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.
- ISBN10 0879307102
- ISBN13 9780879307103
- Publish Date 1 August 2002
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 10 May 2011
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Hal Leonard Corporation
- Imprint Backbeat Books
- Pages 192
- Language English