Kick your blues jam sessions off with these essential open-position and moveable chord shapes. To avoid sounding the idle ...

Eric Clapton fused chords and single notes to create some ... riff kicks off the ’70s piece with a Jimmy Page-inspired blues scale riff following. Funk was big in the ’70s.

strum a few power chords on the blues scale, be your own musician - and who knows what riff-based magic could follow?

Half of Metallica's vocabulary thrives off a good riff, and this deceptively simple lick is among the finest James Hetfield ever penned.