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5 Cool Blues Shuffle Riffs

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5-Cool-Blues-Shuffle-Riffs-1bPlaying “walking blues lines” is a common thing for bass players, but also guitar players do not shy away from a nice walking blues shuffle riff.

The blues shuffle riff is a popular sound and often used by guitar players like T-Bone Walker (Going to Chicago, T-bone Shuffle) and Stevie Ray Vaughan (Cold shot, Pride and joy, Travis walk).

While blues rhythm guitar suffices with a standard 12 bar blues shuffle, a cool shuffle riff is often more fun to play and interesting listen to.

Also for the blues lead guitar player it’s great to solo over a blues shuffle riff. The combination of a cool lead solo improvisation and a nice blues shuffle riff will lift the music to greater heights.

Today we have 5 Cool blues shuffle riffs to get your hands dirty. Starting out with a nice & easy shuffle riff gradually leading up to more challenging riffs. A video lesson and tablature is provided for each shuffle riff.

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Top 25 Easy Guitar Riffs and Intros

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Top 25 Easy Guitar Riffs and Intros When you’re learning to play guitar you need to practice chords, strumming patterns, fingerpicking patterns, songs and scales in order to become an an accomplished guitar player. That stuff can be hard sometimes so it’s obvious you also need a break now and then.

Indulging in some easy awesome guitar riffs is good for your spirit. It’s motivating and will keep the fun alive while working on your regular practice workout.

It’s time to plug into your overdrive and distortion pedals, turn on the amp and just go for it.

Here are some of the most easy and timeless guitar riffs and intros that will make you sound like a badass!

Click on the song title to watch the video. Click on “Tabs” to see the tablature and click “More Tabs” to find more of the original tablature and artist.

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1 – Smoke on the Water – Deep purple Tabs – More Tabs

2 – Seven nation army – White Stripes Tabs – More Tabs

3 – I will follow – U2 Tabs – More Tabs

4 – Satisfaction – Rolling Stones Tabs – More Tabs

5 – Beat it – Michael Jackson Tabs – More Tabs

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50 of The Greatest Guitar Riffs of all Time

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50 greatest guitar riffs of all times

There’s something about playing guitar riffs. Creating that cool sound with your own bare fingers while sliding down and bending up those strings feels just like pure magic. Ain’t nothing like it.

Also the excitement of learning and eventually mastering a challenging riff is unbelievably fulfilling.

Let alone playing that riff with a real band will give you a true adrenaline rush. Yes that’s why we love to play riffs.

A little while ago I created a list with “50 of The Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time”. After that I got a lot of requests for a “Greatest Riffs of all Time” list. And I thought ‘yeah why not?’ So here you are.

As most of you know the lists on Guitarhabits are in no particular order and they are never complete. The lists are here to inspire and to motivate.

You might discover a riff or song on the list that you haven’t thought of before and would really like to learn. Maybe you’ll get some new ideas for practice or encounter a “mustknowriff” for your repertoire. It’s all here.

I was thinking about my personal favorite and it’s just too hard to choose only one. There are too many brilliant creations and all unique in their own way. I love the simplicity of “highway to hell”, the beautiful, mysterious, wah wah riff of “Voodoo child”, I have a weak spot for almost every guitar riff by John Frusciante or Slash and not to mention the zillion riffs that aren’t even on the list. Thank god it never stops.

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