Along with the development of amplification and effects, the electric guitar is one of the most important developments in ...

Eagles have prided themselves on being one of the greatest vocal groups of all time, but Don Henley knew some tunes didn't ...

These 10 rhythm riffs showcase funk guitar styles from across the ages. Whether you’re into the classics like James Brown and Michael Jackson or the more contemporary funksters like Vulfpeck ...

The blues rock giant sits down with Guitar World to go through his back catalog of riffs, picking out a few favorites along ...

Repurposed gospel riffs were everywhere in the ‘50s and ‘60s, a number of them appropriated from the tremolo-soaked guitar vocabulary of Roebuck ‘Pops’ Staples, the patriarch of Chicago ...

When The Kinks released 'You Really Got Me' in 1964, it shocked the music world with its abrasive tone, but just how exactly did they land upon that sound?

For each song, the chord-fingering and riffs are shown in detail via standard musical notation or via tabulature, a format common to guitar music.

This riff is definitely one for the fans of heavier music. Tony Iommi is one of the Godfathers of heavy metal guitar, and this riff is just one of the many crushing rock riffs he delivered in the ...

The best guitar riffs of the 1990s are as recognizable today as they were decades ago. These five are some of the most memorable.

AC/DC assembled some of the heaviest, nastiest, catchiest guitar riffs in rock history, but which one is their greatest?

As the year draws to a close, we here at Guitar World like to take a moment to look back and reflect upon 12 months of guitar music that blazed trails and melted faces – and what a year it’s ...

When we think of top-ranking guitar lists, we often find they are populated with the same old stuff. Every list of riffs will feature Eric Clapton, Hendrix, Page and Beck among others. But what if we ...