Every player is aware of the minor pentatonic, but not everyone knows how to make the most of it. These examples – in the style of some prolific pentatonic players – will help you master the shape eve ...

Bends, embellishments, arpeggios and more – from Charlie Christian to BB King and George Benson, how to unlock the genius of ...

Borrowed chords are most often taken from parallel keys - keys that ... Step 1: While a conventional major or minor scale contains seven notes, a pentatonic scale only contains five. Effectively, they ...

Here’s my go-to practice routine for tackling altered dominant chords—especially those spicy #5/#9 voicings—and the diminished whole-tone scale (aka the 7th mode of the melodic minor).

Las Vegas is full of electronic music this weekend, from the stages at the Electric Daisy Carnival at Las Vegas Motor ...

Oliver Hermanus' The History Of Sound is both musically inert and narratively repetitive, turning its queer romance into a ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

Piano on the Rocks stages its annual festival, which took place this year at Verde Valley School from April 25 through 27. Marking its 10th anniversary, the festival’s theme was “From Paris to Sedona.

improvising in the sparest and starkest of scales as an alternative to bebop's dense thickets of chord changes. But this hardly explains the album's hold on three successive generations of listeners.

World Meditation Day is observed every May 21. It's about finding a moment to hit pause, breathe deeply, and quiet the noise — and let’s be honest, who couldn’t use a little more of that?

The new I’m the Problem has 37 tracks, one more than your previous LP and seven more than Dangerous, which you subtitled The ...