Kristofer Dahl17th September 2009Yeah! Nothing beats good old pentatonic riffing - love it Emir
I would suggest that everybody who knows the pentatonic scale (if not - learn it from this lesson's scale diagram) jams around with it and see if you can some up with a riff.
playaxeman17th September 2009Cool Stuff.
Thx Emir for this lesson
Lian Gerbino17th September 2009yeah, great lesson Emir! well done man
Stephane Lucarelli17th September 2009Awesome riffing - very cool lesson!
Sensible Jones17th September 2009Great stuff Emir!!! Funny how in that thread you were talking about Jimmy Page being your favourite Axe Wielder and here is a great lesson along his style of play!!!!
Pedja Simovic17th September 2009Great stuff Emir, excellent introduction riffing lesson!
Toni Suominen17th September 2009Rocking lesson Emir!
Emir Hot17th September 2009Thanks guys.
Kristofer is quite right. You can make billion riffs out of this scale. Just jam a bit and you'll surely end up with a riff.
Jonathan Burgos17th September 2009impeccable man!! Is a good job ... great lesson .... great song!!!
Bogdan Radovic17th September 2009Great style and lesson!
- Emir Hot17th September 2009
Cheers guys
kaznie_NL17th September 2009Very cool job Emir! I might start learning this... Nice
- Emir Hot17th September 2009Very cool job Emir! I might start learning this... Nice
Cool Kaznie, feel free to ask anything 
vampire1817th September 2009loved that first bit over the A chord really cool, and it really helps that you put what chord is currently played in the video so we could do some improvising over the backing track, great lesson
- Emir Hot17th September 2009loved that first bit over the A chord really cool, and it really helps that you put what chord is currently played in the video so we could do some improvising over the backing track, great lesson
Thanks man Enjoy jamming over this one 
Ivan Zecic17th September 2009This was great! Loved your sound!
- Emir Hot17th September 2009This was great! Loved your sound!
Thank you Ivan 
Gerardo Siere17th September 2009Loved the lesson. Reminds me Aerosmith!
Oubollig17th September 2009Reminds me of Carry On Wayward Son by Kansas
Laszlo Boross17th September 2009Awesome riff lesson Emir! Nice job!
NoSkill17th September 2009That's a really cool sound, Emir. It's a great jamming lesson! I enjoyed that!
Sergio Dorado17th September 2009Great riffs! Excellent stuff for beginners
- Sinisa Cekic17th September 2009
Extra groove Emire
- Emir Hot18th September 2009
Thanks guys
Ivan Milenkovic18th September 2009This is great, a classic Emir. Well done
Staffy18th September 2009Oooohh Yeah!!! This was the kind of music I grew up with! Very Deep-Purple -ish and very coool !! Great Emir!
- Emir Hot18th September 2009
Thanks Ivan and Staffy. I love Deep Purple as well
MigeZ18th September 2009Cool lesson Emir
Really some useful rock riffs
Cheers mate
midnight18th September 2009Very useful stuff! Love jamming over the backing track.
kahall19th September 2009This is for me. Thanks!
Jeff19th September 2009Takes me back to the same stuff I grew up on. This is cool! This tune sounds to me like a cross between ZZ Top and Jeff Beck! Although Jeff Beck is more fusion, it has some of his flavor.
intemperateControl19th September 2009Cool stuff, Emir. I was actually going to ask you to do something new with open string riffs (I often venture into that zone myself and wanted to see what you might come up with), but I refrained due to my other 2 recent requests - I didn't want to be a nuisance. Again, thanks for the input on those subjects. Seems like deja vu. Jam on, bro...
- Emir Hot20th September 2009
Thanks guys
Jeff I grew up on ZZ Top and similar bands. That's always great to play and jam along such riffs - JimmyRare20th September 2009
Aaaaah, the 80s, I love it! Awesome! Some Axl Rose singing over this one would be nice, hehe.
- Emir Hot21st September 2009
Thanks JimmyRare
I think his voice would be cool here 
Zsolt Galambos21st September 2009Wow, what a cool groove! Well done, Emire
- Emir Hot21st September 2009Wow, what a cool groove! Well done, Emire
Thanks man 
Marcus Siepen22nd September 2009Awesome riffing Emir, great job.
Vasilije Vukmirovic22nd September 2009great riffs Emir!
- Emir Hot22nd September 2009
Thanks much Marcus and Vasilije
- josuegda8th October 2009
Hello Emir, ¿could you send me the backing_100bpm in mp3? [email protected]
Thank you! 
Daniel Realpe21st March 2010Very cool riffing I think we need more of these type of lessons!
- Romko18th May 2012
cool. I love this. Drive is an energy
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Hi there
I have been a huge fan of 80's rock riffing since I first heard of bands like AC/DC, Deep Purple, ZZ Top etc... That was over 20 years ago and I still love to play and jam in that style. This lesson shows a usual riffing approach that such bands used in many popular songs. The key of E gives the best possibility for combining open strings with E pentatonic or blues scale. That's why this lesson is in the key of E although I switch to A and B to close the cycle which is similar to blues or rock 'n' roll progression.You should feel when to bend G note on the 6th string. That gives that flavor of G minor/major 3rd mixture often heard in this style. I left 1/4 of a bend in the GP file but it's not even that far. This should be 1/8 or almost no bend but slight vibrato. The same goes for G note on the first string. The rest is just combination of alternate picking and some legato for a better note connection. Pay attention on the little slide on the 3rd string. I slide From A to Bb then back to A and pull off in the end to the G open string note. That's a cool little trick that Angus Young uses a lot.
I hope you will have fun jamming over this one. See you soon.
Emir