Guitar riffs to learn and play...

My favourite guitar riffs...


1. The Meters - Sophisticated Cissy
Mega laid back street funk from New Orleans, like hanging your elbow out of a yellow Caddie while chewing on a ceegar and chatting up under age poontang...ermmm or maybe thats just what it says to me..




2. Sly and the Family Stone - Sing A Simple Song
A riff so cool even Miles Davis robbed it for his Jack Johnson sound track, this is the most complex riff I can actually play, which shows that I am both a not terribly proficient guitarist and that I have super cool taste.




3. Funkadelic - Standing On the Verge of Getting It On
A riff I have never managed to master despite numerous wasted Sunday afternoons. Funkadelic were basically a black heavy metal band but with funnier lyrics, none more so than on this freaky track.



4. Black Sabbath - Supernaut
Frank Zappa's favourite riff and one of the man in black, Tony Iommi's best. basically a super sped up 60's soul riff, imagine the first two tracks above put through a big ass fuzz box.



5. Television - Venus
Proving not all classic riffs need to be put through a big muff this rhapsodic lilting creation makes me think of being bug eyed on drugs as the sun rises...not that LSS condones drug use in anyway kids, obviously!



6. Velvet Underground - Sister Ray
Probably the easiest riff outside of Louie Louie to master but gosh dang it feels good! "Sucking on my ding dong" indeed...



7. King Crimson - Great Deceiver
This is in because it makes me laugh out loud, god it's just sooooo prog and wiggly, from an album portentously named "Starless and Bible Black" that was one of Kurt Cobains favs, so don't get too cool for school with me about liking prog mate...



8. Black Flag - Slip It In
Classic thug headed proto thrash classic, another one I can actually play...



9. Johnny "Guitar" Watson - A Real Mutha For Ya
I just like the slinkyness of the main riff under the verses, pimptastic! Rhythm guitarists are really under rated compared with guitar wankers, I like my axe work FuNkY.



10. The Stooges - Penetration
This just makes me want to rush out and buy a leather jacket with a leopard on the back like Iggy is wearing on the album jacket...even though I look more like a librarian and could never pull it off, but I can dream can't I?



Thats all for now folks..get practising!

Maningrey