As with any other hobby or skill, every guitarist has to start somewhere. For most of us, it all started by playing air guitar along with some of our favorite songs and wishing we could play like our ...

Classic rock music through the years has inspired countless young musicians to learn how to play the guitar. Whether that interest stuck or not depends on the person. However, plenty of now-famous ...

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 ...

They say at times you can't hear the sheer brilliance of a song until it's broken down on acoustic guitar, so for this edition of Gear Factor, you'll get a lot of brilliance from some of rock and ...

From accidental late-night recordings to fiery real-life events, the origins of rock’s most iconic guitar riffs are as legendary as the songs themselves. These short, powerful sequences have defined ...

We’ve got a YouTube legend on deck for this week’s edition of Gear Factor. Justin Whang, from his Whang! YouTube channel and the metal band Jynx, joined us to play some of his favorite all-time riffs.

From the hypnotic simplicity of Jared James Nichols’ open-string grooves to Jimmy Page’s legendary tone-shaping instruments, guitar riffs remain the heartbeat of rock. Icons like Uli Jon Roth and ...

Led Zeppelin engineered some of the catchiest guitar riffs ever.

Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” boasts one of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock history — four notes in G minor, famously played on a Fender Stratocaster, and powerful enough to send an arena ...

While music lovers will probably never stop engaging in heated debates about which rock guitar legend can claim the title of "best of all time," one name that always comes up in the context of that ...