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

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

LAST MONTH, WE delved into the all-important topic of developing solid pick-hand timing when strumming. To me, that’s where the groove is: the pick hand is the timekeeper, and I’ve spent a lot of time

THIS MONTH, I’D like to go over the namesake song of my column, “Hard Wired,” which appears on my self-titled 2023 album. I wrote this song with my good friend Tyler Bryant, and it grew out of a jam s

ON MY LATEST album, One Guitar Woman, I pay tribute to many of the female pioneers of the guitar, all of whom are among the biggest influences on my approach to playing the instrument. On the album, I

I RECENTLY HAD the honor to pay tribute to the legendary Duane Eddy, the “Titan of Twang” who passed away on April 30, 2024, at age 86. Duane was a wonderful guy, and it’s testament to one’s life and