Distilling must-know guitar riffs in a list of only five is difficult. You’ll notice classics like “Smoke on the Water,” “Iron Man,” and “Enter Sandman” missing. And don’t forget the sweet ones: ...

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One of the most defining factors of rock music is the guitar riffs. Throughout the genre’s history, there have been several songs defined by the musicianship, particularly guitarists. In the musical ...

There's a reason certain guitar riffs stop you cold the moment they hit. They don't just open songs - they carry whole worlds inside them. A real riff is a story compressed into a few seconds of sound ...

A catchy riff — whether it be on guitar, bass, synthesizer or some other instrument — can take a song from good to legendary. Just ask some of the artists we've listed below. These are riffs that in ...

Some guitar riffs are so iconic that they need only a few notes to be instantly recognizable. For Megadeth, that riff is “Symphony of Destruction” … without question. More than 30 years after its ...

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