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Slide guitar supremo Johnny Stachela shares expert advice for beginner bottleneck players

Slide guitar supremo Johnny Stachela shares expert advice for beginner bottleneck players

by Chris Vinnicombe | Feb 26, 2025 | Artists, Learn

The benefits of starting off in open tunings, developing a light touch, and more Johnny Stachela is a modern slide guitar virtuoso. His lyrical, electrifying approach to bottleneck slide has lit up stages and studios with The Allman Betts Band and Duane Betts &...
A deep dive into the pentatonic scale for guitarists

A deep dive into the pentatonic scale for guitarists

by Shane Sanders | Feb 17, 2025 | History, Learn

How did five-note scales become popular in so many music genres and styles? Pentatonic scales, those beautiful and expressive five-note wonders, take two forms: those with semitones (hemitonic) and those without (anhemitonic). They are used worldwide in nearly every...
Video: How to sound like Slash and get his signature guitar tone

Video: How to sound like Slash and get his signature guitar tone

by Shane Sanders | Feb 14, 2025 | Artists, Learn, Video

If you want to sound like Slash but don’t know where to start, the Gibson Gear Guide will show you how in this essential guide If you’ve ever wanted to play guitar like Slash, this Gibson Gear Guide video with host Dinesh Lekhraj is the perfect place to...
Video: Kirk Fletcher teaches a classic B.B. King blues guitar lick

Video: Kirk Fletcher teaches a classic B.B. King blues guitar lick

by Shane Sanders | Feb 10, 2025 | Artists, Learn, Video

Expand your blues guitar vocabulary with a line from a master bluesman In this Gibson App video, blues master Kirk Fletcher demonstrates a favorite lick in the style of B.B. King. He plays it in the key of B flat and notes that many horn lines are performed in the...
Video: Learn how to use call and response blues guitar licks with Kirk Fletcher

Video: Learn how to use call and response blues guitar licks with Kirk Fletcher

by Shane Sanders | Feb 5, 2025 | Learn, Video

Create a musical conversation with your lead guitar playing In this Gibson App video, Kirk Fletcher explains his take on creating a conversation within a set of licks using what is often called “call and response” playing.  Fletcher says, “When you’re...
Video: Rhythm guitar tricks for backing blues harmonica players

Video: Rhythm guitar tricks for backing blues harmonica players

by Shane Sanders | Feb 4, 2025 | Learn, Video

Take your shuffles to a new level with Kirk Fletcher In this Gibson App video, bluesman Kirk Fletcher presents a comping rhythm in the key of G that supports harmonica players in an extremely cool way. His main goal is to add propulsion to the groove, particularly on...
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