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Top 10 Rock Guitar Riffs Of All Time
The riffs on this page are the tried and true “standards” for Rock guitar music. Walk into any music shop and you’ll find a line of people trying out the guitars for sale and I’ll bet they will be playing one of these top 10 riffs.
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“Lightning Crashes” by Live
Riff Rundown Difficulty: Easy Composer – Live Where to find this song – Throwing Copper track # 5 Release Date – April 1994 Live rose to chart success on the strength of its overtly spiritual songwriting. This endeavor earned the group frequent comparisons to the popular band U2. Live first formed in the early ’80s in their…
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E Harmonic Minor
The harmonic minor scale has a very distinct sound to it. If you’ve ever heard Yngwie Malmsteen then you’ve heard the scale in action, because it’s just about the only scale the Swedish guitar master plays. It the primary scale used in the Neo-Classical movement led by Malmsteen.
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Diatonic Scale Formulas
Here are the intervals that create the major scale and it’s modes.
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How To Use A Compressor
What does a compressor do? Compression is probably the most misused effect that is used by guitarists. This misuse is probably a result of the fact that many players do not understand what compression is or what it does. When a new guitar player gets a hold of a new effects unit they expect that…
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Wah-Wah
A Wah-wah pedal is a foot-operated pedal, technically a kind of band-pass filter, which allows only a small portion of the incoming signal’s frequencies to pass. Rocking the pedal back and forth alternately allows lower and higher frequencies to pass through, the effect being similar to a person saying “wah”. The wah-wah pedal, used with…
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Equalizer
An Equalizer adjusts the frequency response in a number of different frequency bands. A graphic equalizer (or “graphic EQ”) provides slider controls for a number of frequency region. Each of these bands has a fixed width (Q) and a fixed center-frequency, and as such, the slider changes only the level of the frequency band.
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Alternating Bass Exercises
Simply strumming chords to a song can get quite boring rather quickly. Here we are going to alternate between a bass line and the chord voicing to create a more interesting sonic landscape from some of the basic chord forms that you already know.
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Do I need to know scales in order to solo?
You don’t need to know scales to play lead guitar, or for that matter, any instrument. A lot of the old blues players claim that they don’t know any scales or theory whatsoever. All you need is an ear to tell you if the notes sound good. Knowing scales does however, allows you to be…
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How To Use A Capo
You can use a capo to easily change the key of a song. A lot of people do this so that they can sing the song in a range that is comfortable. Regardless of where you place a capo, the idea is that you create a ‘floating nut’.