Whether you’re busking solo or you play in a band, making sure your acoustic guitar rig is set up just right is key to delivering a great performance. There are countless potential pitfalls, but we’re ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Chiu is a freelance music writer based in New York. Steve Hackett is primarily known as an electric guitarist whose ...

When music fans think of the jam band genre, they likely think of acoustic guitars, mandolins, and songs that can go on for five, 10, 15, or even 20 minutes. Seen live, jam bands can really extend ...

Think you’ve heard the most jaw-dropping hardcore blues solos of all time? We don’t think you have until you’ve heard every solo on this list of what we consider the 50 greatest badass blues guitar ...

There aren’t enough guitar solos anymore. I mean, there are guitar solos still happening—in the metalspheres of the world, ...

Aaron Lewis, the frontman for the alternative metal group Staind, is putting aside the heavy power chords, the raging guitars and the muddy distortion when he comes to Central Pennsylvania this ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Few things defined the genre of rock and roll more than the guitar solo. Sometimes powerful and loud, at other times gentle and orchestrated, the ...

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 ...