Riffs
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Riffs
Author: Rikky Rooksby
language: en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Release Date: 2010-11-01
Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated bestseller explores more than 200 classic riffs, from Cream and Led Zeppelin, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, U2, and the White Stripes. The first half of the book analyzes classic rock riffs and reveals the stories behind their creation. Easy-to-read text describes and explains each riff, supported by illustrations and a CD of audio examples. The book's second section shows how to construct great riffs and why they work. Readers learn how to shape a melody, integrate a guitar riff with the rest of a song, enhance a riff with effects, and work with intervals and scales to build riffs.
Jazz Guitar
The most complete method for the modern jazz guitarist. This book explores advanced, modern jazz, and bebop concepts and techniques, including music theory, scales, modes, chord voicings, arpeggios, soloing, and comping concepts. More than 170 music examples and 13 complete solos in the styles of many jazz greats are used to place all concepts into a practical musical context. A CD with all the music examples is included! The book comes with a metal spiral binding for ease of use and to ensure many years of durability.
Riffs & Choruses
Riffs & Choruses is an anthology of writings about jazz, offering a comprehensive view of the subject and containing edited pieces on the origins, history, culture and style of jazz, and also on myth, race and related areas of language, literature and film." "The collection provides a more extensive range and topic focus than any other similar anthology, complements histories of jazz and provides readings for students of music, jazz and American and popular culture. It will also appeal to the general reader who simply wants to learn more about the nature and world of jazz music [Publisher description]