Riffs you always end up playing

[wonder_steve]

What are some riffs that you may or may not have learnt for a laugh which you always end up playing?

I'll give an example: I first learnt Beat It as a joke between myself and a friend. I play most Friday's at a youth program and I must have played that riff 200 times. Seeing how its rather recognisable and sounds good when the bands in sync i'm glad I learnt it.

This may also be a chance for you to tell us about all the pop basslines you learn under the cover of a blanket and torch.

[Rollo47]

Seven Nation Army.

[Az_Holl]

Seven Nation Army.
yeah but you got that crazy slap version :lol:

I always find myself playing Sweet Child O mine and Calm Like a Bomb

[fingerstyle]

I always played the riff for Rearranged. But I don't do that anymore.

If I do end up accidently playing something, it's the Scrapple From the Apple melody line. I spent 2 months straight playing that at every speed possible and in every key when I was auditioning for uni. It's kinda stuck to me.

[TheMachineRagesOn]

I wouldnt say learnt, but came up with a party boy - esque disco riff i sneak in during jams to piss off the guitarists.

[Jahmez]

I play Ice, Ice Baby quite a bit. Also, Californication is the first riff I ever learned, so it has stuck with me quite well. Another one is some random song by Afi, I can't remember the name of the song but I play it every time I practice.

[_AnarchistArmy_]

Carousel from Blink 182. haha... How pop-punk am I.? I should get that riff out of my mind.

[SLKBassist]

bombtrack, but that i like. As a joke, Like a Virgin

[PaulR]

I Want You Back.

[muthafunkabass]

i always figure out a wy to incorporate "Hole In The Sky" by Black Sabbath into whatever im doodling around with. :-/

[Sade]

All the theme songs I know.

Star Wars, Metroid, Zelda, Peanuts, Final Fantasy, Mario, whatever.

[JeBuSrOcKs]

i play happy by mudvayne a lot and recently ive been playing higher ground by rhcp

[bassmasterdean]

It must either be Mission Impossible, Ice Ice Baby, or Crazy Train.

[the101er]

Inspector Gadget or The Antipop. so infictious

[Polyamarous]

Razz - Kings of Leon

On guitar it's Old School Reasons by alkaline trio.

[Untitled]

Hysteria by Muse, i always end up playing it, i like it.

[DavetheGrumpy]

I always end up playing the chorus line from one of Bassguy's competition entries. :confused: Not that that's a bad thing.:thumb: Or bits and pieces of Take The Veil by the Mars Volta, mostly the solo, or Heart of the Sunrise by Yes.
On guitar I end up playing the intro and main riff from Siberian Khatru by Yes, bits of the solo from Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 or the theme from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly a lot.
:lol: Neal will hate me for this post.

[herrly]

Black Sabbath- N.I.B.

[Chris K]

Na Na Na by Vail Johnson and School days by Stanley Clarke. Both just seem to flow when I'm not thinking about anytihng in particular.

[Bass_swede]

Bombtrack by ratm, it has helped me alot with speed and stringpicking actually :)

[Tonys_Theme]

I always end up playing Romantic Rights by DFA1979 or Can't Stop.

[Left Shoe]

my band has this song called "Mike Jones" i play it a whole bunch

[SixnStones]

aeroplane, norwegian wood

[Misanthropic]

sweet child o' mine, bombtrack, intro to 'drunken lullabies' by flogging molly, chorus of knock me down by rhcp, epiphany by bad religion.

[Naveed Afzal]

Eh... when i solo, i always end up play Cochise... its so rhythmic, its beautiful.

[Scooch]

Blackdog, Roundabout, and Higher Ground

[ebe9]

Radiohead - The National Anthem
Skunk Anansie - Charlie Big Potato
Tool - Schism
RHCP - Can't Stop
Dry Cell - Body Crumbles

[Visti]

I play Ice, Ice Baby quite a bit. [..]


*cough*Under Pressure*coughcough*



I mostly play theme songs from like TV shows and games, when I'm not thinking about what I'm playing.

[Niall]

Thank you for letting me be myself - Sly and the Family Stone

[delinquent]

What are some riffs that you may or may not have learnt for a laugh which you always end up playing?

I'll give an example: I first learnt Beat It as a joke between myself and a friend. I play most Friday's at a youth program and I must have played that riff 200 times. Seeing how its rather recognisable and sounds good when the bands in sync i'm glad I learnt it.

This may also be a chance for you to tell us about all the pop basslines you learn under the cover of a blanket and torch.

haha for some reason i play beat it randomly alot too.

and also for some reason i seem to play the intro to dream of mirrors by iron maiden alot

[skingle]

know your enemy
mario
amazing grace.

[Grondahl]

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye
Muse - Time Is Running Out
Gorillaz - Feel Good Inc

And more recently, The Great Escape by We Are Scientists.

[The_Fender_Bender]

Cold Sweat - Whenever we play in D
And other songs, depending what key

[Michaeltheyoungbassist]

juicebox

[Polyamarous]

Heh, I love juicebox, also I'll add sliver by nirvana.

[backsidetailslide]

iron maiden - killers
black sabbath - hand of doom
black sabbath - nib
blink 182 - carousel
metallica - pulling teeth
ba ba black sheep - funk
:wave:

[JBass]

incubus - hilikus

[Munky_Jam]

So many.
Sliver - Nirvana
Jeremy, Indifference - Pearl Jam
Step Right UP - Tom Waits (first song i learned by myself)
NIB & Iron man
7 nation army
Spillage - Minutemen (one of my first bands was a minutemen/firehose tribute band)
chick magnet MXPX
and heaps others (been in quite a few cover bands over the last few years)

[Naveed Afzal]

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye


Why doesnt that suprise me :thumb:

[Jude]

Hatesong and Halo by Porcupine Tree, and NIB by Sabbath. I use these as kind of tests for tone too.

[BassPlayingPineapple]

The intro bass riff to Blood Brothers by Maiden and Love Thing by the Hammeister.

[faelun]

PLay that funky music, Hysteria Intro, aces high, Brick house

[DanD]

I figured out Godzilla by the Blue Oyster Cult, so I predict that I will be playing that quite often for the next few days.

[I play that funky music]

My drummer hates Fallout Boy so I always play the beginning of Dance, Dance

[trumpeter]

Take the Power back - RATM


The Real Me - The Who

those two are in my fingers like nothing else.

[Criss Frantic]

That funky guitar intro to Stayin' Alive by the Beegees, the intro to the Rancid cover of Stickin In My Eye, Money by Pink Floyd.

At band practice we'll be rocking along to some Clash cover or whatever, and then all of a sudden the drummer will swing into the intro for John The Fisherman, and the rest of us have no option but to join in, that song's so damn catchy! This happens so often at practice that we accidentally did it at our latest gig too.

Also, there's a break in one of our songs called USA AOK where when we play it live we break into a parody of American Idiot, where we all try and jump around like Greenday while shouting and screaming indescipherable lyrics like "RANANANANAHANAH AMERICA" before ripping back into the chorus of our song. Say what you will about Greenday, but that song allways makes me jump.

[trumpeter]

That funky guitar intro to Stayin' Alive by the Beegees, the intro to the Rancid cover of Stickin In My Eye, Money by Pink Floyd.




That cover was on the split right?

[Criss Frantic]

Yeah I'm pretty sure...my guitarist burnt it on a compilation for me to learn, so i'm not positive.

[FruscianteFan08]

Bombtrack- RATM (I know it's already been said, but it's so true)
Bulls on Parade- RATM
Can't Stop- RHCP
Laffy Taffy (learned as a joke, but fun as hell to play)
Middle Man- Jack Johnson
Give up tha Funk- Parliament Funkadelic
Guitar part to Heaven's Dead- Audioslave
Fight for Your Mind- Ben Harper
Guitar part to Glory & Consequence- Ben Harper
Freedom- RATM (only when I'm in drop D)

[JMDavis07]

eye of the tiger

lol

i know what you are thinking

[Criss Frantic]

^ Best intro to a set EVER.

[Klander Brigade]

Mouth for War and John the Fisherman seem to pop up quite often.

[GeddyMe]

Sunshine of your love.

[Saberpunk]

Aces High - Iron Maiden
Hysteria - Muse
Higher Ground - RCHP

[Miek]

I play Ice, Ice Baby quite a bit.
you mean under pressure?

[velvet goldmine]

Billie Jean and the seinfeld theme

[strat16]

ATOMICANT:where bouts on the south coast do you live

[TheMachineRagesOn]

Wait i forgot the mexican hat dance..


And yes pea..

(P.S strat16 were are you from, im from around penrith way..)

[thegreatcornholio]

Cut Your Ribbon - Sparta

[Questionable_Reflection]

hysteria
feel good inc
fur elise
i strum pretty lil ditty incesinatly
theres this piece from a john fruisciante solo song (which/who i love) thats been plague'ing everything i do for several months
Bach's Badinerie In B Minor pops in alot to, not the mention parrel universe
..and thats enough, although people have been mentioning guitar so..
the solo from 'i could have lied' (album)
'n' under the bridge.

o-o if i start slapping i always play get up and jump
closely followed by aeroplane

pps- ive bin learning chocolate milk latly so i play that alot, its really introducing tapping to me again

[Linkinbassist]

Slap - Usually Higher ground or a Miller chop
tap - random riff i made
fingers - usually some pentatonic lines...