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

This month, Richard Barrett grabs his acoustic and shows you another way to expand your chord vocabulary

How death metal crawled from the swamps of Florida in the late 80s to push noise to new extremes

The ever-active session legend on his love for cheap guitars, Roland gear, and modding his pickups

Mike Zaite explains how a background in electronics and a front-row seat to the British Invasion of the 1960s led to the formation of Dr Z Amplification – and why the sonics always lead the schematics

While never a household name, the Ohio guitarist was one of rock’s most adaptable talents and the catalyst for albums by Johnny Winter, Steely Dan and more