Everyone from Metallica to jazz pros have made use of the ominous sound of the Locrian mode – here's how it could shake up your guitar playing
The Locrian mode is the seventh and darkest mode derived from the major scale. Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of ...
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Fender Custom Shop ditches dry January with a cocktail-inspired guitar collection – and it’s a uniquely potent mix
With keenly spec'd Sub-Sonic Teles, Strats, Esquires and Strat Thinlines, the Cocktail Collection blends the artistry of fine ...
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Former Megadeth Guitarist Marty Friedman Shares the Art of Shredding
The longtime guitar god says he wants to bring "goosebumps and maybe some tears and chills" to HQ on Monday, January 27.
“Where I belonged”: The artist who made Eric Clapton want to play guitar
Although Eric Clapton was a bluesy troubadour from the beginning, he had a special fondness for those speaking his musical language.
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Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash all love Aeolian – the minor mode that rules over them all. Here’s what makes this scale work
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 ...
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Psychology Says If You Can Master These 4 Skills, You'll Have A Mental Edge Well Into Your 80s
If you’ve struggled for a long time to be more mentally disciplined without much success, working to identify and eliminate ...
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In Big Star’s “Radio City,” the Old Spells Don’t Work
The album of glittering, tightly orchestrated guitar rock they had released the ... both for individual listeners and on the broader scale of rock history. The sonic identity of “#1 Record ...
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BILLY CORGAN Says He Could Write A New Song Channeling Siamese Dream "In 5 Minutes"
I can dial in any era of the band or my writing at will, because they’re all based on methodologies and certain emotional ...
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Porridge Radio, Jordana, Ben Barnes among area concert highlights [Seven in Seven]
Not that it wasn’t already exciting that Porridge Radio was coming to town, but their show this week at Foundry took on an ...
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Mali’s Desert Blues Rock Band, Songhoy Blues, Turn Acoustic, Honoring Various Traditions on Vibrant ‘Heritage’ (ALBUM REVIEW)
On their third album, 2020’s Optimisme, we described the Songhoy Blues sound this way,  ”… an activist rock & punk band, not ...