Melanie Faye

Take your rhythmic chops to boot camp with this primer on the skills you need to make it funky. Although funk can be traced back to the early days of James Brown, like all styles, it has evolved a lot over the past 60 years. With an increasing body of great rhythm guitar players on the live circuit as well as well as online, there’s never been a greater abundance of talent and innovation, that’s constantly pushing stylistic boundaries.

At only 23 years old, Melanie Faye has a bright future ahead of her. With a background in jazz guitar from her studies at the Nashville School of the Arts, it was this experience, along with her often cited influences of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Gales, that has helped Melanie find her personal voice on the guitar, fusing jazz with R&B and neo-soul.

What’s better than listening to one guitarist soloing over a track? Listening to 12 guitarists soloing over a track, of course. And in Pickup Music’s latest video, the online learning platform has assembled a lineup of 12 stellar electric guitar heroes for a collaborative video. Featuring the likes of Strandberg-toting...