The Locrian mode is the seventh and darkest mode derived from the major scale. Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of ...

From bossanovas to Carole King and even James Bond villains, the major seventh can completely change your song’s mood.

The blues hero shares six lead guitar examples that demonstrate the versatility of the Gibson Les Paul’s pickups, volume and ...

If there’s one thing you can do to take your songwriting to the next level, it’s getting to grips with new chords. Use our acoustic guitar chord charts - from ... chord types in music are major and ...

Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of the scale, plus a handful of chords, riffs an ...

This is especially evident in the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. It's written in ... involving lots of fast scales and arpeggios (broken chords); the second part - the Fugue - is characterised ...

And yet despite featuring some of the band’s most popular songs, “Radio City” has proved a curiously hard record to digest, both for individual listeners and on the broader scale of rock ...

One very positive development over the last 12 months has been the slow resurgence of smaller scale AAA ... few to strike a chord with the audience, not realizing that the guitar has long since ...

Writer and musician Emma John travels south to find the beat—and birthplace—of a special kind of Mississippi music.

“I actually wrote the riff on piano and then Paul Kossoff transposed the chords to guitar, and he did a helluva ... His opening F-sharp minor riff on “Crazy Train” was a defining moment ...