Funk rhythm guitar part 3

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

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

Wendy Rigg is planning a summer of festival fun – but what is it about nostalgic music that makes us feel so good?

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

The instrument that featured on the cover of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is still very much in use.

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…