs associated with the rock and proto-metal players of the late 1960s and early 70s – cemented his position as the well-spring of fusion guitar at a crucial moment
“Gretsch’s most exciting release of the year. A genuine joy to play”: Gretsch Electromatic Jack Antonoff Signature "Princess Antonoff" CVT review
Gretsch's collaboration with the Bleachers mainman and Taylor Swift collaborator is a versatile surprise
Mateus Asato is a modern master of combined rhythm and lead playing – he shares his poetic soloing secrets
No one mixes genres like Mateus Asato, and in this lesson brought to you in partnership with JTC Guitar, the neo-soul master brings funk, jazz and soul together in exercises to improve your use of ghost notes and double-stops
“A slightly different and very usable character”: Radioshop Telecaster Wiring Mod review
‘Modern’ Telecaster wiring, as it is so often called, is now 57 years old. But Radioshop Pickups has come up with a new spin, and we are very much here for it
A pioneering protest singer, American folk legend Joan Baez draws on jazz and flamenco for her intricate picking patterns
Ever since the '60s, Joan Baez has delivered a message with her music, but she was never going to be a two-chord folkie with a bellyful of fire. Her sound takes from jazz and flamenco with picking patterns that are as good as a fingerprint
Ritchie Blackmore recalls buying his first Gibson from amp pioneer Jim Marshall's music store
Blackmore used the Gibson ES-335 all throughout the '60s, from The Outlaws to Deep Purple’s 1970 breakthrough album, In Rock
Tele obsessive John 5 provides the ultimate test for Fender’s new American Ultra II series
The versatile shredder owns over 100 different Telecasters, but he’s full of praise for the upgrades that have been fitted to its latest iteration
What if Jimi Hendrix jammed with Eric Clapton, or Gary Moore traded solos with Joe Bonamassa? We imagine 5 all-star fantasy blues jams and what they would sound like
Welcome to an all-star fantasy blues jam, featuring a greatest hits of blues players, their signature licks, and how to put them together and incorporate them in your own playing
