Norman Greenbaum’s 1969 debut solo album, Spirit in the Sky, often gets distilled down to its one iconic single, but there’s more to explore beneath that ...

Popular string gauges for the low eighth string (F#) can range from around 0.64 (light) to 0.80 (normal/heavy). The tuning ...

Among them was a song that was the first ever written expressly for drummer Ringo Starr: “If You’ve Got Trouble.” Composed by ...

Lonely People with Power takes Deafheaven back to the frontiers of black metal and shoegaze, and once more torching the ...

Michael J. Fox and other stars of classic film "Back to the Future" appealed for the public's help on Tuesday in locating the ...

Just as much as someone’s style or riffs, it’s the sound ... It was a great way to get into the guitar, as I only had to really learn three chords. It was “Paranoid.” ...

Some guitar riffs are so legendary and so iconic that ... the 90s likely learned that little intro before they even learned chords. This Siamese Dream riff from James Iha is just one part of ...

A good riff should be made from a short segment of notes or chords, repeated enough to create a great hook but not overplayed so as to be repetative and annoying. Down here, we have a different ...

"I actually wrote the riff on piano and then [Paul] Kossoff transposed the chords to guitar, and he did a helluva job because that's not always easy. Basically the chorus wrote itself, the chords ...

Instead of going directly into its brilliant riff, it’s prefaced by a guitar distortion and fast-paced downward ... “Gone were the strummy chords, gone was the moving voice. I’d replaced them with ...

The best scenario I’ve found with this guitar is playing some synth riffs and melodies ... so it may be hard to do some chugging on chords without thinking you are a little off time.