In a new video that has gone absolutely viral, Alex Chadwick takes on the challenge of playing 100 riffs that add up to a chronological history of rock and roll. Check it out below.
Since being released just about a month ago, the video has racked up nearly 1.5 million views.
Alex played a 1958 Strat for the daunting feat, and you can find out more — not to mention view his pedalboard and amp setup — at 100Riffs.com.
Get The Pick Newsletter
All the latest guitar news, interviews, lessons, reviews, deals and more, direct to your inbox!
Josh Hart is a former web producer and staff writer for Guitar World and Guitar Aficionado magazines (2010–2012). He has since pursued writing fiction under various pseudonyms while exploring the technical underpinnings of journalism, now serving as a senior software engineer for The Seattle Times.

It’s a soloing strategy that T-Bone Walker, B.B. King and Albert King all used, and will instantly make your blues solos sound more pro – learn parallel pentatonics and you will set your playing free

“For me, it’s not enough to play an idea once and then move on. I’d rather develop my initial phrase and then morph it into 10 different, thematically connected ones”: Jared James Nichols shows you how to use call-and-response blues phrasing