It shouldn't come as a surprise that if you want to play a truly great guitar solo, you have to become a truly great guitar player. And to do that, you have to practice — a lot. In a conversation with ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Sure, everybody loves a guitar show-off, melting picks and blistering fingers as they ...

Rock music is usually the main reason people get into guitar lessons in the first place. Shredding a mega solo under big ...

“Smells Like Teen Spirit” is an incredible song, even without Kurt Cobain’s guitar solo. But that very solo made the iconic grunge track even better. And it’s not that complicated of a solo, either.

When Snowy White laid down a guitar solo for Pink Floyd's 1977 album Animals, he didn't suspect it would go unheard by most fans. His contribution to "Pigs on the Wing" only appeared on the 8-track ...

The guitarist says that when it comes to performing live, he has a different approach that makes rote repetition unnecessary ...

For a certain generation of readers, understanding the cultural impact of Guitar Hero is not a difficult task: it triggered a cultural explosion that made guitar music cool again and birthed a new ...

Mr. Ayers is an author, the president of Beggars Group US and a musician. His memoir “My Life in the Sunshine” will be published in June. When I recently saw the singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker of ...

Anyone who moans that guitars and guitar solos are absent from major league pop shows these days hasn’t really been paying attention. Obviously, the guitar was a heavy presence during Taylor Swift’s ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Cara Robbins/Getty Images for Family Film and TV Awards It didn’t help when a video of ...