Guitar solos – we love them. A great guitar solo can elevate a great song to the higher level. And many of us can learn a lot the skills and styles of the idols that managed that rare combination. In ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Few things defined the genre of rock and roll more than the guitar solo. Sometimes powerful and loud, at other times gentle and orchestrated, the ...

It’s no secret that David Gilmour is a next-level guitarist. His soaring solos and melodies are a big part of what made Pink Floyd so memorable. And while the studio recording of “Comfortably Numb” ...

The guitar solo; odds are, if you've been a music fan for long enough, you've seen and heard quite a few of them, ranging from some ragtag handfuls of notes to minutes of fret-jumping logistical ...

Throughout history, guitar solos have pressed neophyte guitarists to build the necessary calluses to obsessively master their favorite riffs, transported listeners into different times and spaces, and ...

Mr. Ayers is an author, the president of Beggars Group US and a musician. His memoir “My Life in the Sunshine” will be published in June. When I recently saw the singer-songwriter Adrianne Lenker of ...

93. The Edge on U2′s “Bullet the Blue Sky” “Bullet the Blue Sky” sticks out like a sore thumb on “The Joshua Tree,” an otherwise modest record in terms of its musical arrangements. The Edge’s guitar, ...