From blues-inspired classics to heavy metal masterpieces, join us as we celebrate the most influential and memorable guitar ...

A Ritchie Blackmore-style minor pentatonic double-stop riff kicks off the ’70s piece with a Jimmy Page-inspired blues scale ...

In the ‘40s, blues phrases such as the insistent chug that opens John Lee Hooker’s Boogie Chillen’ and the expressively melancholy riff that recurs throughout T Bone Walker’s Call It ...

Riffs are the lifeblood of a great record, and these are 10 of the best, featuring Hendrix, Bowie, Zeppelin and Metallica.

But they’re all fairly blues guitar influenced; syncopated rock-blues riffs, 12/8 gospel, swing-shuffle, country-rock and walking bass. Treat each example as the beginning of your studies.

New Orleans miscreants Eyehategod did their best to portray themselves as dead-eyed nihilists, but their second LP, Take as Needed for Pain, featured some of the sweetest doom-blues riffs since ...

It’s one of the greatest blues rock songs of all time—but it’s also got a controversial history. It’s been in countless movies, TV shows, and commercials. It’s playing in jukeboxes right ...