30 open-tuned chords

Open d tuning

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

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

Drop-d stomp

THIS MONTH, I’D like to go over the namesake song of my column, “Hard Wired,” which appears on my self-titled 2023 album. I wrote this song with my good friend Tyler Bryant, and it grew out of a jam s

First inversion chords

This month, Richard Barrett explores how a chord can sound completely different when its basic note order is rearranged

The right stuff, part 2

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

Open d tuning

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

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

Drop-d stomp

First inversion chords

This month, Richard Barrett explores how a chord can sound completely different when its basic note order is rearranged