Pickup Music’s LA-based session ace Jamey Arent is your host for a lesson that’s not only a great introduction to the fundamentals of funk guitar, but could be the inspiration you need to take your fu ...

playing them plaintively with sparse block chords and a honking wail. The track highlights Shorter's unique, later compositional style, clustering melody lines into short flurries of notes and ...

Behold the genius of Gilmour, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, Eddie Van Halen, Brian May and many more —as voted by the readers of ...

It's time for the Jazz Continuum here on G-Town Radio. This week, some father and son work from the O'Farrill family, a remembrance of German Free Improv saxophonist Peter Brötzmann who recently ...

Here are the general findings in jazz music: jazz styles such as swing and bebop are very fast in tempo free jazz - a style developed in the 1950s and 60s - involved players in the same ensemble ...

Broken chords can be an interesting way of making your harmony ‘work harder’ for you by acting as a rhythmic texture as well as harmonic support for your melody - you could play the notes of your ...

They treated his compositions, which are benchmarks of free ... jazz, Zorn can be controversial without any effort. On News for Lulu (Hat Art 6005), a 1987 trio session with Frisell on guitar ...

The Black Dahlia Murder continued their upward ascent with their third album and career best, Nocturnal. The monochromatic ...

Call and response close call and responseWhere one melody is answered by another. is a feature of work songs where the leader would call out a line and the rest of the group sings in response.

He was one of the 1970s’ most successful session players – but the Lou Reed, Mick Jagger and Paul McCartney collaborator is ...

With lead guitarist Garcia and rhythm guitarist Bob Weir, Lesh was the bottom layer in an unpredictable rush of sound. Add in ...

Their song gives off unmistakable Duran Duran vibes, with an anthemic "woah-oh" chorus, and a wibbly guitar solo that sounds ... years and your dinner will be free". A wildly inventive Trojan ...