Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Guitarist with SG guitar. As a developing and beginner guitar player, learning riffs from your idols is a great way to push ...

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It’s no secret that the guitar is the backbone of pretty much every song. Whether it’s a railing, electric solo that makes listeners want to break out their best air guitar, a stripped-down acoustic ...

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note… But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know ...

The '80s were a golden age for guitar-driven rock and roll. Coming strong off the hard rock scene of the '70s and bolstered by the emergence of MTV, riff rock has never been as popular as it was ...

Guitar riffs are the life-blood of a great rock 'n' roll record, making the hair on the back of your next stand on end, or better wrecking your head like a bullet to the brain. So here are 10 of the ...

Cream‘s “Sunshine of Your Love” features not only one of the greatest guitar riffs of the ’60s, but one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. It’s a rite of passage for any burgeoning guitar ...

The Smashing Pumpkins’ Billy Corgan went on the record a while back to say that he doesn’t believe he gets as much love as he deserves for his guitar work. Honestly, even though the statement was ...

The title track to Aerosmith's 1975 classic drives harder and faster than almost anything else in their extensive catalog. In fact, there's almost a punk-like surge to the three-minute "Toys in the ...

If you wanted to assemble a time-lapse movie of rock 'n' roll's development, you could begin by illustrating the way riffs have often defined rock's great songs and performances. Elmore James kicked ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...