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55 riffs that you must know as a working guitarist

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In alphabetical order 55 guitar riffs that I feel you must know as a working/depping guitarist…at a jam, or a last minute covers gig, knowing these will save you from a few embarrassing moments…and a good set of  ears will help you busk through the rest of the song!
 
1.Ace of spades (Motorhead)
2.Aint Talkin 'Bout Love (van Halen)
3.All along the watchtower (Jimi Hendrix)
4.All right now (Free)
5.Aqualung (Jethro Tull)
6.Are you gonna go my way (Lenny Kravitz)
7.Back in black (AC/DC)
8.Beat it (Michael Jackson)
9.Black Dog (Led Zeppelin)
10.Brown Sugar (Rolling Stones)
11.China groove (Doobie Brothers)
12.Cocaine (Eric Clapton)
13.Cult of personality (Living Color)
14.Day tripper (The Beatles)
15.Enter sandman (Metallica)
16.Eye of the tiger (Survivor)
17.Foxy Lady (Jimi Hendrix)
18.I feel fine (The Beatles)
19.I love rock and roll (Pat Benatar)
20.Immigrant song (Led zepplin)
21.Johnny be goode (Chuck Berry)
22.Kashmere (Led Zeppelin)
23.Layla (Eric Clapton)
24.Life in the fast lane (The Eagles)
25.Moby Dick (Led Zeppelin)
26.Money For nothing (Dire Straits)
27.More than a feeling (Boston)
28.My sharona (The Knack)
29.Owner of a lonely heart (Yes)
30.Panama (Van Halen)
31.Paranoid (Black Sabbath)
32.Pride and joy (SRV)
33.Purple Haze (J Hendrix)
34.Rebel rebel (D Bowie)
35.Roadhouse blues (The Doors)
36.Satisfaction (Rolling Stones)
37.Sharp dressed man (ZZ top)
38.Smells like teen spirit (Nirvana)
39.Smoke on the water (Deep Purple)
40.Start me up (Rolling Stoned)
41.Start me up (Rolling Stones)
42.Summertime blues (Eddy Cochran)
43.Sunday bloody Sunday (U2)
44.Sunshine of your love (Cream)
45.Sweet child of mine (Guns and roses)
46.Sweet home Alabama (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
47.Under the Bridge (RHCP)
48.Walk this way (Aerosmith/Run dmc)
49.Whola lotta love (Led Zeppelin)
50.Wild thing (The Troggs)
51.Wipeout (The Surfaris)
52.Wodoo chile (Jimi Hendrix)
53.You really got me (The Kinks)
54.You shook me all night long (AC/DC)
55.Zero (Smashing Pumpkins)

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The Legacy Of Ted Greene

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By searching inspiration for new lessons on youtube, I stumbled onto this great channel that shares some great jazz guitar videos, and I wanted to pass them to you. Quite interesting those about Ted Greene, some close ups of probably some of his famous private lessons in 1993. This is one of them:

 

This the channel, thank you to jazzguitarfanatic for sharing these videos:

http://www.youtube.com/user/jazzguitarfanatic#p/a/u/0/R4tKUkF_ONE

If you have never heard of Ted Greene you want to find out about him on his tribute site: http://www.tedgreene.com/

He was not only a phenomenal player, but a very influential teacher and author, most famous for his books

Chord Chemistry,Jazz Guitar Single Note Soloing, Vol 1 and Modern Chord Progressions: 1, always considered indispensable by all guitar students of all genres (Steve Vai mentions often Chord Chemestry as one of his favourite guitar manuals).

This is material that will change the way you play guitar, I guarantee you.

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5 Great Sites to Improve Your Music Reading Skills on Guitar

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Music reading skills and sightreading are a fundamental skill for all guitarists/musicians nowadays. Not only it is necessary to have a deeper understanding of your instrument, but it is a great way to share your music, and get good paying gigs (trust me, there aren't may well rounded guitarists out there that can sightread very well nowaday). These are five great resource sites that will help you with your music notation reading skills.

1. Practicesightreading.com

this is a great site where you can automatically generate measures of rhythm, in different levels. I feel this is a fantastic tool to challenge yourself, regardless of your level.

http://www.practicesightreading.com/index.php

2. Fretboard note finder

this is a great little page where you can find out where the notes are on a guitar tuned in standard tuning. When you click on a fret they show up on the upper right corner of the screen in standard notation.

http://www.eythorsson.com/en/Fretboard.aspx

3. Statens Musik Bibliotek

A collection of music pieces from the music Library of Sweden. The only way to improve your reading and sightreading skills is to read new material every day.

http://www.muslib.se/ebibliotek/boije/indexeng.htm

4. International Music Score Library Project

Same as above…more scores!

http://imslp.org/

5. On sightreading music for guitar players

A fun articles about sightreading and why learning traditional notation is more important than tabs.

http://keithmoore1.wordpress.com/2008/08/11/sight-reading-music-for-guitar-players/