This is the first post in
a new project where I try to post some notation (or, failing that, some chords I've figured out) every Friday. For this one, I have the guitar riff from Roy Orbison's "Oh, Pretty Woman." I heard it in a commercial recently, and I figured I should learn it because it's probably one of the most famous riffs. I think it won an award recently. Plus, the note values are pretty simple; nothing more complex than an eighth note.
I have a few comments about how I've notated this. First, this is written an octave higher than it's played. I didn't want to have to mess with a bunch of ledger lines. Second, this is the riff as it's played at the very beginning; later in the song, the riff is played without the three introductory bars. Third, at the beginning of the song, there's a measure of just drums, which I didn't include in my notation.
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