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) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Ramones’ classic makes it onto the list – but which is it? - Roberta Bayley/Redferns We’re going to fall out about this, ...

There's a reason certain guitar riffs stop you cold the moment they hit. They don't just open songs - they carry whole worlds inside them.A real riff is a story compressed into a few seconds of sound.

In his debut GW column, the prog-metal master teaches you the punishing string-skipping techniques behind Spiritbox’s Jaded ...

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 ...

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 ...

Led Zeppelin has countless incredible guitar riffs in their music. Whether it’s the opening of “Whole Lotta Love” or “When the Levee Breaks,” audiences are still amazed by Jimmy Page’s work with the ...

Great guitar riffs are often the first thing we notice in a 1990s rock song, as it sets the mood before the singer enters.

In his book, The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul explained that his vocals on “Let Me Roll It” sound the way they do because of the “bog echo” he used. He and The Beatles often utilized the ...

Picking the greatest guitarists of all time is a Sisyphean task. Let's pick five of the most important early innovators of ...

System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian has revealed what his all-time favorite guitar riff and bass riff is in a recent "My 3 Questions To" video series on the Sobre La Dosis YouTube channel. The series ...