Classic Riffs (Pick Up and Play)

Every developing guitarist wants to know how to produce those amazing sounds familiar to us all—the awesome solos and guitar virtuosity, the signature riffs of the most memorable songs. This is the ideal book for anyone who can't get enough of those classic styles. Featuring notation or TAB examples in a wide range of musical styles.

Classic Riffs (Pick Up and Play) is split into genres: blues, heavy metal, punk and indie, and even country and jazz. Each section has an introduction that captures the main artists and their styles. Then try your hand at any of the notation or TAB examples of riffs in the style of everyone from Ritchie Blackmore and Jimmy Page to Slash and Kurt Cobain.

Classic Riffs is part of our highly successful series of practical ring-bound guides to playing music, supported online by the Flame Tree Music website. Now you can see the chord and then reach for your phone to hear the chord or scale. Using any free QR code reader app (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows), a website opens automatically, and you can listen to the chord as a strum, an arpeggio (each note played separately), and hear it as a piano chord.

Author: Jake Jackson is a writer, editor, or contributor to over 30 music books, including Scales and Modes, How to Play Guitar, and Play Flamenco. As a guitarist and songwriter, he has been in several bands, including Slice, The Harmonics, and Starbank, and has studied a form of Flamenco guitar. Although Jake has a range of fine guitars, his favourite music software is Sibelius and Logic Pro.

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