Learn how to boost your blues to pro levels of authenticity with a handful of great chords and a rock-solid rhythm technique ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hello, and welcome to my new column for Guitar World! Over the next few months, I will demonstrate many of the approaches I use to ...

Steve Cropper, who died Wednesday at 84, is not a household name, but the music he made is some of the most familiar in American pop. The twanging guitar line that opens Sam & Dave’s “Soul Man”—that’s ...

When people think of great guitarists, often names like Jimi Hendrix, Greg Allman, or Jimmy Page come to mind. Players who know how to write solos that touch the heavens and make a person’s soul ...

On this day (November 3) in 1926, Ray Edenton was born in Mineral, Virginia. In his early 20s, he moved to Nashville and began working as a studio musician. His talent as a rhythm guitarist led him to ...

Bob Weir, the founding member of and guitarist for the Grateful Dead, was a pioneer in how rhythm guitar is played in rock music. He died earlier this month. Alan Paul, music journalist and author of ...

Chris Dreja, the rhythm guitarist and then bassist for the iconic band The Yardbirds, has died at 79, according to Parade. Bandmate Jimmy Page, the Led Zeppelin guitar legend who played with Dreja in ...

With such enormous hits as, “Joy to the World,” “Momma Told Me,” and “Eli’s Coming,” it would be hard to imagine for the band’s lead/rhythm guitarist, Michael Allsup, that he could help create ...