Here I'm going to show you how to play easy alt-rock, punk and heavy metal guitar riffs for beginners using only the simple downstroke picking techniques from the previous lesson.
Note that my tabs do not contain information about how long notes and pauses are, it makes them look more compact and neat, without too much notations on it, just listen to my audio/video examples a few times, get the rhythm in your head, fire up the drum track or a metronome and here we go.
And by the way, if you still don't know how to get a cool sound out of your guitar setup check out the Getting the Right Sound article.
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Feel free to accent some of the chords or put small pauses between them, it can dramatically change the feel of a figure.
In order to accent a certain chord, pick the strings harder than with the rest of the chords. Accenting a first chord in a figure often sounds better.
In this figure I make some pauses between the 2-3 and 4-5 chord by muting the 2 and 4 chord on their ends. This creates the feeling of action or musical intensity. Look at the chart below to get the idea:
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To silence a sounding chord and make a pause, slightly touch the strings with the side of the palm of your picking hand somewhere near the bridge.
When you manage to play the rhythmic figure accurately over a single power chord, let's move on and play it over chord progressions:
On the repetition, after playing the 3rd bar, jump to the second version of the 4th bar (4.II in the dashed rectangle).
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When you need to press two adjacent strings at the same fret, it's often more comfortable to bent the nearby finger in a way that its pad lays down across these strings, as in the picture, rather than use each finger for each string.
In the middle of this riff you'll transit your hands from one set of strings to another. Work thoroughly over the transition, begin in a very slow tempo.
What is important here is that no matter when you play slow or fast, practice to jump over the strings quickly, without stumbling.
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The same advice goes for jumping from one fret to another on the same string. You should achieve a smooth, quick transition that will result in the solid, non-abrupt sound, unless of course, you need a sharp and abrupt playing on purpose.
If you have any difficulties with a certain part of any riff or song, you can achieve much faster improvements by cutting this part down and focusing your practice just on this hard part for some time, rather than running around the entire piece of music.
In this figure (except the ending) there is a pause between each couple of chords, the duration of the pause is equal of a one chord.
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First imagine playing 8 equal chords per each bar. Now you need to withdraw from the chords crossed by the red lines.
It will probably feel awkward playing this sequence at the beginning, but it is definitely worthwhile to master, listen to the riff 4 right below where I utilized this concept.
In the next lesson, I'll give you a few extra guitar riffs for beginners that can be easily combined together like pieces of a Meccano construction set, and form a song.
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Moreover, I included a backing track to play along with, consisting of a drum and a bass line, so you'll have an experience in some way similar to playing in a band. Click here to move on to this lesson.Riffs are the all important building blocks that can make a song stand out in the minds of listeners. A riff is a grouping of notes that is typically played throughout a song as the rhythmic foundation or played frequently throughout the song, either in the verse, the chorus, or as an opening or ending. There are no hard and fast rules about the placement of a riff or how easy or complex they are to play.
Electric guitar riffs are played in music of all types, but some of the most recognizable and most fun to play riffs on the electric guitar are some of the most enduring riffs in music history. Rock and metal riffs are some of the most popular riffs to learn. Most guitarists starting out have one or two electric guitar riffs they want to learn almost out of the gate.
The characteristics behind successful electric guitar riffs are hard to pin down. Compare the two riffs below. The first is “TNT” by AC/DC and the second is “Sweet Home Alabama” by
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The AC/DC examples is built around power chords and has a sparse rhythmic pattern, where “Sweet Home Alabama” is a very full picking pattern. Both are riffs and both are instantly recognizable, but there is no correlation between the two that would give you any insight into what makes each of these riffs work so well. Both riffs carry the songs and provide an instantly recognizable musical phrase that almost anyone who’s ever heard either song will know.
The best way to understand electric guitar riffs is to write your own. Listen to some of your favorites and learn them, then catalogue them away for later reference and sit down with a recorder or a pen and a paper to try writing your own. I don’t think anybody ever knows if a riff will end up being classic or not, but guitar players are certainly always keeping an ear open for the next great electric guitar riff. You shouldn’t be any different. Play around on your electric guitar.
Try different effects and volumes levels to inspire you and see if you can come up with a few great riffs of your own. It’s a good idea to have a recording device going while you work. You never know when the next classic riff will be born. It could be yours.A really great, but not so common way of using riffs on your acoustic guitar is in a rhythm context. Replacing the chords of a progression you play with some really tasty acoustic rhythm riffs will leave your listeners wanting more and serves as a great alternative to simply strumming chords all the time.
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In todays lesson I will show you exactly how to go about doing this. Keep in mind as you work your way through each rhythm guitar riff, that at no time are you playing a chord, yet you can clearly hear our chord progression. This is because the notes of each rhythm riff are targeting the notes that make up the chords they are implying.
In the example above you are simply generating each rhythm riff from arpeggio shapes based on the root 6 bar chord form for G, C, and D chords and the Root 5 form for the Em chord. If you are familiar with these shapes then you should find it easy enough to create your own rhythm riffs on the acoustic guitar.
As you can hear, by simply adding a little rhythmic variation, as well as some hammer ons and pull offs, you can create much more killer sounding riffs for your rhythm guitar playing.
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In the example above, I have used different arpeggio positions for the G, C, and D chords in which to create the rhythm riffs. I have also focused on using double stops for a really cool texture. This approach is very reminiscent of how Jimi Hendrix played his rhythm guitar riffs. His songs are well worth studying if you would like to take this idea of using riffs for your rhythm guitar playing further.
As you can see, using riffs on your acoustic guitar in a rhythm context provides a killer sounding alternative to always strumming, or even forming the chords of the progressions you play.
I will leave you once again with an example of combining some of the approaches you have learned so far in this acoustic rhythm guitar mini course, including the riff concept.
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The true test as to whether you have mastered a particular concept is in your ability to be able to use it freely, in any musical situation, at will. Playing the following example, and then creating your own variations, will go a long way in you being able to do this.
Here it is along with our original chord progression example just to show you how far you have come in your rhythm guitar playing:
I hope you have enjoyed this mini course on how to totally transform your acoustic guitar rhythm playing. As you have learned there are many alternative ways to play a chord progression other than simply strumming.
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Take each idea that I have presented to you in the last 5 days and really spend time on developing it and getting it into your rhythm guitar playing. Also, explore the songs, that I listed at the end of each day as examples of the rhythm ideas covered. Learning these songs, or parts there of, will further improve your rhythm guitar playing and understanding of how
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