Chicago blues guitar tone is one of the most influential sounds in modern electric guitar. It’s the cranked-amp, slightly-broken-up, vocal-vibrato sound that powered Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, Hound Dog Taylor, Howlin’ Wolf, Little Walter, and a generation of British rockers who studied them like scripture. In the lesson…
Most guitarists learn the blues as a pentatonic language. Five notes, a 12-bar form, and a handful of licks that work over the whole thing. That vocabulary will take you a long way, but it will also put a ceiling on your playing that you will eventually feel.…
You’ve practiced basic blues licks for months, but something’s missing when you try to solo over chord changes. The magic happens when you master blues guitar chord transitions, especially the fundamental one to four chord movement that forms the backbone of countless blues standards. Dig this lesson? Check…
Top career advice: staying weird in a prescriptive world Ikävä Pii: “Don’t aim for a career in art. No one is owed a career in art. Your joy of creating, pure urgency – that’s what should drive you. If you want to be an artist, do your own…
Delta blues history is the story of how a small handful of musicians, working with cheap guitars in the Mississippi Delta, created a body of music that would eventually power every electric blues record, every rock and roll riff, and every modern American blues guitar style we know…
To our friends, artists, partners, collaborators, and community: After three months of hard work, and three months of extraordinary loyalty from you, I am pleased to share that a definitive agreement has now been signed for Native Instruments to be acquired by inMusic. Two iconic music technology companies,…
Few sounds in American music hit harder than Texas blues guitar. It’s the rhythm-driven, bend-heavy, vocal-phrased style that Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimmie Vaughan, Freddie King, and Albert Collins burned into the canon. If you’re an intermediate player ready to dig in and woodshed something with real grit, this…
Komplete Select The gateway to the Komplete universe, simplified. To help you find the right sounds for your specific style, Select comes in three curated editions: Band: Get sampled guitars, keys, bass, drums, and studio effects – perfect for songwriting sessions and jamming new ideas. Beats: Designed for…
For younger producers who may never touch an analog desk, what can they learn from working with these emulations? They can learn that you can use these plugins as tools to shape a sound. The only way of learning is by doing – messing around with a plugin…
Every serious player knows that plateau—that moment when you’ve mastered your scales, your alternate picking is clean, but you feel like you’re missing the “soul” in the wires. You’ve spent hours in the woodshed, yet the bridge between intermediate skill and pro-level artistry feels miles wide. What if…
