They say at times you can't hear the sheer brilliance of a song until it's broken down on acoustic guitar, so for this edition of Gear Factor, you'll get a lot of brilliance from some of rock and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jimmy Page playing guitar onstage in the 1970s. This evocative composition from Houses Of The Holy balances baroque acoustic ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Ramones’ classic makes it onto the list – but which is it? - Roberta Bayley/Redferns We’re going to fall out about this, ...

In this latest episode of Loudwire's Gear Factor, Fernando Ufret (who you've probably seen playing song parodies as South Park's Eric Cartman) plays his favorite riffs. Armed with an acoustic guitar, ...

There are many ways one might write an acoustic song. You might play basic chords to support the voice, emphasizing the vocal melody and the story in the lyrics. A strum-and-sing approach, as one ...

Many rock songs are written on an acoustic guitar. When MTV Unplugged began airing acoustic versions of popular songs, it gave audiences a glimpse of what a hit might have sounded like in its earliest ...

It’s easy to imagine that larger-than-life rock stars are born with an electric guitar in hand, ready to unleash a barrage of thunderous riffs before they’ve even taken their first steps. But you ...

Proof that the simplest riffs can also be the catchiest. This is a bass riff played on a guitar that turns into a razor-sharp, slide-heavy, semi-acoustic repeat of itself. Guitarist Jack White thought ...