Secondary dominants

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

LAST MONTH, WE delved into the all-important topic of developing solid pick-hand timing when strumming. To me, that’s where the groove is: the pick hand is the timekeeper, and I’ve spent a lot of time

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

Harmonies in mathematics

The solo cello carves out a slow-moving phrase. It’s not a melody as such, but it becomes a refrain, passed on to the accompanying six cellos. The listener becomes Hercule Poirot, picking out clues hi