Sick Riffs #61: Ellen Kempner teaches you Palehound's Cinnamon

In today's episode, we bring you Ellen Kempner - leader of indie-rock trio Palehound - as she demonstrates how to play the main riff from their infectiously feel-good track, Cinnamon... with bonus cat intrusion! This one's an opportunity for you to practice your hammer-ons and pull-offs, and hone your percussive rhythm chops.

Kempner plays a Fender American Professional Stratocaster electric guitar through a Fender Blues Junior amp and Boss CH-1 chorus pedal.

Sick Riffs is a Guitar World video series designed to help guitarists affected by the coronavirus. Self-isolating players around the world have each filmed a lesson where they teach you one of their own guitar riffs, up close and personal. If you dig the lesson, we encourage you to buy music and merch from the artist or stream their music.

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[thewomanwithnohead]

So nice, killer tutorial ! I'm a woman playing guitar too, and just can't express how good it feels to see more and more videos like this ! Felling a billion times less lonely !

[EbeJay]

Just watched the NPR Tiny Desk again, and was realizing how dang good you are at guitar. Now I'm here

[timmcgillicuddy]

This was one of my most listened to songs of 2020 on Spotify. Keep it going, Ellen!

[disco]

Cat was trying to collab with his piano but someone turned it off :(

[ettag]

Got a MASSIVE blister learning this but it was really fun! You're so cool, thanks for doing this video!

[jimmiller]

Excellent, thanks for the video. When hearing that played at speed some of the notes slip by. I appreciate you breaking it down for us.

[Levithann]

Sounding nice :) Respekt for your work.

[ThatOpalGuy]

lol, of COURSE the cat wants in on this

[wolfgang]

My cat does the same thing, only when playing clean. She’s not a big fan of the dirty signal😂👍