Pierre Bensusan's Etude Salsa

Jul 14 2011 12:00AM
THIS “ÉTUDE,” OR STUDY, IS AN excerpt from the composition “Agadiramadan” from my album Intuite (which is also published in The Intuite Guitar Book). 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...

Hey Jazz Guy

Jun 1 2010 1:00AM
Hey Jazz Guy, Can you explain the basic concept of a IIm-V progression and why it’s so important? More...

How to Play LIke .... The Edge

Mar 16 2010 3:30PM
With his chimey harmonics, droning intervals, shimmering echoes, and huge arpeggios, U2’s The Edge (born David Evans) transcends the traditional role of a rhythm or lead guitarist to produce a driving, piano-like sound. In the More...

Expanded Harmony with Pentatonics

Jul 1 2009 3:55AM
EVERYONE LOVES THE PENTATONIC SCALE, but everyone is bored to tears by the same old application of it. On guitar, by far the most common improvisation/soloing applications of the minor pentatonic scale are the following: More...

Open Secrets: Vicki Genfan Shows You the Techniques that Helped Crown Her GP’s 2008 GUITAR SUPERSTAR

Jul 1 2009 3:25AM
ON THE NIGHT OF SEPTEMBER 13TH, 2008, AFTER WITNESSING HER mind-blowing performance of an original composition entitled “Atomic Reshuffle,” a panel of guitardom’s elite dubbed Vicki Genfan Guitar Player’s 2008 Guitar 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...

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...

Frank Zappa - Guitar Heroes A-Z

Oct 29 2007 4:40PM
Albums by Frank Zappa 1940 1993 have always been found in the rock bins in record stores, but pigeonholing Zappa as a rock artist is a bit like labeling Johann Sebastian Bach a church organist—it only tells a small part More...