Out of all of Eric Clapton’s best guitar riffs from the 1970s, this one is probably the most iconic. If you’ve never seen the ...

Fleet-fingered modern metal maestro Matthew Kiichi Heafy combines lead techniques and neoclassical melodic ideas with ...

The band intertwined groovy blues riffs with the sheer aggression of death metal and grindcore, which helped to lay the foundations for melodic death metal in the mid ‘90s. In more recent years ...

This scale is great for composing sinister-sounding riffs and licks, and has been used by Joe Satriani. Its unique sound ...

Rogovoy offers a careful delineation of the mottos, riffs, and licks via which Harrison left a distinctive imprint upon the Beatles’ sound, from early hits such as “Please Please Me” and ...

But one day about 10 years ago, a guitarist friend was showing me an easy riff and I couldn’t copy ... But recently, I found ...

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They all have one thing in common: riffs. A guitar riff is the hook of a song. It’s a sequence of notes and chords that gives a track an identity. It can open a song, and be repeated throughout ...

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Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images Hamas’s massacre last Oct. 7 was a catastrophe for Israelis, but a year later it has also taught the West forgotten lessons about deterrence, political will ...

And I’d have to agree. As I mark my 53rd lap around the sun and reflect back on my career, there are lessons I wished I had learned earlier that would have saved me lots of time, worry ...