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For well over twenty years, the style of Angus Young has been one of the most recognizable in the world of rock guitarists. Considered by many as "the riffmaster", his high voltage attack and no nonsense approach to tone have left so many others trying to imitate him. In this series you will learn rhythm and lead riffs all in the style of the mighty Angus as you jam along. Designed for the beginner to intermediate student.
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If you are looking for new riffs and new sounds to learn and play, no matter what style, then these lessons are for you! This series of lessons will teach you arpeggios and some creative ideas on how to apply them while improvising. An arpeggio is playing the tones of a chord melodically rather than harmonically. You can learn a few basic arpeggios, then apply a few simple substitution rules to create different sounding arpeggios from the same ordinary ones you know.
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Do you want to learn how to play the blues like "the King?" You can in just a very short time with these lessons specifically designed to teach anyone from beginners to advanced how to play blues guitar riffs and solos just like the King of the Blues himself, Mr. BB King. Learn from simple step-by-step instructions on how the style and sound of the King's legendary riffs can be mastered by you from this high quality Riff Interactive lesson series. Learn the scales, riff positions, signature blues riffs and solos with the help from lots of video clips, interactive TAB, and play-along jam tracks in all 5 of these lessons. There is no better way to learn the blues other than to start by learning from the best, the BB King style.
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Congratulations, you have chosen to play guitar! Maybe somebody gave you a guitar as a gift recently, or you had a guitar sitting in the closet and always wanted to learn how to play, or maybe you finally bought yourself your own guitar. Either way, you're going to have fun learning, practicing, and playing guitar with these Riff Interactive lessons designed just for you, the total beginning guitarist!
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All the lesson examples in this series were designed for the beginner, with easy-to-understand notation, pictures, videos, and straightforward timing and rhythm examples. Learn how the fretboard is laid out and learn the name of the notes everywhere. Learn to play a song as well as learning your first real major and minor chords that you'll be able to use in thousands of songs.
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Even though chord names like Dominant 7 and Major 7 sound like they could be complicated to learn and play, they're not. In fact they can be just as simple to learn and play as the first basic major and minor chords you may have already learned. In these lessons you'll first learn the simple open position Dominant 7 chords to help you get a Blues sound on your guitar. Then you'll be learning the open position Major 7 chords, which are used in ballads and can have a Jazz sound to them. Finally, learn the most used chords in the Rock guitar style, the Power Chords! You will also learn to play a song in three different keys using some of these simple chords. All the lesson examples in this series were designed for the beginner, with easy-to-understand notation, pictures, videos, and straightforward timing and rhythm examples.
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Even though chord names like Dominant 7 and Major 7 sound like they could be complicated to learn and play, they're not. In fact they can be just as simple to learn and play as the first basic major and minor chords you may have already learned. In these lessons you'll first learn the simple open position Dominant 7 chords to help you get a Blues sound on your guitar. Then you'll be learning the open position Major 7 chords, which are used in ballads and can have a Jazz sound to them. Finally, learn the most used chords in the Rock guitar style, the Power Chords! You will also learn to play a song in three different keys using some of these simple chords. All the lesson examples in this series were designed for the beginner, with easy-to-understand notation, pictures, videos, and straightforward timing and rhythm examples.
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Learn how to become a good rhythm guitar player with these simple lessons designed for the beginning guitarist. Being able to correctly strum a simple rhythm pattern makes all the difference in the world when you are trying to play along with others or make the song you're playing sound right, yet it can be difficult for many beginning guitar students at first. These lessons will show you simple exercises and examples on how to play basic strumming patterns that will make your rhythm playing sound like a pro!
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Melody, harmony, chords, arpeggios, and music theory all have several things in common, they relate to scales. If you want to play a beautiful melody, you'll use a scale. If you want to improvise, you'll use a scale. These lessons will help you learn the basic scales used in most situations.
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Do you want to be able to just hear a song, then be able to play it without knowing ahead of time what the notes or chords are? Many professional musicians can do that because of years of "ear training". Ear training for the guitarist is all about teaching and training your ear to recognize sounds and then be able to find and play the sounds on your guitar. Those sounds could be chords, scales, melodies, riffs, or even just single notes. You don't need to have, or develop perfect pitch, you only need to learn how to train your ear to help your fingers find the notes and chords on your guitar as you hear them.
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"We are still the same three guys basically playing the same three chords that have kept us going through three decades." says guitarist Billy F. Gibbons. Known as "That Little ol' Band from Texas", ZZ Top has been one of America's true blues-rock trios. Front man and guitarist Billy F. Gibbons has always been among the leaders in guitar style, tone and innovation with songs like La Grange, Legs, Tush, Cheap Sunglasses & many more.
This is a must have series for all students of the blues. Skill level is from beginner to intermediate and packed full of rhythm and lead riffs along with CD quality play along jam tracks to help teach you the style of this great guitar virtuoso a.k.a. "The Boogie Man."
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Do you want to learn how to play the "12 bar blues" so you can sit in and jam with your friends? Now you can after you learn these lessons specifically designed for beginning guitarists. You'll learn how to play basic blues rhythm riffs and simple blues solos in styles reminiscent of Clapton and ZZ Top. Once you learn the riffs in each lesson you'll be able to play along to the looping jam tracks so you can practice playing with 'the band'!
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If you have interests in becoming a better all-around player, you are encouraged to learn the basics of country style guitar music because it combines the raw elements of blues, rock, jazz and folk to make a traditional sound and style that is unique to American music history. Country style guitar is fun and easy to learn.
In each of these lessons you'll learn strumming patterns that combine the alternate bass note rhythms and walking bass lines which define the country style. You'll also learn many cool lead riffs and complete solos all designed to help any beginner sound like a pro!
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Stevie Ray Vaughan, Billy Gibbons, Eric Clapton and BB King are among the greatest players with the greatest tone. Add another legend to that list, Pink Floyd's David Gilmour. With his bluesy Strat tones and soul-wrenching solos from such epic albums like Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall, Gilmour has left an undeniable impression on countless guitarists young and old. In this series you'll explore the solo style of this guitar virtuoso and learn how you can shape your own style with this simple step-by-step approach.
2nd Edition!
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Become a better guitarist by learning how music theory works. This series of lessons will teach you the theory terms and formulas behind Intervals, Scales, Triads, Chords, and the Harmonized Major scale. See the theory and music formulas displayed on the Riff Interactive virtual fretboard to help you understand it better.
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This Guitar Essential series is specifically designed to teach you many of the different guitar techniques and music styles which will help you become a great all-around guitarist. These lessons are made for the beginner to intermediate level student.
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Ever since the first guitar was amplified, there have been countless guitarists that have stepped onto the path of playing harder, faster and louder. In the '80s, bands such as Metallica, Pantera, Ozzy, AC/DC, Van Halen and many more, ruled the metal scene with their decibel crunching, power chord riff assault and blazing solos. They had every young guitarist practicing for hours trying to emulate the axe wielding heroes of the day. Several players made a huge and defining impact on the world of metal guitar music throughout the '80s. Edward Van Halen was one of the biggest influences during that time along with Metallica's Kirk Hammet, the late Randy Rhoads from Ozzy Osbourne and Angus Young from AC/DC. All these players belong to an elite group of fretboard shredders that changed the world of electric guitar and rock 'n roll as we know it. During this month, you will explore, learn and recreate some of the most exciting licks, styles and techniques used by several of the world's best heavy metal guitarists that helped shape the '80s.
21 Licks, 3 Interactive Lessons
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Improvising We've all done it in our every day lives as we adjust to life's unexpected predicaments. For the beginning guitarists, the entire process of improvising musically can be somewhat of a mystery. The ability to conjure up melodies, harmonies and rhythms out of seemingly thin air is the fine art form known as improvising.
The lessons in this series are designed for all guitarists who want to learn this wonderful art form, no matter what skill level, beginner, intermediate and advanced. Improvising techniques explored in this series include Theme and Variation, Question and Answer, Random Access, Compositional Flow, the use of Modes and Arpeggios and more!
2nd Edition!
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Grab your guitar and jam along! In this series of lessons you'll not only learn cool rhythm riffs and grooves to many popular blues styles and sounds, you'll also learn what are the best scales to use to improvise with, cool and exciting blues riffs, and complete solo examples. These lessons are great for students who are looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using scales and modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to. Even a beginning guitarists will find these lessons easy enough to learn how to jam along.
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Grab your guitar and jam along! Join in on these jam sessions, which are designed to teach you theory and technique, rhythm riffs, chords, scales, riffs, and solos, as you play along to the jam tracks. What is the "Funk Style"? The Funk style, born out of the 1960's, is a hybrid of jazz, soul, and rock 'n roll. It is mostly a rhythm riff style of guitar playing. The Funk guitar style is best played on electric guitars.
These lessons are great for the student who is looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to.
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Turn your amp up all the way and jam! Learn chords, rhythm riffs, scales and modes, lead riffs, theory, and solos as you jam along with the jam tracks in a variety of rock styles.
These lessons are great for the student who is looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to.
2nd Edition!
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Grab your guitar and jam along! Join in on these jam sessions, which are designed to teach you theory and technique, rhythm riffs, chords, scales, riffs, and solos, as you play along to the jam tracks. What is the "Smooth Jazz Style"? The smooth jazz style contains many different styles of music such as blues, rock, Latin, R&B, funk, hip-hop, and jazz. That's one of the things I like about this style, it's very flexible and open to interpretation. You can make what you want with it. The smooth jazz guitar style is very bluesy and can be played on acoustic or electric guitars.
These lessons are great for the student who is looking for new things to practice, new theory to apply, new ways to improvise using modes, and perhaps best of all, something new to jam to.
2nd Edition!
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Jazz is like a fancy version of the Blues. If you like the Blues style of music you'll probably like Jazz. It's fun to play on acoustic or electric guitars. In these lessons you'll be learning lots of chords and scales and how they can work together, as well as typical chord progressions found in Jazz. If you can make a bar chord, then you're half way there. You'll also learn Jazz style riffs, and how to improvise over common chord progressions found in the Jazz style while jamming to Jazz style looping jam tracks.
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This Lick of the Day series features some of the hottest guitar styles from progressive rock players like Frank Gambale, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, John McLaughlin, Steve Morse, among others. These players display an amazing ability to perform fretboard acrobatics while using their mastery of blending rock, blues, country, jazz and classical within a melodic and dynamic context.
Lyle Ronglien will help demystify the mastery of these techniques by illustrating how to use simple pentatonic scales and blues licks along with other exotic scales such as the Lydian, Phrygian Dominant, Diminished and Whole Tone scales. You, the student will be able to analyze these advanced guitar techniques and provided the ability to slow each lick down to your skill level by using the Riff Interactive tools. The goal of this series is to empower students at any level to develop their own unique progressive rock guitar style.
22 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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Out of the thousands of great rock guitar players over the last 50+ years, only a few attain the status of being a rock legend. To become a rock legend, a guitarist must have contributed a significant impact on rock music and a powerful influence on other guitarists above and beyond all others. In this series you'll learn some of the most significant stylistic techniques, riffs and tones of these true rock legends.
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These two virtuosos have changed the way modern rock guitar is played. They have achieved rock guitar monster status by lots of dedication, study, and practice. Now you too can learn some unique riffs that define the styles of both of these great artists.
In this series designed for the intermediate to advanced student, you'll be learning theory, technique, style, scales, riffs and solos, and more as you play along to jam tracks in the Satriani/Vai style.
2nd Edition!
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Learn how to get that cool technique known as Slap Bass. These lessons are designed for the beginner bass student who wants to learn how to slap the strings with their thumb and pop the strings with their finger. Basic exercises and riffs shown with Riff Interactive notation and close up video clips help any beginner learn this technique.
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Add some spice to your blues style with these simple step-by-step instructions showing you that learning to play slide guitar is easier than you might think. In this group of lessons you'll learn how to play chords, riffs and even simple solos using a slide. All of these lessons in this series are in standard tuning making it easy for any beginner to quickly learn. All you need is a slide and a guitar, either acoustic or electric.
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No other sound defines the blues like the use of open tunings and a slide. Some of the best blues guitar legends like Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson used the open tunings with a slide.
In this series you'll learn how easy it is to change your tuning to open G, D, and C tunings enabling you play chords and riffs all the way across the neck without using your fingers. You'll also learn simple, yet soulful sounding blues solos in each lesson then get the chance to test your new abilities as you play along to the looping jam tracks. Develop your own blues mojo today with each new riff you learn in these lessons!
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Shred, burn, rip, and fly are just a few words used to describe the art of playing fast on the guitar. Assembled in this series are many of the essential exercises, techniques and licks I have used to develop my own speed. Exercises covered in this series are warm-ups, right hand picking, left hand hammer-ons, and left hand pull-offs.
Being able to play fast sure is a lot a fun! It takes a lot of discipline, dedication and practice. Sometimes it's not all that much fun doing drills and hours of repetition, but it will pay off in the long run. Remember, being able to play fast doesn't happen overnight! Even though a simple melody may be better than a fast riff, it's still fun to play fast!
22 Licks, 4 Interactive Lessons
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This series was designed for the beginning guitarist who wants to learn picking patterns and strumming patterns. Each lesson is packed with enough content to keep you busy for weeks if not months of study. These lesson archives come complete with CD quality jam tracks and video clips that will enhance your private study.
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Guitarists like Chuck Berry, Jimi Hendrix and Eddie Van Halen all changed the way we thought about rock guitar. Add another to the list, David Evans (The Edge) from the band U2. His style, a combination of hard driving rhythms, harmonics, echo repeats, droning notes and other effects, had a major impact throughout the mid-'80s and into the new millennium.
This series, designed for beginning and intermediate guitarists both electric and acoustic, will not only teach you many of the stylistic techniques of The Edge, but will also inspire you as you play along to CD quality jam tracks, watch video clip examples and much more.
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It always fun to learn new tricks and techniques on the guitar! The art and technique of two hand tapping is fun and not too difficult to learn. Learn beginner through advanced tapping riffs using Riff Interactive notation as well as watching each riff demonstrated in video clips. Two hand tapping is used in many different styles. Learn it today and add it to your own style!
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There have been many books written trying to explain the Modes of the major scale. Still the formulas, concepts and applications of the Modes can be a mystery to many guitarists. In these lessons you will learn the modes of the harmonized major scale and how to use them in many musical situations ranging from rock, blues, funk and jazz. Unlike using common method books, hearing and seeing the modes played on the virtual guitar neck makes all the difference in helping any student understand these important musical concepts.
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