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 ...

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 ...

Ritchie Blackmore himself said that the legendary riff of “Smoke On The Water” from 1973 was simply Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 5” played in reverse. So, there’s no “allegedly” here. Blackmore himself ...

Few sounds in music are more distinct and compelling than the rich, textured din of a Guitar Center. Riffs stacked upon riffs, noodling tangled up in more noodling, shredders going wild while, in the ...