What famous tricky guitar riffs/hooks can you play?

[brentspeak]

My limited reportoire of tricky guitar licks:

The Beatles: "Day Tripper", "I Feel Fine", "Norweigen Wood", the opening of "Blackbird"

REM: "Driver 8" (very tricky one), "The One I Love" (which is sort of a variation on "Driver 8"0, "Pretty Persuasion"

The La's: "There She Goes Again" (a recent acquistion in my arsenal)

America: "Ventura Highway"

[chaska]

1. I mostly write my own these days, but....

off the top of my head "Over the Hills and Faraway" (Zeppelin) and "Dance of the Maya" by the Mahavishnu Orchestra are fun. Oh and Hocus Pocus by Focus is fun, especially when you play the yodelling part on guitar.

Music ended with the Seventies, don't ya know? (just joshin')

[brentspeak]

7. Focus by Hocus Pocus

That's a toughie, all right. Gonna take me a while to figure that one out.

[chaska]

20. There's a tab online. I didn't think it was right at first...

so I picked it out on my own, and then of course after all that it turned out to be right after all. I don't think the yodelling part was included though. i could tab ya that part if you want it.

[brentspeak]

24. Thanks for the offer, Chaska

I found one online, which I'll try out.

[Beaverhausen]

2. Intros to "Roundabout" and "Stairway to Heaven"

Hi Gene! :hi:

[chaska]

19. Hi Lisa, got that new cd out yet....

get crackin'!

[DawgHouse]

3. If you can't play "Smoke on the Water"

you are NOTHING, I tell you, NOTHING! :)

[SlavesandBulldozers]

5. yeah ya definitely have problems if you can't play that one

great point.

[chaska]

21. yes, but most people play it wrong.

[SlavesandBulldozers]

4. Redemption Song opening riff is one of my crowd pleasers.

(to the crowd in my head);) Famous, but not particularly tricky.

let's see. . . Buckingham Green by Ween (though that's not famous nor tricky). But sweet, oh so sweet and I can make it ring.

The Day I Tried to Live by Soundgarden. Kind of tricky, definitely a sweet hook. Not particularly famous.

Smaller and Smaller by Faith No More. Not famous, but is probably my favorite riff of all time.

Then i just straight up noodle psuedo-blues incoherence.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Mmmm... 'Stairway'

the hook in Fogerty's "Centerfield"... the lead riff in Deep Purple's "Lazy"...

Man, it's hard to think of this stuff. Does "Dueling Banjos" count? :crazy:

Seems easier to name the ones I can't do that I wish I could. :grr:

[brentspeak]

8. I created a riff based on the "Centerfield" riff

It's the intro to a song I hope will become the "La Bamba" of the 21st century..

[Oeditpus Rex]

9. What goes around...

[brentspeak]

10. ?

[Oeditpus Rex]

15. Sorry, that was kinda vague

I meant taking a riff from "Centerfield" to be the next "La Bamba" is pretty karmic, since the "Centerfield" riff sounds like it came from "La Bamba."

[Jamastiene]

11. I wanna be sedated by the Ramones.

Believe it or not, that one is tricky.

[WCGreen]

12. In memory of Elizabeth Reed....

Aqualung
Locomotive Breath
O'er the Hills and Far Away
Nobody's Fault But Mine
Stairway
Don't change (Keyboard)
Walk of Life (KeyBoard)
A lot of beatles
But I mainly played rythm...

[henslee]

13. Money by Floyd. Dream on... Arrowsmith. I fought the law, Louie Louie

[RFK LIVES ON]

14. Walk Don't Run and Ain't Talkin' 'bout Love

The first riff, by the Ventures is not tricky but very fun to play. The second one is a bit tricky, but if you take you time, and practice it at a slower tempo you should get it.

Also, Alone Again by Dokken is a beautiful riff and also the trickiest of the ones I mention here.

Personally, I know the first at regular speed. I can play the second at half speed, and I have attempted the third a couple times, but put it on the back-burner.

cheers guys.

[Shine]

16. I am multi-talented and can play ANYthing......

on the stereo. :evilgrin:

Seriously, I would love love love to wake up one day and be a guitar virtuoso.

Sigh...

[chaska]

22. that's how i did it.

Eff workin' at it. ;)

[Elidor]

17. Barracuda. Comfortably Numb. Black Dog, etcetera

Over the Hills and Far Away. Overture from 2112. La Villa Strangiato.

[Floogeldy]

18. The only tricky ones to me are the ones that are played faster than I can.

:)

[flamingyouth]

23. "The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness" by the Feelies

Okay, it's not complicated and it's basically the only riff I can play. But there you go. :D