Red hot chili peppers otherside

In the second part of this lesson, Richard Barrett asks you to lend your ears to the sounds of the silver screen for real-life context

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

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

With their 2022 debut album, Cardinal Black showed the world how the budding guitar hero in their ranks could thrive in a band environment. Here, Chris Buck explains how its follow-up has taken his playing and songwriting to the next level

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

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