Guitar skills: Jimi Hendrix makes great use of trills in the breakdown in Voodoo Child. The technique boils down to a series of fast hammer-ons and pull-offs using just two notes. Practise slowly at ...

Guitar lessons: The most common chord progression is known as a ‘12-bar blues’, which, predictably is 12 bars long (eight-, 16- and 24-bar versions are common, too). What the name doesn’t tell you is ...

Six great lessons from the masters of blues guitar Lesson 1 Arlen Roth Lesson 2 Lonnie Mack Lesson 3 Ronnie Earl Lesson 4 Duke Robillard Lesson 5 Buddy Guy Lesson 6 ...

My latest record, Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, features a song called Hope You Realize It, written by me and my good friend Tom Hambridge. We were looking to create an uptempo song in the vein of Tower of ...

When people talk about playing slide, the conversation often progresses on to open tunings, heavier strings, and a high action. It’s true that these can make things easier and, in some cases such as ...