10 Iconic Rock Riffs Played by 10 Guitarists You Know

[@Kevincarlloven]

Nuno Bettencourt and Mick Mars are the most underrated guitarist of all time and never get the due they deserve.

[@kellywilson8440]

Agreed !

[@infinidominion]

Micks riffs made me think about how to play guitar

[@Kevincarlloven]

@@infinidominion yup. He's so good. He(the Crue)got me into hard rock music as a kid

[@christiandemorro2092]

Nuno is arguably in a top tier section, which is so much more shameful he's not known

[@ratbird3290]

nuno is not underrated. everyone knows him. mic mars bleh

[@dawsondetrana5496]

Aint talkin bout love was what got me, still one of my favorite riffs

[@rayciannello2268]

Oh man I remember playing this with the flanger/delay and thinking I was god 🤣

[@zaca353]

Great to see the respect and joy that these guys still have playing even "simple" riffs from the past

[@lisaanderson3256]

Love Zakk, he's talented and has a great sense of humor.

[@scottenriquez1930]

Zakk is hilarious 😂

[@PepeAtreides-s3b]

Haha Richie Faulkner…” I will attempt to play it somewhat like Jimi does”- then proceeds to nail it….Richie is a Gem 💎

[@imunchienandalusia]

closest i've ever heard to the original

[@667neighbourofthebeast2]

It was nuts, a part of me thought he just pressed play on the CD. Amazing

[@marcolosalxd8097]

John 5 - You Really Got Me Zack Wylde - Back In Black John Petrucci - Hey hey my my Tom Thacker & Dave Baksh - Black Dog Kenny Hickey - Detroit Rock City Richie Faulkner - Voodoo Child Lonny Eagleton - Heartbreaker Tom Keifer - Sunshine Of Your Love Doc Coyle - Come As You Are

[@grogu1986]

AC/DC and Van Halen the GOATs of hard rock

[@painkiller1968]

I thought they were people.

[@gabrielrothley]

+ GnR

[@lkslucky6423]

Stop the copium

[@richardmendoza738]

Van Halen sucks

[@alexneville8168]

Dio

[@OldManArmyJonno]

That Sum 41 fella played the Zep riff like a champ 👊

[@Jimwal67]

That song trips so many people up even experienced due to the timing

[@fasttimestr]

My buds were in a cover band called damage inc.. Hung out watching them at practice, my buds says, bro you should play bass.. He wrote down the tab for " for whom the bell tolls".. My first tune I learned.. 1992 🤘

[@jimlaurita1487]

Kenny Hickey mentioning WPLJ (95.5) brings back a lot of memories from the 70's and early 80's. People forget what a great rock channel that was back then. Heard my first Zeppelin song on PLJ. "Get the Led out"!! IYKYK

[@ni_wink84]

7:40 my son is 9, and he recently wanted to try playing guitar, he loves nirvana and Van Halen (weird combo for my old self 😂) and come as you are if one of the first things he learned thanks to KZbin and practice.. crazy how the traditions continue

[@cynthiahutchinson459]

Jerry Cantrell

[@jclark2019]

Cool seeing Tom Keiffer...

[@dougmather3489]

Diary of a madman

[@deanlongthon4963]

John 5 can play guitar

[@sigmaman721]

Very underrated. He plays so smooth and effortless 👍

[@dfhdasfj]

And he's such a cool guy to met!

[@danadams1661]

Can’t take him seriously

[@sigmaman721]

@@danadams1661 ok but his skills are very serious

[@royjames196]

@@danadams1661😂😂😂😂

[@SoreEyeMusic]

First riff I learned I was slaving away until I finally nailed the hammer-on pull-off version of Thunderstruck (my picking came much later).

[@BearCreekVideos]

It was Stranglehold for me. Then Kiss, STYX, REO Speedwagon, Thin Lizzy, Gary Moore & The Carpenters. (for my mom)

[@HM-2011]

0:06 when Slash straightens his hair and avoids the sun.

[@zancraft7865]

My older brother had the song book Harvest by Neil Young back in 82. That's how I learned chords. From there went to dirty distortion learning AC/DC. So on and so on, all by ear. Too poor to hire a teacher and there was no U-Tube back then.

[@Old_Sailor85]

Lots of us started way, way before YT. So much easier now. A quick search and you can find a lesson on nearly any song. They may not be complete, but they will get you started.

[@jimthomas370]

I stayed up late and watched Cal Jam 2 in 1978, and Ted Nugent played Cat scratch fever and had the mic trapped in his teeth, it looked insane and that’s when I decided I would like to learn guitar

[@gunnersfan81]

"My number one guitarist was always Jimmy Page. From the band Led Zeppelin." Thanks for clarifying that 😁

[@zoomerelionreyna]

This is freaking amazing

[@ProTurbo1988]

thank you

[@thearmchairjournalist566]

Wonderful to see the inspiration behind some of the greatest musicians alive today 🎶

[@manuelherbert5784]

John 5 was just like...i mean he was like...like he was like

[@trevorwoodsmonkeyboy2220]

Interesting to hear who these guys admire as guitar players 🤔

[@julianalderson3938]

That intro got me to.

[@DomingoCaro-h5v]

Rock on dudes

[@shwiimpy]

AWWSOME

[@JerryBarclaw]

That sunshine of your love rendition was...something lol

[@Old_Sailor85]

Not sure what, but it was.

[@joshburns6674]

Smoke on the water was my first riff learnage.

[@rediron44]

Ace Frehleys riff on Watchin You, is flat out nasty, such a cool riff.

[@Mark-p1p5c]

@@rediron44 there was a time back in late 70's I think it was. Kiss did an interview with I believe was Tom Snyder. He was a talk show host. You gotta pull it up, it's on KZbin. Ace had me rolling. He was obviously drunk or whatever. It was hysterical. The best part of that interview was watching Gene Simmons really pissed off. If you can check it out. Let me know if you were laughing/liked it.

[@chaotic_chronicle]

When I learned Black Dog I felt invincible.

[@AngelGarcia-oi3ef]

What’s the riff from the KISS song?

[@mastod0n1]

The riff is from Detroit Rock City

[@Adam-oy4ix]

and then SRV could play anyone - better than they could themselves....maybe even including Jimi

[@Tydyjav1]

I didn’t know Juggalos actually played instruments.

[@vikingBRhauling]

Doc Coyle represents me!

[@bg9419]

No one said "the Beatles" ...I'm old

[@Pate440]

It's not you, they are too young to understand where the influense came from for their heroes.

[@Anton_the_Vampire]

Fascinating to see. I wonder what the 1st riffs of my heroes were? Malmsteen, Vai, Impellitteri, Iommi, Eric Johnson, Joe Bonamassa. Can we add our own? For me it was Black Sabbath (the song), then Krakatoa (Malmsteen), & the Erotic Nightmares (Vai).

[@MrMojoRisin1976]

I really want to introduce Doc Coyle to Killing Joke's 1985 song Eighties.

[@MichaelCannata-s2z]

Randy Rhodes Believer ! Well any song !

[@BrianRay-y7l]

Jimmy Page likes his own work so well he plays himself in a Zepplin tribute band . True story

[@christophermiller9125]

KISS FOREVER!!!

[@bwhitt6136]

I think Tom Keifer got Danzig and Cream mixed up lol

[@lipscombaaron]

Exactly haha I was hearing Twist Of Cain and scratching my head.

[@anjoLas]

You misspelled THE FIRST RIFF into the title

[@kentdahl6941]

Don’t forget ozzy

[@Midaswelby-r3h]

Doc Coyle from GodForbid I think

[@Lolquake]

The last one is funny because the Come as you are riff was stolen from "The 80's" by killing joke.

[@gordyhydro5774]

Hard Rock, where is QUO'S 4500 times for fuck sake.

[@wayne387]

Dukes of Hazard got me into shit

[@EL_DUDERIN0]

Yeah right Ellis, as if you could't play Eruption right now 😂

[@juansecar2]

But then... Come as You Are aint really Cobain's, it is Chazz Coleman's with Killing Joke... EIGHTIES

[@paulfrehley7352]

As soon as someone says Ace “Free-Lee,” they can be instantly dismissed.

[@Pewtooyou]

Now how about a video with some guitarist worth watching other than Zakk.

[@Simon-jj2pu]

Sunshine of your love, really?…. Did he play it in A and played wrongly

[@fondolon]

You never need to say "of the bang Led Zeppelin". If you do get new friends.

[@SKARKIBANEZ]

Dat earing is taken for the mosquitoes machine? 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@SotonCueMan]

Says a Van Halen riff - then proceeds to demonstrate one that Van Halen did a cover of and never acknowledged The Kinks and the original version and the impact of that distorted guitar in the early 60s on the history of music. Plus Sunshine Of Your Love played in completely the wrong place - watch how Clapton plays it......

[@EuphoriaDeep]

PAY RESPECT TO YOUR FORE-FATHERS!!!! 😎

[@worldwithouttime]

I wrote the most iconic riff of all time, but I'm sharing it with no one!

[@ratbird3290]

greatest song in the world -tenacious

[@billlyon7696]

😂🤣 😳

[@Pogira14]

What is the name of the first riff???

[@Gordanovich02]

It sounds like "You Really Got Me". Which was originally a Kinks song, but I guess the Van Halen version became iconic in its own right.

[@BestKeptSecret18]

@@Gordanovich02 it is indeed "You really got me" my man

[@ripsaltydog1750]

Eddie never had that button

[@getitup100]

Geesh when you gonna light those mosquito coils?

[@mojo2131]

If Randy Rhoads didn’t die so young you wouldn’t be talking about half of these guitarist.

[@guitarman_ilya]

Госпади Боже, сплошной хлеб нажевали. Раздолье для Фрэда

[@Captain-Nostromo]

That's a wig

[@timhyde1013]

Which one? I think I spotted a couple.

[@lurpsound4151]

Petrucci’s beard😂

[@skeech1979]

lmfao

[@julianalderson3938]

An i cant even play. Was years back n great.

[@JamesHollow-d4n]

John 5 made Manson band sound awesome. Now they sound like crap live

[@michaelodonnell2635]

Affect and effect not fucking "impact".

[@tim6128]

Wrong key Tom.

[@dadeo8957]

Never heard of most of these people.

[@petem4271]

Curious to know which ones. There are a lot of modern day legends on here

[@ronaldbarnard9962]

Got to give them a listen

[@ivanildocafu3452]

Same here

[@jeffhodge7272]

Which people?The ones playing or the ones they mention?

[@smulismuli7976]

What has John 5 ever written...same with Phil X...nada. Playing isn't about playing, it's about creating

[@uome20bukz]

Dude, shut up. Jesus Christ. He’s talking about who got him into guitar and you’re over there sitting in your underwear in your mom’s basement acting like you know what you’re talking about.

[@johnperra3695]

Dude, John 5 is literally written all kinds of music. Have you ever seen him with the creatures? Have you ever seen him do the banjo stuff I mean he’s written all kinds of music dude.

[@dannygriffin2786]

Have you never seen any of his solo material? 🤔 doesn’t sound like you have. He literally tours solo with his own music. I saw him about a year ago or so for one of his solo shows. The man is brilliant with a guitar.

[@TonyHavenMusic]

I have all of John 5’s solo albums and they are nuts, so eclectic

[@MasonBNLovesMusic]

Phil X I think wrote some music for some of Kelly Clarkson’s hits

[@darkxxhimxxlight]

*Squiggles* you are *cringe personified*

[@mike5996]

"I'll attempt to play it just like Jimmy Hendrix" ....sounds like my drunk nan trying to play

[@unscathedpotato]

I can't stand John 5.. He thinks he's so cool. He's a total hack

[@flashfronkprepping1779]

I hate Zepplin

[@napoficial7123]

Delete back street boys from music history. It's only Rock and roll what inspire genius

[@atheistconservative6211]

John 5? Who?

[@mastod0n1]

Incredibly talented and diverse guitarist. Played with David Lee Roth, Marilyn Manson, and Rob Zombie and is currently playing with Motley Crüe. Not necessarily the most advanced music, but check out the Loudwire video where he plays a kids guitar that you might find in a Wal-Mart. He's knows his shit.

[@jeffhodge7272]

​Dude is trolling.And jealous.

[@sonusworld666]

Just Fkm Amazing 🤘🤘

[@jaydoubleu3419]

1st

[@BassGuitar4life]

Paranoid by Black Sabbath.

[@Gypsyalchemy333]

I cant take anyone seriously who listened to KISS

[@adka9473]

dude just give up the hair.