A definitive list of 25 licks spanning the entire blues-rock universe is a contentious thing; we’d all come up with different results. These are simply a set of phrases that could form the core of a ...

Spice up your blues playing with this slick cross-rhythm lick using a 3-against-4 pattern. In this short tutorial, I show you how to break the rhythmic mold and add a layer of sophistication to your ...

In this video, I break down a fast 16th-note blues lick I transcribed from the legendary Dizzy Gillespie. This one lick opened the door to faster improvisation, and I’ll show you how I internalized it ...

T- Bone Walker constantly played major thirds and sixths, which are not usually included in the “blues scale.” Photo by Heinrich Klaffs via Wikipedia. Reproduced under Creative Commons License. “The ...

Hammett noted that he was "the heavy-metal guy. ... I show up and the guys who really didn’t know me were a little hesitant, and so you know what I started doing? I started playing a bunch of blues ...

That moldy-peaches cliché “they don’t make ‘em like they used to” has rarely applied to anyone as much as Buddy Guy. As his former protégé Joe Bonamassa says in The Torch, a new doc about Guy, the now ...