Rikky Rooksby

Riffs (eBook, ePUB)

How to Create and Play Great Guitar Riffs

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781476855486
• Artikelnr.: 55112329

Autorenporträt

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 2009, 2020), Inside Classic Rock Tracks (2001), How to Write Guitar Riffs (2002, revised 2010, 2021), How to Write Chord Sequences (2003, revised 2011), Chord Master (2004, revised 2016), and countless other books. He has written entries on rock musicians for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and published interviews, reviews, and transcriptions in many music magazines. He is a member of the Society of Authors, Sibelius One, and the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society. Visit his website at www.rikkyrooksby.com for more information.