Improve your sweep picking

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

In the second part of this lesson, Richard Barrett asks you to lend your ears to the sounds of the silver screen for real-life context

TODAY I'D LIKE to talk about downpicking — picking or strumming consecutive downstrokes — and why it can be so musically effective. This is something I learned from studying the riff-writing style of

For something versatile or offbeat, reimagining a classic could be the way to go

Michael Watts reflects on how the choice of the two most popular back and sides woods affects your acoustic sound

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…