The killers runaways

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

No one notices Bruce Springsteen. He makes no effort to hide—black T-shirt, blue jeans, Wayfarer sunglasses, honky-tonk cowboy boots—but for a few minutes, the most famous son of the Jersey Shore achi

This month Richard Barrett demonstrates how changing the order of the notes in a chord can open up a lot of harmonic possibilities

The old gods of Guitar Hero are resurrecting the rhythm game , along with RedOctane

1985’s Brothers In Arms reinvented Mark Knopfler’s songcraft and guitar style – and rewarded Dire Straits with more fame than they could handle. 40 years later, in a rare interview, the band look back on the biggest British rock album of the 80s

Musical instruments have power, simply as things. They speak. They generate emotion. They tell stories about life, death, happiness and sadness – and about the past, which they can resurrect with curi