Hello Audiosexuals..

What's your favorite guitar riffs? Share them if you want..

My top 5 would be:
5. Marooned - Pink Floyd
4. Smoke on the water - Deep purple
3. Catch the rainbow - Rainbow
2. Stairway to Heaven - Led Zeppelin
1. Comfortably Numb - Pink Floyd


Comfortably Numb PULSE version, enjoy...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlX1WcLu-wY

 

well the most important one for me is

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2bfPS7p6Z1k

remember watching the 80s show ( in the 80s !), fell in love with the theme and went out and bought myself a guitar

still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up


Sweet Child of Mine - Guns N Roses
anything from AC/DC
Joe Satriani - Flying in a blue Dream
"Duel" from Crossroads (1986) - Ry Cooder / Steve Vai

 

Awesome list..

I have the same effect whenever i listen to comfortably numb.. Music is that powerful..

 

Almost anything by Tony Iommi (Sabbath) or Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd) anyday of the week

But then on a different day I might say Thunderstruck by ACDC



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVBAeS5t5nc

 

I have many favorites, here´s one:

Hope you like it

[media]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFeFv18qq6c[/media]

 

Wow, due to Dr.Evil replying at the bottom saying he actually meant favorite SOLO, there can of course only be one answer....

 

1. Van Halen. Blew me away as a young lad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuyvT8nFMLY

2. Pantera. Such a simple and brutal riff

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkFqg5wAuFk

3. CCreedence Clearwater Revival (listening with my dad on a Sunday afernoon)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnRsaHXHznQ

 

I´m not so rocker but don´t forget "Beat it" (I understand a riff like a phrase that repeates in the base of the musical arrange)

 

Avantgarde!! Solo at 0:25

 

honestly, just about everything david gilmour plays speaks to me. my all-time favorite guitarist.

 

+1 for Pantera, CCR, GnR, Iron Maiden, Hendrix etc..

Great list guys.. Rock on..

Here's another of my fav..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIGUe7lAzJY

 

The woman in that video looks like your cat if she would wear sunglasses.

Well...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMcsKtBDwE&feature=kp

 

Hmm Comfortably Numb is NOT a guitar riff great solo though.
Neither is Marooned.
The Guitars only do solos over background music..

A RIFF is a short phrase played over and over Smoke On The Water i.e
Or a chord sequence like AC/DC:s Back In Black
Or melody phrase played over and over again like Black Dog Led Zep-

If it is a SOLO phrase played over and over it is mostly called LICK

Like the one Angus plays in the beginning of Thunderstruck.

My 5 are
In no particular order and i could mention 50 more that i like as much as the ones i mention.

Black Dog
Mississippi Queen
Stargazer
Sad But True
Money thats is a RIFF that Gilmore does very well.

 

Thanks for pointing out the mistake.. It should have been SOLO rather than Riff..

 

Warrant

Uncle Toms Cabin

 

among others, really like this one riff from Poison. wish I could play that.. ((and rock the ladies lololol))

tutorial (expert level only, eheh)

 

Last edited: Jan 20, 2018

To many to choose from and theese days its always nice to go and listen to some nice playing even if some of the riffs by them selfe aint that hard..

 

For me, "I Feel Fine" comes to mind.

 

Oh, and the Chuck Berry intro's!

 

Children of a Faceless God - Symphony X