In what would have been B.B. King’s 100 th birthday month, CU Boulder music scholar Shawn O’Neal considers how the legends of blues can be heard in even the fizziest pop of 2025 B.B. King was born to ...

Learning to play the guitar can feel overwhelming at first, especially when it comes to understanding chords—the building blocks of most songs. Whether you’re hoping to strum along to your favorite ...

MELODIC MUSE by Andy Timmons THE BENDS, PART 4 String bending offers us guitarists a highly effective way to evoke a wide range of sounds and emotions from our instrument and emulate some of the ...

I want to play this on the piano, but the recording I have (and I doubt there's a better one out there) is not the best quality, which makes it hard to really here the chords he is playing when he ...

Jim Oblon shows us the tricks behind inverted boogie riffing – and the best part is you don’t have to stand on your head to ...

The fretboard can be a complicated terrain to navigate. Many notes can be played at the same pitch in multiple positions, and the third and second strings are tuned a major 3rd apart, whereas the rest ...

You know you're doing something right as a musician when a particular chord or chord progression gets named after you. Take for instance the Hendrix Chord (that's a dominant seven chord with a sharp ...

If you’ve ever found yourself feeling bored of the chord progressions that you’re creating, or feel that your songs just lack that special something that makes them great, perhaps the issue lies ...

Deliberations began Wednesday in a lawsuit alleging Sheeran's "Thinking Out Loud" stole from Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On." First, though, jurors learned about 'Georgy Girl.' ...