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Guitabulary: John Lee Hooker
Few guitarists become so strongly identified with a genre of music as John Lee Hooker and his timeless boogie. Hooker laid down his share of classics, such as “Boogie Chillen” (a.k.a. “Boogie...
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Guitabulary: Joni Mitchell Opens Up
Just a few weeks ago the LA Times ran a piece on Joni Mitchell, who was interviewed side by side with the guy who has been performing an all-Joni tribute in drag. In the interview, Mitchell talked...
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Guitabulary: Slash and Burn
It’s an amazing sight. Armed exclusively with a twangy 6-string resonator-an instrument most audience members associate with the likes of Son House and accompanied by a pumping drums-and-bass rhythm...
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Guitabulary: Burrell’s Funky Comping
Burrell’s funky comping powers many of the best late 50s and 60s beatnik-jazz records. Andy Ellis helps you summon this late-night mood by using the comping moves in this rhythm figure. Played at...
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Guitabulary: Whitley’s Twisted Blues
McErlain shows you one of Chris’s more twisted blues pieces, played on open-tuned Dobro. Chris describes it as Bukka White meets Thelonius Monk. Need we say more? Audio guitar lesson:...
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Guitabulary: Bottleneck Breakdown
Is there anything more seductively rootsy than metallic slide musings on a glimmering National steel guitar? In this two-part lesson, Brozman, one of the foremost authorities on the instrument, takes...
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Guitabulary: Diddie Wa Diddie
More than 60 years after its recording, Blind Blake’s rambunctious Diddie Wa Diddie, a double-entendre ragtime blues, still stands as a fingerpicking classic. Blake’s musical vocabulary is prodigious,...
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Guitar Lesson: Van Halen’s Tips For Beginner Guitarists
Eddie Van Halen opens the article by fessin’ up about how much he stole, note for note, from Eric Clapton. Now here’s your chance to rip off EVH. This audio guitar lesson runs you through blues...
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Wes Montgomery’s Magic Box
Most guitarists recognize the E minor pentatonic scale – and with good reason. After all, it is the world’s most popular launching pad for rock solos and blues leads in the key of E. More advanced...
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Barres of the Stars
by Shane Theriot Many guitarists know how to play barre chords, yet few tap into all of the magic a 1st-finger barre can offer. Great players often use the 1st finger like a mobile capo, holding down...
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Guitabulary: Voodoo Blues Scale
There’s one fistful of notes that never gets old, it’s the blues scale. Once it finds its way into the hands of a young, inspired guitarist, it typically stays there for a lifetime. Though the blues...
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Guitabulary: The Way to Ladyland
Revered as one of the best firebrand lead guitarists to ever strap on a Strat, Hendrix was also an innovative rhythm guitarist. Joe examines Jimi’s chordal sensibilities, the likes of which you hear...
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The Memphis Sound
Keith Wyatt explores the Memphis sound from the axe of Steve Cropper, who was the guitarist for Booker T and the MGs. First, he fleshes out the rhythm part of the classic Green Onions’ by adapting the...
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Allman To ZZ – Part 1
Another one of Andy Ellis’ six-string history lessons, Allman to ZZ looks at slide playing from myriad angles, from Blind Willie Johnson’s pocket-knife lick from 1927 to Jeff Beck’s violin-like line...
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Allman To ZZ – Part 2
Another one of Andy Ellis’ six-string history lessons, Allman to ZZ looks at slide playing from myriad angles, from Blind Willie Johnson’s pocket-knife lick from 1927 to Jeff Beck’s violin-like line...
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Guitabulary: 15 Days to Better Chops – Part 1
Want to be a better player? Of course we all do. That’s why we practice. So why does it seem like all that practice time isn’t paying off? It could be because you’re not practicing the right stuff....
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Guitabulary: Blues Sixths & Jimi Hendrix
Chances are good that when Jimi Hendrix was playing timeless blues intros like the opening notes of Red House – he wasn’t consciously thinking. I’m now fretting the interval of a major sixth for two...
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Guitabulary: Rockabilly Jazz
Rockabilly is a kissin’ cousin of Jazz, with twangy tone and playful techniques disguising an often very sophisticated harmonic and melodic structure. Jim Campilongo lays out some of that tricky...
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Guitabulary: Tal Farlow
He’s one of the most under-heralded geniuses of the jazz guitar. After cutting his teeth on the NYC bebop scene of the late ’40s, and building a rep with vibraphonist Red Norvo, Farlow receded from...
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How To Play Like Dickey Betts
The Allman Brothers Band has served as breeding ground for some of the greatest guitarists around, namely Duane Allman, Warren Haynes, and Derek Trucks. While the late, great slide master Duane was a...
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Guitabulary: Eric Johnson’s Texas Chainsaw
Eric Johnson has a deep bag but this lesson concentrates on his aggressive combinations of single-note and chords, which, he says, adds a “potent yin-yang tension”. Plenty of yin and yang in this...
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Guitabulary: The Blues/Metal Connection
Even metal icons like Metallica’s Kirk Hammett go searching for the roots. This lesson deals with his recent interest in the blues and how using blues style can add emotional heft to your hard-rock...
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