Bassist Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead, passed away recently at the age of 84. Phil was one of the ...

It’s fair to say that among fusion aficionados, John McLaughlin is the father of jazz-rock guitar. His experiments with ...

You have the guitar at some of the most intimate moments ... I move one semitone of the four notes together, to take it from ...

“When guitar players first started incorporating ... and sticks mainly to position one of the pentatonic scale an octave up the neck in the same key. The bends feel that much wider and the ...

“I have been dreaming of bringing the Ethiopian pentatonic scales, melodies of the highlands ... The hum of the wooden ribbed Guiro, staccato guitar and chirping flutes swelled into an ...

Learning to play this on keyboard, guitar or ipad will be helpful ... riffs or notes from a minor pentatonic (five note) scale. You could also go on to add lyrics. Taking an existing melody ...

Hendrix would dance around the fret, making the pentatonic scale look like it was developed with his guitar in mind, as he moved around notes effortlessly and gave people something different at every ...

Even though Jimmy Page never took his title of guitar hero all that ... still playing from that same pentatonic box that every single rock guitarist starts out with. Listening to many blues musicians, ...

“I think I’m quite lucky that – like ‘em or not – my voice and my guitar playing are distinctive ... Dung fourth movement of the suite where Gilmour brings in his iconic, pentatonic soloing featuring ...

Possibly the most important thing to understand when building a guitar is scale length. It’s the foundation of getting the frets in the right positions so that the notes can be played all along ...