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 ...

Some great guitarists have learned to craft licks that are catchy, serve the song, and even act as one of its highlights without overstaying its welcome.

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 ...

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.

View post: 38 Years Ago Today, One of Rock’s Most Famous Guitar Riffs Powered Guns N’ Roses to Their Only No. 1 Guitar World readers ranked Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption” solo second greatest of all ...

One of the greatest guitar solos of all time belongs to a 1968 classic that still rocks today.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...