Metal is a genre that prides itself on its technicality – but sometimes a meaty guitar riff is all you need to serve a great song. Getting faces scrunched and heads banging is one of the best things a ...

There's no doubt Metallica have inspired countless musicians to pick up a guitar and start a band. Through many, many episodes of Gear Factor, we've heard shredder after shredder say the same thing.

As with any other hobby or skill, every guitarist has to start somewhere. For most of us, it all started by playing air guitar along with some of our favorite songs and wishing we could play like our ...