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RIFFS! RIFFS! RIFFS!

The last few months have seen a bevy of big releases from great guitar bands including Blink-182, Architects and Smashing Pumpkins, plus long-awaited comebacks from Paramore and Arctic Monkeys. This can only be good news for us guitarists – an injection of inspiring new riffs to try is always welcome here at TG Towers!

So on that theme, here we’re looking at five great riffs – and we’ve produced in-depth video lessons for each one so that you can rock out with ’em! None of them are too technical, so guitarists of almost any level should be able to have a go. Beware though, is in drop B tuning. If your guitar isn’t set up for this

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