Monday, October 09, 2006
Riff Building
Take a look at this great online lesson on riff building.
It starts off by showing you the basic pentatonic scales used in a typical blues/rock song, then progresses on to show you how you can build a riff by using the notes in those scales. This lesson seems to bring it all together for the beginner showing how scales can be used to your advantage and why it is important to learn them.
Welcome to our first guitar lesson from Billboard Magazine's top rated instructor, Scott Morris. This first lesson will focus on riff building using a three scale progression. The first thing to learn is the scale below, a Pentatonic Minor. Pent means five and tonic means notes so basically, you will be playing a five note scale. The notes in the A Pentatonic scale are A, C, D, E, G, then ending back with A note (one octave higher). Begin by slowly learning this scale.
Guitar Lesson: Riff Building Using a Three Scale Progression at OnlineRock
