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This lesson shows you some of the most popular and easiest rock guitar riffs, including: Smoke on the Water, All Right Now, Layla, Purple Haze and more.

Let’s take a look at some of the most memorable guitar riffs from the 1980s. From rock to pop to metal, there’s a little bit of everything here.

Alternative rock from the 90s has many intense and memorable riffs. These songs have become essential to any rock guitarist’s playing library.

Here is a great introduction to the Mixolydian scale – how to find it, how to use it. It’s great for blues, rock and a host of other things and, as always, Darrin makes learning it a joy and not a chore.

First time contributor Chris Korsak hails from Portland, Oregon, where he works as a guitar instructor. In his lesson, you will learn some guitar riffs to such Black Sabbath songs as: Iron Man, The Wizard, Paranoid, and Sweet Leaf.

Allan’s back and this time he’s got a lot of good advice to pass along on the subject of power chords and double stops. As in his first article, Forty-Something Guy Learns Guitar From The Internet, this piece includes a lot of links to other helpful articles as well as numerous musical examples.

Paul Andrews returns to the pages of Guitar Noise with a primer on power chords, complete with practical examples from the music of Green Day, Nirvana, Blur, Blink 182 and (gasp!) The Kinks.

Guitar Noise Forum Member Joe Morgani gives us an easy song lesson on this Roy Orbison classic.

Paul Andrews makes a long awaited return to Guitar Noise with the sequel to his February lesson on power chords. Here you’ll find the lowdown on augmented and diminished power chords, plus examples from everyone from Bush to Hendrix to Metallica to Eminem.