In this tutorial, we break down the legendary walking boogie bass line from Oscar Peterson’s Boogie Blues Etudes, live in London, 1974—starting at the iconic 2:10 mark. Learn how to lock in ...

Australian fusion guitarist Frank Gambale plays a 12 bar blues solo on the video. We transcribe and analyse it below. Bars 1-3: Frank begins simply with B minor blues scale (B D E F F# A), but in bar ...

Jazz and blues musicians often personify the very art of being cool, but we have to ponder whether they would be half as cool (musically speaking) if they didn’t constantly use 7ths in their music.