Guitar Riff - Learn by Ear

Learn Your Favourite Riffs by Ear

With the Guitar Riff app, you can learn the best ever riffs by ear. You can slow it down, transpose and focus on a few notes at a time. This is what the guitar legends did with their favourite songs. But instead of using radios, records and tape players, we can now use mobile phones.

You can use the app as a simulator or with a real guitar

You listen to the app playing a few notes then you copy it. The app tells you whether you are correct or not.

Focus on particular sections within the song to learn.

Slowing down the riff and other settings to make it easy to learn by ear.

1000s of the best ever riffs to choose from.

Record Player Could Only Play at a Slow Speed

Jimmy Page was the legendary guitarist and founder of the iconic rock band Led Zeppelin. Jimmy Page got his first real guitar around age 12–13. He didn't have any formal guitar teacher. He learned from listening and he credits British skiffle records and American blues 78s for teaching him. He would literally wear out records on his family's old turntable. He'd lift the needle, drop it back, over and over on the same bar. He would listen so intently he'd memorize the phrasing before even trying it on guitar. He described this in interviews: I'd hear a lick, then stop the record, find it on the fretboard. Then play it until it sounded exactly the same."

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"I learned everything by ear. You couldn't buy sheet music for Muddy Waters or Elmore James. You had to listen. And that was the best education." Like many 50s/60s British kids, Page discovered American 78 rpm blues records. But his British record player could switch speeds to handle the those 78 rpm records. He'd play a 78 at 45 or 33 rpm. It would drop the pitch and the tempo. This let him hear fast runs slowed down. He could catch finger positions, bends, and vibrato details. He described it like being able to 'see inside' the solo.