When seeking to improve at blues guitar, the first port of call is usually learning some guitar solos, be it the swampy pentatonics of Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Texas Flood or dynamic melodies of B.B ...

T-Bone Walker may have been the first true hero of modern electric blues, but he stood upon the shoulders of jazz and blues giants ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. With its ‘hand me down’ tradition of learning, each generation of blues guitarists is influenced ...

Guitar lessons: The idea of a slow blues guitar jam inspires a mixture of joy, dread and cynical rolling of the eyes among us players. Often these situations involve a minimal, simple backing, with ...

Steve Lukather is renowned for his virtuosic yet melodic playing with Toto. And then there are his numerous solo albums and prolific session work for Michael Jackson, Earth, Wind & Fire, Lionel ...

The guitar solo isn’t an endangered species; it’s one that’s evolving to survive in a rapidly changing climate. Guitar gods of the 20th century, like Slash and Eddie Van Halen (or their modern-day ...

93. The Edge on U2′s “Bullet the Blue Sky” “Bullet the Blue Sky” sticks out like a sore thumb on “The Joshua Tree,” an otherwise modest record in terms of its musical arrangements. The Edge’s guitar, ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Few things defined the genre of rock and roll more than the guitar solo. Sometimes powerful and loud, at other times gentle and orchestrated, the ...