Having authored some of the finest and sleaziest riffs in rock history, Joe Perry knows a thing or two about what it takes to make those riffs stick. Be it "Walk This Way," "Combination," "Fever" or ...

System of a Down's Shavo Odadjian has revealed what his all-time favorite guitar riff and bass riff is in a recent "My 3 Questions To" video series on the Sobre La Dosis YouTube channel. The series ...

As with any other hobby or skill, every guitarist has to start somewhere. For most of us, it all started by playing air guitar along with some of our favorite songs and wishing we could play like our ...

If you wanted to assemble a time-lapse movie of rock 'n' roll's development, you could begin by illustrating the way riffs have often defined rock's great songs and performances. Elmore James kicked ...

You’ll notice classics like “Smoke on the Water,” “Iron Man,” and “Enter Sandman” missing. And don’t forget the sweet ones: “Sweet Child O’ Mine,” “Sweet Home Alabama,” and “Sweet Emotion.” One could ...

Now that the outrage around the Rolling Stone top 200 guitarists list is dying down a little, it's time for a new debate: is the art of the guitar riff dying? When it comes to great examples there was ...