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		<title>Riff Of The Week! Ride!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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:]]></description>
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		<title>Hero Worship!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 11:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. And it might not be exactly true to say that the album Nevermind was an establishment-baiting blast of raw punk aggression. After all, there were a handful of guitar solos on there - and the record just boasted just as much high-production sheen as anything by, say, Motley Crue.]]></description>
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		<title>The Beginners Guide to Songwriting Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 12:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. How are you going to avoid your song sounding and feeling like a thousand others? Try to include some variation. Perhaps you could start with the chorus, or cut a verse in half. Try not to let the listener get to the end of the song before you, simply because they know where you're going with it.

Middle Eight

Middle eights are something of a hangover from the Tin Pan Alley days. To provide their song with a touch of variety, songwriters would drop in eight bars of a different melody, usually just after the second chorus or first solo.

Nowadays, the middle eight just refers to the bit where the song changes, also known as the bridge. If you do include one, make sure it's a cracker. There's nothing more dull than a middle eight that just drops down four keys - say, D to Bm - then wanders around in confusion like a drunk looking for a toilet door.

But let's say you don't want to do that verse/chorus thing and prefer the modal style favoured by bands like Janes Addiction and The Music...]]></description>
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		<title>Who was the Greatest 80s Guitarist?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:05:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wellll hello again everyone. Time for another poll. Can&#8217;t believe we&#8217;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 &#8220;other&#8221; option. But now to this weeks poll. Who was the greatest 80s Guitarist? Now I haven&#8217;t included [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Riff Of The Week! A-Punk!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 18:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alrite everyone How was Monday? Shit? Yes, same as mine. Anyway it&#8217;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! [...]]]></description>
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