It's well known that Metallica have a meticulous process for constructing songs, but where does one even begin when Kirk Hammett submits 700 riffs for what would become 72 Seasons? It's a staggering ...

We've teamed up with Unprocessed guitarist Manuel Gardner Fernandes to show off the riffs that taught him! From Metallica to ...

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 ...

You know the riffs, but you may not associate these guitarists with them. But there's no doubt these iconic riffs inspired a whole new generation of guitarists who are tearing it up today. While at ...

It’s no secret that the guitar is the backbone of pretty much every song. Whether it’s a railing, electric solo that makes listeners want to break out their best air guitar, a stripped-down acoustic ...

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 ...

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 '80s were a golden age for guitar-driven rock and roll. Coming strong off the hard rock scene of the '70s and bolstered by the emergence of MTV, riff rock has never been as popular as it was ...

If the flannelly, lo-fi nature of ’90s grunge killed the hairspray bravado of ’80s hair metal, then the 2000s definitely brought back some of its technicality and musicianship. The first decade of ...

We're not going to lie to you. Most of the awesomely tight power-chord riffs that Dave Davies played for the Kinks sounded pretty much the same. When you get right down to it, Davies – the younger ...

“Solos come and go, riffs last forever,” Keith Richards declared on the Today show on BBC Radio 4. That’s fighting talk from the man they call the Human Riff. In the guitar-driven rock genre that ...

The Original Dixieland Jazz Band's first recording in Feb. 1917 is often cited as the first jazz record ever, but critic Kevin Whitehead says that the roots of jazz stretch a little further back. This ...