"Do you have a system for categorizing or remembering "riffs""
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"Do you have a system for categorizing or remembering "riffs""



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I have been thinking about this again....


The system for categorising riffs IS learning scales and chords - then seeing them IN the riff.

Some learners learn note names only, not function. This way you can reproduce the riff, but you cant categorise it except as 'the Muddy Waters riff", you can't build up a flexible riff library this way, or at least this is the loooooong way.

If you categorise using the harmonic function of the notes. For example "scalar run to the seventh then hit the fifth" not only do you get the ability to transpose the riff easily, but you also get to understand what possibilities the riff has.

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