Joe Bonamassa on Minor Blues Soloing

Sep 1,2010
IN OUR LAST INSTALLMENT WE SAW JOE Bonamassa take us through a sweet and sorrowful minor blues progression. Now he’s going to show you how to work through your sadness by absolutely shredding over those same changes. Before More...

Guest Guru : Joe Satriani’s Blues Bends and Slides

Oct 20,2008
How was this kid playing the blues scale differently than you were? When I went to his house to see him play, I was stunned, because he was one huge leap ahead of me. I mean, I knew the scale, but until I ran into him, I had More...

Sonny Landreth Master Class

Oct 17,2008
LIKE THOSE FAMOUS FICTIONAL KIDS who discover the gateway to Narnia in the back of a magical wardrobe, Sonny Landreth, too, has stumbled on a portal to another world—not one of lions and witches, but one of inspiring new More...

Intros and Endings GITs Dale Turner Shares Ten Cool Ways to Get In and Out of Songs

Oct 1,2009
“THERE’S NO DISPUTING THAT WHEN you hear this,” says Dale Turner, playing Ex. 1, “it’s kicking off something.” No doubt. Play through the familiar intro once yourself, and it’s hard not to expect juggling clowns, More...

Bob Brozman on Getting Into Open G

May 1,2010
FOR A LOT OF GUITARISTS, learning to play in an open or altered tuning is one of those things that seems like a great idea, and we sure dig it when we hear other people do it, but we never get around to it. That all changes More...

Joe Bonamassa on Non-Boring Blues Chording

May 1,2010
“THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM for ‘soloists,’” says Bonamassa, “is that we play chords more than we do leads. There are a couple of rules when you’re playing rhythm guitar, especially when you’re jamming with other people: More...

Bob Brozman on Getting Deeper into Open-G

Jun 1,2010
Bob Brozman gave us the gateway drug into open-G playing in the May issue with a swampolicious one-chord blues. But what if we want to play more than one chord?   “If you want to suggest every major and minor chord on the More...

Joe Bonamassa on Non-Boring Blues Chording Part 2

Jun 1,2010
Last month, Joe Bonamassa showed us how to prevent a standard blues progression from sounding too standard. This month, he takes things up a few notches. “A guy named Danny Gatton showed this to me a long time ago,” he More...

Bob Brozman on Open-G Around the World

Jul 1,2010
IF YOU HAVEN’T TUNED ONE OF YOUR guitars to open G yet (D, G, D, G, B, D low to high), you’re missing out! Last month, Bob Brozman showed us how to play a righteous fingerstyle blues using simple, two-note shapes. As More...

GITs Dean Brown Maps the DNA of the Great American Groove

Jul 1,2010
“EVER BEEN TO THE EXPERIENCE MUSIC Project in Seattle?” asks Dean Brown. “You gotta go. They have that big Hendrix exhibit, and one cool thing you can do there is listen to famous Hendrix tunes with the different tracks More...

Robot Invasion Further Experiments with Diminished Transformers

Jul 1,2010
IN LAST MONTH’S LESSON [“Diminished Transformers,” June 2010 GP], we explored the concept of unfolding a diminished 7 chord into four dominant 7s, an idea we can attribute to Pat Martino. We compared this process to More...

10 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like B.B. King

Jul 1,2007
FROM HIS HUMBLE BEGINNINGS AS A PLANTATION WORKER TO HIS RISE TO WORLD-CLASS STATUS AS KING OF THE BLUES, B.B. KING not only personifies every guitarist’s version of the great American dream, he stands as a true model among More...

10 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like Johnny Winter

Jan 10,2008
LET'S SET THE RECORD STRAIGHT. In the wake of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s meteoric rise to fame and subsequent legacy, there may exist generations who have either forgotten or never knew that another Texas guitarist had already More...

Deep-Pocket Shuffles

Dec 21,2005
Whether playing rhythm guitar by yourself or sharing the duties with another guitarist or keyboard player, it’s important to play with intensity, all the while keeping the groove focused, concise, and—as musicians like to More...

Quick Licks April 2010

Apr 1,2010
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