Nearly 50 years after its release, Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” is still setting the standard for rock guitar greatness.

Steely Dan is known for the songwriting of Donald Fagen and Walter Becker. But these songs would be the same without their ...

There is a reason many driven people end up picking up a guitar at some point. It is not always about becoming great at music. It often starts as a way to slow down, even if that was never the plan.

There are more men in rock than women, so guys get most of the glory, but female guitarists like Jennifer Batten and Nancy ...

Why start simple: Basic chords like E minor, A major, and G give you the foundation to play countless songs while building strength and dexterity. Tabs made easy: Guitar tabs show exactly where to ...

You might think you've heard everything that's possible to conjure up on a guitar, but these five American primitivism ...

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like ...

The 30-second, nine-bar solo is one of the most recognisable in all of music, and players across the world believe it is worthy of its icon status. "Bohemian Rhapsody" voted best guitar solo by Guitar ...

Vince Gill was a recent guest on the Rolling Stone All Access podcast where he was cornered into answering a pretty prolific question: What is your favorite guitar solo of all-time? At first, Gill was ...

The guitar solo is a quintessential component of any rock song, and for a lot of musicians, the more complicated, the better. It takes an expert to know that an overly complex piece of guitar music ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, most explicitly—but rock and roll’s got a serious solo deficiency going on.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...