Thanks to the Sky Arts documentary series Greatest Guitar Riffs, Queen’s Brian May and Black Sabbath’s Tony Iommi came together to perform the Sabbath classic “Paranoid.” Listen to Black ...

The below list of the Top 50 Hard Rock Songs of the '70s, voted on by UCR staff, reads like the ultimate classic rock radio ...

One could easily fill this page with every missing, deserving riff. Still, if you master the legendary guitar riffs below, you’ll learn more than the individual songs that contain them.

The powerful guitar riffs became this decade's defining sound, shaping rock music's evolution. Here are the 4 riffs of that iconic era. No one can forget this iconic track of the 70s that became ...

"I tuned the E string down to D and came up with this riff. I didn't really think anything of it." Roland Orzabal reveals how ...

but for this edition of Loudwire's Gear Factor we have some of your favorite guitarists playing the metal riffs that inspired them. "I didn't realize how big of a signature vibrato was for guitar ...

There would simply be no metal without Iommi’s monumental riffs, beastly tone, and more importantly his revolutionary approach to the guitar. Songs “War Pigs,” “Paranoid” and “Iron Man ...

Iommi’s heavy metal riffs and down tuned guitar gave songs like “Paranoid” and “Iron Man” their unique sound and went on to inspire heavy metal guitarists for decades to come.

Vast swathes of our favourite records have somehow been passed over, unfairly dismissed or left to languish unjustly in the ...

Fleet-fingered modern metal maestro Matthew Kiichi Heafy combines lead techniques and neoclassical melodic ideas with fast-paced riffing in this lesson in his signature style ...

The guitar riff references a far superior track “All ... I forbid you to listen to it. Listen to Paranoid again instead.

They all have one thing in common: riffs. A guitar riff is the hook of a song. It’s a sequence of notes and chords that gives a track an identity. It can open a song, and be repeated throughout ...