{"id":3465,"date":"2016-12-15T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T22:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/?p=3465"},"modified":"2023-01-23T23:58:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T04:58:40","slug":"easy-guitar-riffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/easy-guitar-riffs\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Easy Guitar Riffs to Learn Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might sound strange, but some of the world\u2019s most popular guitar songs are not that difficult to play. Catchy guitar hooks have been showing up in popular music for nearly a hundred years, and most of these memorable songs feature a simple melody played over a driving beat. Today, we\u2019re going to show you how to play six easy guitar riffs and we\u2019re going to tell you the story behind each song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cCome As You Are\u201d\/ Nirvana\/ 1992<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vabnZ9-ex7o\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nirvana\u2019s \u201cCome As You Are\u201d is a simple, poignant song that highlights singer Kurt Cobain\u2019s sensitive side to his approach to songwriting. Released as the second single from the band\u2019s second studio album, <em>Nevermind<\/em>, this song further propelled the band into the mainstream after it began receiving sudden and unexpected acclaim in the early 90\u2019s. First showing up on a tape of demos in 1991, the recorded version of this song actually features Cobain singing phrases like \u201cand I don\u2019t have a gun,\u201d and \u201cmemoria\u201d on a vocal take out of time. After hearing the recorded track, Cobain decided he liked the way the vocal mistakes sounded, so he kept them in. Cobain wanted his guitar part to sound \u201cwatery,\u201d so he used a chorus guitar effect to build a washed out tone. Cobain describes the song as being about the contradictory nature of the human condition.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3467 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Come-as-you-are-lick.jpg\" alt=\"Come As You Are easy guitar riffs\" width=\"1008\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Come-as-you-are-lick.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Come-as-you-are-lick-300x93.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Come-as-you-are-lick-768x237.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The song begins with a simple riff played by Cobain on the 6th string. The melody features a simple rhythm, and is ideal for beginning guitar players. Tune the 6th string down to D for this song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cSmoke On The Water\u201d\/ Deep Purple\/ 1972<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zUwEIt9ez7M\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The prominent guitar riff featured in Deep Purple\u2019s \u201cSmoke On The Water\u201d is easily one of most recognizable melodies in popular music. Ranked number 434 in <em>Rolling Stone Magazine\u2019s<\/em> list of the greatest 500 songs of all time, the song is known mainly for its central theme which is a four-note blues scale melody in the key of G minor, harmonized in parallel fourths. The guitar part is doubled by an organ treated with a distortion effect. The lyrics of the song tell the true story of when Deep Purple was at a casino in Switzerland to record an album in the winter of 1971. While watching another band, Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, the venue in the casino somehow caught fire when a fan fired a flare gun at the ceiling. Thankfully, there were no injuries, but the fire destroyed the entire casino complex as well as the Mothers of Invention\u2019s equipment. Bet you didn\u2019t know one of music\u2019s easy guitar riffs had a background story like that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3468\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smoke-on-the-water-riff.jpg\" alt=\"Smoke on the Water guitar riff\" width=\"927\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smoke-on-the-water-riff.jpg 927w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smoke-on-the-water-riff-300x83.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smoke-on-the-water-riff-768x213.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 927px) 100vw, 927px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This guitar riff is built off of simple power chords and is built off of a simple, driving rhythm. With a little practice, this one should be quite easy to learn.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cDay Tripper\u201d\/ The Beatles\/ 1965<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NZacSRcdN88\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The lead guitar part in \u201cDay Tripper\u201d is simple, straightforward, and will likely get stuck in your head for weeks after you hear it. Released on the album <em>Rubber Soul <\/em>in 1965, this song peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1966. In a 1970 interview in <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, John Lennon is quoted bringing up \u201cDay Tripper\u201d as an example of a song that was a true effort of collaboration between him and his band-mate Paul McCartney (Lennon wrote the riff and choruses and McCartney wrote the verses). The song, which begins with a simple guitar riff played over a blues chord progression in the key of E, is about hippie culture in the 1960\u2019s. McCartney, who is credited for writing the song\u2019s verses, later said in an interview that &#8220;Day Tripper&#8221; was about drugs, and &#8220;a tongue-in-cheek song about someone who was &#8230; committed only in part to the idea.\u201d Recorded in the fall of 1965, the released master track of \u201cDay Tripper\u201d contains one of the most noticeable mistakes of any Beatles song, in which the lead guitar and tambourine momentarily disappear at one minute and fifty seconds in.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/daytripper-riff.jpg\" alt=\"Day Tripper guitar riff\" width=\"829\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/daytripper-riff.jpg 829w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/daytripper-riff-300x92.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/daytripper-riff-768x235.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This simple riff features a catchy melody placed over a syncopated rhythm. We recommend practicing this one to a metronome. The riff here shows the first half of the verse. To play the second part of the riff, repeat everything exactly one string up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>12 Bar Blues\/ Unknown\/ Early 20th Century<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of music\u2019s most easy guitar riffs comes in the form of a simple chord progression that helped develop popular music as we know it. What began as a simple <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/soloing-over-blues-changes\/\">blues progression<\/a> has gone on to inform songwriting and lyricism in virtually every genre of popular music. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/the-twelve-bar-blues\/\">12 Bar Blues<\/a> is built off of three dominant, or 7th, chords that can be played in any key. The 12 Bar Blues has remained popular for over a century, and this is because the natural form of the progression matches the tension and drama you\u2019d normally find in the plot of a movie or novel. Each bar is assigned four beats that can be played in any speed and style. Today, we\u2019re going to show you how to play the 12 Bar Blues in the key of E.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Each chord in this progression represents a bar of four beats:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E7-E7-E7-E7<\/p>\n<p>A7-A7-E7-E7<\/p>\n<p>B7-A7-E7-E7<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3470\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-bar-blues-tabs.jpg\" alt=\"12 bar blues guitar tabs\" width=\"1217\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-bar-blues-tabs.jpg 1217w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-bar-blues-tabs-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-bar-blues-tabs-768x293.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/12-bar-blues-tabs-1024x390.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1217px) 100vw, 1217px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>\u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d\/ The White Stripes\/ 2003<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0J2QdDbelmY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d features one of the catchiest easy guitar riffs in modern music. The song earned The White Stripes a Grammy for \u201cBest Rock Song\u201d and catapulted the group into international stardom. Although the main riff sounds like it\u2019s being played on a bass guitar, it\u2019s actually Jack White\u2019s semi-acoustic, 1950s-style Kay Hollowbody guitar being processed by a guitar pedal to sound an octave lower. The song, which is the band\u2019s signature track, is frequently played at protests around the world. Jack White, the band\u2019s principal songwriter, said in interviews that he wrote the riff just in case the band was ever asked to write an original song for the James Bond movie franchise. Though White did go on to later write a song for the franchise, \u201cSeven Nation Army\u201d was never used in a James Bond film.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3471\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Seven-Nation-Army-riff.jpg\" alt=\"Seven Nation Army Guitar Riff\" width=\"542\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Seven-Nation-Army-riff.jpg 542w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Seven-Nation-Army-riff-300x129.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 542px) 100vw, 542px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>\u201cPumped Up Kicks\u201d\/ Foster The People\/ 2011<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SDTZ7iX4vTQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPumped Up Kicks\u201d is a dark, troubled song dressed up as a shiny pop masterpiece. The song was written by Mark Foster, who formerly worked as a commercial jingle writer, in just five hours in 2009 shortly after forming Foster The People. In an interview, Foster said the day of the recording that he nearly opted in to going to the beach rather than recording the song. The song earned the group a major record deal and wide acclaim. The lyrics of the song tell the story of a troubled young person intent on harming the peers at his school. Foster later said that he wrote the song in an effort to understand mental illness in teenagers.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pumped-up-kids-riff.jpg\" alt=\"Pumped Up Kicks guitar riff\" width=\"991\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pumped-up-kids-riff.jpg 991w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pumped-up-kids-riff-300x66.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/pumped-up-kids-riff-768x168.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 991px) 100vw, 991px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This song is great for students wanting to work on playing syncopated, easy guitar riffs. You\u2019ll need to capo the 1st fret to play this song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These easy guitar riffs won\u2019t take long to learn, but you will need to put in the effort to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.musikalessons.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/motivation-to-practice\/\">practice<\/a>. We recommend taking the time to play all these riffs along to a metronome at least three times a week in order to master them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might sound strange, but some of the world\u2019s most popular guitar songs are not that difficult to play. 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