Browsing: guitar technique

Buddy Guy once feared he sounded too much like B.B. King. Here’s how influence, vibrato, and “squeezing” shaped a legend.

Keith Richards says rock guitar was built on double-stops, dissonance, and thrift. Here’s how T-Bone, Chuck, and Bo rewired the rules.

Derek Trucks’ switch to open E and fingers-only slide is a masterclass in ditching nostalgia while keeping deep roots in the Allman tradition.

Townshend’s windmill strum began as a practical weapon for tiny clubs: volume, attack, and rhythm that cut like drums.

In 1968 Johnny Winter scored a $600,000 Columbia deal and rewrote slide guitar; decades later Derek Trucks and Billy Gibbons still raid his bag of tricks.

Bonnie Raitt says you can’t change the noodle, only the sauce. Here is how her unschooled slide guitar and risk taking can reboot your own playing.

How Clarence ‘Gatemouth’ Brown turned electric guitar into a horn, using bare fingers, big band phrasing, and a ruthless ear for blues clichés.