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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

Still ignoring the metronome? These seven examples prove it’s the secret weapon behind precision, speed, and control

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

Tapped harmonics were among Eddie Van Halen's trademark techniques. Learn how to make your guitar scream and sing

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

Jimmy Page often employed dissonant chords with Led Zep and you can, too. You don't even need to know the name of the chord to use them

Foley returns with four ways you can freshen up those blues licks and assert your personality upon the material