Joe Bonamassa on Non-Boring Blues Chording Part 2

Jun 1 2010 1:00AM
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. More...

Joe Bonamassa on Non-Boring Blues Chording

May 1 2010 1:00AM
“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...

Robot Invasion Further Experiments with Diminished Transformers

Jul 1 2010 1:00AM
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. More...

GITs Dean Brown Maps the DNA of the Great American Groove

Jul 1 2010 1:00AM
“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 isolated. More...

Bob Brozman on Open-G Around the World

Jul 1 2010 1:00AM
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. More...

Bob Brozman on Getting Deeper into Open-G

Jun 1 2010 1:00AM
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? More...

Guest Guru : Joe Satriani’s Blues Bends and Slides

Oct 20 2008 4:55PM
ASKED WHAT HIS BIGGEST EPIPHANY was as a budding guitarist, Joe Satriani recalls a day growing up on Long Island when “some kid from the next town over” showed him the true firepower of the blues scale [Ex. 1]. More...

Bob Brozman on Getting Into Open G

May 1 2010 1:00AM
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...

Quick Licks April 2010

Apr 1 2010 1:00AM
Dig into these bite-sized mini-lessons on cascades, turnarounds, pop voicings, and more! More...

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

Oct 1 2009 2:40PM
“THERE’S NO DISPUTING THAT WHEN you hear this,” says Dale Turner, playing Ex. 1, “it’s kicking off something.” More...

Sonny Landreth Master Class

Oct 17 2008 4:55PM
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 riffs, More...

10 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like Johnny Winter

Jan 10 2008 1:20PM
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 been More...

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

Jul 1 2007 12:00AM
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...

Deep-Pocket Shuffles

Dec 21 2005 12:00AM
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 say—in More...

Burnin’ on “Blackberry Blossom”

Oct 20 2005 12:00AM
Some of the most melodic licks you can possibly play on guitar are those you steal from mandolin players. In my first lesson feature in Guitar Player [“Fire and Flow,” July ’02] I showed you one of my favorites [Ex. 1], a More...

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