If open chord shapes strike you as bland and boring, take heart. In this quick lesson we’ll show you four ways to get more mileage out of them and make them sound more exotic than you might have thought possible. You’ll probably identify the shapes in Figures...
Cliff Burton, Metallica's original bassist, played a massive role in plotting. the band's direction, an influence that palpably resonates in its entire body of work. He was tragically killed when the metal giants' tourbus overturned on a rural road in Sweden 27...
Talk shop with Gary Brewer for a few minutes and one thing rings clear as a bell: There is rhyme and reason behind everything on his mind. And that mind is full of wisdom acquired over more than four decades playing bluegrass professionally. As well as know-how handed...
Epiphone and Joe Bonamassa have teamed up once more for the launch of a new signature guitar based on the Mayor of Nerdville’s very own 1963 Gibson SG Custom.This is a special electric guitar. They didn’t make many like this in the first place. Originally a custom...
If you’re at all intimidated by the term dominant voicings, relax – they’re only nominally tough, and their alternate cousins contained here amount to little more than a few fancy blues chord voicings.In classical theory, the chord (V7) formed from the 5th degree of...
Eric Clapton's Crossroads Festival wasn't the only all-star guitar action happening in the US on the weekend (23 and 24 September). Bob Dylan proved he's still as unpredictable as ever; nobody could have foreseen one of Farm Aid's founders would return to the annual...
At this time of year, we’d usually all be going to California and hitting up Anaheim’s gargantuan Convention Center to get the scoop on all the latest and greatest gear the guitar world has to offer. But as the pandemic rages on, NAMM 2021 will not be taking place in...
"The guitar is like a universe, you can never come to the end of what you can learn from it," explains Paul Simon to Howard Stern, confirming the idea of the journey without a destination that all musicians are on. "If I don't play I am uncomfortable," the legendary...
Donner teamed up with Israeli electric guitar virtuoso Kfir Ochaion for its recent US debut at NAMM Believe In Music 2022. With the YouTube sensation representing the innovative brand during the global online event and showcasing the award-winning Seeker Series...
"Yesterday," sings Paul McCartney, "all my troubles seemed so far away." It is the Ed Sullivan Show, and as his fellow Beatles wait in the wings, Paul does it on his own with nothing but an Epiphone Texan acoustic guitar and an off-screen string quartet.One month...