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Nov 01, 2009
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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
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Oct 01, 2009
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“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,
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Aug 01, 2009
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LAST MONTH, WE STARTED EXPLORING some new ways to employ the
tried-andtrue pentatonic scale. For these examples, we’ll still use the
G minor pentatonic scale, superimposing it over other chords. The
function of each scale
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Jul 01, 2009
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FEW KNEW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN Leslie West and his new band Mountain took the stage on day two of Woodstock '69,
but by the time their set ended, a new star was born. Rock's original Big Man (West once tipped the scales at over
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Jun 01, 2009
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AS ONE OF THE FOUNDING
fathers of the electric guitar, genius
inventor and designer—and guitarist
par excellence—Les Paul stands as
one of our country’s
greatest national treasures.
A true living legend,
Paul’s
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Oct 17, 2008
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LIKE THOSE FAMOUS FICTIONAL KIDS who discover the gateway to
Narnia in the back of a magical wardrobe, Sonny Landreth, too, has
stumbled on a portal to another world—not one of lions and witches, but
one of inspiring new
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Jun 02, 2008
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AS YOU CAN SEE IN EX. 1, THE NOTES A, C, AND E—THE CHORD TONES THAT SPELL AN AM TRIAD—CAN BE ARRANGED IN MYRIAD WAYS. One challenge
guitarists face is that there are typically several ways to finger the
same chord or riff. For
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Jun 02, 2008
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THOUGH HIS LIFESPAN WAS CUT TRAGICALLY SHORT TO JUST 25 YEARS, GUITAR LEGEND TOMMY BOLIN (8 1 51-12 4 76) accomplished more than most people
who live three times as long. A self-taught prodigy, Bolin liked to
work, and his
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May 01, 2008
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Although he claims his musical career is based on playing “the same two
strings on the same two dots,” Tom Morello isn’t exactly what you’d
call a one-trick pony. With his groundbreaking band Rage Against the
Machine (as well
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Nov 28, 2007
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WHEN ROCK POETRESS PATTI SMITH INTRODUCED JEFF BECK AS “THE JEWEL IN OUR CROWN” AT LONDON’S 2005 MELTDOWN FESTIVAL, she wasn’t just
whistling “Hail Britannia.” An international treasure whose wizardly
way with the guitar has
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Oct 29, 2007
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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
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Oct 02, 2007
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WHEN GUITAR PLAYER BEGAN RECEIVING DOZENS OF READERS POLL BALLOTS WITH THE SAME NAME NOMINATED IN NEARLY EVERY MUSICAL CATEGORY AS EARLY AS 1976, THE EDITORIAL STAFF MUST HAVE DISMISSED THEM AS A PRANK. After all, it wasn’t
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Apr 30, 2007
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“HOW YA DOIN’? WE’RE THE JAMES GANG FROM LAST CENTURY,” drawled rock
and roll extraordinaire Joe Walsh in characteristic nasal twang as he
kicked off a string of 15 dates during the summer of 2006. The historic
tour marked the
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Apr 12, 2007
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AFTER ACQUIRING AND EVENTUALLY WEARING OUT HIS FIRST MOTORCYCLE, YOUNG DUANE ALLMAN BECAME INFATUATED WITH HIS YOUNGER BROTHER GREGG’S LATEST ACQUISITION—a Silvertone acoustic guitar that would soon become a
source of incessant
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May 11, 2006
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Thumbing a steady quarter-note line on the sixth string of his Epiphone
Sheraton, Duke Robillard plucks a twangy series of descending chords.
“I love a good Delta-blues turnaround,” he says. “The chromatic motion
gets me every
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