These iconic guitar riffs by Ritchie Blackmore, Jimi Hendrix, and George Harrison helped define classic rock in 1968.

Joni’s music is one of stylistic turns, but her acoustic guitar playing reveals an affection for jazz even in her earliest works.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

Want to learn the easiest Iron Maiden songs to play on guitar? One of the greatest heavy metal bands in history, Iron Maiden has inspired many of us to pick up the axes and start practicing our chops.

While people are stuck at home over the next while, picking up new skills and hobbies has been at the top of their minds. If you’ve ever had a guitar just collecting dust in the corner of your closet ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Few things defined the genre of rock and roll more than the guitar solo. Sometimes powerful and loud, at other times gentle and orchestrated, the ...

How quickly can you recognize a memorable song from the 2000s (2000–2009) once it starts playing? Can you figure out what it is within the first few notes? As has been shown with tunes from both the ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, ...

In 1904, Joseph Kekuku, inventor of the Hawaiian steel guitar, left Hawaii to perform on the American West Coast. Newspaper critics called him the “world’s greatest guitar soloist.” Redpath Chautauqua ...