Famous Riffs

ive been playing the guitar for about 8 months now and im addicted to finding famous songs and riffs etc that i can learn. I like cool but short riffs best eg i just learnt the main riff from "day tripper" and it sounds pretty cool. Are there any more things i can learn , the more the better :)

Enter Sandman (metallica)

Don't Cry (guns and Roses)

Come as you are (nirvana)

all those and:

marilyn manson - sweet dreams
rage against the machine - bombtrack
hell's bells - ac/dc

these are all relatively easy...

All those are great, try:

Scar tissue- Chillipeppers
Something- The Beatles
Free Bird-lynyrd skynyrd
and if you want to get fancy:
Hotel California- Eagles
Wonderful Tonight-Clapton

Johnny B good is one of the first great classics
for the guitar and still is in some clubs.

Mark

Im pretty old so here gos
smoke on the water/Deep pruple
Iron Man/Black Sabbath
Back n Black/AC/DC or anything from them.
Unchained/VanHalen
Rock-n-Roll all night party every day/KISS

thanks :)

I have a few I can play although I like suck

Staind-Outside
Bush-Glycerine
I can play Scar tissue too WOO HOO
Maybe, try the Hannukah song By Adam Sandler good guy that Adam

Other great rock riffs that always get a reaction are:

-Purple Haze (+Voodoo child?)by Hendrix
-Paranoid (and almost every song ever done by?) by Black Sabbath (Iommi is a riff God!)
-Whole Lotta Love (+ communication breakdown, heartbreaker, good times bad times, how many more times, lemon song, rock and roll?) by Led Zeppelin (Page Rules!)
-You really got me by the Kinks

If you feel like showing off you could try:
-Black Dog by Zeppelin
-Layla by Derek and the Dominoes (Eric Clapton)
-Reelin' in the years (the cool bit before the solos) by Steely Dan

Anyone remembers I love rock and roll by joan jet.

thanks, ive been learing some of those songs and they pretty cool. Im kinda looking for stuff with no bends slides pulls hammers etc becuase i cant really do that stuff yet.

ripple by the grateful dead is prity cool. i just learned the intro. thats one to learn.

Originally posted by after_shox
thanks, ive been learing some of those songs and they pretty cool. Im kinda looking for stuff with no bends slides pulls hammers etc becuase i cant really do that stuff yet.

Some of these songs are great to learn these techniques> Don't sell yourself short.

your right. playing songs is how i learnd bends, pulls, and slides.

Take it your not quite ready for Van Halen's Erruption then?
The intro to Sweet Child o Mine is really, really easy, but it sounds cool.
I learned how to bend playin along with Lenny Kravitz Are You Gunna Go My Way, it's a pretty simple structured song but it still rocks.

Originally posted by Slasher

The intro to Sweet Child o Mine is really, really easy, [/B]

..for some.. i almost rupture my wrist when i try and play that properly...then i'm mostly rhythm :)

Dazed and Confused is really a good'un and Smoke On The Water like Old Jack says.

Old James.



[Edited by James8831 on 04-15-2002 at 04:49 PM]

The reelin in the years intro and even the outro leads are out there aren't they....I think they are so cool. I would have never thought of some of those notes...but then again most of Steely Dan's music seems to be over my head, Josie is a great one to jam on though...you gotta give those two,
Becker and Fagen credit. Incredible scores and heck, check out their choices of guitar players over the years...even had Will Lee doing bass on Chain lightning. And let's not forget the Skunk.
As far as easy songs to rock out...try early Aerosmith...
Train kept a rollin'
Walking the dog
Mamakin
and even dream on is fairly easy....
Sure was some good old simple rock and roll....
we had more fun playing and playing with these songs.

I dont know what the others have written, but I found an old issue of Total Guitar that has the "100 greatest guitar riffs" so Im just gonna copy from there.

Whole lotta love-led zeppelin
Smoke on the water-deep purple
Layla-eric clapton
Purple Haze-jimi hendrix
paranoid-black sabbath
enter sandman-metallica
Satisfaction-rolling stones
sweet child o mine-guns n roses
smells like teen spirit-nirvana
sunshine of your love-cream
walk this way-aerosmith
day tripper-beatles
money for nothing-dire straits
love is the law-the seahorses
black dog-led zeppelin
all right now-free
voodoo chile-jimi hendrix
the riverboat son-ocean colour scene
back in black-ac/dc
paranoid android-radiohead
jailbreak-thin lizzy
motorcycle emptiness-manic street preachers
crossrads-cream
aint talkin bout love-van halen
jumpin jack flash-rolling stones
hammer to fall-queen
sweet home alabama-lynyrd skynyrd
the chain-fleetwood mac
song 2-blur
rebel rebel-david bowie
naked-reef
zero-smashing pumpkins
give it away-red hot chili peppers
hohnny B goode-chuck berry
pinball wizard-the who
brown sugar-rolling stones
life in the fast lane-the eagles
ace of spades-motorhead
wild thing-the troggs
all day and all of the night-the kinks
message in a bottle-the police

ok now Im starting to get tired.
But these should keep you busy for a while.
/Marcus

bad to the bone-thorogood george
sweat leaf- blake sabbath
slither- velvet revolver
rock & roll- led zepplin

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