Flamenco has many luminaries but none are as famous as Francisco Sanchez Gomez, known the world over as Paco de Lucía. His ...

Melody and rhythm are almost inextricably linked. I say ‘almost’ because you can have melody or harmony without a distinguishable rhythm, and rhythm itself can exist with no melodic content at ...

But also don’t overlook her guitar work: “…Her right thumb plunks the bass part while her forefinger upstrokes notes and chords, leaving the other three fingers unused. A banjo technique, it’s also ...

To keep your picking hand from tripping over the swung rhythm, alternate your pick strokes, playing upstrokes on upbeats and downstrokes on downbeats. While Sixx's bassline in the song's main riff ...

Cranes have an odd, jerky flight style, with the quick upstrokes and slower downstrokes of the huge wings distinctive at great distances. I’ll never forget my first experience with Sandhill Cranes.

Birdsong production depends on precise neural sequences in a vocal motor nucleus HVC. In this useful biophysical model, Daou and colleagues identify specific biophysical parameters that result in ...

Eschewing his mother’s taste for easy listening music early on, Martin Anderson was raised on his dad’s love for jazz, his brother’s Beatles/classic rock LP’s, and the bluegrass and Top 40 radio of ...