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

IN MY PREVIOUS “Blues You Can Use” columns, I focused on what I consider to be essential rhythm guitar and accompanying single-note patterns that exemplify Chicago-style blues guitar, as heard in the

Richard Barrett experiments with suspended and altered chords to bring a sense of suspense to your compositions

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

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

THEY REVOLUTIONISED THE FILM-SCORE LANDSCAPE. NOW, AS NINE INCH NAILS TAKE ON TRON: ARES , TRENT REZNOR AND ATTICUS ROSS TELL US HOW THEY’RE SHAPING THE FUTURE