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Hello all, how are you? Getting closer to Christmas and I still haven't done my Christmas shopping! Aaaarrrgggghhhh Anyway, here's to another riff of the week. This one comes from a great Australian band called Vines! Its from their second album and is a great little guitar riff. Quite easy as well so you can impress some of your friends. Here it is: Sorry it's so small, it's just with this new theme the tab cuts across the sidebar so I've had to make it smaller. Sorry. Here's how it should sound: So Hope you get on ok with[...]

Hello everyone! Good weekend? Here's to this weeks post in the series of Hero Worship. This weeks worship goes to Kurt Cobain. A genius. A Revolutionary. A true great. What Total Guitar said about him: You know him by his: Fender Mustang and Jaguars, staggering songs. Greatest Moment: That four chord riff! Ok, so it might not be entirely accurate to say that Nirvan's, "Smells Like Teen Spirit" single-handedly swept away 1980's metal: bands like Tad, Mudhoney and Dinosaur Jr had already done their bit to weaken the foundations.[...]

Wow! Nearly the weekend again! ;-) Good times! How are you all? Good? Anyway, now on to part three of the Beginners Guide to Songwriting, and we're now moving onto four topics; Arranging, Middle Eight, The Riff :-P, The Solo. So without further ado lets crack on with it. Arranging Now for a bit of arranging. Are you going to take the traditional verse, chorus, middle eight route? Or try for something a bit more modal? There's nothing wrong with the traditional route - it's and all-time design classic. But, you see, there's the rub.[...]

Wellll hello again everyone. Time for another poll. Can't believe we're at Wednesday again, these weeks go too fast. So Dave Gilmour won last weeks poll as Greatest 70s Guitarist. Even though the real winner was the "other" option. But now to this weeks poll. Who was the greatest 80s Guitarist? Now I haven't included Kirk Hammett in this list as I think he should fall more into the 90s category. So don't make any Hoo-Haa about that please. So anyway here's the poll: [poll id="9"] This weeks winner will be posted next[...]

Alrite everyone :-) How was Monday? Shit? Yes, same as mine. Anyway it's a Tuesday again and that means its Riff Of The Week! This weeks riff comes from a band from 2007/2008. Well theyve got a new album out now, but this song comes from 08. Its Vampire Weekend with their great guitar song A-Punk! For those of you that don't know who Vampire Weekend are, then you should! Theyre a New York band that came out late 07/ early 08 and they were one of the best bands around at that time. One of the only bands to not be so electronic. Anyway[...]