Book/Online Audio Guitar
SKU: HL.379314
Create and Play Great
Hooks for Your Songs 3rd
Edition, Revised &
Updated. Book.
Instruction. Softcover
Audio Online. 272 pages.
Published by Rowman &
Littlefield (HL.379314).
ISBN 9781493061099.
UPC: 196288017783.
7.5x9.25x0.612
inches.
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.
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: 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 access to
56 audio tracks online,
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.
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