Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated bestseller explores more than 200 classic riffs, from Cream and Led Zeppelin, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, U2, and the White Stripes. The first half of the book analyzes classic rock riffs and reveals the stories behind their creation. Easy-to-read text describes and explains each riff, supported by illustrations and a CD of audio examples. The book's second section shows how to construct great riffs and why they work. Readers learn how to shape a melody, integrate a guitar riff with the rest of a song, enhance a riff with effects, and work with intervals and scales to build riffs.
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A brief history of the riff |
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How many types of riff are there? |
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SECTION ONE Interval-based riffs |
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1 The semitone/half-step riff |
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2 The tone/whole-step riff |
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SECTION TWO Scale-based riffs |
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10 The pentatonic minor riff |
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12 The pentatonic major riff |
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15 The aeolian mode/natural minor riff |
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SECTION THREE Chord-based riffs |
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25 The mixolydian chord riff |
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110 | (2) |
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SECTION FOUR Techniques for playing riffs |
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Repetition and development |
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How riffs are used in songs |
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Rhythm and time signatures |
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Arranging and recording guitar riffs |
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SECTION FIVE Writing and playing classic riffs: a masterclass with John Paul Jones |
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SECTION SIX Commentary on 40 example riffs |
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| Index of Artists |
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| Index of Songs |
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| Acknowledgements |
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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 edition 2009), Inside Classic Rock Tracks (2001), Riffs (2002, revised edition 2010), The Songwriting Sourcebook (2003, revised edition 2011), Chord Master (2004, revised edition 2016), Melody (2004), Songwriting Secrets: Bruce Springsteen (2005), How to Write Songs on Keyboards (2005), Lyrics (2006), Arranging Songs (2007), How to Write Songs in Altered Guitar Tunings (2010), and Songs and Solos (2014). He has also written fourteen Fastforward guitar tutors and arranged over three dozen chord songbooks, 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 Vaughan Williams Society
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