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 ...

Adams starts “Summer of ’69” with a classic rock guitar riff. It’s simple, strong, and easy to remember. That riff helps carry the whole song. In “Jesus of Suburbia,” Green Day uses ...