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NAMM 2012: Kenny Wayne Shepherd Interview

Posted January 25, 2012

Someone has to represent the new guard of young blues guitarists, and since 1995, Kenny Wayne Shepherd has been carrying the flag with a reckless abandon. All five of his studio albums have topped the Billboard Blues chart, the most recent being 2011′s How I Go, which was the first to feature Kenny himself on vocals along with his usual vocalist Noah Hunt.

Guitar News

NAMM 2012: Odds and Sods II

Posted January 27, 2012

It seems that every Winter NAMM tops the last one we covered and NAMM 2012 is no exception! We saw more gear, more celebrities, more shows and more parties than years past. This can only give us the impression that the economy is improving and their optimism in the music industry. As international markets open up and new builders and inventors of innovative gear show up, it becomes that more evident early in the year at NAMM. The folks at NAMM did a tremendous job putting on the greatest music industry show on earth! Here are a few more aisle roaming shots by our photographer, Robert Cavuoto.

Guitar Lessons

How to Play the Jimmy Page Extended Blues Scale

Posted December 2, 2011

Let’s first take a look at the basic, position 1 Blues Scale in they key of A minor. This is usually the first scale guitarists learn when they start to explore lead playing, so it might be review for some of you. If it is new, take some time to really work out this fingering, it is one of the most common and important scale fingerings for rock and blues guitarists to have down.

Guitar Reviews

Ebook Review: A New Approach to Scales for Guitarists

Posted January 3, 2012

Love ‘em or hate ‘em, scales are important to any guitarist. Everybody knows the box method, with the five different patterns for each scale, and some guitarists subscribe to the 3 notes per string approach, but other than that, there haven’t really been any innovations with scales on the guitar lately. Enter New York jazz guitarist Adam Smale with A New Approach to Scales for Guitarists, which puts forth an interesting and useful 4 note per string method of learning and implementing scales.

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