R&B guitar thrives on rich extended chords, smooth note movement, and rhythmic placement that breathes with the music. Influenced by jazz harmony and soulful traditions, it blends technical ...

From its inception, the genre known as R&B has relied on the venerable guitar for its unique bass-heavy sound and entrancing chord structure and composition. While an ever-present constant in the ...

Back in the ‘60s in Memphis, I listened to and played a lot of Aretha Franklin, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Booker T. and The M.G.’s, Percy Sledge and Wilson Pickett. We used to call it “soul music.” ...

About two minutes into “Outta My Head,” from the new album Free Spirit by pop-R&B star Khalid, a strange, foreign sound bubbles to the song’s shiny disco-pop surface. It’s a squiggly, pitchy thing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Leon Thomas is well aware that R&B is not the first style of music that comes to mind when the guitar takes the lead. Now, as a ...

Light in the Attic's crusade to unearth long-lost audio treasures (see Rodriguez and Lewis) will continue later this fall via the re-release of Texas R&B guitarist Barbara Lynn's 1968 LP, Here Is ...

Online sample vendor Session Loops has released its R&B Guitar Pack Series, a collection of nine packs designed for use in the likes of hip-hop, gospel, neo-soul and more. As with all Session Loops ...

Leon Thomas is well aware that R&B is not the first style of music that comes to mind when the guitar takes the lead. Now, as a member of the 2025 Fender Next class, the 32-year-old is excited to ...