Open tuning chords (part 1)

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

Charlie Wilkins explores why guitarists crave sustain, how to get it and why some guitars sustain better than others

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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

Can this early 60s Gibson Southern Jumbo be saved or has it gone belly up?