Category Archives: Licks & Riffs

An Easy Riff For Beginners – With Open Chords

An Easy Riff For Beginners – With Open Chords

When I was first learning guitar, a friend of mine wrote a song that had this cool passing note (an F#) in between the G chord and the Em chord. I thought it was the coolest thing ever, and practically forced him to teach it to me. I’ve since discovered this is about as common…

Fortunate Son (John Fogerty) Guitar Lesson

Fortunate Son (John Fogerty) Guitar Lesson

Here’s a good old classic rock tune for today’s lesson: Fortunate Son. It’s got a great intro riff that will be instantly recognizable by anyone you play this for. Did I mention its also easy-peasy? Most of the riff is built on inverted third intervals (whew that’s a mouthful!). What I mean by that is…

3 Cool Licks

3 Cool Licks

This video lesson has a few cool guitar riffs that you can use. I always find it fun to learn new riffs, but sometimes you come across a particular riff on a song somewhere that you absolutely love. Ever try figuring out those riffs? It can be tricky. Using a tool such as RiffMaster Pro…

Pentatonic Riffage

Pentatonic Riffage

Want to really get a handle on blues guitar? Checkout Playing Through The Blues There’s really no limit to what you can do with the pentatonic scale, and the absolutely coolest thing about it is that as long as you’re playing in the right key, you literally can’t go wrong with the pentatonic scale. Any…