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Title: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: MrBump on January 12, 2009, 10:45:35 AM
... in keeping with the other topic, what's the most recent thing your learned?

For me, to my shame, I think that it was "You Shook Me All Night Long"...  One of those things I always "knew", just never got around to getting down accurately.

Mark.
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: gwEm on January 12, 2009, 11:13:08 AM
iron maiden - prowler

before that it was sails of charon by the scorpions. it rare i look at learning other peoples stuff these days. though i'm still planning to learn the captain nemo by MSG riff... just been really rushed lately
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Post by: Twinfan on January 12, 2009, 11:56:58 AM
Diamond In The Rough - Airbourne  :)
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Post by: MDV on January 12, 2009, 12:15:24 PM
I think it was Nile, Execration text.

I rarely learn riffs anymore though, I mostly just make stuff up. In fact thats very very nearly all I do.

In a way the last riff I learned was one of my own. Planned it out, then learned to play it :D
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: AndyR on January 12, 2009, 12:18:36 PM
I'm not a big one for "learning" riffs, but I did accidentally figure out Hells Bells a few months back (and then gave up trying to similarly conquer Back in Black :lol:)
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Jonny on January 12, 2009, 02:19:17 PM
I was in Drop C at the time so I just played some Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr by Trivium but I spent most of the time playing In Dying Days by As Blood Runs Black.
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Post by: Nadz1lla on January 12, 2009, 02:22:27 PM
The main riffs from Deliverance by Opeth. It's the fills and solos I have trouble with.  :D
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Post by: Frank666 on January 12, 2009, 02:33:30 PM
Not sure if you'd call it a riff but learned most of Eugene's trickbag. Four months of RSI but I got there
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Philly Q on January 12, 2009, 03:12:39 PM
Same answer I gave in the other thread...

....Smoke On The Water.  :oops:
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Afghan Dave on January 12, 2009, 03:33:05 PM
Same answer I gave in the other thread...

....Smoke On The Water.  :oops:

I love ya Philly..  :lol: :lol: :lol:
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Davey on January 12, 2009, 04:11:00 PM
emm.. i think that would be.. either the main riff from Scarified.. or the riff from Cold Sweat
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Post by: 99_not_out on January 12, 2009, 04:16:39 PM
Rock 'n Roll Train

Gotta love that riff, and I'm hearing it everywhere right now ... even the corporate presentation used for advertising the company I work for has it. Not sure if thats a good or a bad thing ... :s
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: 99_not_out on January 12, 2009, 04:18:33 PM
I'm not a big one for "learning" riffs, but I did accidentally figure out Hells Bells a few months back (and then gave up trying to similarly conquer Back in Black :lol:)

The Hells Bells intro has to be the greatest riff you can play with just two fingers ...
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Davey on January 12, 2009, 04:20:08 PM
NO... it was the riffs from The Darkness - I Believe in a Thing Called Love
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Post by: rohlfo on January 12, 2009, 04:28:30 PM
I'm not a big one for "learning" riffs, but I did accidentally figure out Hells Bells a few months back (and then gave up trying to similarly conquer Back in Black :lol:)

The Hells Bells intro has to be the greatest riff you can play with just two fingers ...


funny you should say that - I think that was the last one I learnt!
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: headtheball on January 12, 2009, 04:36:15 PM
Pistol Slapper Blues, although not so much the Riff as all of it.

It was a long, slow christmas.
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Fourth Feline on January 12, 2009, 04:38:55 PM
More of a revision really;  but for me it's been the main bass/ chord riff from that smooth Jazz classic 'So What' .  8)
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Will on January 12, 2009, 04:58:05 PM
La Grange I think, either that or an ozzy song that came out by ear.
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Post by: hendrixfan on January 12, 2009, 07:00:13 PM
the trooper,iron maiden :)
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Post by: Simon D on January 12, 2009, 07:25:30 PM
Standing in the Rain - Wishbone Ash - although not just the riff; all of it bar the solo.
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Post by: 38thBeatle on January 12, 2009, 07:29:06 PM
I have had to learn Blowin' Free by Wishbone Ash. I played the bass line years ago but now that I am a guitarist and the others all thought it would be nice to do, I set to it.
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Post by: Philly Q on January 12, 2009, 08:10:26 PM
I wish I could learn some Wishbone Ash songs, but there's no sheet music available and I'm pretty hopeless at picking things out by ear.
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Post by: hunter on January 12, 2009, 09:07:38 PM

God put a smile upon your face by Coldplay - bass riff that was though, pretty tricky with the slide and string skipping in the verse, and bass is a struggle anyways, but it vibrates nicely :O)
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: noodleplugerine on January 12, 2009, 09:20:30 PM
Zyglrox by Periphery.

Insane amounts of fun to play.
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Simon D on January 12, 2009, 10:15:11 PM
I wish I could learn some Wishbone Ash songs, but there's no sheet music available and I'm pretty hopeless at picking things out by ear.

There was a tab book, but it was a limited print run, and there are no more left, much to my disappointment. All the Ash stuff I know has been worked out by ear by me or my guitar partner in crime, with gaps filled in by the odd internet transcription.
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Philly Q on January 12, 2009, 10:25:36 PM
I wish I could learn some Wishbone Ash songs, but there's no sheet music available and I'm pretty hopeless at picking things out by ear.

There was a tab book, but it was a limited print run, and there are no more left, much to my disappointment. All the Ash stuff I know has been worked out by ear by me or my guitar partner in crime, with gaps filled in by the odd internet transcription.

Yeah, I'm always on the lookout for a copy of that book.  But well done figuring it out!  :)
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Simon D on January 12, 2009, 10:33:12 PM
I wish I could learn some Wishbone Ash songs, but there's no sheet music available and I'm pretty hopeless at picking things out by ear.

There was a tab book, but it was a limited print run, and there are no more left, much to my disappointment. All the Ash stuff I know has been worked out by ear by me or my guitar partner in crime, with gaps filled in by the odd internet transcription.

Yeah, I'm always on the lookout for a copy of that book.  But well done figuring it out!  :)

Cheers Philly. It took a bloody long time though, and irritatingly, on seeing a copy of a live dvd, I realised I'm playing the main intro riff in completely the wrong position. But I've learned it now, and I'm not changing!  :)
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Post by: Philly Q on January 12, 2009, 10:37:25 PM
That's a good point, I've got loads of Wishbone Ash DVDs - I should pay more attention to the "hand shots"!!
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: shaman on January 12, 2009, 11:01:05 PM
"A Little Bit of Sympathy"-TROWER....!I have "revisited" BRIDGE OF SIGHS as of late and I am learning the "other" tunes-killer, killer rock music-I love everything from this-instruments, compositions, vocals..... :D
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Adam.M on January 13, 2009, 12:22:16 AM
The Curse of Castle Dragon - Paul Gilbert

Though I'm sure I'm doing half of it wrong at least, and shan't be continuing the learning process until I have a guitar I'm happy playing with again... all my current lot are great for rhythm and chords but when I play lead lines on them it feels wrong somehow... :s
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: HTH AMPS on January 13, 2009, 01:15:10 AM
lately I've been jamming alot of Appetite For Destruction, mainly 'Mr Brownstone' and 'Out Ta Get Me'.

oh, also learned the main riff in Napalm Death's 'Persona Non Grata' and 'Sink Fast Let Go'.
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: mikeluke on January 13, 2009, 07:39:22 AM
Intro riff to 'Autumnsong' by The Manic Street Preachers

Very 'Sweet Child O'Mine' like.....
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Post by: Ratrod on January 13, 2009, 11:54:31 AM
'Hellaluhja', original by Peter Pan Speedrock, covered by Batmobile.

Cool riff, not too hard but the timing is a bitch. It sound a little like Slither by Velvet revolver.
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Post by: noodleplugerine on January 13, 2009, 06:13:13 PM
The Curse of Castle Dragon - Paul Gilbert

Though I'm sure I'm doing half of it wrong at least, and shan't be continuing the learning process until I have a guitar I'm happy playing with again... all my current lot are great for rhythm and chords but when I play lead lines on them it feels wrong somehow... :s

Great piece to learn/play!

Has some lovely bits in it.
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: broken cord on January 13, 2009, 09:04:46 PM
Laundromat - Rory Gallagher
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Post by: Denim n Leather on January 14, 2009, 04:22:13 AM
Bach, Invention No. 1
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: ToneMonkey on January 15, 2009, 02:06:20 PM
I worked out the acoustic riff for Stephen Fretwell - Run.  It;s the music they use for the Gavin and Stacy theme tune, but that's not why I learnt it.

EDIT:  Oh yeah, when I was just paying about las night I was strumming a few chords and ended up playing Knocking on Heaven's Door.  Never even wordered what the chords are to it before.  I know it's dead easy, but there you go  :lol:
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Roobubba on January 16, 2009, 03:08:58 PM
New Noise by refused, which we decided to cover quite a while ago. I can't say I've really spent that long trying to play other people's riffs, I prefer to try to come up with my own. Would be useful for me to do more practice, though, but where does the time go?!

Roo
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Madiac on January 18, 2009, 05:17:43 PM
Managed to figure out the chorus riff from Judas Priest - Metal meltdown recently, but i dont remember if it was the most recent:) Not exactly something to brag about, power chords  :D
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Fourth Feline on January 18, 2009, 06:02:00 PM
Managed to figure out the chorus riff from Judas Priest - Metal meltdown recently, but i dont remember if it was the most recent:) Not exactly something to brag about, power chords  :D

Nothing wrong with chordal stuff !  Listen to Micheal Schenker on the Live album 'Strangers In The Night' , Malcom Young - or Eddie Van Halen,  to be reminded that well puntuated rhythm playing is 'high art' indeed ...  :)


( And rhythmn players have to keep it up longer ! )  :wink:
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Ted 'N' Leo on January 21, 2009, 10:01:36 PM
Song to the Siren - Tim Buckley.

Making me wish i had a 12 string Guild!
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Pauldem on January 22, 2009, 12:25:49 PM
Dead Memories by Slipknot as I think it's quite pretty :D
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: _tom_ on January 22, 2009, 12:44:17 PM
Social Distortion - So Far Away. 4 chords but its so fun to play. I "figured out" Ball and Chain as well, I can sit there strumming chords like that for ages just going through the lyrics in my head :)

The most complicated thing I've learned recently is KsE - Fixation on the Darkness and a bit of Rose of Sharyn. Not really my thing though..
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: indysmith on January 22, 2009, 11:43:22 PM
Pet Semetary by the Ramones
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: MrBump on January 23, 2009, 12:05:23 PM
Pet Semetary by the Ramones

Yes!

What a cracking song.  I I were gigging right now, that would be on the set list, definitely.
Title: Re: Last riff you learned to play...
Post by: Ratrod on January 23, 2009, 12:21:24 PM
Social Distortion - So Far Away. 4 chords but its so fun to play. I "figured out" Ball and Chain as well, I can sit there strumming chords like that for ages just going through the lyrics in my head :)


That's cool to play but I hate tuning my guitar down a half step.