Despite line-up changes in the early years, the core of Iron Maiden’s guitar work can be attributed to the triple-guitar assault of Dave Murray, Adrian Smith, and Janick Gers. There are many features ...

Guitar skills: Give your picking chops more power, stamina and speed with metal riff downstrokes. Good metal guitar playing hinges on having a tight rhythm technique, but without practice and proper ...

Guitar lessons: The 'beat’ is the regular pulse in music that you tap your foot to – and beats are grouped together into bars. Most music has four beats in a bar ...

Since the release of their 1984 debut album, Fistful Of Metal, thrash metal has provided the backbone to Anthrax’s unstoppable sound. In addition to fast down-picked sequences, alternate-picked riffs, ...