Many great rock songs begin on an acoustic guitar. Before the expensive productions and string sections, songwriters often used only a voice and an acoustic guitar (or piano) to excavate a tune out of ...

Classic rock songs like "Dust In the Wind" by Kansas and "Stairway to Heaven" by Led Zeppelin have some of the best acoustic guitar intros ever.

Grunge music doesn’t always translate well into acoustic form. After all, the heart of the alt-rock genre is electric guitar distortion and production techniques that give the music more of an edge.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Quentin Singer is music journalist who covers rock and heavy music. Guitar music is a ubiquitous feature of popular music, ...

If you've ever tried to write the opening bars of a song, you know the truth: the intro has to do a lot of work in a very short amount of time. "Crafting the introduction of a song with a memorable ...