Hall's genius with a guitar had profound implications for the jazz band format, as six-strings replaced piano in the rhythm ...

It’s a relic of a pre-punk time when you could present an audience with 13 minutes of guitar improvisation and they would ...

If we took an Em-A7-D (II-V-I) progression and decided to jazz it up with 7ths and extensions, we might well start with this Em9 chord. The F# (9th) is our highest note. I mention this because the ...

In today’s fast-paced digital age, learning guitar online has completely transformed how both beginners and experienced ...

On the next track, “Terra,” Greep’s new sound is even more apparent, featuring a shuffling Brazilian rhythm and gorgeous ...

This in-depth masterclass in the fusion icon’s virtuoso style is for moderate to advanced players ready to level up their legato chops, outside playing and minor chord vocabulary ...

He’s like those jazzmen in Kansas City in the ’40s who got so bored playing six identical sets of standard tunes every night that they invented bebop jazz, where the whole tune is one step to ...

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The last issue of Guitar Techniques goes on sale this week, after 30 years of publishing. Read Editor Jason Sidwell's final ...

While designing a guitar, a regular guitar design follows a fairly consistent blueprint: a body, a neck, and a headstock—where the tuning machines are—strings go from top to bottom. But […] ...

Really, we have the YouTube generation to thank for modern lo-fi’s explosion, with numerous live-streaming playlists gradually starting to appear from the turn of the 2010s onwards. This really ...

“The New Sound” is an album packed to the brim with Brazilian jazz, cacophonous sounds, chaotic instrumental passages and the ...