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Title: first riff you learned to play
Post by: hendrixfan on January 09, 2009, 08:22:28 PM: ok everyone,just thought it would be interesting to find out what the first riff you learn,t was :),mine sweet child o mine intro,
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Post by: Fourth Feline on January 09, 2009, 08:32:09 PM: Embarrasingly, that staple riff of the 70's 'Smoke on the water ' ... :?
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Post by: MrBump on January 09, 2009, 08:42:49 PM: Paranoid.

Didn't everyone???
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Post by: ailean on January 09, 2009, 08:45:28 PM: Quote from: Fourth Feline on January 09, 2009, 08:32:09 PM
Embarrasingly, that staple riff of the 70's 'Smoke on the water ' ... :?

+1
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Post by: Lazy_McDoesnothing on January 09, 2009, 08:47:15 PM: Happy Birthday on a one-string acoustic the first time I picked up a guitar.

After that....probably smoke on the water. :oops:
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: WezV on January 09, 2009, 09:19:18 PM: Quote from: ailean on January 09, 2009, 08:45:28 PM
Quote from: Fourth Feline on January 09, 2009, 08:32:09 PM
Embarrasingly, that staple riff of the 70's 'Smoke on the water ' ... :?

+1

and me
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: Philly Q on January 09, 2009, 09:27:17 PM: Quote from: WezV on January 09, 2009, 09:19:18 PM
Quote from: ailean on January 09, 2009, 08:45:28 PM
Quote from: Fourth Feline on January 09, 2009, 08:32:09 PM
Embarrasingly, that staple riff of the 70's 'Smoke on the water ' ... :?

+1

and me

Me too, but I'm not embarrassed, it's an awesome riff.
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: 38thBeatle on January 09, 2009, 09:31:47 PM: The House of the Rising Sun.
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: MrBump on January 09, 2009, 09:42:19 PM: Quote from: Philly Q on January 09, 2009, 09:27:17 PM
Quote from: WezV on January 09, 2009, 09:19:18 PM
Quote from: ailean on January 09, 2009, 08:45:28 PM
Quote from: Fourth Feline on January 09, 2009, 08:32:09 PM
Embarrasingly, that staple riff of the 70's 'Smoke on the water ' ... :?

+1

and me

Me too, but I'm not embarrassed, it's an awesome riff.

... awesome riff..?

:?

Hmmm...
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: Catalyst77 on January 09, 2009, 09:58:27 PM: Hmm,

I think mine was dance the night away by van halen......................

Wait no.....it WAS smoke on the water :
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Post by: MDV on January 09, 2009, 10:13:38 PM: :lol:

Its smoke on the water

One finger, translated to E :D

I first got a guitar when I was 14 (I'm 26 now), and tried to learn from lessons geared toward technique. They were really dry and I got bored. Life did its usual crazinesses and it looked like I was gonna live in london for a while after GCSEs (I grew up in, and now live in Cumbria), BUT I went back there for 6th form, so I was 16, and one of my old mates (from since we were 4 and we are still very good friends; hes the bassist in my band) heard I was back while he was on a night out on the town. He came round my house at about 1:30am, drunk, and said he'd started playing (bass) guitar. He showed me the riff to smoke on the water, open 3 5 6 on the low E, enter sandman and (hiss, spit, but that stuff was ppular then) korn, blind, and I was hooked from then on! I think I just needed to be able to play something I liked. The obsession began, and here I am!
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Post by: Twinfan on January 09, 2009, 10:52:58 PM: Mr Cab Driver - Lenny Kravitz

(Seriously!)
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: noodleplugerine on January 09, 2009, 11:32:30 PM: Quote from: MrBump on January 09, 2009, 08:42:49 PM
Paranoid.

Didn't everyone???

Yep.

Cept the LOSERS in this thread!
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: rohlfo on January 09, 2009, 11:44:08 PM: Not sure since I was banging out wierd stuff with no real aim. I think the first song I well and truely learnt was Bob Dylan's Knocking on Heaven's door... then I think it was the Jets - are you gonna be my girl. I still only rather embarrassingly only know very few known songs....
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Post by: dave_mc on January 09, 2009, 11:46:35 PM: walk this way, i think. smoke on the water pretty quickly followed, though. :lol:
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Post by: shaman on January 10, 2009, 01:01:05 AM: yes!!SOTW!!!!!I thought that was the law!!!!!here in the deep south, they allow you to learn "SMOKE" as long as you learn any Skynyrd lick within 48 hours....otherwise, you end up "sleeping with the fishies"...mine was "Needle and the Spoon" :D
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Post by: sgmypod on January 10, 2009, 08:23:29 AM: Mine was a guitar part in Davy's on the road again....just after synth solo
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Post by: horsehead on January 10, 2009, 09:18:15 AM: Bon Jovi - wanted dead or alive
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Post by: Jonny on January 10, 2009, 09:26:51 AM: Alkaline Trio - Radio
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Post by: Antag on January 10, 2009, 09:36:09 AM: Not only can I tell you what it was, but where & when:

The opening/intro to Kiss' "War Machine" (from Creatures of the night) - only needs 1 finger & 2 different fretted notes.

Aged 12, sitting in Colt Music in Chester, playing a black Tokai Explorer (I think it was Tokai, not a Gibson either way) with the staff & other customers in the shop trying not to laugh :lol:
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Post by: Will on January 10, 2009, 10:02:13 AM: Miracle Man :)
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Post by: Ratrod on January 10, 2009, 11:55:18 AM: My first three riffs (whole songs actually):

Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash

Paranoid - Black Sabbath

Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran.
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: bobthemerciful on January 10, 2009, 12:12:38 PM: First thing I ever worked out for myself was the magic roundabout theme on one string when I was 8 (didnt know how to tune the others yet) ,then it would have been the Thames TV link music, the bit where the mirror image of bits of london stuck together appeared. Had been shown how to tune by then, and the tune was D,G,B,G,C,B,G,D. If you're old enough (and lived in london) you'll remember it. First proper riff would either be ghost riders in the sky or apache. House of the rising sun and layla where the other memorable ones between 8 and 10yrs old. My memory of things thirty odd years ago aint as good as it could be :)
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Post by: Afghan Dave on January 10, 2009, 12:55:49 PM: I started playing bass with "Black Night" but on guitar I think it was "Seek and Destroy" ... weird one but very simple. Then Smoke on the water!
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Post by: sgmypod on January 10, 2009, 01:03:21 PM: yeah think I came to smoke on the water after, hot for teacher(not the right way) then all night long - rainbow...had older brothers
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Post by: PhilKing on January 10, 2009, 03:01:03 PM: It was either Sunshine Of Your Love or I'm So Glad - both Cream songs. It's so long ago that I really don't remember and I know we played both songs at the first gig I ever did.
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Post by: badgermark on January 10, 2009, 03:45:13 PM: Nirvana's come as you are. I still cant sing and play it at the same time though, such an odd rhythm.
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Post by: Simon D on January 10, 2009, 04:15:24 PM: Pretty sure my first one was some gawdawful Shadows track. First one I actually liked was Beat It.
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Post by: _tom_ on January 10, 2009, 04:18:34 PM: Probably Smoke on the Water or Teen Spirit :P
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Post by: Ted 'N' Leo on January 10, 2009, 04:50:00 PM: Add another one to Smoke on the water...
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: Fourth Feline on January 10, 2009, 06:09:53 PM: Quote from: Twinfan on January 09, 2009, 10:52:58 PM
Mr Cab Driver - Lenny Kravitz

(Seriously!)

Ah ! As I suspected, a sophisticate in our midst ... 8)
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Post by: FernandoDuarte on January 10, 2009, 06:29:43 PM: Funeral March, the one Metallica played alive (think on S&M cd) :twisted:
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Post by: Frank666 on January 11, 2009, 05:29:28 PM: Back in Black, classic
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Post by: Madiac on January 11, 2009, 05:59:22 PM: Haha, the bassline for the Banjo Kazooie theme! I started of on bass.
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Post by: indysmith on January 11, 2009, 06:54:34 PM: WILD THING...
YOU MAKE MY HEART SING...
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Post by: gwEm on January 11, 2009, 07:23:54 PM: 'paranoid' this end, then 'black sabbath' not sure after that... it might have been 'am i evil?'
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: Johnny Mac on January 11, 2009, 10:36:57 PM: Quote from: Twinfan on January 09, 2009, 10:52:58 PM
Mr Cab Driver - Lenny Kravitz

(Seriously!)

Chuuune!!! 8)
Title: Re: first riff you learned to play
Post by: Muzzzz on January 12, 2009, 05:13:26 AM: Black Dog 8) it took me a few days to get this whole 'alternate picking' thing happening with it though :)
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Post by: AndyR on January 12, 2009, 08:41:51 AM: I wasn't interested in riffs to start with - I picked up a guitar to accompany my own singing.

The first songs I learnt (in one long weekend when I was 14) were:

King of the Road
Greystone Chapel
Words

When it came to riffs, TV themes was where I started - Crossroads (old soap opera in the UK) and the Batman theme. The Shadows stuff came after that.

On the rock front, it probably was Smoke on the Water (in E!) and Chuck Berry riffs (we were introduced to them by Fast Eddie's playing in Motorhead and, to a lesser extent for my little group of guitarists at school, AC/DC).
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Post by: MrBump on January 12, 2009, 10:42:29 AM: Words! FR David!!!

I think that was the first single I bought with my own money...
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Post by: AndyR on January 12, 2009, 12:16:23 PM: Quote from: MrBump on January 12, 2009, 10:42:29 AM
Words! FR David!!!

I think that was the first single I bought with my own money...

Er... who?!

The Bee Gees mate... :lol:

I've even got the 1960's sheet music with a picture of the original 5-piece on the front.
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Post by: Roobubba on January 12, 2009, 12:28:02 PM: I really don't remember, but I think it was probably Enter Sandman. I'm very, VERY surprised not to see anyone else mentioning that yet!

I can't even think what Smoke on the Water sounds like now, and I'm certain I never played it :D

Roo
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Post by: Sifu Ben on January 12, 2009, 12:37:54 PM: The Passenger by Iggy Pop (didn't particularly like it, just my teacher thought it was a simple open chord based riff).
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Post by: Davey on January 12, 2009, 04:11:57 PM: Smoke on the water :P
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Post by: 99_not_out on January 12, 2009, 04:13:07 PM: I was on the Highway to Hell :)
Probably still am ... :P
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Post by: Johnny Mac on January 12, 2009, 10:15:16 PM: Mine was the James Bond theme on an old acoustic that was so old it smelled old, called a 'Milner Cello Guitar' that my Grandad brought with him to London from Stirling (in the 1930s!). Played subtlety and with bronze file-ings with a Victorian Penny, aged about 10.
Got a cheapo electric and WEM amp and started playing Stranglers bass lines and stuff by The Jam. Then sussed Hey Joe and Wild thing, then seek and destroy, got a Charvel and wanted play anything and everything. Still do but, mostly try and make my own riffs up like most of us and promptly forget them!
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Post by: carlaz on January 13, 2009, 02:12:28 PM: I think it was probably The Beatles' "Day Tripper" riff for me. Still, a good riff, that .... 8)
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Post by: James C on January 13, 2009, 02:25:27 PM: The first riff i learnt was 'Floyd the Barber' from nirvana's bleach album, that and the intro to Children of the Damned from NOTB - still one of my favorite songs.