Riffs: How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs by Rikky Rooksby (English) Pape

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RIFFS: HOW TO CREATE AND PLAY GREAT GUITAR RIFFS: UPDATED AND REVISED

FORMATPaperback LANGUAGEEnglish CONDITIONBrand New Publisher Description

Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated best-seller 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.

Notes

The second edition of the ultimate guide to creating unforgettable riffs, written by an author with one amazing name. Includes a CD full of audio examples.

Author Biography

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

Long Description

Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated best-seller 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.

Details ISBN0879309938 Author Rikky Rooksby Language English ISBN-10 0879309938 ISBN-13 9780879309930 Media Book Illustrations Yes Year 2010 Short Title RIFFS W/CD UPDATED/E Pages 192 Format Paperback Residence Oxford, ENK Edition Revised and updated ed Imprint Backbeat Books Replaces 9780879307103 Publication Date 2010-11-01 Subtitle How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs Place of Publication Milwaukee Country of Publication United Kingdom NZ Release Date 2010-11-01 UK Release Date 2010-11-01 Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation Edition Description Revised and Updated Edition DEWEY 787.87166193 Audience General AU Release Date 2010-12-09 We've got this

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