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

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

Recorded at Edward Van Halen’s fabled 5150 Studio, the latest album from Alter Bridge could very well be their most riff-laden to date

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

WHILE PROMOTING HIS latest record, 2025’s Gentō — a collaborative effort with Tangerine Dream’s Thorsten Quaeschning (released under the Bioscope moniker) — Marillion’s Steve Rothery took a moment to