There's a reason certain guitar riffs stop you cold the moment they hit. They don't just open songs - they carry whole worlds inside them.A real riff is a story compressed into a few seconds of sound.

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His picks are cornerstones of rock guitar, and he doesn’t believe anyone should ignore their genius ...