Paul McCartney once said The Beatles only steal as much from musicians as others steal from them. That seems reasonable enough, and McCartney was the first to acknowledge he lifted the bass line from ...

Guitar World's editor-in-chief — plays and discusses some of the riffs, licks and solos that changed his bipedal life. He's ...

While they knew how to write rollicking classic rock songs in their sleep, Kiss showed off their more sensitive side with the ballad “Beth.” The track has a riff that sounds like it came from a ...

The aim of this lesson is to learn and apply some of the concepts behind the rockier side of the three guitar-playing Beatles. With a body of work as iconic and influential as theirs, studying and ...

“I Feel Fine” was recorded during a nine-hour session on October 18, 1964, that also included “Kansas City/Hey-Hey-Hey-Hey!” “Mr Moonlight,” “I’ll Follow the Sun,” “Everybody’s Trying to Be My Baby,” ...

With a guitar purchased from a garage sale down the street from his parents Chicago home, Mark Dawson learned the riff to the Beatles hit “Day Tripper.” ...

The Beatles made their reputation on the strength of their sterling songwriting ability. But they also knew how to present a song, as the four members of the group, in conjunction with producer George ...

Great music rarely exists in a vacuum, as artists almost always draw inspiration from those who came before them. After all, with only so many chords and melodies, it’s not unusual for songs to sound ...

It goes without saying that Nita Strauss knows a thing or two about good guitar riffs, and recently the Alice Cooper electric guitar hero sat down with Guitar World to run through the five riffs that ...

“Anyone who covers a song of mine, I love,” Paul McCartney once remarked. That's generous. It's daunting to imagine how many teenage garage bands have workshopped an unlistenable metal version of ...