cool riffs in songs

[rh71]

... have some free time... have Guitar Pro all fired up along with mysongbook.com... name me some songs...

I need to drown out some salsa music.

 

[OREOSpeedwagon]

Little Wing has some cool riffs in it

 

[Anubis]

old school Rush

 

[shilala]

Dreams I'll Never See - Molly Hatchet

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Iron Maiden - Afraid to Shoot Strangers

 

[BriGy86]

free bird

 

[gistech1978]

neil young - keep on rockin in the free world

david bowie - ziggy stardust

both are super easy


white zombie - thunderkiss 65

 

[walla]

the one that goes

bwwAAAAAAAAA boodledee-boodledee-boodledee-boodledee waaa-WAAAA
baa baa baa baa bwAAAAA.

that one is my favorite.

 

[Kadarin]

Van Halen, Running With the Devil

 

[Deslok]

Embryonic Journey
Bron-y-aur
Little martha

 

[lobadobadingdong]

call of ktulu

 

[Schadenfroh]

Originally posted by: gistech1978
david bowie - ziggy stardust

add, "The man who sold the world"

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: lobadobadingdong
call of ktulu

good stuff... already know the main riff.

 

[railer]

Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Epidemic
Post Mortem

Crunchy and fast...the chicks will love it.

Down Stone the Crow

Melower...but still cool.


Main riffs for all but Ep and Post are right in the 30 seconds you can hear on itunes if you don't already have them....

 

[RadioHead84]

Paranoid Android

 

[BrokenVisage]

so many good ones from Eddie Van Halen, but I'll give you the most obscure one of the bunch - Humans Being.

 

[SWScorch]

Dream Theater - In the Name of God, Endless Sacrifice (once it gets heavy after the first verses), Stream of Consciousness
Arch Enemy - Dead Eyes See No Future
Blind Guardian and Iced Earth - Excalibur
Iced Earth - Travel in Stygian
Emperor - I Am the Black Wizards
Eric Clapton - Layla
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be Thy Name
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
Megadeth - She-Wolf
Metallica - Blackened, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Black Sabbath - Sabra Cadabra
Born From Pain - Rise or Die
Opeth - Blackwater Park (those first few notes just slay me)
Pantera - Becoming, Walk
Porcupine Tree - Wedding Nails
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (after the operatic section)
Rush - Working Man
Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss
Soulfly - Bring It
System of a Down - BYOB (sorry, but I love that riff in the chorus)
Zao - Fifteen Rhema, Praise the War Machine (during the breakdown)

 

Bryan Adams - Everything I Do (I do it for you)

 

[RedCOMET]

Iron maiden - transylvania

guns n roses - november rain

 

[AntisociaL]

CKY - 96 Quite Bitter Beings

 

[Kerouactivist]

anything by Jimi

 

[Squisher]

Montrose's ~ Montrose, Bad Motor Scooter

The whole Album is riff heaven.

 

[technodildo]

transcribe it by ear fvck guitar pro

 

[rh71]

Originally posted by: technodildo
transcribe it by ear

I didn't have THAT much time. :roll:

 

[Fritzo]

Originally posted by: BriGy86
free bird

I just did a running joke at the picnic I was just at. When people request Freebird, I play Stairway to Heaven (and visa versa). Heheheh...other guitarists find this hilarious!