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Rock Guitar: Rock Guitar Licks
A lick is a short melodic phrase that is used as a lead guitar part that you learn beforehand, and then include as part of an improvised solo. Licks are a vital part of every guitarist’s vo ...
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Rock Guitar: Rock Guitar Riffs
Rock would have never gone anywhere without the guitar riff. Try to imagine songs like “Smoke on the Water,” “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” or “Purple Haze” w ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Rock and Blues Riffs Basics
This guide includes many classic phrases that guitar players have been using for decades. You’ll hear these, and variations on them, in thousands of recordings across a range of styles. Mos ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Beginner Rock and Blues Riffs
In this first section, all the riffs have one thing in common: they’re easy to play. This is not to say they sound better or worse than any of the other examples illustrated here. Remember, ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Rock and Blues Chord Riffs
There’s often more to chord playing than simple song accompaniment. Sometimes the chords themselves can form a riff. Think of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit,” The W ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Double-Stop Rock and Blues Riffs
Double stops are simply two notes played together. Though you can play double stops using fingerstyle technique, they’re more commonly played using downstrokes and a pick. The double-stop t ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Rock and Blues Bass-Note Riffs
All of the riffs in this section use the lower register of the guitar. A common misconception about all lead playing is that it has to be high up the neck. The examples shown here demonstrate that ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Rock and Blues Riffs with Bends
Ask any rock or blues guitarist to “take a solo,” and 99 times out of 100 they’ll use bends. However, surprisingly few of the most popular riffs of all time actually feature s ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Open-String Rock and Blues Riffs
The first chords that most beginners learn to play use open shapes, meaning at least some of the notes in the chord are played on open strings. It takes an imaginative player to make creative use ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Power-Chord Rock and Blues Riffs
Power chords can be a guitarist’s favorite songwriting or arranging tool when putting together a rhythm part, but they can also be used to make up rock riffs as well. Any riff or backing pa ...
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Rock & Blues Guitar Riffs: Writing Your Own Riffs and Licks
There’s an old guitar players’ joke that goes something like this: “I’m a better guitarist than Jimmy Page, y’know. He didn’t write ‘Stairway to He ...
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