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

In the third instalment of this series, Richard Barrett demonstrates how third inversion and slash chords can lead the way in popular music

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

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AN ESSENTIAL TECHNIQUE all electric guitarists should strive to master is the art of string bending, which can be used to create personally expressive, vocal-like sounds in unique ways. String bending

“DIRECT FLYTE” IS a track from my 2022 album, Power Station, and features the great Victor Wooten on bass. The song has morphed a little bit in subsequent live performances, as we’ve tightened up the