Rockin’ Riffs – Creative Teaching Using Guitar Riffs

Engage your students with these creative guitar riffs

In this 13-lesson course, we’ll cover a 5-step bulletproof process for teaching riffs to make any riff easy to learn, how to create riff challenges to help your students grow and how to create a rockstar experience for your students that will keep them engaged and boost retention. Course hosted by Michael Gumley.

Course outline

  1. Lesson 1: What is a Riff?
  2. Lesson 2: Why Teach Riffs?
  3. Lesson 3: Levelling & Layering Riffs
  4. Lesson 4: Riff Categories
  5. Lesson 5: The Bulletproof Process for Teaching Riffs
  6. Lesson 6: Riff Challenges
  7. Lesson 7: Cool Riff Activities
  8. Lesson 8: Riff Repertoire
  9. Lesson 9: Where to Source Your Riffs
  10. Lesson 10: Mistakes to Avoid When Teaching Riffs
  11. Lesson 11: Creating the Rockstar Experience
  12. Lesson 12: Power Moves
  13. Lesson 13: Getting The Rock Sound
  14. Conclusion

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Rockin’ Riffs – Creative Teaching Using Guitar Riffs was created by

Michael Gumley

Founder and CEO of Melbourne Guitar Academy and Head of Guitar at TopMusic

Michael Gumley is founder at Melbourne Guitar Academy, creator of Guitar Dojo Online and Guitar Ninjas, and TopMusic’s Head of Guitar. He rocked his start at guitar playing at age 15 and was instantly hooked. Michael brings his passion for music and love of all things guitar to every lesson, and seeks to help students capture that same excitement and wonder on their own journeys.

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Welcome to Rockin’ Riffs – Creative Teaching Using Guitar Riffs

Michael Gumley, here. In this course, we'll cover:
  • A 5-step bulletproof process for teaching riffs to make any riff easy to learn
  • How to create Riff Challenges to help your students grow
  • How to create a rockstar experience for your students that will keep them engaged and boost retention
Here is a handout you might find helpful while going through the course.   The Guitar Tree of Life contains the list of riffs, but to view the actual music we recommend purchasing a book like Hal Leonard's "First 50 Riffs You Should Play on Guitar". First 50 Rifts You Should Play on Guitar  

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