The most important aspect to study in melody writing is probably your intervals. In Western music, we use 12 notes in semitone intervals, in other cultures they have quarter tones and microtonal ...

If the flannelly, lo-fi nature of ’90s grunge killed the hairspray bravado of ’80s hair metal, then the 2000s definitely brought back some of its technicality and musicianship. The first decade of ...

I’m a big fan of Steve Vai and Guthrie Govan, both of whom are known for liberally employing legato articulations in their melody playing, such as slides, hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends and glissandos ...

These Are Such Perfect Days: The Del Amitri Story is a new authorised biography of Scottish rockers Del Amitri, written by an Australian author called Charles Rawlings Way with the help of Del Amitri ...

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From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...

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ISLAMABAD: Celebrated classical guitarist Pedro Joia from Portugal and respected Pakistani musician Arieb Azhar came together on Wednesday in a concert for a transcendental musical recital where ...

Stella Donnelly deals in the art of surprise. The Fremantle-based singer favours easy guitar-driven melodies and wields a nimble voice with a ye-ye-like sweetness. Her lyrics, though, are often barbed ...