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Hello everyone and welcome to another fascinating Guitar quiz! Firstly let me say how happy I am that England are through to the Second Round of the World Cup. Bring on Ze Germans on Sunday :-) Anyway lets have a look at last weeks answers: Muddy Waters Jeff Beck A name Joey Kramer thought up after listening to Harry Nilssons Aerial Ballet 1938 Macon, Georgia Lets hope you all done well on that one :-) Now on to this weeks quiz: [quiz=24] // Good luck for this weeks fascinating guitar quiz. The answers will be posted on[...]

Hello and welcome to another weekly riff where I take usually take a classic rock riff and show you how to play it. This week will be slightly different as it won't be a rock riff. Instead I've picked one of the biggest television theme tunes of all time. Now I'm sure a few of you may be critical of this weeks riff as it shows a sign of a band selling out and cashing in, but I still think it is a spectacular riff, and one that is iconic of the 90's. It reminds me so much of my youth in the 90s and early 00's and also reminds me of the Friends[...]

Songs have been around since the dawn of man, with old folk songs in many ancient civilizations. With a song comes a songwriter and with this comes the art and skill of songwriting. It is always hard to find a definition of songwriting with many varied opinions as to what it is. I would say that songwriting is the ability to construct lyrics that go together with music to construct a song. While a few other people believe that a songwriter can be someone who just writes lyrics, or someone who just composes music, I believe this is a wrong[...]

Hello and welcome to another weekly riff where I look at a classic rock riff and show you guys how to play it. This weeks riff is a bit different from the last one I did which was a psyhcadelic 60s riff by Status Quo. Anyway I heard this riff the other day as many 15 and 16 year old's across the UK are finishing school this summer. This song is played every year on some sort of Holiday, Summer, Job or other advertisement as soon as the schools break up for summer. I always thought this was an overplayed song and that the riff was often a[...]

Hello everyone and welcome to another fascinating Guitar quiz! Firstly let me show my utter excitement that it is the start of the greatest show on earth today! THE WORLD CUP! I literally cannot wait. England play against the USA tomorrow and to all my American readers - Good Luck. And to all my English readers - We're gonna wipe the floor with them! :-) Anyway lets take a look back at last weeks quiz answers: Top : C  Bottom : B Johnny Thunders Dean ML Tony Iommi Pickup Lets hope you all done well on that one :-) Now on to[...]