What makes a great guitar solo? Is it pure emotion or dazzling technical command? Simplicity or complexity? One note or a thousand? Is it meticulously crafted melodic precision, hair-raising ...

The jangly, chiming sound of acoustic and electric 12-string guitars have played a crucial role in popular music, from blues to rock, pop to folk. 12-string guitars feature six pairs of strings, known ...

In the April 1988 issue of Guitar Player, Joe Walsh shared with us "what I consider to be the 12 best all-time-forever guitar solos. "They aren't in any particular order," he said. "I don't think the ...

There's a particular kind of silence that follows a great guitar solo. Not the silence of an ending, but the silence of a listener trying to process something that moved faster than words. Some solos ...