When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Jun Sato/WireImage/Getty Images As guitarists, we’re always looking for new sounds and ...
Joe Bonamassa is one of the most successful and significant guitar players on the blues-rock scene today. If by some chance you’ve never heard him play then imagine a combination of all the finest ...
It may be the most ubiquitous scale in the world and arguably the oldest. Anywhere in the world, when someone carves a flute, plucks a string or twangs a piece of metal they inevitably stumble into ...
World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale from World Science Festival on Vimeo. At the World Science Festival in June, Bobby McFerrin did this ...
For those of you interested in the musical anatomy of Bob Seger’s “Shakedown,” here are some thoughts: The song is almost entirely based on the pentatonic (5-note) scale.The pentatonic scale contains ...
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How to find new approaches to blues soloing – using fingerstyle improv ideas and Roy Buchanan-inspired licks
In my last column, I demonstrated a Jimmy Reed-inspired eight-bar rhythm figure played with a funky, syncopated half-time feel, moving from the I (one) chord, A7, to the V (five) chord, E7, and back ...
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