“You can learn any riff from any song no matter how crazy or how fast... just slow it down” Any riffis learnable, you just have to slowit down to a pace that you feel comfortable with, learn it, and then gradually speed it up. There are numerous programs out there that allow you to do this. One very popular one is called Transcribe. You can import any -mp3 file and then control the speed of the song. Practice the riff over and over and gradually raise the speed. If you can't play the at a given speed, then slow it down 1%. if you can play it and feel cormfortable with haw you played it, raise it by 2%. Doing this will allow you to master any riff, any song, anything! “Try learning the difficult songs or riffs that you've always wanted to learn, no matter what level you are at and no matter how hard the song is...” This is what makes guitar fun, Seeing your improvement (ie. Quick Results). | remember trying to play songs that were at my level when | first started playing guitar. Stuff like : The Animals - House of the Rising Son, and Don Mclean - American Pie. | could play them ok, but they weren't really songs that | had started playing guitar for. | wanted to play Metallica's fade to black and Eric Clapton's Grossroads. | put the other two songs aside and started working on the new ones that had inspired me to play guitar. | had spent weeks and months on them even though they were outside my playing level. | was determined to learn them. | kind of wanted to be one of those guys that can't play anything else, just cover songs note for note. If | couldnt play any cther scng aside from the super hard ones note for note, I'd be happy. So | spent so much time leaming these songs, and | could play them.... ok... not great... However, when | went back to playing House of the rising son and American Pie, | could play them 100 fimes better. | played them like a pro. its kind of like.... as long as you challenge yourself, you'll get better. You play with musicians that are better than you... you'll get better. You lift more and more weight than your used fo... you get stronger.