The ringing guitar riff rushes off swiftly from the neck ...

If you ask a hundred people to introduce themselves to the role of guitarists and sketch out something fatal, no doubt, 70 percent will take an imaginary guitar and give out a formidable introduction Smoke On The Water. Fans call this immortal grandeur, musicians - a special stamp of steepness, but experts have come up with such fragments its name. "Guitar Reef" - with a kind of not rocker "infer" they.

A real guitar reef: we learn and know

When you say that this is just an ordinary set of chords, do not believe your ears. The guitarists teach the guitar game: a reef is a repeating passage of a certain melody, a musical fragment. And add: this is not necessarily an introduction, it may be the ending of the composition, and its culmination, and just the accompaniment. And you can also hear that the guitar riff is the "backbone" of the melody, according to which the listener learns this or that composition. If you take rock or blues, then in these directions for the reef are the lower registers, they are usually "issued" on low strings by rhythm guitarists.

Oh, how he has many faces - this guitar riff!

Fans of classifications made it to the guitar reefs, noticing, however, that their separation is a rather conventional concept.

So, if the air cuts a blues, rock'n'roll, hard or glam rock fragment, you know: his name is "a reef in open keys," the most popular of which is A major.

Above, how to name the fragments, performed with the use of chords, did not think for a long time: they were called "chord ones". The "fathers" of these chord clusters are considered to be the "rolling" of Keith Richards and Jimi Hendrix.

The next type of guitar riffs is odnogolosye. They do not know chords and intervals. Year of their birth - 70's, parents - Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin. The riffs with a pedal tone were specialized rock-craftsmen from Whitesnake, as well as the "great and terrible" Ozzy. This form - with a tone that is constantly repeating - was in special honor among the stars of heavy metal and hard rock of the 80's.

The list of participants in this list will be the simplest, and as connoisseurs like to say, the most cheerful kind of guitar reefs - high-speed: when "two notes on an overload" are extracted by blows on strings backhand. It's clear that such reefs are favorite "tricks" of punks and lovers of hard trash.

The best guitar riffs: now, and forever and ever

What are the most famous guitar riffs in the world? There are different opinions on this, your own attention is offered to the Top-5 of the respected edition of Total Guitar. In 2013, the magazine interviewed its readers, and this is what happened.

On the 5th place is Skydog and his Layla. The place above was chosen by a monophonic reef from the immortal Blackmore's Smoke On The Water. The top three broke (and it was easy) Led Zeppelin: Jimmy Page in Whole Lotta Love did not leave any other chance for third place. Well, in some world rankings they are the first, but not on the Total Guitar list: silver for the reef in Sweet Child O'Mine goes to the legendary Gun N'Roses. He often competed with the "ganzami" for the "reef" championship and in 2013 reached his, so we ask you to love and favor: Jimi Hendrix and his reef from the reefs in Voodoo Child!

And finally ... "Shoot" guitar from a reef is not difficult - you just need to want it. Boldly take the instrument and play a couple of repeating chords. Perhaps, the guitar riff you invented will become a landmark for you. Try, dare, and may the Gods of Blues and Rock'n'Roll help you!