Latest articles by Richard Barrett
'The first thing you often hear on any blues record is a taster of what's to come': Here are 40 turnarounds to fire up your blues guitar playing
Never be short of ideas again with this guide
'If there’s a more influential guitarist out there, we're not sure who it is': learn from a trailblazer with these Chuck Berry-style guitar licks
If there’s a more influential guitarist out there, we're not sure who it is…
John Mayer's guitar playing: 5 things you can learn
Everybody’s talking about John Mayer at the moment, so it seemed timely to reflect that with a few licks approximating his style
How to play guitar like John Frusciante
A video and tab lesson on the Red Hot Chilis' guitar man
Learn 4 great solo licks for a slow blues
The slow blues jam inspires a mixture of joy, dread and cynical rolling of the eyes among us guitarists
Play a guitar solo using only chords with this lesson
Sharpen your three-piece solo skills
Guitar skills: Learn to play quick flurries of notes
How to wow with short bursts of pace
5 guitar tricks you can learn from Jack White
We take a look at his work with The Raconteurs
4 guitar tricks you can learn from Steve Lukather
The session supremo's blue chops dissected
5 guitar tricks you can learn from Robin Trower
Wield the power of Trower
Improve your hybrid picking with these slick guitar licks
Give your playing a country feel in the style of Albert Lee and Eric Johnson
Master open G tuning with these classic acoustic folk riffs
Many of the blues masters use open tunings as part of their sound
Guitar chord vocab: gypsy jazz
Heat up your rhythm work with these Django-style shapes
How to play blues guitar like Jimi Hendrix
Red House-style video lesson with free tab
Preston Reed: How to play percussive acoustic guitar
A video and tab lesson with New York's finest
AXL USA Bel Air
Gibson first introduced its Les Paul Junior and Special models in 1954, aiming at players on a budget who aspired to trade up to the pricier Standard or Custom at a later date.
Schecter Diamond Series Solo II Special
Gibson first introduced its Les Paul Junior and Special models in 1954, aiming at players on a budget who aspired to trade up to the pricier Standard or Custom at a later date.
Cort Yorktown BV-TAB
Cort has been a very big name in guitar manufacturing for many years, supplying instruments under contract to a wide range of brands.
Cort Source BV-CR
Cort has been a very big name in guitar manufacturing for many years, supplying instruments under contract to a wide range of brands.
How to play guitar like Rory Gallagher
An audio lesson with free, high-quality tab
