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Classic Riffs (Pick Up and Play)

Licks & Riffs in the Style of Great Guitar Heroes
By Jake Jackson
Series: Pick Up & Play
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Classic Riffs (Pick Up and Play) by Jake Jackson provides a practical and enjoyable exploration into some of the most iconic guitar riffs that have shaped music history. The book serves as a guide for both beginners and experienced players, offering sheet music, tips, and insights into mastering these famous musical phrases. It's a hands-on resource that not only teaches but also inspires creativity and appreciation for legendary riffs across various genres.
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Format: Spiral bound
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You might enjoy this book if you have a passion for playing the guitar and are interested in exploring essential riffs from various classic rock and pop songs. It offers a practical and straightforward approach to learning timeless musical pieces, making it a great addition to your collection if you're keen on enhancing your musical skills and repertoire.

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Every developing guitarist wants to know how to produce the licks so familiar to us all – the awesome solos and guitar virtuosity, the signature riffs of the most memorable songs. This is the ideal book for anyone who can’t get enough of those classic styles, with notation and TAB examples in a wide range of musical styles.

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Every developing guitarist wants to know how to produce those amazing sounds familiar to us all—the awesome solos and guitar virtuosity, the signature riffs of the most memorable songs. This is the ideal book for anyone who can't get enough of those classic styles. Featuring notation or TAB examples in a wide range of musical styles.

Classic Riffs (Pick Up and Play) is split into genres: blues, heavy metal, punk and indie, and even country and jazz. Each section has an introduction that captures the main artists and their styles. Then try your hand at any of the notation or TAB examples of riffs in the style of everyone from Ritchie Blackmore and Jimmy Page to Slash and Kurt Cobain.

Classic Riffs is part of our highly successful series of practical ring-bound guides to playing music, supported online by the Flame Tree Music website. Now you can see the chord and then reach for your phone to hear the chord or scale. Using any free QR code reader app (Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows), a website opens automatically, and you can listen to the chord as a strum, an arpeggio (each note played separately), and hear it as a piano chord.

Author: Jake Jackson is a writer, editor, or contributor to over 30 music books, including Scales and Modes, How to Play Guitar, and Play Flamenco. As a guitarist and songwriter, he has been in several bands, including Slice, The Harmonics, and Starbank, and has studied a form of Flamenco guitar. Although Jake has a range of fine guitars, his favourite music software is Sibelius and Logic Pro.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781786642394

Publisher: Flame Tree Publishing

Format: Spiral bound

Date Published: 22 February 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Flame Tree Publishing

Edition: New edition

Illustration: 240 Illustrations, color

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 23.0mm

Width: 162.0mm

Height: 233.0mm

Weight: 540g

Pages: 176

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About the Author

Jake Jackson is creator, editor or contributor to over 30 music books, including 'Guitar Chords', 'Beginners Guide to Reading Music', 'The Songwriters' Rhyming Dictionary', 'Piano and Keyboard Chords', 'Scales and Modes', 'How to Play Guitar'. As guitarist and songwriter he has gigged in a number of bands, including Slice, The Harmonics and Starbank and studied a form of Flamenco guitar. He is now a heavy user of Sibelius and Logic Pro. He has created a core database of guitar learning materials which is constantly updated, and used to create a range of books and supporting websites for Flame Tree music. His music can be found on iTunes, Spotify, Amazon, Pandora and all other streaming services.

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