Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour and Slash are just three of the countless fans of this staple minor mode. Here, Stuart Ryan takes you through the structure of the scale, plus a handful of chords, riffs an ...

This is a great way of injecting some ‘blues’ flavour into your chord progressions. You can also add 9th and 11th intervals for more colourful sounds a well as a #9 interval for that classic Hendrix ...

In blues ‘dominant’ 7 chords (A7 or D7 for example) are more common than basic major ... try using the D7 shape four frets higher to create a Bm7 and F#7 progression. We've played this blues line ...

The 5th (G) is omitted completely from this voicing – a common practice in jazz ... to arrange voicings to ‘sit’ nicely in a chord progression (both to your ears and on the fretboard ...

Unlike many popular genres at the time, funk put more emphasis on the rhythm and groove resulting from the interplay between bass and drums, than the melody, chord progressions or arrangements ...