Now 50 years into his career, the 70-year-old guitarist shares the lessons that have kept him growing in his art ...

The most memorable guitar solos serve as compositions unto themselves ... The solo begins over a G major chord, and in bar 1, I play the notes of a G major triad – G, B, D, G – in a syncopated ...

The master of guitar solos, Van Halen knew how to inject something ... After years of drug abuse affected his ability to play, he wasn’t quite where he was in the early days of his career ...

Dime, when he went to play that lead, the first one ... "It was Darrell's favorite guitar solo that he did in the history of Pantera," proclaimed Benante. "Floods," the ninth track off 1996 ...