How to Write a Rock Song : How to Write a Guitar Riff for a Rock Song

Learn how to write a catchy guitar riff or solo for your rock song in this free music video on how to write on a rock song.

Expert: cckimmel
Contact: www.myspace.com/eliotfitzgerald
Bio: Cody Kimmel wrote his first song in the sixth grade is now the lead singer and songwriter for the nationally known band Eliot Fitzgerald.
Filmmaker: Cody Kimmel

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• chords
• theory
• rock
• song
• roll
• band
• writing
• singer
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• rocknroll
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[troyrkd]

2:22 - 2:28

best 6 seconds of my life!

[LeatherCladVegan]

This is how you write riffz for your band:

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And then you do a cool bit where it's like 'Doo doo duh duh, da da doooo', you know, and then the drums go like Boom TISH, BOOM TISH TISH. And the bass just goes BUM BUM BA BUM BUM.

Yeah, some pretty sweet riffage right there.

[MasterMorty]

Teaching someone to write a good guitar riff is like asking a blind child to paint an accurate picture of a dog's face with the right colors. At the most, they'll be able to get the face, but the colors will most definitely be completely off. You don't try to write good guitar riffs, you let them come to you, and when they do, do all you can to keep them in your head until you can play the melody on guitar or piano, and record it, then add it to the song, and THAT is how to write a guitar riff.

[BigSexyKracker]

this dude is totally ripping off iris by goo goo dolls

[Kiwwi24]

What, youve never seen a stuttering kid dumbass.?

[qousie]

@guitarsbunch347 yeah ok i get what your saying. telecaster isnt the heaviest sounding guitar out there but its been used in hard rock alt and sounds awesome with overdrive and fuzz alike. I love em :)

[guitarsbunch347]

@qousie ya but its soft rock... i was talking like asking alexandria, a day to remember, parkway drive... stuff like that

[qousie]

@guitarsbunch347 telecasters have been used to write and record more rock music than you know.

[FooFighterFix]

@guitarsbunch347 How is a telecaster not a rock instrument?

[stiko1996]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA EXPERTVILLAGE IS PATHETIC HAHAHAHAHA

[guitarsbunch347]

a tele and an acoustic while talking about rock music??? hmmm... i seem to remember a les paul, a shecter, or maybe an esp being better for rock... but you know, thats just my opinion... i'm no expert like the fucktards from expertvilliage