Superimposition Strategies: Jamie Kime
Nov 01, 2009
WHAT DO EDWARD VAN HALEN, STEVE LUKATHER, Scott Henderson, jazz bassist Christian McBride, Paul McCartney guitarslinger Rusty Anderson, and late, great trumpet legend Freddie Hubbard all have in common? Each one of these iconic More...
Intros and Endings: GIT’s Dale Turner Shares Ten Cool Ways to Get In and Out of Songs
Oct 01, 2009
“THERE’S NO DISPUTING THAT WHEN you hear this,” says Dale Turner, playing Ex. 1, “it’s kicking off something.” No doubt. Play through the familiar intro once yourself, and it’s hard not to expect juggling clowns, More...
10 Things You Gotta Do To Play Like Larry Carlton
Sep 01, 2009
IN THE ’60S HE WAS THE NEW KID, IN THE ’70S AND ’80s he was the king.Now that the millennium has come and gone, he’s still doin’ his thing. This all-in-good-fun paraphrasing of the late, great Tommy Tedesco’s “Requiem for a More...
Sid Jacobs on Pedal Tones, Slash Chords, and the Intriguing Harmonies of “Naima”
Aug 01, 2009
ALONG ONE WALL OF SID JACOBS ’ Hollywood teaching studio resides a stable of beautiful hollowbodies—everything from a custom 7-string Benedetto featuring a high-A to a ’71 Gibson Johnny Smith that Jacobs bought new as a More...
Frank Zappa - Guitar Heroes A-Z
Oct 29, 2007
Albums by Frank Zappa [1940-1993] have always been found in the rock bins in record stores, but pigeonholing Zappa as a rock artist is a bit like labeling Johann Sebastian Bach a church organist—it only tells a small part of the More...
10 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Django Reinhardt
Aug 01, 2007
IF YOU COULD PINPOINT A BIG BANG IN THE GUITAR UNIVERSE, IT WOULD MOST LIKELY HAVE EMANATED FROM THE STRINGS AND SOUNDBOARD OF JEAN “DJANGO” REINHARDT’S STEEL-STRING ACOUSTIC ON DECEMBER 27, 1934, IN MONTPARNASSE, More...
 

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