From The Doobie Brothers to The Smiths, James Brown to Metallica, 7th barre chords are fundamental for playing with more color and sophistication ...

The list below of the Top 40 Songs of 1965 highlights several great and culturally seismic tracks from the year's biggest ...

Harkening back to his mid-2000s emergence with John McLaughlin and Chick Corea, electric bassist Hadrien Feraud has likely ...

Though John Lennon and Paul McCartney worked closely together as songwriters, there was always competition between the two. Paul and John wrote the vast majority of The Beatles' songs, in the early ...

With a timeless disco-pop sound and timely lyrics about ... sounds with electric guitar, the cadence of the verses, the rhythm of the drums—there’s no denying these songs are sisters.

With lyrics on laminated pages in a loose-leaf ... Dylan mixed in five songs from the ‘60s and one each from the ‘70s and ‘80s. There was nothing from his made-in-Minneapolis “Blood ...

From there, I’ll find lyrics and a melody and chords and a harmony; that is how I make music.” Naturally ... introduced Aoba’s intricate guitar-work and ethereal vocals, but it was her ...

Jimmy Holmes is the last in a line of music ... lyrics are not all based on hard times.” He was echoing a lament I’ve heard from players such as Christone “Kingfish” Ingram, a 22-year-old ...

The song was based on Jimmy McHugh and Dorothy Fields’ 1935 classic “I’m In The Mood For Love”; saxophonist James Moody had played it and singer Eddie Jefferson sang lyrics to the lines ...

There’s also Wolf’s fuzzy guitar lick, his strumming what we now call power chords ... lyrics about fast cars and fast women. You can’t find a more iconic 50s rock’n’roll song than ...