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

WHEN I WAS about 12, my friend’s dad was hipping me to all kinds of incredible music. He gave me the 1974 Gram Parsons album Grievous Angel, which includes “Ooh Las Vegas,” a song that features some r

HELLO EVERYONE, AND welcome to my new Guitar World instructional column. In this series of lessons, I will be sharing and demonstrating some of my approaches to playing seven-string guitar and the var

Recorded at Edward Van Halen’s fabled 5150 Studio, the latest album from Alter Bridge could very well be their most riff-laden to date

This month Richard Barrett embellishes some open-position chords to find that satisfying jangle

TWO DECADES AND eight albums into Alter Bridge’s lauded career, the hard rockers are pulling off a first in 2026 — they’re embracing the definitiveness of a self-titled album. While you could argue 20