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

AN ESSENTIAL ELEMENT of playing music is being aware of “where” you’re playing in the beat and how it relates to the groove being laid down by the rhythm section. This concept can be broken up into th

Amid the mayhem of his European tour, Joe takes time out to give us a guided tour around his 2025 live gear, delivers the lowdown on some of his more storied guitars, and tells us why his mighty multi-amp rig has to run at breaking point in order to make the earth move and those riffs resonate…

With Gentle Giant’s legendary Playing The Fool receiving a remix, the band’s Gary Green reminisces about playing during prog’s golden age

The month’s best guitar music – a hand-picked selection of the finest fretwork on wax

THIS MONTH, I’D like to talk about the paramount importance of the right, or pick, hand — how it’s the keeper of time and the thing that gives us the groove while we play. I’ll demonstrate some exampl