{"id":7653,"date":"2019-05-21T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T21:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/?p=7653"},"modified":"2019-05-21T15:07:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T22:07:16","slug":"rory-gallagher-blues-rock-riff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/rory-gallagher-blues-rock-riff\/","title":{"rendered":"Rory Gallagher Blues Rock Riff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This riff came from a Rory Gallagher recording, but I&#8217;ve heard it (or variations of it) in many songs over the years (CCR comes to mind, even though I can&#8217;t think of which song.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s in E, and like many blues things in E, it&#8217;s based around the open position E minor box 1\/box 2 scales.<\/p>\n<p>Then, when it goes to the IV chord, the A, it just moves the whole thing up &#8211; which is an easy move to make.<\/p>\n<p>Also cool is the turnaround, which goes up by 1\/2 step to the C instead of down to the A7 so it&#8217;s kind of a nice variation to have in your hip pocket (think of songs like &#8220;Little Sister&#8221; which make the same move.)<\/p>\n<p>Hope you dig it and feel free to share with any guitar playing friends.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-plugin-new youtube\" style=\"max-width:100%; width:640px; height:auto; padding-top:0; padding-bottom:0; margin:0 auto;margin:0 auto; border: 0px solid #fff;margin-bottom: 20px;\"><div style=\"width:640px;height:0;  padding-bottom: 56.25%; padding-top:0;\"><iframe width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nC_yOLzQ8jI?wmode=opaque&showinfo=0&amp;autoplay=0&amp;controls=1&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;vq=&amp;rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bguvideos.s3.amazonaws.com\/blogvids\/RoryGallagherToredownRiff.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here Is The TAB (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This riff came from a Rory Gallagher recording, but I&#8217;ve heard it (or variations of it) in many songs over the years (CCR comes to mind, even though I can&#8217;t think of which song.) It&#8217;s in E, and like many blues things in E, it&#8217;s based around the open position E minor box 1\/box 2 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7656,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7655,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7653\/revisions\/7655"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}