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 ...

The guitar riff is synonymous with rock music. And the riff has evolved from a long line of amplified blues, from Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry to Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page. Though drum machines and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” boasts one of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock history — four notes in G minor, famously ...

What makes a classic rock album 'classic'? The label isn’t just about age, nor is it confined to a single sound. Instead, it marks a point where musical invention, cultural impact, and enduring ...

It's been over half a century since Deep Purple's 1972 hit "Smoke on the Water" gifted the world with one of the most iconic guitar riffs in rock history...but it's not too late to see the band play ...

Fun fact: That now-legendary riff wasn’t meticulously crafted — it was stumbled upon.