Jazz Improvisation: Licks as a Learning Tool
The use of pre-composed licks as an essential step in learning to play jazz, and especially jazz guitar, seems to be a foregone conclusion.
The use of pre-composed licks as an essential step in learning to play jazz, and especially jazz guitar, seems to be a foregone conclusion.
For the second year in a row, we find that Blues-Rock guitarist Joe Bonamassa has earned our Guitarist of the Year Award. Not many artists nail down album after album like Bonamassa. In 2011, he released his critically acclaimed solo debut, Dustbowl, along with a collaborative effort with his Supergroup Black Country Communion.
There’s no denying that the internet has changed the music industry, and indeed the way that musicians initiate communication with their audiences.
Motorhead, the Grammy award winning rock band will unveil the overwhelmingly loud and fast style of rock-n-roll with the official U.S. launch of Motorheadphones at the Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas.
G-Men productions has announced the pending release of a new guitar app that will be sure to have the music community talking: The Johnny Winter App.
Live In Paris 1975 has been digitally remixed and re-mastered from the original multi-track recordings, sonically transmitting all the power and electricity of Deep Purple’s live stage prowess.
Bex Marshall is steadily becoming well known throughout the blues rock community as a guitar wielding force to be reckoned with. The moment she straps on her resonator guitar, all you can do is sit back in astonishment.
Los Angeles based hard rockers, Black Veil Brides are returning with their third CD, Wretched and Divine-The Story Of The Wild Ones due for release January 8th.
Alex Lifeson’s momentous hard rock riffs, alongside the masterful percussion work of Neil Peart and instantly recognizable lead vocalist/bassist Geddy Lee, have appealed to millions of Rush fans for over three and a half decades.
At a press conference today at the Nokia Theatre in Los Angeles, Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist and 2012 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Flea announced the list of performer inductees and Ahmet Ertegun Award recipients for induction. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees for 2013 are:
