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

IN LAST MONTH’S column, I talked about how using open G tuning (low to high: D, G, D, G, B, D) has inspired me to find my own musical and compositional voice as a guitarist and craft some cool and uni

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MY FAVORITE ENSEMBLE to play in is the power trio. With only three instruments — electric guitar, bass and drum kit — there’s so much freedom to explore concepts like space, time and dynamic range. Th

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