My final learning experience before handing in my midterm video was to learn the riff from ‘Wild Thing’ by The Troggs. A riff is a short, recognizable part of any particular song that repeats over and over.

This riff is done by strumming A major, D major, E major and the D major again twice each repeatedly in the correct pattern.

Andy Guitar taught me how to play the riff in this video:

I struggled to play this riff as moving smoothly from chord to chord was difficult. I also struggle with the D major chord, as I talked about in my last post. Watch my midterm video to see the final product!

Midterm Video

In this video I show my learning by naming the strings, playing the E major, A major, D major, G major and E minor chords, playing the riffs from ‘Wild Thing’ and ‘Born in the USA’ and by playing my first song, ‘Three Little Birds’.

I am proud of how far I have come, and am excited to continue my guitar journey!