What makes a great guitar solo? Is it pure emotion or dazzling technical command? Simplicity or complexity? One note or a thousand? Is it meticulously crafted melodic precision, hair-raising ...

Great guitar solos rarely go unnoticed. Songs such as Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven," Van Halen's "Eruption" and Ozzy Osbourne's "Mr. Crowley" all have guitar solos that demand to be heard. The ...

While men ruled the musical landscape in the early days of popular music, it wasn't long before women started to pick up the guitar and craft some of the greatest guitar solos of all time. Early ...

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Few effects in the history of rock guitar are as instantly recognizable — or divisive — as the wah pedal. You know it when you hear it. From aching, explosive bends to scratchy, percussive funk licks, ...

When people talk about the best guitar players of all time, names like Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Eddie Van Halen, B.B. King, Brian May, and Eric Clapton often come up. But another monster of rock ...

The list of greatest guitarists of all time wouldn't be complete without Eddie Van Halen's name written in pen - perhaps permanent marker. The man delivered a number of the greatest guitar solos of ...

Rolling Stone, in its list of the 100 greatest guitar solos of all time, placed Heart-Shaped Box at No. 70. "Heart-Shaped Box is a direct representation of Kurt Cobain's psyche, with imagery of ...

What makes a great guitar solo? Is it pure emotion or dazzling technical command? Simplicity or complexity? One note or a ...

(Photo by Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images). While men ruled the musical landscape in the early days of popular music, it wasn’t long before women started to pick up the guitar and craft ...