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 ...

Alternative rock bands in the 1990s shunned the idea of being rock stars, but many became alt-rock guitar heroes nonetheless.

To celebrate the guitar’s 70th birthday ... it forever changed popular music. Fender, born in 1909, began tinkering with radios as a teenager. After college, he built sound systems for a ...

She started shakin' to that fine, fine music. You know her life was saved by rock 'n' roll. National Museum of African ... National Museum of African American History and Culture Bass guitar used by ...

Ronnie Wood has suggested that new technology has undermined “the essence” of making music. The 77-year-old guitarist who ...

Rock music is usually in 4/4 time and most songs use a verse-chorus structure. It is usually performed by bands that include the electric guitar, bass guitar and drums, and with at least one singer.

Distortion is an effect frequently used on electric guitar in rock music. This means changing the normal sound of a guitar in order to make it more 'fuzzy'. Watch 'Lost Little Boys' by Fatherson ...