The queen of pop and the icon that is Madonna has bought an excellent view to the acoustic guitar. She reveals these in her albums; Music and American Life, to mention two. The album, which was Music, featured the song, ‘Don’t tell me.’ This song had a guitar riff played by the ‘cow-boys’. You could describe the guitar playing like a stop-and-go guitar riff. A stop-and-go guitar riff is a rhythm of playing by strumming the strings and plucking individual strings, to pick out certain notes. The song, ‘Don’t tell me’ begins with a new riff in guitar playing. It is started in the chord of ‘D’ and only certain strings on the chord are plucked. This is to create the sound of the song. The chords then change to various other corporating chords which come back to ‘coda’ or the starting chord of the song. The song is an intriguing song that all guitar players would like to make an attempt at playing in some point of their practicing days. The album which was ‘American Life’that was released in 2003, also features new guitar riffs that have new string plucking techniques and finger picking styles. This album features ‘stuttering guitars’ with cleverly practiced string plucking and finger picking of the guitar. The feature song of the album is probably ‘Hollywood’ This song can be played with the capo on the second fret of the guitar. The starting chord is A-minor. Again there is a featuring style of a stuttering guitar in this song, with the strings being plucked strategically to create a synth and grinding sound. The guitarists’ play the song, ‘Hollywood’ with the capo on fret two. The starting chord is A-minor and the strings, D,G, B and E are plucked in a certain order to create the sound for the song. There is also a riff which this song is played to, which gives it a techno-rap quality. This is the effect of the electronic-synth in the strumming of the strings, which gives a unique sound that was first brought to attention in the song ‘Don’t tell me.’ The song, ‘Hollywood’ starts with a simple but effective style of strumming, of the strings. There is then a jump of the finger picking in the song. This is incorporated with a change in chords, which jumps and infiltrates between the four chords which are used in the playing of the song ‘Hollywood.’ These chords are; A-minor, C major, G, and D major. The riff-style of the song is something that is up to the individual to master. The ‘A-minor’ chord uses three of the fingers on your left hand, presuming you are a right handed guitar player. The fingers, 2 and 3 are placed behind, on the 2nd fret. Your index finger goes on the second string, in the first fret. The following chord is a ‘C’ major, which is played with the index finger staying on the ‘B’ string whilst your middle finger goes on the fourth string and the third ‘little finger’ goes on the fifth string in the next fret. The chord is then changed to ‘G’ major followed by a ‘D’ chord and then back to 'coda.'This is why I enjoy listening to the guitar in her songs.