As well as a backing track, every song comes with easy-to-read illustrated settings for amps and effects. This enables you to not only play classic riffs, solos and tunes, but to replicate the tone, ...

In this lesson, we’ll get right into the blues and teach you three straightforward licks so you can start playing in the style straight away. These licks will be built from the A blues scale ...

A classic Chicago blues-style shuffle. Use your first finger on the 2nd fret and add your third or fourth finger on the higher notes. Muddy Waters’ riffs were often played around the open E shape but ...

Don’t worry if you’re still new to guitar, though. In this lesson, we’ll go over three easy rock guitar licks for your solos.

Metallica is an iconic metal band with plenty of easy guitar riffs. Riffs from songs like “Enter Sandman,” “Nothing Else Matters,” and ”One” are incredibly popular among beginners.

But first, a brief backstory by Nick Bowcott! Back in 1993, GW’s editors decided to run with an idea that would become a mainstay of the magazine to this day – monthly artist columns. Two bona ...

The guy is a guitar legend, but the best Johnny Marr guitar riffs don’t adhere to the well-worn path of blues-rock. Videos by American Songwriter The guitar is easy to learn but it’s difficult ...

The guitarist serves up five of his favorite riffs, calling them "deceptively easy to play." Among them is Black Sabbath's "Sabbath Bloody Sabbath," owing a nod to the song that got him into metal ...

The 15 greatest guitar riffs, from Back in Black to Johnny B Goode From classic rock to full-on funk, there are few things better than a truly brilliant riff. Roisin O'Connor picks her favourites ...

It’s easy to imagine the Stones cribbing from any of these songs. But the best way to appreciate The Rough Guide to Unsung Heroes of Country Blues is on a strictly musical level.