Over his life, Josh Smith has earned himself the opportunities to perform and record music professionally from a relatively young age. At just 14, he was sittin...
Exchanging musical ideas in a jam setting is one of the best ways you can grow as a guitarist. It allows you to pick up ideas from other players, work on your t...
Take a minute to think about your favorite jazz-influenced blues guitar players and what makes them amazing. Trying to imagine all of the tricks that these play...
The modern funk bassist has an important job aside from playing with good time, tone, and technique. This bassist has to capture grooves spanning several genera...
Any time you encounter a jazz standard, you're almost always dealing with at least one of 6 very common chord progressions. 2-5-1 major, 2-5-1 minor, 1-4-1, 1-6...
A vast majority of the time a band is interested in hiring a jazz guitar player, it is not for their ability to play lead lines and take solos. instead, they ar...
When we, as guitarists, play with other musicians, we learn an immense amount. When we're playing rhythm, we get the chance to hear other soloists and pick up o...
Along the historic timeline of American music, traditional country blues evolved into an electric style. This marked the first bricks in the road to jazz music....
Blues, as a style, is the most influential music genre that America has ever known. It's origins date back over 130 years, yet paved the way for popular styles ...
There are a large handful of electric guitar effects that have revolutionized the way we hear modern guitar music. Distortion, reverb, and delay are some incred...
Getting better as a guitar player often involves jamming and performing with other musicians. That is where a substantial amount of your growth happens naturall...
Whether you are improvising a lead line, or crafting the perfect solo, you are always connecting different musical ideas together. This is how we express oursel...