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Combining varying approaches in my “Hard Wired” solo
BY JAMES JARED NICH
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
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
Richard Barrett is on a mission to make you a better blues player – with full audio examples and backing tracks
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IF ONLY HALF the rumors about him are true, Ozzy Osbourne should be dead. Yet, after 21 years of twisted public behavior, the man who brought you songs like “Paranoid,” “Bark at the Moon” and “Childre