Ben e. king stand by me

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

The instrument that featured on the cover of Dire Straits’ Brothers In Arms is still very much in use.

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

A BIG PART of blues is playing over a “shuffle” groove — a triplet-driven swing-eighths feel with a backbeat (accents on beats 2 and 4) — at various tempos. There are many great shuffle-based tunes. A

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

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