There’s certainly nothing wrong with virtuosity. And there’s nothing wrong with practicing virtuosity while wearing a white, expressionless face mask and an inverted KFC bucket as a hat. It’s worked ...

A Ramones’ classic makes it onto the list – but which is it? - Roberta Bayley/Redferns We’re going to fall out about this, obviously. But here we go. Let’s just start with the idea that a riff is a ...

There are a number of factors that might make a song immediately recognizable—a whisper, a cough, a G note… But nothing gets our little black hearts racing quite as rapidly as a guitar riff we know ...

Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

Classic rock music through the years has inspired countless young musicians to learn how to play the guitar. Whether that interest stuck or not depends on the person. However, plenty of now-famous ...

The guitarist joined Motörhead in 1976, providing singularly sleek-but-gritty guitar work and helping make it a household name. "Fast" Eddie Clarke, guitarist for the original three-piece formation of ...

Just as it is to Eddie Munson in Stranger Things 4, Metallica's "Master of Puppets" is, to me, the “most metal ever.” I spent my teen years obsessively learning the guitar, and Metallica was one of my ...

"Fast" Eddie Clarke, guitarist for the original three-piece formation of Motörhead, died Wednesday evening after a bout with pneumonia, the band's manager Todd Singerman confirmed to NPR. He was 67.