This month, we take a whistle stop tour through the playing styles of the most influential rock guitarists of all time. We’ll be concentrating our efforts on highlighting their key contributions – and that means you’ll be looking at the most important techniques that have steered rock and influenced later generations.
We start off in the 1960s with players like Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton who took the vocabulary of the blues and supercharged it with Marshall stacks and no desire to turn them down. Next up are godfathers of hard rock and heavy metal, Ritchie Blackmore and Jimmy Page. Their influential riffing would go on to inspire generations of heavy rockers right up to the present day.
Other guitar innovations we look at come in the form
