Username: Password:
« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4

Author Topic: first riff you learned to play  (Read 9900 times)

shaman

  • Lightweight
  • ***
  • Posts: 698
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #15 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
Logged
"...major scales...what's that??"- Doug Aldrich
-Rebels,VHII, Mules,Milks,Bombs,and Boogie C+'s!!

sgmypod

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 3765
  • Truly bad since 1972
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #16 on: January 10, 2009, 08:23:29 AM »
Mine was a guitar part in Davy's on the road again....just after synth solo
Logged
Autotune My Arse

Crawler,nailbomb & Ltd Ed Emeralds, apache, now riff raff..EX- N/bomb, IT, Mquee

horsehead

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 1633
  • because the horsehead says so...
    • http://www.myspace.com/horseheadgary
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #17 on: January 10, 2009, 09:18:15 AM »
Bon Jovi - wanted dead or alive
Logged
"Praising Phil X for his enthusiasm seems a bit like praising Hitler for his ambition"

Jonny

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 2890
  • Seven-String Financial Analyst in Training
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #18 on: January 10, 2009, 09:26:51 AM »
Alkaline Trio - Radio
Logged
"Would you like some lemon oil?"
"Oh, no thanks, I don't eat fruit."

Antag

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 2071
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #19 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:
Logged
BKPs: HD, MM, NB, PK, CS, Ab (b&n); Am (b only); VHII, Tril (n only); IT, Slow, Sult (m&n)

Will

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 2599
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2009, 10:02:13 AM »
Miracle Man :)
Logged

Ratrod

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 5264
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #21 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.

Logged
BKP user since 2004: early 7K Blackguard 50

bobthemerciful

  • Flyweight
  • *
  • Posts: 87
    • http://www.bobelliott.co.uk
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #22 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  :)
Logged

Afghan Dave

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 3315
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #23 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!

Logged
"There's more knowledge on these boards than there are necks under PhillyQ's bed"

sgmypod

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 3765
  • Truly bad since 1972
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #24 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
Logged
Autotune My Arse

Crawler,nailbomb & Ltd Ed Emeralds, apache, now riff raff..EX- N/bomb, IT, Mquee

PhilKing

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 3655
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #25 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.
Logged
So many pickups, so little time

badgermark

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 1864
  • Mm-hai!
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #26 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.
Logged
Mississippi Queens, Holydiver.

Simon D

  • Lightweight
  • ***
  • Posts: 942
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #27 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.
Logged
Warpigs.

_tom_

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 8842
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #28 on: January 10, 2009, 04:18:34 PM »
Probably Smoke on the Water or Teen Spirit :P
Logged

Ted 'N' Leo

  • Lightweight
  • ***
  • Posts: 670
Re: first riff you learned to play
« Reply #29 on: January 10, 2009, 04:50:00 PM »
Add another one to Smoke on the water...
Logged
Driving in my car, smoking my cigar, the only time i'm happys when i'm playing my guitar!
Pages: 1 [2] 3 4
« previous next »