Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you from Lynyrd Skynyrd.

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Lynryd Skynyrd Riff-1 – Gimme Three Steps

All right so the first Lynyrd Skynyrd riff we’re going to look at is the opening riff from Gimme Three Steps. So this one’s pretty easy they’re using these inverted power chords. The intervals are fourths instead of fifths and I’ve done lots and lots of videos about this subject. So we’re going to start off we’re gonna take our first finger and we’re just going to barre at the seventh fret on the D and the G string and this first measure, this first part of the riff is all in eighth notes so it’s pretty easy to count. So we start off on the downbeat of one we play that D and G string at the seventh fret, so it’s one, and then on the end of one we rest, so one, and two, then on the downbeat of two we hit it again and then on the and of two we’re gonna pick up the ninth fret of the A string with your third finger, but you just want to keep your first finger here. Then for beat three we go back to this D over A (D/A) here the seventh fret on the D and the G string and we hit three and, and then on the downbeat of four ninth fret of the A string and then back to that chord again and that’s our first measure… All right so then the second measure on the downbeat of one we rest and then starting on the and of one we’re going to go to the seventh fret on the A string with your first finger and we’re gonna go seven and then to nine on the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we’re gonna go back to that chord again. Now this time when we hit it we’re hitting it on the and of two, but it’s a quarter note, so it’s the and of two plus it rings out for the downbeat of three and then on the and of three we hit it again and then beat four we go back to the nine here and it’s a quarter note and that’s the first two measures…

So that’s the first two measures and the whole riff is four measures long and then it just repeats. So all we’re going to do here is we’re going to play the exact same thing, but we’re going to move it so instead of being based from the seventh to the ninth fret we’re going to move it down so it’s the second to the fourth fret. Now we’re going to do the exact same timing and we’re going to play it the same way we did we’re just down here… And then the only thing that’s different is the timing on the third measure is exactly the same as the first and then on the fourth measure what we’re going to do different here is we’re going to rest on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we hit the second fret here of the A string and two, and then on the and of two back to the A5 over E and it’s a eighth note tied to a half note so that rings out for the rest of the measure and then it just simply repeats…

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-2 – What’s Your Name

All right next Lynyrd Skynyrd riff we’re going to look at is What’s Your Name intro riff and this is probably the hardest one out of all of this because it’s got a combination of regular fifth power chords and the inverted ones and it’s also got a shuffle pattern like that you’ve maybe done in the past. So this one starts off even though when you’re looking at the tab it shows we rest on beats one and two and then on the downbeat of three it’s showing the fifth fret of the D and the G string and on the and it’s the third fret of the A string. And then we’ve got a C sharp five and then a D5. So the easiest way to do it is just put your fingers down like you’re going to do a C5; so my first finger is on the third fret of the A string and then I’m barring the 10th fret of the D and the G string. So what I’m going to do here is I’m going to rest one, two, three, and four… So that’s the very first measure one two three and four and now when we hit that D5 on the and I’m just moving that C5 chord up chromatically. So I’m on three and five for C5 and then C sharp five it’s four and six and D five it’s five and seven so when we hit this D5 on the and of four it’s tied to the downbeat of one of the second measure and then starting on the and of one we’re going to do this shuffle thing. So we’ve got that ringing and we hit the A string on the and of one and now we’re going to take our pinky and reach up and grab the ninth fret on the D string and we’re still keeping the fifth fret of the a string. So here this is the shuffle thing I was talking about. So we’ve got… and then back to seven… then we rest on the downbeat of three and on the and of three we’re going to come up to the tenth fret of the D and the G string, so that’s the inverted power chord thing again and we’re going to hit that and slide to the ninth fret and that’s going to be and four, ten slide to nine and we rest on the downbeat of three and four and then on the and of four we’re barring the seventh fret of the D string… we hit that on the and of four and it’s tied to beat number one of the third measure which is a quarter note. So that rings out and then on the downbeat of two we strum it again two and then on the and of two we come back here to the ninth fret of the A string. So this part is kind of similar to the last riff… So this is ringing out; and four, and one, two and, three and. Then we hit the open low E string and the downbeat of four we’ve got an F sharp five. So it’s the second fret here on the low E string and the fourth fret on the A string, half step to G5 on the and of four and that’s our first three measures… So this is not only the most difficult riff of these three, but it’s the it’s the longest as well. Now we hit when we get to the and forth and now going on to the fourth measure here we got another shuffle. So we’re on this G5 one and, and then on the downbeat of two we reach up and grab the seventh fret on the A string and take it back off so it goes back to five, back to there again on the and of three and then that’s a quarter note so it’s the and of three plus the downbeat of four and then on the and of four we’re gonna grab a G5 up here. So 10^th fret on the A string and 12th fret on the D and the G string and we hit that and slide out of it… Then the last measure here the fifth measure to wrap this up we rest on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we have this A5 over E again; so we’re just barring the second fret of the D and the G string and then on the downbeat of two we come up to the fifth fret and then on the and of two we slide to four; so one and, two and, and three were back to the eight for the and of three we’re gonna go to the third fret of the A string with your second finger and then to the fourth fret with your third finger on the downbeat of four and then the and of four a five…

Lynyrd Skynyrd Riff-3 – Saturday Night Special

All right then the last Lynyrd Skynyrd riff we’re going to look at this the easiest one out of all of them in my opinion. This one uses a combination of power cords and the inverted ones as well. So we’re going to start off with those same inverted ones, but now we’re on the ninth fret of the A and the D string and it’s going to go from nine to seven and back to nine. So I’m going to use my third finger here on the ninth fret and my first finger when we go to the seventh fret. So this is eighth notes one and, two, and then on the and of two we’re gonna use our first finger to shift up to play the seventh fret of the D in the G string… So one and, two, and then we rest on the downbeat of three and the and of three we come back to where we started here on the B5 over F sharp and then we rest on the downbeat of four and then the and of four we’ve got this A5 power chord. So fifth fret of the low E string and seventh fret of the A and the D string, so we’ve got… So we hit that on the and a four, but then it’s tied to the first beat, well it’s actually the first and the second beat because it’s tied to a half note so it takes care of beats one and two of the second measure; so you want to throw some vibrato on there… Okay so we hit that it’s on the it’s beats one and two of that second measure and then starting on the downbeat of three we’re gonna go back to the seventh fret on the A and the D string and we’re gonna slide to nine so three and, and then we rest on four. So coming from this you can just slide up however you’re doing it if you’re doing it with three fingers, like this, you can slide up or just using one finger barre and whatever’s more comfortable for you. So this has two endings. So we play the first measure and then the second measure and then the first measure again, skip the second measure and go to the third measure because that’s what the brackets on the top is showing your first and second ending. So the first time through… we’re gonna hit this big E5; so it’s the open low E string, seventh fret of the A string with your first finger and then the ninth fret of the D string with your third finger ninth thread the G string with your third finger and the B and high E strings are open… So that one’s the shortest of them and it’s the easiest one as well. That’s a cool riff and it’s the first song by Lynyrd Skynyrd that I can remember every hearing. I had a compilation record that had a bunch of different songs, this is in the probably like 1978 or something. It was a hand-me-down record from my sister that had like all this different stuff, but this is one of the songs that was on there.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun not two terribly difficult riffs to play from Lynyrd Skynyrd. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video Lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy alternative rock riffs for you.

Right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link in the description where you can download yours. It’s in PDF format and shows every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled onto one sheet. So you can print it off, put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy or you practice; so just whatever situation you’re in you can have any chord at a glance.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tab so let’s get close up and take a look at these three alternative rock riffs.

Alternative Rock Riff-1 – Island In The Sun – Weezer

All right, so the first alternative rock riff to look at is the rift from Island in the Sun by Weezer. So this one is just made up of a bunch of Triad shapes so if you’ve seen any of the lessons I’ve done on triads you probably already know these. For the first one here if you just take your regular D minor chord shape and just move it up a whole step so that way your second finger is on the fourth fret of the G string and your first finger is on the third fret of the B string or excuse me on the third fret of the high E string and your third finger is on the fifth fret of the B string. So that’s our first chord and we strum this is as a quarter note on one and then we strum it again on the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we’re going to change chords. So when we change chords we’re going to simply just take our ring finger here and we’re going to lay it down we’re going to barre it here so it’s picking up the fifth fret of the G, B and high E strings and we hit this on the end of two and then we hit it for beat three… On the downbeat of four we have a mute strum so if you just release the pressure so you’re just you know touching the strings lightly so that way you just get that percussive sound. And then we come down to your regular D major shape and we hit that on the and of four… So that’s the first measure and it’s tied to the downbeat of the second measure so then on the and of one we hit this again and we do that mute strum and then we’re going to come up to our last chord here this is like a first inversion triad on the first three strings. So my first finger is barring the third fret of the high E string and the B string and my middle finger is picking up the fourth fret of the G string and we hit that on the and of two and then for beat three and four. So the whole alternative rock riff…

Alternative Rock Riff-2 – Creep – Radiohead

All right, so the next alternative rock riff to look at is the riff from uh Creep by Radiohead. So this is just using barre chords here mostly kind of revolving around, well it’s all revolving around this major shape with the root note on the low E string. So we start off with G major so what I’m doing is I’m just barring all the way across all six strings at the third fret and then my second finger is going to the fourth fret of the G string, my third finger the fifth fret of the A string and my fourth finger to the fifth fret of the D string. So this shape we’re going to be moving it around so we start off and we just pick starting on the low E; so we go E, A, D, A, D, G, D and it’s one and, two and, three and, four and. So the it’s kind of weird because it’s all eighths except the second to the last note is a quarter note so it just rings out a little bit longer… Then starting on the second measure we start picking still on the same chord start picking on the B string; B, G, D, G and then B and D. So that’s our first two measures and starting on the third measure we’re just going to take this shape and we’re going to move it all the way up so we’re here at the seventh fret. I’m barring up the seventh fret and so now this is B and we’re going to do a similar kind of picking. So we’re going to start with the low E to A to G, D, A and G again. So that’s measure three… Then starting on the fourth measure we have B suspended four (Bsus4) so we’re going to keep this shape, but how I do it is I just take my pinky and I just lay it down so it picks up the ninth fret of the G string and then you just roll it back up for B; hit that so it only does that just for that single note it’s just to get that single note in there… All right then, for the next measure we just move this up a half step so now we’re doing C major; E, A, G, A, E, G, A and that’s measure five. So now we’re going to go to C suspended four (Csus4) and we can do that same thing. We’re going to take our pinky and roll it up so we’re gonna pick up the 10th fret of the G string, back to the A string and then roll back up to be on C again. And then on the next measure it’s C minor so we just take your middle finger off… and that completes the progression and it just starts over again. So when you’re playing this it’s really easy to end up missing a string like you mean to go to play the D string but you play the G string instead or vice versa, something like that, it still sounds good as long as you have that same timing… So there I just kind of winged it and just kind of went with that for that Rhythm. So that’s what I recommend that you really do you use the notation for the timing and then try to pick those strings accurately, but if you miss one just pretend like you hit the right one so that way you can just keep the flow of this alternative rock riff going.

Alternative Rock Riff-3 – Believe – Yellowcard

All right then the last alternative rock riff to look at is Believe from Yellowcard and this is the acoustic version. So we’ve got F sharp minor so I’m barring all the way across all six strings of the second fret and then my third finger is on the fourth fret of the A string fourth finger on the fourth fret of the D string. So we’re gonna have sharp minor we’ve got a D, an A and an E. The strum is the same so each measure is one chord. So we start off with the F sharp minor and we play a quarter note; so it’s one, and then on the downbeat of two it’s a mute strum. So I go one, two and you just release the pressure so when you just hit the strings to get that percussive sound. So one, two and, three and, four and. So after the mute strum it’s a quarter note so this is one, two and, three and, four and. So that’s the strum for each chord… and then it just repeats…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun, not too terribly difficult alternative rock riffs. So if you like this alternative rock riff lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you haven’t already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching this three fun and easy alternative rock riff lesson and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you from Green Day.

So right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link in description where you can download yours. It’s in PDF format and it just has a every chord that you could ever need all neatly compiled onto one sheet. So you can download it, print it off, put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where you practice; so just whatever situation you can have any chord you need at a glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Green Day Riff-1 – American Idiot

All right, so the first one we’re going to look at is the riff from American Idiot. This one’s pretty easy, it just consists of a couple of power chords. So the first one we got is G sharp five (G#5). So when I’m on the fourth fret of the low E string with my first finger and then I’m picking up the sixth fret of the A string with my third finger and then the sixth fret of the D string as well. So if you’re a beginner and you’re having an issue getting all three of those strings you just play the lower ones. This note here is just the same as this… it’s just another G sharp; so if you miss it it’s not a huge deal. So we play this starting on the downbeat of one we’ve got one and, and then on the downbeat of two we’re going to take our first finger and just move it to the fifth fret of the A string and now we’re going to play the low E string open and the fourth fret of the A string and this is on the downbeat of two. And then on the and of two you’re just going to take your third and fourth finger and reach up to the sixth fret of the D and the G string; so it’s the same shape we just moved up a set of strings. And we hit that on the and of two, but it’s a quarter note so it’s like… And then on the downbeat of four we take our third and fourth finger off so we’re back to that four and, and then the and of four we’re gonna come down here we’re gonna take this shape that we did here this G# shape and just move it down so now it’s F#; so we’re at the second fret of the low E string and the fourth fret on the A string and of the D string and we hit that on the and a four and then it’s tied to the downbeat of one of the next measure. So this first measure… and then on the and of one we hit it again.. And then one the down beat of two we come back up the fourth fret of the A string and the sixth fret and the D and the G again; so it’s the C sharp five (C#5)… down to G#5 and just the first three strings open. So if you if you’re playing this slower that really sounds weird, but when you when you get it up to you know like a pretty good speed it sounds good, it sounds like the riff…

Green Day Riff-2 – 21 Guns

So the next riff to look at is the riff from 21 Guns and this one is just using the same power chord shapes that we did in the previous one. So we start off with an F5; so I’m on the first fret of the low E string and with my first finger and then the third fret of the A string with my third finger, third fret of the D string with my fourth finger and these are eighth notes. So it’s like one and, and then on beat two we rest, so one and, two, and then starting on beat three we’ve got this C over E (C/E). So what we’re doing is I’m playing the third fret of the A string and the second fret of the D string, but the low E string open and we do the same thing as eighth notes, but this is beat three, so it’s gonna be three and, and then we rest on four. So that’s the first measure… Then we’re gonna do a D5, so we’re just going to take the shape like you here on the previous one and move it up so now my first finger is on the fifth fret of the A string and my third fingers on the seven the Fret of the D string and my fourth finger is on the seventh fret of the G string; and again if you’re a beginner and you can’t get that note, it’s okay to get these two lower ones. All right so we hit that one and then we rest on two and then we’re going to move it down a whole step here to C5. So now we’re at the third fret and the fifth fret and now we’re going to start playing straight eighth notes; so it’s three and four and then we move it down a whole step so now the first fret and the third fret, one and, two, then back to the first chord, the F5, three and, four… Then up to C5 again on the fourth measure one and, two and, three and, four; so on the downbeat of three we’re just going to hit the open high E string and the three to the first fret and then beat four is the three and then it just repeats…

Green Day Riff-3 – Carpe Diem

Alright, the last one to look at is Carpe Diem and this is like the acoustic version of it. So this one here we’re going to actually use some fuller chords… So we have a C; so I’m on the third fret of the A string on my third finger, second fret of the D string of my second finger, first fret of the B string my first finger and the G and high E strings are open. So we play this by just a nice strum like that and that’s on beat one; one two and. So on the downbeat of one and then on the downbeat of two we hit just the A string and then strum the top end of the chord on the and of two and then on the downbeat of three we come back to this A string again. Now we have the kind of the middle section of the chord and then that note C here on the third fret of the A string is beat four… so on the second measure one to a G, two to a C, three, four… Okay now on the third measure it’s the same as the first and now we’re gonna go G, F, C, one, two, three, four, and then the whole thing just repeats…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun not too terribly difficult riffs to play by Green Day. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Now that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three more fun and easy riffs for you from Black Sabbath.

Right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link in the description where you can download yours. It’s in PDF format and has every chord it could ever need all neatly compiled onto one sheet. So you can download it and print it off. Put a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where your practice; so just any situation you have any chord at a glance.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Black Sabbath Riff-1 – Supernaut

All right, so the first one to look at is the rift from Supernaut. So for this they are tuned down a step and a half so that’s how I’m going to play it. On this guitar I’m tuned down a step and a half, but you can play it in standard tuning and it’s still going to sound good. It’s just not going to be as low. All right so for this we’re going to start off this is just all made of single notes. So we’re going to use our third finger is going to be on the seventh fret of the A string and then what I do is actually barre it so it’s picking up the fifth fret of the low E string and the A string like I’m doing an A5 chord. We start off just playing these single notes on the seventh fret of the A string… So you hit seven, seven, pull to the five and then five on the low E string. Then we’re gonna go to the back to the fifth fret of the A string and then back to the seventh fret of the A string. So that’s the first measure…

Then starting on the second measure we have… it’s like the first part of the first measure. So we go back to the seventh fret to five to the fifth fret on the low E back up to the fifth fret of the A string and this time when we hit it we’re going to throw some vibrato on it and it’s a dotted quarter note so it’s this is taking care of three and the downbeat of four. And then on the and of four we go back to the fifth fret of the low E string… Then on the third measure it’s similar to the first and second measure as well where we start off again at the seventh fret pulling to the fifth fret to the fifth fret of the low E string and then back to the fifth fret of the A string back to the seventh fret and now you’re going to take that third finger and move it up to the seventh fret of the D string…  Then we hit that on four vibrato and then it’s tied to the downbeat of one on the fourth measure, well actually all of beat one; so it’s like this rings out for two beats. And then starting on the downbeat of two we pick uh seven here on the D string, pull to five and follow that with the fifth fret of the A string, back to the seventh fret of the D string, pull and then the whole thing would just start over again…

Black Sabbath Riff-2 – Falling Off The Edge Of The World

All right so the next one we look at is the riff from Falling Off The Edge Of The World and we’re just going to be in standard tuning for this one; although I believe, I’m not 100% sure, but I believe it might be tuned down a half step on the album, but I’m just in standard tuning. So if you know how to play War Pigs you kind of already sort of know this riff. So in War Pigs we have kind of just a variation on this. So this riff again also is just single notes for the most part. So what we’re going to do is we’re going to start off with our pinky here on the seventh fret of the A string and we’re going to hit this we rest one, two, three, four and then on the and of four we’re going to play the low E string open and the seventh fret of the A string at the same time so that’s on the and of four and then it’s tied to the downbeat of one so it does get a whole beat; so one, two, three, four and, one. And then starting on the and of one we hit just that single note there on the seventh fret of the A string then we’re going to go to the fourth fret of the D string with your first finger to the fifth fret with your second finger… Then we’re going to come back to the fourth fret and we’re going to pick, hammer to the fifth fret and pull off to the third fret of the A string and then to the seventh fret of the low E string. And then starting on the and of four we have that… so it’s kind of sort of repeats… Then starting on the third measure the downbeat of one is this still ringing from the previous one; so one and, two and, now we’re gonna go to the seventh fret, back to the fifth and do a pull off to the fourth, seventh fret of the A string, the E and the A string together again, being on the seventh fret and then that’s where the whole riff would just repeat…

Black Sabbath Riff-3 – Electric Funeral

So, the last one to look at is the riff from Electric Funeral. So this one is just in standard tuning and again it’s just all single notes. So we’re going to start off with playing the open low E string, but you want to have your first finger here at the second fret of the A string to be ready for that. So you got two open low E’s and then we’re gonna go to the second fret of the A string and we’re going to pick that and do a hammer-on to the third fret with your second finger and then pull back off to the second fret with vibrato… Then we’re going to go to the low E string open, second fret hammer to the third, pull back off and that’s the first measure. And then the second measure is the same thing and then that just repeats. So this is like a pretty big part of the song. It does this for a long time… And then after that we have this other little riff here. So we start off with the two open low E strings, but this time instead of being eighth notes the second one is a sixteenth note, so it only rings out half the time. So then we’re going to go into the second fret of the A string, but this time I’m using my second finger because we are going to go down to the first fret; so I have my first finger to do that… and then starting on the next measure we have four opens and it’s palm muted and there’s 16th note, so one e, and then back to the second fret of the A string first fret, open three and then it just repeats…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three more fun not too terribly difficult riffs to play by Black Sabbath. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you have not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three more fun and easy riffs for you from the 1970s.

Right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can get yours. It’s in PDF format and it just has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled into one sheet so you can download it you can print it off, throw a copy in your gig bag, put a copy where you practice; so just whatever given situation you have any chord you could ever need at a glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

1970s Riff-1 – My Sharona

Alright, so the first one to look at is My Sharona by The Knack. So this one’s pretty easy and we’re going to start off we’ve got a C major barre chord. So first fingers picking up the third fret of the A string and then my third finger I’ve just got it barring across the fifth fret of the D, G and B string. So we’ve got this C and then we’ve got a B flat (Bb); so we’re just going to take this shape and we’ll move it down a whole step so now your first finger is at the first fret and your third finger is at the third fret. So we hit this we start with this C and it’s a dotted quarter note so it’s one two and three and four, and then on the and before we go to just the first fret of the low E string. So we hit this first fret of the A string or excuse me of the low E string and on the and of four and we slide to the third fret and that’s coming in on the downbeat of the second measure; so it’s like one and, and then starting on the downbeat of two we’re going to skip over the A string and go right to the D string the fifth fret. So it’s actually the same note, they’re both G’s. Now we go to that fifth fret of the D string and that’s two and then on the downbeat of three back to the third fret of the low E string. And then on the and of three we rest and then on the downbeat of four we hit the fifth fret of the D string again and then we rest on the and of four; so that’s the first two measures. Now starting on the third measure we’re back here on the third fret of the low E string for the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we rest the downbeat of two, fifth fret of the D string again and then on the and of two we rest. So it’s like one and, two and, and then on the downbeat of three third fret of the low E string again, three and, and then on the downbeat of four back to the D string and then on the and of four we’re going to do like we did on the first measure and we’re going to go to the first fret of the low E string and we’re going to pick that and slide to the third fret so this is; and one and two and three and four and, and then the whole thing just repeats.

1970s Riff-2 – Space Oddity

All right so the next we’re going to look at is Space Oddity by David Bowie. So for this part of it we’re only playing actually two chords. We’ve got an F major seven over E (FM7/E). So I’m on the third fret of the A string with my third finger and the third fret of the D string with my fourth finger and then my second finger is on the second fret of the G string and my first finger is on the first fret of the B string and both the low E string and the high E string are open. And then the other chord we have is E minor (Em); so open low E string, second fret of the A string with my second finger, second fret of the D string with my third finger and the G, B and high E strings are all open. These are the two chords and this is just kind of like the intro to this song and it’s the it’s the strumming for it that if you’re a beginner can be a little challenging… So on that first measure we’ve got an eighth note and two 16^th notes; so it’s like long, short, short and that’s beat one and then beat two long, short, short, short, long. So if you notice that the 16th note that’s on and of two is tied to the downbeat of one of the third beat; so it’s like 8^th, two 16th notes, 8^th, 16^th, 8^th, 16^th, 8^th…  So how I could do is like down, down, up, down, down, up, up, down, down… And then we switch to the Em and the strum is similar and starts off the same way on the first two beats… so 8^th, two 16^th, 8^th, two 16^th and that takes care of the first two beats; so long, short, short, long, short, short, so down, down, up, down, down. Now on beat three it’s four sixteenth notes like it was on beat four of the first measure. So now we’ve got three e and uh and then… And that’s basically it and then it just repeats…

1970s Riff-3 – If You Want Blood You’ve Got It

All right then the last one to look at is If You Want Blood You’ve Got It by AC/DC and this one starts out with an A like a lot of AC/DC songs. So A string is open and I’m barring the second fret of the D, G and B strings with my first finger; so just a regular A. Now you’re going to want to do it this way because of what other stuff that’s going on so just use that first finger and we hit this on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we rest and then on the downbeat of two we hit just the open A string. And now we’re going to do an A suspended four (Asus4) so we’re going to still keep our first finger barred like this, but now we’re going to take our second finger and we’re going to pick up the third fret on the B string which makes it a suspended four; so one and two and three and… So we do the Asus4 and then on the downbeat of three the open A string again and then just the A chord again. The downbeat of four is a rest and then the and of four D; so D string open, second fret of the G string with my first finger, third fret of the B string with my third finger, second fret of the high E with my second finger… Okay so starting on the second measure we rest on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one you just hit the A and the D string open and then on the downbeat of two we have D suspended four (Dsus4). So if you take the D chord we were doing, but now you’re going to take your pinky and put it down onto the third fret of the high E string, that will make it Dsus4. So we hit that on beat two and then on that down beat of three we hit it again and the and of three we take our pinky off which puts it back to D and then beat four the open A and the D string four and then the whole thing starts over again…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, another volume of fun and easy riffs to play from the 1970s. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you haven’t already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy beginner riffs from the 1960s.

Right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can download yours. It’s in PDF format and it just has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled just into one sheet. So you can download it, print it off, put a copy where your practice, throw a copy in your gig bag; just so in any situation you can have any chord you need at a glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

1960s Riff-1 – Brown Eyed Girl

All right so the first we’re going to look at is a little riff little melody from Brown Eyed Girl by Van Morrison. So this is just made up primarily of these little dyad shapes; so if you’ve seen any of the previous lessons I’ve done on those. So we’re on the seventh fret of the high E string with your first finger and then we’re on the eighth fret of the B string with your second finger. And then how I play this is I use my fingers so I can play these two strings at the same time. So I’ve just got my first finger playing the B string and my second finger playing uh the high E string and this little dyad shape is the one that was for a major third… Then we’re going to move the note that’s on the high E string up a half step so it’s going to go from the seventh fret to the eighth fret, but the note on the B string is going to move up a whole step. So now it’s on the 10th fret, so this shape here would be like is a minor third… so we play this as one and, and then on the downbeat of two we rest and on the and of two we just take this shape and we move it up a whole step so now your first finger is on the 10th fret of the high E string and your third finger is on the 12th fret of the B string and we’re going to hit that on the and of two and then on the downbeat of three we rest and then on the and of three we move it back down… And then for beat four we come back to eight and seven and this one’s a quarter note; so the first measure… Now for the second measure we’re going to do the same exact shape but we’re just going to move it up so now we’re first fingers on the 12^th fret of the high E and your second finger is on the 13^th fret of the B string so we’re gonna do that same thing, the major/minor. So now we’re at the 13th fret on the high E string and the 15th fret on the B string and then 15th fret on the high e 17th on the B string and then back down. So the timing’s the same and now we do that first, so the third measure is the same as the first measure… so after we do that and then starting on the fourth measure we’re going to take our first finger we’re going to move it down so it’s on the fifth fret of the high E string and then you can use your third finger to pick up the seventh fret of the G string and then you’re going to play those together and then you’re gonna go to the seventh fret on the B string. So I just use my pinky and then the eighth fret, my pinky and then finally ending on the fifth fret of the high E string… and then it would just repeat.

1960s Riff-2 – Born To Be Wild

All right so the next we’re going to look at is the main riff from Born To Be Wild by Steppenwolf. So this one’s pretty easy, we’ve just got a regular E major chord here rooted on the A string; so my first finger is picking up the seventh fret of the A string and then I’m just using my third finger to pick up the ninth fret of the D, G and B string. Now if you are a beginner and you are having problems getting that note on the B string it’s not really super important. That’s the third and without it’s just an E5, but it still sounds good. So this first strum is a quarter note one and then on the downbeat of two we rest and then on the and of two we hit this again and then on beat three we hit it again… then we rest on the downbeat of four and on the and of four we hit it again. Then on the second measure the downbeat of one we rest and on the and of one we hit it one more time and then we rest on the downbeat of two and the and of two hit it again. Then this is where we get the probably the most challenging part of it. The only real change is that we’ve got this, you know we’re playing this E5 here, so we’re on the seventh fret of the A string and the ninth fret of the D and the G string we’re going to do this and then we’re going to reach up to the 11th fret on the D string and this is on the downbeat of three; so we’re going to pick this and pull-off our pinky and that’s three and then we’re going to reach up to the 12th fret do the same thing… Now if you’re beginner and this is really tough to make this stretch you could do it this way… so that way it’s a little bit easier to make that change…

1960s Riff-3 – I Can’t Get No Satisfaction

All right then the last one we’ll look at is the riff room I Can’t Get No Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. This one is incredibly simple so if you’re not a beginner this one you know is probably going to be pretty boring for you, but everybody’s got to start somewhere right. All right so this one is just made up of single notes so we’re starting here on the second fret of the A string and we’re gonna play this as a quarter note and then beat two is tied to the downbeat of three; so we’ve got one two three and. And then for the downbeat of four we’re going to come up to the fourth fret; four and on the and of four do a hammer-on to the fifth fret… Now when we hit this on the and of four it is tied to the downbeat of, well it’s actually tied to beat one and it’s a dotted quarter note so this rings out for four and one two and. So on the end of two we hit that again and then on the downbeat of three we hit it and slide down to the fourth fret three and four and on the and or excuse me on the fourth fret and then the whole thing just starts over again…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, three fun and easy riffs from the 1960s for all the beginners out there. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three fun and easy riffs for you from David Bowie.

Guitar Control right now is giving away a really cool free chord chart. It’s in PDF format and it just has every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled just onto one sheet. So you can download it you can print it off, put a copy where you practice, put a copy in your gig bag; just so whatever situation you’re in you can have any chord you need at a glance and it’s a free download. Just click the link down in the description.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

David Bowie Riff-1 – Rebel Rebel

Alright so the first one to look at is the riff from Rebel Rebel… so this one is made up of just mostly just single notes. So we start off we play the open D string and this is a quarter note, one. And then on beat two the high E string open and then on beat three the third fret of the B string; so one two three and. Then on the downbeat of four is the second fret of the B string and then for the and of four we’re going to put our first finger down onto the first fret of the G string and then the B string will be open so that’s like one two three four and… so we hit that on the and of four. Okay so starting on the second measure we rest on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we just hit that again and then we rest on the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we’re going to hit our open low E string and then starting on the downbeat of three we’re going to play the second fret of the B string… And then pull it to open, three and, and then the downbeat of four is the first fret of the G string and then the and of four is the second fret of the D string and then it just repeats so measures three and four are the same as one and two and then it just repeats… So it’s kind of hard when you get to get that pull-off and not have that string be muted by your other finger; so it’s kind of tricky… See there? It’s hard to get… you really should do it that way instead of trying… I was trying to just keep my finger there and that’s great when it works, but when it don’t… So that would be the way I’d recommend to do it…

David Bowie Riff-2 – Changes

All right, next we’re going to look at is riff from Changes. So this one we’ve got this just full on F major barre chord here; so I’ve got my first finger barring across all six strings at the first fret and then my second finger is on the second fret of the G string and my third finger is on the third fret of the A string and my fourth finger is on the third fret of the D string. So we’re going to play this as eighth notes and it’s a whole measure… And then starting on the second measure we’re going to play the D string, this is all eighth notes as well, one and, so just the D string open, one and the down beat of two is the third fret on the D string and the end of two is the fourth fret… And then starting on the downbeat of three it’s the second fret of the G string, three and, and then the downbeat of four is the fourth fret and then back to the second fret for the and… then it just repeats.

David Bowie Riff-3 – Lets Dance

All right then the last one we’re gonna look at is riff from Let’s Dance. So this one’s kind of weird when you’re just playing it by yourself because there’s a lot of the resting that the guitar does and the bass guitar is kind of keeping everything together during the guitar breaks where the guitar rests. So we’ve got a bunch of like crazy high-pitched chords here. So we got this first one here, we’re on the eighth fret of the D string with your first finger and then you’re on the tenth fret of the G string with your third finger and then I use my pinky to barre the 11^th fret of the B string and the high E string; so that’s the chord 8, 10, 11, 11… And the guitar is using a delay effect so the way I’ve got this in here so you can just kind of do the strums that that are actually just hearing the repeat of and the delay. All right so we started the sixteenth note on beat one; one e, so that’s the first beat. And then starting on beat number two we rest on the downbeat and then we strum on the e and then we rest and then we strum a 16th note again, another rest, another 16th note and then we rest for the remainder of the measure plus all of the next measure… So it’s strum, rest, strum, strum, rest, strum, rest, strum, rest, strum, rest. All right and then starting on the third measure we have a variation on this chord. So what we’re going to do is you’re going to roll your pinky up so now you’re only picking up the 11th fret on the B string everything else stays the same and we’re going to take our middle finger and put it onto the ninth fret of the high E string and now we’ve got the exact strum that we just did for the remainder of the measure plus all of the next measure… All right so that brings us to measure five. Now for this chord here we’re going to put our first finger here on to the ninth fret of the high E string and then we need to pick up the 11^th fret of the D, G and B string. So I just use my second finger on the 11th fret of the D string, third finger on the 11^th fret of the G string and fourth finger on the 11th fret of the B string. Now the strumming here changes a little bit it starts off the same, but the difference is the last two strums don’t have a rest in between them; so you’ve got… So it’s like strum, rest, strum, strum, rest, strum, rest, strum, strum, rest and then rest through the rest of that measure and all of the next measure. And now we’re back on the second chord, the E flat minor (Ebm). So from going from here we’re just going to go back to that same shape that we were doing before. So coming from here pinky stays where it is, first finger moves back to the sixth fret of the d string, third finger goes back to the tenth fret of the G string and middle finger goes back to the ninth fret of the high E string and now we’re back to the original strum again and then the whole thing would just start over again…

Conclusion

All right, there you have it, three fun, not too terribly difficult riffs to play from David Bowie. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody this is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing you this video lesson and today I’ve got volume four of fun and easy riffs from the 1970s.

Right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link in the description where you can get yours. Every chord you could ever need all neatly compiled just onto one sheet. It’s in a PDF format so you can print it off and you throw it in your gig bag, put it where you practice just so in any situation you could have any chord you needed a glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

1970s Riff-1 – It’s So Easy – Linda Ronstadt

All right so this time these, especially the first two anyway are more kind of a melody base than a riff base. So much so this first one to look at here is like the intro melody for It’s So Easy by Linda Ronstadt. So we’re gonna start off, we’re gonna do a slide from nowhere to the sixth fret of the D string with your third finger. So for those of you who don’t know what I mean by a slide from nowhere let’s say it was it said on the tab it said show the fourth fret and then it shows sliding to the sixth fret; so you pick the fourth fret and then slide up. But in this case what we’re going to do is we’re going to pick and slide simultaneously… so that’s beat one and then on the downbeat of two we pick that again and then slide down to the fourth fret two and, and then beat three is the second fret of the A string… then on beat four we do us we do the slide from nowhere again, back up to the sixth fret and on the and of four we go to the fourth fret and that’s the first measure… Okay then starting on the second measure we’re going to shift our hand position down so now our first finger is on the second fret of the D string one and then on the and of one fourth fret of the A string the downbeat of two we’re back to the second fret of the D string… then we do a slide, but it’s like it’s done the same way as the slide from nowhere is that we pick and slide simultaneous. So we hit that on the and of two and then it’s tied to beat three then we go to the second fret of the A string and we’re gonna do a slide from the second fret to the fourth fret again. So it’s like the slurred slide there, like slide from nowhere and then back to the second fret of the D string again for the and of four… Now on the third measure slide from nowhere back to the sixth fret on the D string so that’s one and, and then on beat two fourth fret quarter note and then we’re going to move down to the second fret three and on the and of three the second fret of the A string. So how I do it is with my first finger just kind of roll it down to pick up the A string then we’re going to do the slide from nowhere, let’s just start starting here on the second fret to the fourth fret on the A string. And then the and of four second fret of the D string and then on the fourth measure we’re going to keep our first finger there and then we’re going to take our third finger and put it onto the fourth fret; I’ve also got my second finger on the third fret because we’re going to bend and just you know you get a little more leverage this way it’s a full step bend one, two and, three and, four and. So the fourth fret of the low E to the second fret open; so that’s like the little intro right before the vocals start.

1970s Riff-2 – Let’s Get It On – Marvin Gaye

All right so the next we’re going to look at is the very first little beginning melody of Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye. So this is done with the wah and it’s just a few notes. So if you don’t have a wah you can still play it without it. I’m not a real, you know great wah player. I don’t use it a whole lot. So I’m just kind of just kind of guess it as I go along with it. So we start off we’re on the 11^th fret of the B string with your first finger and this first measure is just is just a two bar. Then this is a three quarter notes as a triplet, so it’s like really kind of weird, but it’s just a one two three kind of spacing. So we want to do, how I’m doing that is I’m starting on the low end of the wall and then each time I pick I’m maxing it out with vibrato… that’s just the first measure. And starting on the second measure we’re back into 4/4 four time and we’re here on the 13th fret of the high E string still or actually we’ve gone to the 13th fret of the high E string. So we were on the B string 13, oh my gosh, 11, 13, if I could count, and then to the high E string 11. Now we’re on 13^th fret on the high E string and we’re going to do a full step bend and release… so I do that same thing… working the wah up, like I said I’m not really good at that, I haven’t really had a lot of experience with it, just never really appealed to me. I love the way it sounds when other people do it; just doesn’t really appeal to me when I do it. So we do a bend and release to the15th fret or excuse me the 13^th fret. And then the second time we release it’s 11^th fret… and then to the 13th fret of the B string. Then we have a rest and then starting on the third measure the first beat is a rest and then we’re gonna go 11^th fret, 13^th fret, two more rests, then 11th fret on the high E string. Now a pull-off from 11^th fret or from 13^th fret to the 11^th fret and then we’re going to move up so now we’re on the 14th fret of the high E string with your first finger and the 16th fret of the high E string with your third finger… Now we’re going to bend, rest… and then the second one we release to the 14th fret. And then probably the hardest part we have to jump down to the 12th fret of the G string… and then to the 16th fret on the B string to end it…

1970s Riff-3 – Green Eyed Lady – Sugarloaf

All right then the last we’re going to look at is Green Eyed Lady by Sugarloaf. So this one is just single notes, but it’s not as much of a lead melody. So we start off we rest on beat one and then on the downbeat of two we hit the open low E string and then we rest on the and of two and then we rest on the downbeat of three and then on the and of three we’re gonna hit the fifth fret of the A string and then rest on beat four. And then starting on the second measure on the downbeat of one it’s the fifth fret of the D string. So we’ve got… Then we rest on the and of two, the downbeat of three or excuse me we rest on the and of one, the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we’re back to the fifth fret of the A string and then open one, two on the A string. So that’s basically kind of the riff right there and that takes up two measures. So starting on the third measure we start off the same. The only thing that’s going to change is that note that is on the A string is going to move down from the fifth fret to the fourth fret… same thing. Now we’re going to do it again, but it’s going to move to the third fret. Okay then the last part of it started the last two measures and this is all quarter notes; one to the first fret of the A string to the second fret and then the open low B string again, so one, two, three, four. Then on the last measure fourth fret of the low E string; one, beat two is the fifth fret, one, two. Then we’re going to shift down a whole step so now your first finger is at the second fret and your third or excuse me your second finger is at the third fret and this is two, three, two, three…

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it, volume four of fun and easy riffs to play from the 1970s. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got three more fun and easy riffs for you from Boston.

So right now Guitar Control is giving away this really cool free chord chart, there’s a link down in the description where you can download yours. It’s in PDF format and has every chord that you could ever need all neatly compiled onto one sheet, just whatever chord you need at a glance. So download it, print it off, throw a copy in your gig bag, put one where you practice; so just wherever you are, whatever situation you have any chord you can need at a glance and it’s a free download.

So be sure to click on the link in the description for the tabs and let’s get close up and take a look at these.

Boston Riff-1 – Rock & Roll Band

All right, so the first one to look at is the riff from Rock And Roll Band. So this riff is made up of eighth notes for the most part here. So we’re going to start off with this E5 on the downbeat of one; so it’s one and then on the and of one we’re just going to hit the open low E string, so one and. Then for the downbeat of beat two we’re gonna take our second finger and we’re gonna go to the third fret on the low E string and you just keep your first finger where it is and we’re gonna go to the third fret to the fourth fret with your third finger and then on the and of four A5. So we’re just going to take our first finger and move it from being on the second fret of the A string to the second fret of the D string and the A string open and that’s our first measure; two and three and four. So when we hit that on this A5 on the and of four it’s actually tied to the downbeat of one of the second measure so that’s still ringing out one and then on the and of one the A string open, down beat of two third fret with your second finger and of two fourth fret with your third finger… Then on the downbeat of three the A string open the and of three is the third fret of the low E string with your second finger. The downbeat of four is the fourth fret of the low E string with your third finger and then on the and of four is the E5 and then the whole thing just repeats…

Boston Riff-2 – Hitch A Ride

All right, so the next we’re going to look at is Hitch A Ride. So this one here it is fairly simple too it’s actually using just a regular fifth power chord shape. So we’re starting off here we’re on the seventh fret of the D string with your first finger and the ninth fret of the G string with your third finger and then the A string is open. So we’re going to start this we play the A string, one, and then on the and of one the D string, the downbeat of two the G string and then the and of two back to the D string, so one and two and. Now this next part is really tricky to get it right. So we got that one and two and, and then starting on beat three we play the A string and the seventh fret of the D string we play that on the downbeat and then and this is a sixteenth note so then on the second sixteenth note we slide down to the fifth fret of the D string and then on the and we hit the open A string… And then the downbeat of four is the D string and the and of four is the seventh fret; so we’re just we’ve just taken that shape and moved it down a whole step… so that is our first measure… Okay now we’re going to take our first finger and move it down to the fourth fret; so if this is hard for you to make that stretch you can use your pinky instead, but if that’s what you’re doing you should probably start out with your pinky so that way you’re not having to really change a lot of fingers. So we move that down to the fourth fret and now we pick the A string, D string, G string, D string and then we switch to an A. So we’re just going to take our first finger barre the second fret of the D and the G and the B string and play the A string open and that’s three and four we hit the G string and the B string together and that’s the riff. So measures three and four the same as measures one and two and then it just repeats…

Boston Riff-3 – Smokin’

All right then the last one to look at is the riff from Smokin. So this one is fairly easy, it’s really repetitive. So the first thing we want to do just barre your first finger across the second fret of the D and G string and we hit the open A string on the downbeat of one and then on the and of one we hit the D and the G string together, but it’s a quarter note, so it’s one and two and three and… Then we go to the A string, third fret with your second finger and we’re going to pick that and hammer to the fourth fret with your third finger and then second fret of the D string with your first finger, which it should already be and that’s a triplet… All right so on the transcription it shows four measures, but they’re all the same thing and that is just repeated a bunch. So just the first measure and the second third and fourth measures as well; one and two and three and four yellow… that’s one measure and then I just repeat… Now when I pick this and instead of being all down strokes, I do the A string with a down… and then when I do these little chords here, these little you know, double stops, I’m doing those on up strokes; down, up, up, up, down, down hammer, up… it kind of really gives it more of kind of a groove and it just makes it easier to play in my opinion as well.

Conclusion

All right, so there you have it uh three more fun and not too terribly difficult riffs to play by Boston. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe to the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content that we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.

Introduction

How’s it going everybody? This is Darrin with GuitarControl.com bringing this video lesson and today I’ve got a lesson for all the beginners out there; I’ve got three fun really easy riffs to play from the 1970s.

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1970s Riff-1 – Rock & Roll Hoochie Coo

All right so the first we’re going to look at is the riff from Rock and Roll Hoochie Coo by Rick Derringer. So for this one we’re going to use a major bar chord shape with the root note on your low E string so if you already know this F it’s that shape we’re just going to move it around. So now for the first one it is F, so what I’m doing is I’m just got my first finger barred all the way across all six strings at the first fret and then my second finger is going on to the second fret of the G string and then my third finger onto the third fret of the A string and my fourth finger on to the third fret of the D string. So we’re going to play this one and so its eighth notes and then we’re going to do some mute strums. So we do the chord one and, and then you just you keep your fingers in the shape, you just release the pressure, so now you’re just touching the strings so that way when we strum we just get that percussive sound. So for beat two it’s just the muted chord, but played as 16th notes; so two and uh. All right and then starting on beat three we’re just going to move this shape up a whole step; so now we’re barring at the third fret, which makes this G major and then your second finger is on the fourth fret of the G string, third finger on the fifth fret of the A string and fourth finger on the fifth fret of the D string and we’re going to do the same thing three and four and… Then starting on the second measure we move it up a whole step again so now it’s A major; so now I’m barring the fifth fret and my middle finger is on the fourth fret of the G string, excuse me, the sixth fret of the G string and my third finger is on the seventh fret of the A string and fourth fingers on the seventh fret of the D string and we do the same thing one and, and then this is where it changes. So now we’ve got this little riff. So we start on the low E string five, so it’s using my first finger, so starting at the fifth fret to the seventh fret and then to the A string fifth fret, seventh fret and this is two e and uh, and then on the downbeat of three we’re going to take our first finger and just barre at the fifth fret across the D and the G string and then take your third finger and barre the seventh fret of the A and the D string. So we hit the five and five on that the D and G string on the downbeat of two and then on the and of two we do the seven on the A and the D string… and then on the downbeat of four we’re going to be using our third finger to do the seventh fret of the A and the D string. So now we’re going to do is we’re just going to roll so our third finger is just picking up the seventh fret of the A string and our first finger is going to the fifth fret of the D string and then back to seven and seven. So that second measure one and two e and uh three and four and, and that is all starting on that second beat of the second measure is all palm muted too… so the whole thing…

1970s Riff-2 – Oxygen

All right so the next one we look at is the riff from Oxygen by Sweet. This one is incredibly easy to play, but this is one I can remember when I was a kid I would hear this riff and I just thought it was just really cool you know I want to be able to play that and I never got around to learning it until now. So it’s not quite you know as much to it as I thought it had when I was a kid, but it’s pretty easy and still kind of a cool riff. So all right so we start off with our first finger on the fifth fret of the low E string third finger onto the seventh fret of the A string and fourth finger onto the seventh fret of the D string and we’re going to hit that this is all eighth notes, but what’s weird is we hit one and two; so we do two mutes one and two and… So for that on that first measure this is A5 so on beat four when we hit the A again on the and of four we just slide it down a half step… And then starting on the second measure we’re going to move down a whole, excuse me a half step so now we’re starting on the third fret of the low E, first finger fifth fret of the A string, with your third finger fifth fret of the D string, with your fourth finger and something forgot to mention too if you’re a beginner and this is difficult to get all three of these you can omit the note that’s on the D string and just play the low E and the A string and it’ll still sound fine. So this is G5 and now we’re going to do the same thing, one and two and three and four, and then on the and of four we slide up a half step and then the whole thing would just repeat…

1970s Riff-3 – Hot Child In The City

All right then the last one to look at is from Hot Child In The City by Rick, or excuse me, Nick Gilder. This is another one that I thought it was really cool and I thought there would be a whole lot more to it than there actually is, but it’s really simple and it’s a it’s a cool song. So we start off we’ve got an E5; so our first fingers on the second fret of the A string and the low E string is open and we hit this on beat one and it’s a quarter note, so we’ve got one and then on the downbeat of two, which is a percussive strum. So what I do is I just keep my first finger here and then I just take my other fingers and just let them lay across the strings to get that mute. So you got one two and then on the and two fourth fret of the low E string with your third finger and then on the downbeat of three we rest and then on the and of three we hit the second fret of the A string first finger and then a mute strum on the downbeat of four and then on the and of four the fourth fret of the lowest string again… Then on the second measure on the downbeat of one is A5; so first finger on the second fret of the D string and the D string is open, but this is actually a dotted quarter note, so this is going to be one two and then on the and of two we hit the fourth fret of the low E string again with some vibrato and this is also a dotted quarter note, so this is and three and, and then beat four quarter note second fret of the low E with a little vibrato as well…

Conclusion

All right so there you have it, three really easy to play beginner riffs from the 1970s. So if you like this lesson be sure to give me a thumbs up and leave a comment down below if you have any questions about this or other guitar related topics. If you’ve not already done so please subscribe the channel and hit that notification bell so you don’t miss any of the content we upload throughout the week. Well that is all I have for you today. Thanks for watching and have a great day.