My Riff Journal:
Learning, Fumbling, Growing 

You gotta love that thumnail. It's a hot and spicy song. Lady Marmalade. Why the song title? No idea...  It certainly got me playing right away, however, I need to concentrate on a few things.. like notes! 

The title says it all. It's the comment in YouTube that really thought me a few things... Rick's Beato's video is on the right.
November 15 2025

Totally worth the watch. Rick is a professional sound engineer and musician and he has some amazing insight into how The Police got the effects of the song. 

Guess which riff? It's not hard... if you know the scale!

November 11 2025

My dog Molly got me some extra views on YouTube :)
What I learnt about this riff is that I really need to listen to the riff and feel if it's a major or minor feel
November 13 2025

Just when you think it's easy, it is... until you mix it up.
Living on a Prayer, Bon Jovi!  Simple but effectice bassline.
September 18 2025

Peter Gunn-- I actually didn't quite get it correct. I'll have to revisit this. 

I actually learned this one quite quickly. Either I'm getting better, or it's super easy!
Aug 2025

Like most of the riff that I try to work out, I don't know how it goes until I actually play it. This one took me a while.
Sept 8 2025

It's a 'too easy' riff that I made too complicated. But alas, it was a learning experience. 

Iron Man- Do you know this song? I didn't but while practicing this, I slowly came to realise what the song was! 

Starting with a sixth, add 5,6 notes, play it over and over with the same rhythm, and there's the song.
June 30 2025

The guessing of the song by just singing the riff is still difficult, but I'm getting the rhythm a lot better. Guess this riff. It's from The Kinks!
July 14 2025

Stand By Me has given me an insight into how I prractice my rhythm. In this video, I explore, how I use a riff to learn more than just a song- theory, harmonic practice, fingering, patterns, and more
June 16 2025

I learned alot about studying this riff because it's a bluesy riff, but I thought that the run down was a chromatic note, but it turms out that it's the Blue Note ! Doh, the minor pentatonic scale. Apart from that, I learned that my rhythm practice needs work!
June 22 2025

I concentrated on:
1) getting the rhythm in my body- no bass
2) Sing the riff, 3) play it
4) Listen to the drum and see how they fit into this.
June 1 2025

I didn't want to 'listen' the riff before reading it. The rhythm is quite simple, and once I played it, it was 'oh that song'. It just goes to show you that a 'riff' doesn't have to be complicated.
June 8 2025