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Offline stevie

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your favourite guitar riffs?
on: August 30, 2005, 01:16:21 AM
 ;)

the title says it all..

Offline musik_man

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #1 on: August 30, 2005, 01:56:26 AM
Opening riff to Yes's Siberian Khatru.
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Offline presto agitato

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #2 on: August 30, 2005, 04:56:09 AM
Smoke on the Water  ::)
The masterpiece tell the performer what to do, and not the performer telling the piece what it should be like, or the cocomposer what he ought to have composed.

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Offline thalbergmad

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #3 on: August 30, 2005, 08:19:29 PM
Johnny B Goode of course.

Anyone not played it.

Sounds good on my "Lucille"
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Offline Torp

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #4 on: August 30, 2005, 09:11:28 PM
Rainbow in the Dark - Dio
Carry On My Wayward Son - Kansas
Back in Black - AC/DC
Don't Look Back - Boston
Pull Me Under - Dream Theater
Blackest Eyes - Porcupine Tree

And just about anything from Ty Tabor...
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Offline jeremyjchilds

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #5 on: August 31, 2005, 05:22:50 AM
tough call.

It would either be by metallica or Foo fighters...
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Offline Bouter Boogie

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #6 on: August 31, 2005, 01:44:14 PM
Californication - RHCP

A friend tried to learn me this guitar riff once ;D
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Offline brewtality

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #7 on: August 31, 2005, 02:09:15 PM
Randy Rhoads- Crazy Train. This has been my ringtone for like 2 years. genius

Offline Torp

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #8 on: August 31, 2005, 02:14:19 PM
Randy Rhoads- Crazy Train

Aauugh! I can't believe I forgot about that one.  Classic!

Here's another I thought of...

Unchained - Van Halen
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Offline stevie

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #9 on: August 31, 2005, 10:27:39 PM
sabbath and metallica have the best riffs for me

paranoid and iron man = awesome

love the fast metallica riffs like damage inc., battery and dyers eve too

Offline Derek

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #10 on: September 01, 2005, 01:19:38 AM
Most anything Opeth has written, by far. Intricate, harmonically and rhythmically fascinating, and often Romantic in sentiment.

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #11 on: September 05, 2005, 06:14:13 AM
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Ain't Talkin Bout Love - Van Halen
Show Me How To Live - Audioslave
Gasoline - Seether

Just off the top of my head
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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #12 on: September 05, 2005, 02:17:39 PM
Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
Ain't Talkin Bout Love - Van Halen

Respect! Black Dog is so cool and Van Halen freakin' rule! That whole album (VH) is pure genius. Ain't Talkin' bout love is my favourite VH song after dreams.

Offline dave santino

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #13 on: September 05, 2005, 02:25:49 PM
Erotic Nightmares- Steve Vai
The Animal- Vai
Surfing with the Alien- Satriani
Pull Me Under- Dream Theater
"My advice to aspiring musicians? Wear sunblock and use a condom!" - Steve Vai

Offline donjuan

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #14 on: September 05, 2005, 10:32:15 PM
speed kills!!  speed kills!!!  8)
https://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/06/learn-to-play-guitar-like-superdork.html
 ;)just kidding... its not that amazing really

Offline stevie

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #15 on: September 05, 2005, 10:47:12 PM
speed kills!!  speed kills!!!  8)
https://musicthing.blogspot.com/2005/06/learn-to-play-guitar-like-superdork.html
 ;)just kidding... its not that amazing really

batio looks hilarious

Offline prometheus

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #16 on: September 05, 2005, 11:03:43 PM
Shawn Lane is much more amazing.
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Offline stevie

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #17 on: September 05, 2005, 11:43:58 PM
Shawn Lane is much more amazing.

but doesnt look quite as ghey

Offline Torp

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #18 on: September 07, 2005, 05:37:46 PM
Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
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Offline steve jones

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Re: your favourite guitar riffs?
Reply #19 on: September 07, 2005, 06:25:40 PM

'Kravitz - Mama Said' is a pretty cool axe riff.
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