Lukather might have made his name in box-office rock and pop, but the blues underpins it all, and this quick-fire tutorial ...

The minor pentatonic scale found its original home in blues and then shaped the sound of rock ’n’ roll from the early 1950s onwards. Chuck Berry’s licks were actually inspired from piano ...

Hello everyone, and welcome to my new column for Guitar World! Over the course of these lessons, I will be demonstrating many of my approaches to blues rhythm guitar playing and soloing, covering a ...

Co-founder of the Royal Southern Brotherhood, Mike Zito is a player's player, guaranteed to hit the bullseye with note choice ...

She can dish about '60s and '70s blues guitarists with the ... She says she didn't know the pentatonic scale until a few years ago. "Guitar players will understand that," she says.

She can dish about '60s and '70s blues guitarists with the ... She says she didn't know the pentatonic scale until a few years ago. "Guitar players will understand that," she says.

The main things that various rock guitarists need to know are basic chords and then standard guitar scales. These include the major scale, major blues scale, major pentatonic scale, and minor scales.

His stripped-back approach to blues guitar heightens the style’s rhythmic properties ... ability to make his guitar sing like some sort of insane bird. His use of pentatonic scales, double stops, and ...