Learn Guitar Riffs And Impress Your Mates
Learning to play the guitar is a dream for so many people inspired by the legendary greats like Hendrix, Clapton and so many more, and what really attracts people is being able to imitate them and learn guitar riffs that make you sound just like them – but only if you can play well. So how can you do this and sound just like the best of the best? After all, that is your dream.
We can all recall some of the great guitar riffs of all times. ‘Smoke on the Water’ and ‘Layla’ spring to mind, and when they are played we all stop and appreciate the genius behind them, and more than once we raise that air guitar to join in. However, what we would really like to be able to do is to play them properly on a real guitar.
In order to learn guitar riffs you are really going to need to learn how to read guitar music, so this has to be one of your starting points. You need to get to grips with the way guitar music is written and presented, as this is the most common way that you are going to find guitar riffs presented in. Tabs are one of the main ways that the guitar music gets written in, so that is one you definitely need to know how to read. Whilst it looks fairly complicated, it is in fact actually quite straightforward, and there are some excellent sites on the internet that will explain to you the whole concept of guitar tabs and show you how simple it is to understand them.
It will probably surprise you to know that some of these amazing guitar riffs are actually some of the easiest things you can learn to play on your guitar and it is definitely worth having a go at them. ‘Smoke on the Water’ for example looks so simple on paper that you will be amazed that you ever thought it was complex, but so easy to learn that you will be impressing your friends at every opportunity. Again reading tabs is vital here, but once you can see how they work you will find it simple to follow the music.
‘Smoke on the Water’ is such a simple riff it can even be explained here and you can go practice it straight away, provided you have got to know your guitar and understand the fret arrangement. The rift consists of four parts. As you can probably hear in your head using ‘dah’ to represent the note, the riff goes like this: (dah dah dah) (dah dah dah dah) (dah dah dah) (dah dah) with the 1st and 3rd parts being identical, meaning you only have to learn three sequences, and there are only two strings used throughout – the A and the D string. Suddenly this sounds like something you can do – so let’s go for it:
- Sequence 1 and 3 – use the A and D string together at all times. There are three notes to play: note 1 at fret 2, note 2 at fret 5 and note three at fret 7
- Sequence 2 – the longest with four notes but again – just the A and D string together and the fret sequence of Fret 2, Fret 5, Fret 8 and Fret 7
- Sequence 3 – is identical to sequence 1 so you already know it
- Sequence 4 – this is just two notes; again A and D together and is fret 5 then fret 2
Now all we need to do is write this out again with fret numbers. As you already know the whole riff uses the A and D strings together, so now it looks like this: (2,5,7) (2,5,8,7) (2,5,7) (5,2).
That’s it – as simple as that! You can now impress all your friends with the ‘Smoke on the Water’ riff, which sounds so classic that you will want to play it over and over even if your family and friends get fed up with it! The fact is it really is simple to learn guitar riffs, and you can certainly give it a go even if you’re just starting out learning the guitar. You will be playing your favorite riffs in no time and will be wondering why you never bothered to learn before.
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