Rikky Rooksby

Countless great songs are based on riffs - catchy guitar phrases that repeat until they're seared into your brain forever - or snappy chord sequences as memorable as any melody. Riffs get people excit...

Now updated and revised, this is the fun and easy electric guitar course that lets you play right from the first lesson. Based on popular, well known songs, it assumes no previous knowledge of the gui...

Now updated and revised, this is part two of the fun and easy electric guitar course that lets you play right from the first lesson. Based on popular well-known songs, it assumes no previous knowledge...

If you're tired of having to play 'back to front' from chord books, here is the answer: the left-hander's guitar case chord book! All the chords you use most often, with clear diagrams and helpful hin...

How to play the easy way using the Chord Songbook way to learn. A brand new tutor method to accompany our ever-popular Chord Songbooks, this song-led way to learn the guitar just uses the words and si...

Chord Master is a chord dictionary with a difference. Rather than just show chord shapes - which are all there in the Chord Matrix - a large portion of the book explains how to use chords, with inform...

So you want to write songs, and you want to write them on guitar. This is the book that shows you exactly how. Taking tips and tricks from classic songwriters, from Bob Dylan to the Beatles to Tori Am...

Now you can play your favourite hits by The Kinks on guitar in no time...with just a handful of simple, easy chords for each song! All the songs have been specially arranged by Rikky Rooksby in the or...

A collection of eighteen songs with full lyrics, guitar chord boxes and chord symbols. Includes All Along The Watchtower, Blowin' In The Wind and Lay Lady Lay.

Fifty years since Bruce Springsteen's debut album Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. brought a new songwriting talent to the public, Bruce Springsteen is long established as one of the giants of popular...

Melody is the true heart of music - the identity of a composition, the vessel that carries the lyrics, the tune that you keep whistling on your way home from a concert. Composing melodies is often tho...

Fully Updated And Expanded Edition Rikky Rooksby's revised and updated bestseller explores more than 200 classic riffs, from Cream and Led Zeppelin, through Nirvana and Soundgarden, to Metallica, U2,...

This book helps both keyboard and guitar players to find and develop interesting chords and chord sequences on a keyboard, and then use them to write their own songs. Rather than trying to teach intri...

Lyrics sheds light on all aspects of lyric writing for music and will make songwriters feel more confident and creative when they tackle lyrics. It's perfect for all songwriters: those who don't like...