Riff Rundown

Difficulty: Intermediate

Intro Riff

Here's what the riff sounds like with guitar and bass:

Guitar

This riff requires you to use a precises down, up, down, up motion with your strumming arm. On the downbeat we mute the strings for a percussive sound and on the upbeat we strum the chrod fragments. It's a little trick to get at first, but practice along with the jam track until you get it!

Bass

The bass guitar steals the show here. In the 2nd and 4th measures stacatto notes are played on the 5th fret. In the music notation you can see the stacatto sign. The notes with a little dot above is called a staccato note. Staccato means "cut short crisply, detached". The use of staccato is very important to the overall sound of the riff.