Over the course of his 40-year recording and performing career, Robben Ford’s rhythm guitar work has excited the ears of his audience, fired up his musical collaborations with dozens of top artists and simply amazed his fellow guitar players. “Playing rhythm guitar is the greatest joy in my musical life,” says Robben, “I love the subject of… Read More »
True to Verheyen form, this nine-section SWAT Rhythm Guitar curriculum over-delivers fretboard wisdom for virtually any style of rhythm guitar. SECTION 1: Rhythm Tips In this first section, Carl presents four key concepts: The Drummers Heartbeat, Energy Concentration, Shuffle Types and Less Is More. Key learnings here include the importance of underplaying, how to identify and locate… Read More »
On January 24th in 1848, James Marshall triggered the California Gold Rush when he uncovered a handful of shiny pebbles while building a lumber mill in Coloma, California. Subsequently, hundreds of thousands of people, from all over the globe, suffered great hardship to make their way by land and sea to seek their own fortunes. We guitarists… Read More »
Embraced by listeners and players alike, Robben’s innovative and soulful musicality triggered a revolution in electric blues guitar styling. In this 6-hour, interactive video Blues Revolution course, Robben steps you through his Chicago blues influences, chord and scale vocabulary, rhythm guitar techniques, improvisational approaches and harmonic insight for crafting the fresh, contemporary lines that comprise his signature… Read More »
Everyone knows that Robert Johnson really didn’t sell his soul to the Prince of Darkness at the crossroads of Highways 61 and 49 in Clarksdale. Silly urban myth. Everyone knows that the devil always hangs close to a river and there’s no river anywhere near those crossroads. It was the crossroads of Highway 8 and Highway 1 in… Read More »
About Jeff McErlain’s Blues Survival Guide: Rhythm Edition Essential techniques & insight for blues rhythm guitar If you’re a wilderness hiker, knowing how to make fire without matches is an essential survival skill. The 9 most popular methods include flints, rocks, magnifying glasses and rubbing sticks together. Our favorite method? Rub a chocolate bar on the bottom of… Read More »
About Sonny Landreth’s Slide Supernatural: Blues 10 Essential Blues Slide Performance Studies If you’re already tuned in to Sonny Landreth, you can skip the following prose, get right to the click, and start working with this masterpiece of a blues electric slide course immediately. If by some cruel twist of fate, you have not yet treated your ears… Read More »
About Andy Timmons’ Electric Expression: Blues Essential Rhythm and Soloing Concepts for Electric Blues Guitar Blues is a mysterious series of contradictions. It’s one of the easiest styles to learn how to play, but its also one of the hardest styles to play really well. There are great guitar players that can play the blues really well, but… Read More »
