Welcome to a new Monday post with 3 random thoughts on all things guitar, music, and life, including riffs, Beethoven, and more.
Here we go…
Halloween Guitar Spooktacular – 4 Easy Guitar Riffs To Scare Your Neighbours With!
Welcome to this little Halloween Spooktacular of four fun classic Halloween riffs for the guitar. If you want to learn some scary (tongue in cheek!) Halloween guitar riffs, this is the place to be. Each one features a different and very useful technique that will help improve your guitar playing – especially if you are a beginner.
An Upcoming Update On The Top 50 Riffs Of All Time
One of my most popular posts on this blog is the Top 50 guitar riffs post which was released a few years ago. It is now getting a massive update and I want this to be the absolute best guitar riff list anywhere so you can have fun, enjoy the best sounding riffs and learn them in a progressive manner.
50 legendary guitar riffs to take you from being a complete newbie to a killer guitar hero
Led Zeppelin at a concert in Chicago, Illinois by Jim Summaria, licensed under (CC BY-SA 3.0)
When I first started teaching guitar, I quickly realised that if you try to teach students a lot of chord based strumming songs, (which seems like the typical way to teach new students) they would find it difficult and get frustrated. I quickly realised a great way to motivate the student was to teach them riffs – particularly easy, classic riffs.
Top Ten greatest ‘supergroup’ guitar riffs of all time
Over the decades of rock’n’roll history there have many supergroups to be spawned from the fractured remains of many great bands. Often hugely anticipated and featuring legends of the time, many of these so-called ‘supergroups’ failed to deliver, but there were some who actually rose above the bland, ‘let’s do it for one more world tour’ attitude of some of these artists and created some music that was actually worth listening to. Check the videos below for some of these bands.
Top Ten greatest grunge guitar riffs of all time
What are the top ten greatest grunge guitar riffs of all time? Well, that’s a hard question to answer but below are my 10 favourites with their videos so you can listen and enjoy the grungy, heavy, groovy, awesomeness of these fine riffs written by some of the best guitarists coming out of Seattle in the early 90’s.