Some great guitarists have learned to craft licks that are catchy, serve the song, and even act as one of its highlights ...

Tribune are avid music fans. Their favorite guitar solos are on songs by Jeff Beck, Prince, UFO, Deep Purple, Django ...

Starting with riffs and chords may be standard for rock jams and in popular music in general, but making that part a ...

Sometimes, a producer needs a guitar legend to elevate a potential hit single. Or, for reasons of youth, addiction, or lack of skill, professional session players are called upon to rescue a track.

Sometimes, guitar solos are so attention-grabbing and skillful that they completely overshadow the classic rock jams that they’re a part of. I’m certainly not complaining. Who doesn’t love a killer ...

View post: 2024 Western Film, Acclaimed by Critics, Hits Netflix Allen Collins’ “Free Bird” solo was ranked the greatest guitar solo of all time. The solo was praised for transitioning the song from ...

(Photo by Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images). While men ruled the musical landscape in the early days of popular music, it wasn’t long before women started to pick up the guitar and craft ...

Here's nine of the best and most memorable nu-metal guitar solos and leads, chosen by Tetrarch's Diamond Rowe. Now, nu-metal may not be regarded as the subgenre with the flashiest, most nimble and ...

I first heard Brian Eno’s surrealist masterpiece “Baby’s on Fire” as an actual baby, more or less: it was one of my parents’ household staples. For years I moved through life under the very confident ...

What makes a great guitar solo? Is it pure emotion or dazzling technical command? Simplicity or complexity? One note or a thousand? Is it meticulously crafted melodic precision, hair-raising ...

I remember hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time. I was around 10, and it was before I started playing guitar, and he blew my hair back. I thought: What is this fire, and how can I lunge into it?

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...