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

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

When you’re speaking to someone devastatingly fluent in four tongues (Italian, German, French and English) the subject of language naturally leads to some curiosity. Especially from a somewhat green-e

In the 19th century there was a widely held belief that technique could be gained by devoting many hours a day to the practice of specially composed exercises and studies, and that the skills gained c

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

This month Alex Bishop unravels the intricate fretwork of a century-old concert mandolin