As a developing and beginner guitar player, learning riffs from your idols is a great way to push yourself to that next level. By learning classic riffs, you expose yourself to a range of techniques ...

Chuck Berry started a revolution when he put the guitar front and center, paving the way for classic riffs in rock music.

If the flannelly, lo-fi nature of ’90s grunge killed the hairspray bravado of ’80s hair metal, then the 2000s definitely brought back some of its technicality and musicianship. The first decade of ...

A new poll for the oft-debated topic of Greatest Guitar Riffs has some stupefying results. The U.K. study done in March 2022 by music content and software provider Muse (also owner of Ultimate Guitar) ...

Some guitar riffs are so legendary and so iconic that even the mildest fans will recognize them from a distance. These guitar riffs from the 1990s are some of the very best to come out of that decade, ...

Listen To This Eddie is a weekly column that examines the important people and events in the classic rock canon and how they continue to impact the world of popular music. The rock and roll world ...

What’s that old saying? “What goes around comes around?” All we’re saying is that plenty of new things grow out of old soil. We saw how the ’90s grunge scene killed the hair-farming aspects of ’80s ...

"I wanted to learn how to play lead guitar and not just the riffs and that’s when all the heavy practicing came into play. I was basically the kid who locked myself in my room for two or three years ...

For half a century, Tony Iommi’s ominous guitar riffs propelled the dark, apocalyptic sound of Black Sabbath. Now the high priest of heavy metal has taken his music in an unexpected direction — to ...