Pleading the 5th

A BIG PART of blues is playing over a “shuffle” groove — a triplet-driven swing-eighths feel with a backbeat (accents on beats 2 and 4) — at various tempos. There are many great shuffle-based tunes. A

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

IN MY PREVIOUS “Blues You Can Use” columns, I focused on what I consider to be essential rhythm guitar and accompanying single-note patterns that exemplify Chicago-style blues guitar, as heard in the

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The Boneshakers: strident vocal energy and spicy guitar ...