There are far too many blues innovators to mention them all but listen to Delta pioneers Charley Patton, Son House and Robert Johnson to appreciate the roots of the genre. Thomann just carved some ...

When you’re the only guitarist in the band, triads are your best friends in a guitar solo – and Hendrix and SRV were the ...

The mixture of minor scale notes with the notes of dominant 7 chords will give you an edgy, bluesy bite to your solos. Nearly every player from Buddy Guy and Albert King to John Mayer and Joe ...

Using scales to make music is more than just choosing the right one. But how does one go about practicing scales, and should you bother? Using my favourite analogy, if music is a language then scales ...

Playing the guitar is the best. The. Best. I have played guitar for 22 years and every single day I feel the same excitement about picking it up as the first day. Playing music is pretty much always ...

At age 15, Ray Goren is fast becoming the hot young guitar picker to watch in the blues world and beyond. He’s been turning the heads of veteran bluesmen since he was in the third grade, with his ...