Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks

ON THE SURFACE, guitar trends in 1986 looked downright wild and perverse — a weird parade of shred-happy virtuosos, anthemic power pop heroes, dirtbag metalheads and eccentric alt-rock outsiders. But

The Accidental EARMUSIC

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Retracing Our Steps (2007–2014) KSCOPE

ONE OF THE coolest and most badass-sounding things a guitarist can do is double a long, complex bass line an octave higher. This was my approach for the song “Dean Town,” which I recorded with Vulfpec