When you're looking to refresh your blues guitar vocabulary, you can turn things around with these characteristic and enduring motifs One of the staples of blues playing, both ancient and modern, is ...

Guitar lessons: Adapted for styles as diverse as rock, blues and jazz, the humble turnaround has been used for more than 100 years. These clever changeovers lead the listener’s ear with a strong ‘pull ...

What do Chuck Berry, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Albert King, Jimi Hendrix and countless others have in common? No, there isn't a punchline: the answer is a knowledge of the basic blues ...

In my previous “Blues You Can Use” columns, I focused on what I consider to be essential rhythm guitar and accompanying single-note patterns that exemplify Chicago-style blues guitar, as heard in the ...