Top 10 guitar riffs and licks.

Greg_L said:
whats sad to me is that these days, unless you can 'shred', noone considers you a great guitar player. but those are also the type of people that like limp bizkit, so i guess it doesnt really matter.
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Who is limp bizkit??? :D
 
boogieman481 said:
I have been playing for 8 years... LOVE Zepplin... but I still have never tried to learn Stairway....
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please, for the love of God, dont do it. that song has been butchered, fileted, and hacked to death. not to say wont play it well. im just saying that every dude at the guitar store plugs in and plays that one - usually badly. let it rest.
 
guttapercha said:
Oh just do it already, man. If you get the opportunity to play it on an electric 12 string like JP, you'll be glad you learned it.
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The funny part is... I actually own a double neck...Its not the SG like Page plays though..

I play in a band that does alot of cover shows and we have talked about adding it just cause I bought that guitar.
 
1. Rage Against the Machine - Know Your Enemy
2. Helmet - Milquetoast
3. Fugazi - Waiting Room (bass lick)
4. Snapcase - Aperature
5. Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
6. Sting - Message in a Bottle
7. Pearl Jam - Alive
8. Chuck Berry - Johnny Be Good
9. Led Zeppelin - Bring it on Home
10. Stevie Wonder or RHCP - Higher Ground (bass lick)

There are so many great riffs, mine are not in any order.
 
Working Man/Fly By Night- Rush or pretty much anything off All The World's A Stage, even Ghost's part.
 
apl said:
Rebel, Rebel- Bowie
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FINALLY we agree on something again! There's hardly any more identifiable guitar riff than that. Up there with SOTW.

But if you're going to do Rush, it's gotta be Working Man.

And guys, if you're going to do AC/DC, THE classic riff has to be Back In Black!

And if you're going to do Sting, then it has to be Every Breath (we're talking classic riffs, not favorite songs mind you).

If it's ZZTop, LaGrange.

Hendrix - well, Purple Haze, duh! (though MY fave is Pali Gap)

classic 'oldies'? - GREEN FREAKIN' ONIONS!

All Right Now - Free

Mississippi Queen of course.

I don't know if it would qualify as a riff per sey, but Dave Edmunds version of I Hear You Knockin

Yes - the intro to Roundabout

How about the intro to I'm Goin Home - Alvin Lee at Woodstock?


OK, I'll stop for awhile.
 
I don't dissagree with any of these, but the VooDoo Child intro is what made me HAVE to learn to play guitar in the 8th grade. Glad someone put SLTS up, like SWTH, I think any riff someone plays in a guitar shop and you think 'God, here we go again....' belongs on the list.
 
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Sorry, APL

I just realized you said Working Man. Maybe we'll have to work on it for JF7. :D

Them Changes - Buddy Miles Great, great riff.

Satisfaction - Stones

personally I'd go for Bohemian Like You by the Dandy Warhols, but I don't imagine I'd get much support on that one. Actually I think they owe the Stones money for that.

Black Dog - Zep

Over The Hills And Far Away - Zep

The Ocean - Zep

Sweet Home Alabama

Bad to the Bone

All right, lucky for you I've gotta go.
 
It's funny, most of you fuckers learned Van Halen licks left & right but yet you seldom give him credit when it comes to these stupid polls. I haven't been a big van halen fan for about 2 decades but then again I wont forget what he did to make me a better player.

1. Anything and everything from 'Eruption'
2. Unchained
3. Whole Lotta Rosie
4. Purple Haze
5. Crazy Train
6. Mr. Crowley
7. Empty Arms
8. Walk This Way
9. Ain't Talkin' 'Bout love
10. Lenny
 
Hendrix - Little Wing
AC/DC - Back In Black, or any AC/DC song really
Eagles - Hotel California
Ozzy - Crazy Train

And pretty much every other song listed here so far
 
Yes; Heart of the Sunrise
King Crimson; 21 century schizoid man
Genesis; Dancing with a moonlight knight
Jethro Tull; Cry you a song
Edward grieg; in the hall of the mountain king (many guitar covers)
Gentle Giant; Pantagruel's Nativity
Camel; Arubaluba
Pink floyd ; Money
Uriah Heep; shaddows of grief
The who wont get fooled again :)
 
Off the top of my head in no order and with ten being far too few:

1. Layla– Clapton/Derek and the Domnios
2. Crazy on you- Heart
3. Living Loving Maid– Zep
4. Sunshine of your love-Clapton/Creme
5. LaBamba– As made popular by Richie Valens
6. Cocaine– Clapton
7. Don’t fear the reaper-Blue Oyster Cult
8. Voodoo Child-Hendrix
9. Love me two times– The Doors
10.Day Tripper– The Beatles

I left out some BIG riffs by Ac/Dc, The Stones, Sabbath, Jethro Tull, Van Halen, Chuck Berry, ZZ Top, The Eagles, Rush and The Who.

:)
 
Breadfan - Budgie
Sunshine of your love/cocaine/the original blues riff - various
Whole Lotta Love - Zep ( yeah I know but a rite of passage isn't it?)
Dazed & Confused - Zep (progression from the above)
Paranoid - Black Sabbath
Black Knight/SpeedKing - Deep Purple
Horror Movie - Skyhooks
New Rose - Damned
ANYTHING from the 1st Television LP
Parents - Budgie
Road Runner - Modern Lovers
Sweet Jane etc - Velvet Underground
Now I Wanna Be Your Dog - Stooges
Jumpin' Jack Flash - Stones
Shakin' All Over - I don't know who actually wrote it.
The whole 1st Lp - Ramones
Rock N Roll outlaw - Rose tatoo
New Race - Radio Birdman
Born To Be Wild -
Silver Machine - Hawkwind
LPs 1, 2 & 3 by Queen
21st Century Schiz Man + a few more - King Crimson
Gimme Good Lovin' - SDG
The BO DIDDLEY RIFF - Gunslinger Bo.
That'll Be The Day - Buddy Holly
All Scotty Moore's primal skiffs
Oh, plus the clav tag from Get Up Stand Up - Wailers
 
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