Many landmark moments in rock history have resulted from artists updating the blues. And 1967 proved to be an especially pivotal year.

The blues scale is one of the most important guitar scales to learn, whether in rock, metal or – naturally – blues. This scale is a hexatonic scale, which means it has six notes. Essentially, it’s a ...

Though Deap Vally’s Sistronix was written in the San Fernando Valley, it stomps and swaggers like vintage bayou boogie, with Lindsay Troy’s thick-as-a-brick blues riffs and Julie Edwards’ monstrous ...

As with any other hobby or skill, every guitarist has to start somewhere. For most of us, it all started by playing air guitar along with some of our favorite songs and wishing we could play like our ...

Albert Collins, the late, great Texas-born guitarist known as the “Master of the Telecaster” once said of the music he championed, “Simple music is the hardest to play – and blues is simple music.” ...