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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Format: Mixed media product
Weight: 730g
Dimensions: 214 x 282mm
Publication Date: 01 Nov 2010
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780879309930
About Rikky Rooksby
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