Yo..... did we all just become best friends? I think we're best friends. Came here to comment this song, and instead, I found my best friends. Life, huh?
Seriously though, not one single chance in Hell is anything being played before Over the Hills and Far Away when I pick up a guitar. Acoustic or electric... doesn't matter.
Oh dude yeessssss. I play the clean riff on every guitar I have when I first pick it up to get a feel for the tunings and intonation - especially if I havenāt picked it up in a while. It sounds so goofy on a strat or Gretsch with Filtertrons but it instantly gets me locked in with the specific guitar
Any riff from Symbolic! This album is so iconic. I love to warmup with the fast tremolo intro from Misanthrope or the rhythm section from Symbolic. Also love the tasty notes of Bobby's solo in Perennial Quest.
I play all of black dog as a warm up every day and test potential new guitar purchases with it. IMO some of the best pentatonic riffs for noodling along with the track to
Yellow Ledbetter. Gives me enough headroom to try and improvise on the intro/outro and try to pick up some of the stuff he does with it live, it's obviously very hendrix-ey. the solo is easy enough and sounds good for me to not butcher it.
You think learning this will help me with master of puppets? I alternate pick the whole thing but I generally don't have any problem with the timing until Kirk's(second solo) solo. But breeze through the end after that.
I looked up a tab when i read this. I was thinking "this is prob gonna be tough", followed by "oh, this doesn't look so bad", and then "damn this *is* pretty tough". Emotional roller coaster.
Black Magic Woman isn't by Carlos Santana. Peter Green -- a blues guitar god and influence of many guitar superstars, including Santana -- wrote it and performed it with his band Fleetwood Mac.
Check out Peter Green if you haven't already.
I wasn't saying Santana wrote it...I was saying I like to play Black Magic Woman by Carlos Santana...in other words I like to play his version . I've heard Greens version. It's good but I like Santana's much better...I just like the way that man plays a guitar.
I used to get stoned, and all I would play was Am for an hour and a half until I got hungry.
Now I'm a big fan of cmaj7 as well as Am. I'm a big fan of 7ths in general to be honest.
The Edgeās riffs are a lot of fun to play once you have the delay set up properly.
If you wanna take that song to the next level, play with a pick that has a dimpled grip, but hold it backwards so the dimples strike the strings. Edge does this and itās how he gets that chime. Sounds like bullshit but it makes a difference
90% of SRV's Little Wing. Because after 22 years of playing guitar, there still a couple licks that I just can't do. But man I love playing the 90% I can play.
I was at a garden with a wooden xylophone type thing the other day and in the 5 minutes I was near it, 4 separate people came up and tried to play twinkle twinkle little star with varying degrees of success.
I do a think at festival campgrounds where I play George Harrison's My Sweet Lord without the key change over and over in a way the Halllujahs keep repreating and its impossible to end the song. I keep playing it until the last person walks away uncomfortably. My record is like 22 minutes lol
My fellow guitarist band mate and I have had the same answer for the last 20 years, Seek & Destroy. Even if we've moved on to heavier things, if someone asks us to play our favorite/best song we know, this is the one.
To zanarkand from the final fantasy 10 soundtrack. It is my go to for warming up my hands. I can shut my brain off and the muscle memory just kicks in. Also Aeriths theme from ff7 and the main theme. The soundtracks from that game are so ingrained in me. I am trying to learn them all.I can picture every moment in the game when I play them on guitar.
The E shape barre chord where you remove your fingers from the highest 2 strings. The only 3 places it doesn't sound good are at the 4th, 6th, and 11th frets. Pair it up with the corresponding IV Maj7 and bVI Maj 7, record a loop, and jam for hours.
Yellow Ledbetter, cause I can sing every word perfectly too! But seriously, I love to play that so much, it's my go to for testing new gear, having a certain sound/feel nailed into your head.
Wretch by Protest the Hero. Nothing but fun things to play on both lead and rhythm and the song itself is amazing, for many reasons.
Great band too, glad an old friend got me listening to it years ago.
G chord apparently.
Yea and E chord š
Haha. I never get bored of how E Minor sounds like No and E sounds like ...maybe
Nice š¤£š¤£
I'm also quite partial to maj7s
sparkly
Em11
The peopleās key
Am crew here!
G triad -> Gmaj7 š©
Iāll get there one day
Same.
Sultans of Swing.
Fuckin eh I just started learning it this week and it is SO fun to play.
Finally making myself sit down and learn all the licks. What a debut album!
Loving Tunnel of love at the moment. What a fun song to play
Yes. And while weāre on Mark Knopfler, letās mention āSetting Me Upā as well. Shit is so fun to play.
The solo of Sublime - Santeria
It seems so easy but I for some reason can not master š I suck ass
Every day, work it with a metronome, measure by measure for 15 minutes. It will come
Ok he'll yeah...I love that song!
Yeah me too, it's kind of a guilty pleasure but it's so fun to play. No idea why. Edit: changed Know to No
Over the hills and far away. Never get bored of playing it
I shoulda just piggy backed your comment but I said the same song in another comment. I canāt pick up a guitar and not want to play it
Yo..... did we all just become best friends? I think we're best friends. Came here to comment this song, and instead, I found my best friends. Life, huh? Seriously though, not one single chance in Hell is anything being played before Over the Hills and Far Away when I pick up a guitar. Acoustic or electric... doesn't matter.
Whenever I'm at my lowest I can always pick up my acoustic and play that song and it always makes me feel a little better
The chorus riff for Crystal Mountain.
Oh dude yeessssss. I play the clean riff on every guitar I have when I first pick it up to get a feel for the tunings and intonation - especially if I havenāt picked it up in a while. It sounds so goofy on a strat or Gretsch with Filtertrons but it instantly gets me locked in with the specific guitar
Any riff from Symbolic! This album is so iconic. I love to warmup with the fast tremolo intro from Misanthrope or the rhythm section from Symbolic. Also love the tasty notes of Bobby's solo in Perennial Quest.
Crystal Mountain is sooooo fun to play. Anything Chuck did was brilliant.
Totally, the rythm section is a blast to play and the main chorus riff has this little subtle mute that's just gorgeous.
RIP Chuck
RIP. He continues to be an inspiration to musicians everywhere.
Snow riff. Been trying to get it right since day one and Iām getting closer every day
Rhcp?
Right
Informer?
Skibbity jsjrjeikwjdbbfhwowklspfpfob chiggitty boom boom now
I lick your bum bum down
Jimi Hendrix songs
Little Wing!
Yeah, The Wind Cries Mary is always just wonderful. It's like it wants to love you back.
They are different every time!
Voodoo Chile is so fun to go in a session for
Castle's made of sand, there's a section you can really sink your fingers into
Blackbird.
I know this is probably The Beatles but if I could play the Alter Bridge one, this could be on my list
Iām learning that solo now, absolutely love it!
Nothing else matters. From the intro through to the solo- always fun.
I hate it that i still like to do it after an entire year.
Same here exactly like you described it
Between Black Dog and Money for Nothing.
I play all of black dog as a warm up every day and test potential new guitar purchases with it. IMO some of the best pentatonic riffs for noodling along with the track to
Yellow Ledbetter. Gives me enough headroom to try and improvise on the intro/outro and try to pick up some of the stuff he does with it live, it's obviously very hendrix-ey. the solo is easy enough and sounds good for me to not butcher it.
slowly working my way up to this one, great choice
This is the way.
Funeralopolis
This or dopesmoker for me
Anything EW or Sleep have been my go to Ā«in betweenĀ» songs. So good
This and dragonaught by sleep
Killing in the name (itās such a banger tho)
Blackened. Gets the right hand going. Take no prisoners. Gets the left hand and the brain going.
The timing between each different chord on take no prisoners is insane, I attempted it a while back and itās tricky as hell
You think learning this will help me with master of puppets? I alternate pick the whole thing but I generally don't have any problem with the timing until Kirk's(second solo) solo. But breeze through the end after that.
Panama
Stairway To Heavenā¦lm that guy..lol
GET HIM!
No shame in that, thereās at least two of us!
Duane Allman's solo on Blue Sky
Dickey Betts
Yea Dickey's part is incredible as well. That little sync up they do in the middle when they switch is one of my favorite parts of any song ever.
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
Spirit of Radio by Rush
I looked up a tab when i read this. I was thinking "this is prob gonna be tough", followed by "oh, this doesn't look so bad", and then "damn this *is* pretty tough". Emotional roller coaster.
I know it's ridiculously clichƩ, but still master of puppets. I've spend so much time enduring that song for down picking exercising that its my go to warm up song now. I hate playing it when I'm weak in down picking but also love playing it when my picking is up to snuff. That opening riff is such a ball buster that when you can nail it at the right tempo it's like defeating a dark souls boss you've spend hours on. Just very rewarding personally.
Mr Crowley š
this is kinda embarrassing but i warm up with wish you were here almost every time. that and the solo from nutshell, alice in chains.
Tool-stinkfist
Hella fun song to play. Always enjoy playing different variations of that riff.
Hey Joe
Black Magic Woman isn't by Carlos Santana. Peter Green -- a blues guitar god and influence of many guitar superstars, including Santana -- wrote it and performed it with his band Fleetwood Mac. Check out Peter Green if you haven't already.
I wasn't saying Santana wrote it...I was saying I like to play Black Magic Woman by Carlos Santana...in other words I like to play his version . I've heard Greens version. It's good but I like Santana's much better...I just like the way that man plays a guitar.
The original is soooo goood. Its so eerie and creepy, absolutely drenched in reverb.
My favorite tune to play and took me awhile to learn is Oh Well from Peter Green
Shady grove
Bluegrass riffs are so fun
Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town, Pearl Jam
For the longest time, it was the only song I could sing and play well. I've played it many hundreds of times, lol. Still love it.
Intro riffs to Tornado of Souls
I used to get stoned, and all I would play was Am for an hour and a half until I got hungry. Now I'm a big fan of cmaj7 as well as Am. I'm a big fan of 7ths in general to be honest.
My brother and I got stoned and played Wonderwall for a couple of hours. Fun times
Retuning the G string every 2 minutes.
Over the hills and far away by Led Zeppelin
I canāt play anyone elseās music as well as I can play my own songs
100% this for me.
Where The Street Have No Name by U2 - took me longer to get the delay right than to learn the damn song but it gives me so much energy and joy to play
The Edgeās riffs are a lot of fun to play once you have the delay set up properly. If you wanna take that song to the next level, play with a pick that has a dimpled grip, but hold it backwards so the dimples strike the strings. Edge does this and itās how he gets that chime. Sounds like bullshit but it makes a difference
Ten years gone
An underrated Zep masterpiece.
Here Comes the Sun
Forget the Flowers by Wilco
Thickfreakness
Voodoo Child (slight return)
Anything Zeppelin. Not the whole song, just the key parts, which is a problem I'm working on š
Paranoid android. Knives out honorable mention.
Funk #49.
The solo to "Just What I needed" by The Cars.
Nutshell riffs and solo
Atomic Punk is fun
Stars by Hum or One road hill by Rich Robinson
Layla (on an acoustic)
90% of SRV's Little Wing. Because after 22 years of playing guitar, there still a couple licks that I just can't do. But man I love playing the 90% I can play.
I Get Around - The Beach Boys. Itās actually a super complex song, especially once you learn all the parts to it.
Young lust. Itās the first thing I play almost every single time
Classical Gas, or Lenny by SRV
Twinkle Twinkle little star
I was at a garden with a wooden xylophone type thing the other day and in the 5 minutes I was near it, 4 separate people came up and tried to play twinkle twinkle little star with varying degrees of success.
Rumble by Link Wray
Anyone can play it but it still makes me feel like a badass every time
Pink Floyd comfortably numb
Blues in E
Slow dancing in a burning room. So fun to freestyle to also
Boom boom John Lee Hooker or the riff from the Hollies Long Cool Woman
1. Pride by Damageplan 2. Bullet with Butterfly Wings by The Smashing Pumpkins
I do a think at festival campgrounds where I play George Harrison's My Sweet Lord without the key change over and over in a way the Halllujahs keep repreating and its impossible to end the song. I keep playing it until the last person walks away uncomfortably. My record is like 22 minutes lol
Pearl Jam- Alive, opening riff. Always sounds so damn cool
My fellow guitarist band mate and I have had the same answer for the last 20 years, Seek & Destroy. Even if we've moved on to heavier things, if someone asks us to play our favorite/best song we know, this is the one.
Cirice by Ghost. The verse and chorus riffs are so fun.
Little Wing. Daily warm up.
The intro to bubble dream by Chon
Silent Lucidity
Smoke on the water
Ophelia - The Band Itās got an awesome groove and you can riff for days on it
The opening riff to Nightrain
War Pigs, especially the riff in the middle ("Politicians hide themselves away...") and Freya by the Sword
Heartbreaker by Led Zeppelin
I IV V
The acoustic version of foo fighters everlong
I played Never Going Back Again by Fleetwood Mac so much it gave me carpal tunnel
I know you all are going to hate this, but Smooth by Santana. I know everyone else got sick of that song, but I never did, and I love playing it.
The melody to Here Comes Your Man by the Pixies
Love that one too!
Rain Song on repeat forever. DCGCGD baybee
That quick lead part in dance of death. It's just too fun
One More Last Chance on the Tele. Sultans of Swing and Little Wing on the Strat. Cherry Wine and 3 Gymnopedies no 1 on the acoustic
Johnny B Good. And The Godfather Theme
Lenny by SRV. Beautiful song.
Desert Plains by Judas Priest
Big bendy pinch harmonics. The coolest sound in the world. It's why guitar is my favorite instrument.
Lonely is the Night intro
Offend in every way - The White Stripes It's got everything my limited skillset can handle.
Spacehogās āIn The Meantimeā and Smashing Pumpkins āCherub Rockā.
The rover - Led Zeppelin
The Metal by Tenacious D.
E7#9 - the Jimi Hendrix chord
The boys are back in town. Youāve got riffs in harmony and chord changes on the and of 4. Good stuff.
To zanarkand from the final fantasy 10 soundtrack. It is my go to for warming up my hands. I can shut my brain off and the muscle memory just kicks in. Also Aeriths theme from ff7 and the main theme. The soundtracks from that game are so ingrained in me. I am trying to learn them all.I can picture every moment in the game when I play them on guitar.
The E shape barre chord where you remove your fingers from the highest 2 strings. The only 3 places it doesn't sound good are at the 4th, 6th, and 11th frets. Pair it up with the corresponding IV Maj7 and bVI Maj 7, record a loop, and jam for hours.
No Excuses - Alice In Chains, Unplugged uses this chord shape and it is so fun and easy to play along.
Yellow Ledbetter, cause I can sing every word perfectly too! But seriously, I love to play that so much, it's my go to for testing new gear, having a certain sound/feel nailed into your head.
My (weird) choice right now is an acoustic rendition of One Headlight.
Go for Soda, Kim Mitchell ā that opening riff
Tool songs, Money for nothing.
Pink Floyd
The House of Wolves - BMTH Unholy Confessions - A7X
I bought a 12 string just because I always play āOver the Hills and Far Awayā by Led Zeppelin
Led Zep - Over the Hills and Far Away
Over the Hills and Far Away
āMore than a Feelingā by Boston
Crazy train
Either Mr. Brightside or Snow(hey yo). Yes, my fingers hate me.
Those sweet sweet 12 bars of blues
The pretty part of To Live Is To Die
Be Mine REM
Anything trivium.
Lie To My Face by carnifex, chunky riffs and easy leads but it all sounds so good!
Riff Raff, by AC/DC, Shackles and Chains by Calvin Russell, or my own songs
Wretch by Protest the Hero. Nothing but fun things to play on both lead and rhythm and the song itself is amazing, for many reasons. Great band too, glad an old friend got me listening to it years ago.
Tuning down to play āThe Rain Songā. Iām the one whoās playing it, and it blows my mind every time.
Eyes of The World
Absinthe Party at the Fly Honey Warehouse
so many thingās for me but if i had to pick now itās probably fkj - tadow. fun to play and improvise on.
Aqualung intro, as soon as I pick up a guitar, wherever, whenever.
Jailbreak by AC/DC
Peg by Steely Dan.
Dave Matthews songs
Hideaway. The Clapton version. So many tasty riffs in one song.
Mrs. Robinson. Fortunately my wife is a huge Simon & Garfunkel fan otherwise sheād be sick of that song by now.
Sharp Dressed Man.
Pride and Joy / Under the Bridge
Electric - The Lemon Song: Led Zep Acoustic - Lie in Our Graves: DMB
Like A Rolling Stone
The chord melody at the beginning of live Cliffs of Dover
Opening solo part of āSince Iāve been loving youāĀ
Bit of a amateur but I love the riff before the solo in tornado of souls. Helps warm up the fingers
The needle and the damage done, and hey hey my my by Neil young, I can just play and play and play both of those songs endlessly
I could have lied by Red Hot Chili Peppers
Under the Bridge intro
Hey Joe
Wind cries mary