How to play guitar like Ace Frehley

Equipped with a Les Paul and his own unique style, Ace Frehley provided the rock and roll guts that allowed Kiss to become ...
American Songwriter

4 Classic Rock Guitar Riffs That Inspired Me To Pick up the Guitar

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 ...

“It was a challenge to myself: ‘I’m not gonna have a chorus in this song’”: How Jack White created the riff of the century

Seven Nation Army was so named because the young Jack once misheard the name of the Salvation Army. According to White, the ...
Alternative Press

How to play Underoath riffs with guitarist Tim McTague

Grab your guitar–Tim McTague of the legendary Underoath stopped by the Alternative Press offices with his custom Erase Me green Fender Jaguar to show us how to play some of the band’s classic riffs.
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Avatar’s Jonas Jarlsby + Tim Ohrstrom Play Their Favorite Riffs

In this edition of Loudwire's Gear Factor, the dynamic guitar duo of Avatar's Jonas Jarlsby and Tim Ohrstrom step in to chat about some of the guitar riffs that have helped shape their playing over ...
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What’s the First Guitar Riff Everyone Learns?

What's the first guitar riff that new players always learn? Even the greatest guitar players have to start somewhere. We've asked countless shredders what the first riff they ever learned was, and one ...
The Cheat Sheet

The Led Zeppelin Guitar Riff That John Paul Jones Wrote on a Train

Led Zeppelin has countless incredible guitar riffs in their music. Whether it’s the opening of “Whole Lotta Love” or “When the Levee Breaks,” audiences are still amazed by Jimmy Page’s work with the ...
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Calvin Harris reveals the unconventional method he used to record the guitar riff on new single, Blessings

Calvin Harris’s latest single, Blessings - featuring Clementine Douglas - has certainly been making its share of headlines this week. After celebrating the fact the song had become his 45th Top 10 UK, ...
The Cheat Sheet

5 of George Harrison’s Best Guitar Riffs in The Beatles

In The Lyrics: 1956 to the Present, Paul McCartney wrote that George’s guitar riff in “And I Lover Her” made the song more musical. The “Yesterday” singer explained that the song needed something to ...

The Led Zeppelin riff Dave Grohl struggled to play: “It has these wicked turnarounds”

Dave Grohl may have a percussionist's approach to a drumkit, but this song is one of the greatest guitar showcases of all ...
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“We were doing that riff and cracking up laughing the whole time”: Zakk Wylde on how a “joke” riff won Ozzy Osbourne his first ever Grammy

The No More Tears sessions found the Ozzy camp in high spirits and ready to lay down a record that would take the Prince of ...
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H.E.R. Performs Guitar Riff During Usher's Super Bowl Halftime Show

Usher electrified the crowd with his eagerly awaited Super Bowl LVIII Halftime Show on Feb.11. Racing through a medley of his chart-toppers, the eight-time Grammy winner brought out Alicia Keys, Lil ...