Taking cues from John Mayer, Jimi Hendrix and Nile Rodgers, this lesson offers three examples of phrases that add rhythm and ...

My memories of American Girl literature are strong. The chapter books painted backstories for my favorite dolls, giving me a taste for historical fiction and nonfiction that I still have today, and ...

A lapsed painter wonders where it all went wrong in the latest novel from the Man Booker winner Novels with plots that are slight or familiar-seeming tend to compensate by pumping up the idiosyncrasy ...

The iconic blue guitar Kurt Cobain rocked out with in Nirvana’s seminal ’90s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” music video is expected to fetch up to $800,000 when it goes up for auction next month. With ...

Oliver Otway Orme, the narrator of John Banville’s 16th novel, is a painter who has ceased to paint. “Ha! What I wrote down first, instead of painter, was painster,” he tells us, thereby revealing ...

In general, blues jams are a good opportunity for some widdly soloing, but remember that a great deal of any jam session will be spent on rhythm duties. And, rather than chopping away on basic chords, ...

The iconic blue guitar Kurt Cobain rocked out within Nirvana’s seminal 90s Smells Like Teen Spirit music video is expected to fetch up to $800,000 when it goes up for auction next month. With Smells ...

A classic Chicago blues-style shuffle. Use your first finger on the 2nd fret and add your third or fourth finger on the higher notes. Muddy Waters’ riffs were often played around the open E shape but ...