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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

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

Alex Bishop journeys up to Yorkshire for the inaugural String Break UK luthiers’ summit

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

ERIC JOHNSON IS without doubt one of the greatest guitarists of all time, and, as I’ve stated, he has been a huge influence for me from the very first moment I heard him, way back in 1986. One of the

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