30 beautiful chords

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

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

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In the 19th century there was a widely held belief that technique could be gained by devoting many hours a day to the practice of specially composed exercises and studies, and that the skills gained c

Album: New Light (Big Sun Records)

Fender’s Custom Shop had a precarious start in the mid-1980s, but the story of its formative years is full of big ideas, some bizarre instruments, and a queue of famous guitarists