By using various voicings of the same chord, you can expand your fretboard knowledge and spice up your chord progressions ...

We've all been there. Or worse still, you're playing, all is well, and then the mind goes blank. Here, Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal, ...

Saxophonist Scott Burns and his quartet played at Prairie Moon on Nov. 13. Your intrepid music reporter tries to regularly ...

Playing a musical instrument has undoubtedly proven to elicit positive psychological effects. Learning a musical instrument has been shown to reduce levels of stress, anxiety, depression and even PTSD ...

The term “hipster” is elusive and frequently wielded as an insult, yet it has a rich history. The first hipsters were young ...

The U.S. Postal service creed asserts that “neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night” will keep couriers from their ...

After gaining exposure in Chick Corea's trio in the late 1990s, Avishai Cohen has taken his dramatic acoustic bass sound mixed with Jewish folk music, jazz, world and classical ... memorable repeating ...

For this column, I interviewed the Chicago-based freeform musician about how she turned her talents to playing outside the box of standard chord progression ... she played in jazz band and formed ...

For all the different twists and turns that The Police took during their lifetime, Stewart Copeland felt this first love wasn't exactly cool.

Amsterdam-based singer Noa Lauryn drops soulful new single Layers of Time, exploring family patterns through jazzy neo-soul ...

Dave Grohl understood the makings of rock and roll, but he knew that he was never going to get close to this musician's level ...

Meanwhile, more advanced players can dive into specialized topics like blues, jazz, and fingerstyle ... including songwriting and chord progressions. There’s even a course on ear training ...