Author: Rikky Rooksby
Publisher: Backbeat Books
Keywords: book, riffs, amp, play, create, guitar
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2002-10
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0879307102
ISBN-13: 9780879307103

This book identifies 30 distinct guitar riff types, and goes on to illustrate them with 150 inspired examples, examining how they have been developed and used by great rock musicians from Cream and The Beatles, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, Limp Bizkit, The Strokes and The White Stripes. The first half of the book analyzes classic rock riffs and reveals the stories behind their creation, supported by illustrations and a 30-track CD of audio examples. The second section shows how to construct great riffs. Readers learn how to shape a melody, integrate a guitar riff with

Author: Frank Vignola
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Keywords: riffs, bar, mel
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2003-05
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0786608145
ISBN-13: 9780786608140

In this book you will find 120 2-bar ii-V riffs--ten different riffs for each of the 12 keys. Learning these riffs in all possible positions and using as many different fingerings as possible will help students learn the fingerboard and find the best fingerings and positions for them.

Author: Frank Vignola
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications, Inc.
Keywords: bass, riffs, bar, mel
Number of Pages: 16
Published: 2005-09-29
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0786661798
ISBN-13: 9780786661794

Here are 120 cool, useful 2-bar ii-V riffs that can give you some new harmonic outlooks on this commonly used progression. Turn these riffs into bass lines or grooves. Learn them in as many different positions as possible by using each of your four fingers as starting points on the beginning note of each phrase. These 120 riffs are year’s worth of enjoyment and study. Anytime you need a new idea remember this handy dandy book.

Author: Frank Vignola
Publisher: Mel Bay Publications
Keywords: riffs, guitar, jazz, bar, mel
Number of Pages: 32
Published: 2002-12-04
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0786608137
ISBN-13: 9780786608133

In this book, Frank Vignola presents 2-measure riffs to use over specific keys in major, minor, dominant 7th and blues groupings. Each section includes 60 2-bar riffs, five riffs for each of the twelve keys. Use these as fills, solo material, or as melodic ideas to create your own riffs/solos.

Author: Joe N. De Sa
Publisher: A.D.G. Productions
Keywords: book, audio, guitar, riffs, latin, ultimate
Number of Pages: 58
Published: 2006-03-22
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 1882146379
ISBN-13: 9781882146376

Ultimate Latin Riffs for Guitar written by Joe N. De Sa provides an extensive study into various Latin guitar styles including: Salsa, Mambo, Merengue, Calypso, Cha Cha etc. These exciting 50 examples will have you spending many enjoyable hours learning the intricacies of Latin guitar playing. The book is transcribed note for note from the superbly recorded audio CD. Each example is recorded twice, the first version with guitar, piano, bass and drums and the second version with just piano, bass and drums so that the guitarist can practice along with the rhythm section.

Author: Andrew Clark
Publisher: Continuum
Keywords: anthology, bayou, jazz, new, choruses, riffs
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0826447562
ISBN-13: 9780826447562

This anthology contains writings about jazz, with edited selections on jazz origins, history, culture, style, myth, race and related areas of language, literature and film. It complements histories of jazz, providing readings for students of music, jazz and American and popular culture.

Authors:Jonathan Lethem, Tom Perrotta, Lester Bangs, Aimee Be
Publisher: MTV
Keywords: riffs, lit
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2004-06-15
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0743470265
ISBN-13: 9780743470261

Following in the footsteps of the late great Lester Bangs -- the most revered and irreverent of rock ’n’ roll critics -- twenty-four celebrated writers have penned stories inspired by great songs. Just as Bangs cast new light on a Rod Stewart classic with his story "Maggie May," about a wholly unexpected connection between an impressionable young man and an aging, alcoholic hooker, the diverse, electrifying stories here use songs as a springboard for a form dubbed the lit riff. Alongside Bangs’s classic work, you’ll find stories by J.T. LeRoy, who puts a recovering te