GUITAR SHOWCASE 2023: It’s unlikely that many would disagree with the notion that pentatonic scales are a guitarist’s best friend. Used in every genre of music and countless songs of the past 70 odd ...

Like a comfortable pair of slippers it’s easy to slip into trusted pentatonic shapes without really thinking about it. This is often where the fingers begin to do all the work and you play without ...

You probably already use the minor pentatonic scale. After all, it’s almost certainly the single most used scale in rock and blues lead, and players like Angus Young, Eric Clapton and Jack Whit e all ...

Whether you call these solo ideas minor blues or embellished pentatonic/blues scale, the effect is the same, freeing you up from established patterns to hold your audience's attention ...

Blues guitar is surely one of the most pleasing and satisfying styles to play. So many guitarists gravitate toward this genre as it can be accessible to beginner and advanced players alike, due to ...

In the late 1930s, Charlie Christian elevated the electric guitar to an essential solo instrument, paving the way for the electric blues of T-Bone Walker and rock pioneers Chuck Berry and Scotty Moore ...

There are those who believed that BB King wasn’t the world’s greatest guitar player, including the man himself. In a recent interview he said: I call myself a blues singer, but you ain’t never heard ...