Mood:  bright

I'm launching a new section in the blog today. I've always had a policy of posting only fully completed tabs, whether it's in regard to sending tabs to large sites or posting on my own site. Everything has to be there, Intro-Verse-Chorus-Bridge-Solo-Outro. I won't post parts of songs. That's because people come looking for the whole song.

However, the blog is different. It seemed like maybe a good place to add a section of just cool, fun to play riffs, tab that can be produced quickly because it's not the whole song. In this section you'll find main riffs from songs, or Intros (the Intro often is the main riff, but not always), or just parts that I like out of songs. Where possible, each post will be linked to a sound sample of the riff, so anyone can have a go at it if they like, even if they don't know the song.

There's no way of putting the tab right on the blog page. Or at least if there is, the HTML knowledge required to do it is beyond me. So the "jiffy riffs" will be done on a plain text page and the posts will have a link to the page. There will be three pages, divided the same as the website tabs, since I'm sure I'll do riffs in all three areas: Girlschool riffs, Canadian artist riffs, Various artist riffs. Each time I do an entry in the riff section I'll just add the riff to the applicable page.

I'll probably do this about once a week, maybe more often. It'll come in handy when I'm drawing a blank on anything else to write about. I can just pull out one of the stored riffs, and voila!...instant blog post. :-)

The inaugural Riff-In-A-Jiff is:

APRIL WINE - "Don't Push Me Around"     (M. Goodwyn)

https://www.angelfire.com/planet/zerofret/annesblog/canriffs.txt

The riff can be heard here:
http://www.samgoody.com/Stand-Back-Front-Page_stcVVproductId354053VVcatId463278VVviewprod.htm

I've always loved this riff. Have fun!