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How to Write Guitar Riffs
Create and Play Great Hooks for Your Songs
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This book is ideal for guitarists seeking to deepen their understanding of riff construction, music enthusiasts interested in riff-based songwriting, and aspiring musicians wanting practical guidance on riff writing and arranging.
This book now in its third and updated edition digs deep into the world of the guitar riff, identifying 30 distinct types and illustrating them with reference to 150 examples.
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Countless great songs are based on riffs—catchy guitar phrases that repeat until they’re seared into your brain forever—or snappy chord sequences as memorable as any melody. Riffs get people excited, whether they are musicians or listeners. Advertising agencies use riffs on television, internet videos, and cinema trailers. Riffs sell concert tickets, guitars, and downloads. YouTube is full of guitarists playing riffs.
How to Write Guitar Riffs, now in its third and updated edition, digs deep into the world of the guitar riff, identifying 30 distinct types and illustrating them with reference to 150 examples: from Howlin' Wolf to Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Chuck Berry to Limp Bizkit, the Kinks to the Strokes, Black Sabbath to the White Stripes, Coldplay, and Kings of Leon.
The book includes 56 tracks of audio, illustrating all types of riffs covered, plus notation and TAB for 40 original example riffs composed by the author. In the book, you can:
- Trace the connections between riff types and the scales, modes, or chords from which they’re drawn.
- Learn the guitar tips and arranging techniques to get the best from your riffs.
- Read an exclusive interview with Led Zeppelin and Them Crooked Vultures bassist John Paul Jones, a multi-instrumentalist, writer, and arranger with 50 years of experience in riff-based music.
Book Details
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ISBN: 9781493061099
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 December 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Backbeat Books
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 18.0mm
Width: 190.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 560g
Pages: 272
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About the Author
Rikky Rooksby is a guitar teacher, songwriter/composer, and writer on popular music. He is the author of How to Write Songs on Guitar (2000, revised 2009, 2020), Inside Classic Rock Tracks (2001), Riffs (2002, revised 2010, 2021), The Songwriting Sourcebook (2003, revised 2011), Chord Master (2004, revised 2016), Melody (2004), Songwriting Secrets: Bruce Springsteen (2005), How to Write Songs on Keyboards (2005), Lyrics (2006, revised 2021), Arranging Songs (2007), How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings (2010), and Songs and Solos (2014). He has also written fourteen Fast Forward guitar books and transcribed and arranged over forty chord songbooks of music, including The Complete Beatles. He has written entries on rock musicians for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and published interviews, reviews, and transcriptions in many UK music magazines. He is a member of the Society of Authors, Sibelius One, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. Visit his website at www.rikkyrooksby.com for more information.
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