Why have I never seen a list of the greatest guitar chords of all time? We are speaking of the great “whoooang,” the sweet rib-meat and godhammer of our rock & roll fantasies. Now is not the time to ...

Tune, strum, solo, and shred with apps designed to help you get the most out of your six-string. With a tuner, a metronome, a chord finder, and scale guides, this app is a must-have for every guitar ...

Guitar skills: With dissonant chords and aggressive rhythm playing, the harder side of blues-rock overlaps into funk. The ‘7#9’ shape (shown here in F#) below is known as the Hendrix chord thanks to ...

Any rock fan who's ever picked up an electric guitar has probably dreamed of becoming the next Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Nancy Wilson or Slash. But if you're going to become a guitar hero, you've ...

The electric guitar is the alpha instrument in rock music, but there have been plenty of great acoustic songs as well.

I've never been a fan of the guitar portion of rhythm games. It never felt worthwhile having to relearn simple arpeggios à la "Ziggy Stardust" as five-button speed runs. My biggest fear when hearing ...

If you are a guitarist, you probably have a handful of rock songs that first led you to the instrument, like these classics from 1964.

A definitive list of 25 licks spanning the entire blues-rock universe is a contentious thing; we’d all come up with different results. These are simply a set of phrases that could form the core of a ...

On paper, writing a great guitar riff doesn’t appear to be difficult. Many classic riffs are simple to play. A few notes, a handful of chords, and the next thing you know, you’ve composed “Whole Lotta ...