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

In the third instalment of this series, Richard Barrett demonstrates how third inversion and slash chords can lead the way in popular music

‘I was born twice,’ said the great Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin. ‘In Kazan I opened my eyes to life, and in Tbilisi to music.’ What is it about music and the Georgians? Some members of that Caucasian

Classical music has a problem with perfection. You’d have thought the most important job of any professional musician was learning, playing and repeating the notes composers wrote down so often that t

Understand the ideal strike point before building up your strike quality through a foolproof three-step process.