These 10 rhythm riffs showcase funk guitar styles from across the ages ... but it is still helpful to know which shape the ‘partial chords’ are taken from. Play these shapes first, then see if you can ...
They are so commonplace that we take the theory behind them for granted. Here are five 7th chords, the theory underpinning ...
When you walk into the band room in Southwest High School, guitar chords mix with laughter and conversation. Some groups of ...
Armed with a cheap four-string instrument his girlfriend bought him, Lesh sat down for a seven-hour lesson with Garcia, ...
An official statement posted to Lesh's Facebook account Friday said Lesh "passed peacefully" and was "surrounded by his ...
LOS ANGELES -- Phil Lesh, a classically trained violinist and jazz trumpeter who found his true calling reinventing the role ...
Palo Alto resident Rob Levitsky has been a fan of the Grateful Dead since October 1976, when he saw them with The Who at the Oakland Coliseum. The Grateful Dead pioneered louder sound systems using ...
She wrote a song titled "Muddy Waters" about the people of western North Carolina and is raising money from it. Hughes said she took a look at the fractured land and the scars left behind by Helene, ...
The Darkside Skinny Dippers, a local rock band known for their energetic antics on stage, are releasing their first album, ...
The moment Sammy Rae & The Friends opened with “Thieves,” I knew this would be more than just a concert: it would be a ...
Lesh took violin lessons in third grade, then learned the trumpet, becoming second chair in the Oakland Symphony while still in his teens. But he was driving a mail truck and working as a sound ...
He was one of the longest surviving members of the band that came to define the acid rock sound emanating from San Francisco ...