Here’s my go-to practice routine for tackling altered dominant chords—especially those spicy #5/#9 voicings—and the diminished whole-tone scale (aka the 7th mode of the melodic minor). These sounds ...

MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons THE BENDS, PART 4 String bending offers us guitarists a highly effective way to evoke a wide range of sounds and emotions from our instrument and emulate some of the ...

Macario Martínez had dreamed of being a full-time musician since high school. He never expected it to happen this way.

Trending on Billboard In the dream, Hagar said Van Halen showed him “this harmonic thing… he slid up to a chord, like a slide guitar. We wrote a song with that lick.” The next morning ...

Coldplay posted the year’s best opening numbers for a rock band with their X&Y LP, while System of a Down topped the chart with both their Mezmerize and Hypnotize albums. And amidst all the ...