A fter 30 years in print, Guitar Techniques magazine will cease publication with its December 2024 issue, on sale October 16. The magazine's archive and its ethos of printing the greatest lesson ...

A guitar solo is not just a display of musical showmanship, technical mastery and bravado. At its best, it’s a moment of exquisite vulnerability.

It’s hard to imagine what rock & roll would sound like without Eddie Van Halen. Like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton before him, he single-handedly (or perhaps, in his case, double ...

Sure, everybody loves a guitar show-off, melting picks and blistering fingers as they break barriers of time and space to send billion-note hyperspeed solos out into the cosmos like a rock Big Bang.

A guitarist asked OpenAI's ChatGPT to "write a guitar solo" — and the result, as demonstrated in a short clip, didn't disappoint.

SINCE THE START of Fahey’s record label, Takoma, in 1959, the history of solo guitar has been astonishingly pale. Fahey was the patriarch for a cadre of stylists — Robbie Basho, ...

In 2004, at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, Prince delivered one of his most famous guitar solos of all time. Performing "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" alongside Tom Petty, Jeff ...

One, in particular, recalls how Van Halen, who lost his battle against throat cancer on Tuesday, landed a guitar solo feature on Michael Jackson's song "Beat It" in 1982.

After giving an outstanding and unexpected three-minute guitar solo during a performance of 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' at George Harrison's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, Prince threw his ...

Sum 41 may not immediately come to mind when you think of intricate guitar work, but many die-hard fans agree that the solo in “ Goddamn I’m Dead Again,” off their particularly heavy album ...