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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

IN THE LAST 25 years, Joe Bonamassa has dropped 16 studio records. That’s a lot of music, meaning it’s hard to keep things fresh — and his latest, Breakthrough, despite its title, doesn’t even try to

LAST MONTH, I demonstrated my approach to soloing over the song ”Hard Wired,” originally released on my 2023 self-titled album. We began with the breakdown section, over which I play simple lines over

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

LAST MONTH, I discussed the role of the turnaround in a 12-bar blues. To review, the turnaround occurs in the last two bars of the progression. Its function is to set up the return to the beginning of