There's a specific kind of silence that falls in a room when a guitar solo lands exactly right. Conversations stop, heads turn, and for a few seconds the whole world seems to shrink down to a single ...

I remember hearing Jimi Hendrix for the first time. I was around 10, and it was before I started playing guitar, and he blew my hair back. I thought: What is this fire, and how can I lunge into it?

All hail the guitar solo — one of the most indestructibly great art forms in all of modern music. There’s nothing quite like the thrill of a glorious six-string explosion — a long, twisted, ...

You're probably reading this list of the Top 20 Hair Metal Guitar Solos for one of two reasons. You might be an '80s hard rock aficionado and guitar fanatic eager to see which of the era's solos we ...

Here's nine of the best and most memorable nu-metal guitar solos and leads, chosen by Tetrarch's Diamond Rowe. Now, nu-metal may not be regarded as the subgenre with the flashiest, most nimble and ...

The 30-second, nine-bar solo is one of the most recognisable in all of music, and players across the world believe it is worthy of its icon status.

There is a reason “Free Bird” is the most requested song at college parties and barrooms—it is electric to the utmost degree. While the song is great, the one facet of the song that people rave over ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

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 ...