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How to write guitar riffs : create and play great hooks for your songs / Rikky Rooksby.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Rooksby, Rikky.
Contributor:
Bloomsbury (Firm), publisher.
Standardized Title:
Riffs
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Guitar music (Rock).
Guitar--Methods (Rock)--Self-instruction.
Guitar.
Guitar--Instruction and study.
Genre:
Methods (Music) -- Rock -- Self-instruction.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (273 pages)
Edition:
Third edition, revised and updated.
Distribution:
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing(US), 2021.
Place of Publication:
Guilford, Connecticut : Backbeat Books, [2021]
Summary:
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.
Contents:
Intro
contents
preface to the third edition
how to use this book
introduction
a brief history of the riff
SECTION 1. interval-based riffs
SECTION 2. scale-based riffs
SECTION 3. chord-based riffs
SECTION 4. techniques for playing riffs
SECTION 5. a masterclass with john paul jones
SECTION 6. example riffs
index of songs
index of artists
acknowledgments
about the author.
Notes:
Includes indexes.
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 25, 2022).
ISBN:
979-82-16-40857-4
1-4930-6110-0
OCLC:
1285171067

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