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

HELLO, AND WELCOME to my new column for Guitar World! Over the course of these lessons, I will be sharing many of the techniques and approaches I use for creating effective melodies and rhythm guitar

This month Richard Barrett embellishes some open-position chords to find that satisfying jangle

WHEN I WAS about 12, my friend’s dad was hipping me to all kinds of incredible music. He gave me the 1974 Gram Parsons album Grievous Angel, which includes “Ooh Las Vegas,” a song that features some r

Alex Bishop reflects on 20 years at the workbench, and considers the lessons he has learned along the way

HELLO EVERYONE, AND welcome to my new Guitar World instructional column. In this series of lessons, I will be sharing and demonstrating some of my approaches to playing seven-string guitar and the var