Extended harmony

This month, Richard Barrett grabs his acoustic and shows you another way to expand your chord vocabulary

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

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

THERE ARE VARYING degrees of guitar hero, but Carlos Santana is a name you’d expect to find near the top of any list. Like Jimi Hendrix, Brian May or Slash, Santana has transcended guitar music and pe

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

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