Get the funk out! best of the 70s

WHEN I AM composing and arranging music, I like to think as an orchestrator. As the guitarist, I try to represent just about everything that’s in the arrangement — the drum syncopations, horn parts, k

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

WHILE THE GUITAR sonics heard on Revolver and Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band were the goal with Aclam’s Dr. Robert and The Mocker pedals, the Spanish company has now moved deeper into the Beatl

AN ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL element in blues guitar is the turnaround. It is a basic function of blues music that the turnaround happens at the end of the progression and flips it over back to the beginni

LAST MONTH, I talked about how I devised the primary riffs in the title track to my 2023 album Hard Wired, which is played in drop D tuning (low to high: D, A, D, G, B, E). I’d now like to share some

AFTER SPENDING 60 years as a go-to name for wah thrills, Vox now has a triple-threat — a pedal that combines an envelope generator, envelope follower and manual control. Versatility seems to be key. T