Top 20 Clean Guitar Riffs
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Here are some of my favourite clean riffs - I know theres alot more than 20 but here are my Top 20
I hope some viewers have discovered a new song/riff from watching this video
#14 Apologies hardcore Roy Orbison fans, I misspelled Roy's name (Rory in the video text) :(
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Who cares about the condition of the fretboard, it shows that you’ve played the guitar a lot and that you’re devoted to your art
you realise you're supposed to be cleaning it every once in a while when you're changing your strings, right?
I can tell you’ve never owned a guitar with an untreated maple fretboard before...
100%
You’re partially right. This shows how much he treats his instruments with respect
He doesn’t pick, fret, or bend hard enough to cause any of that wear. It’s all dirt from his dirty hands that has never been cleaned. I own a charvel with the same neck and when it’s actually worn from use you’ll see mild to moderate darkening of the wood where it’s played most. Look at eddie Van Halen’s Frankenstrat. It’s not nearly as disgusting as this fretboard and has thousands of times more use. This kid actually thinks he’s playing something reliced because he comes home from his mechanic job with greasy fingers and never wipes his fretboard off. With how daintily he plays that guitar would still look brand new after 10 years of practicing 8 hours a day.
his fretboard is dirty because he actually practices on his guitar more than once a month
SexyCheeze goddamn dude... i am guitarless for two months. (yeah i sold my guitar to buy better and i have no guitars now...)
In 10 days , on 1 April . I am going to buy my new pretty hot guitar. And i will fuckinnplay it hardly and softly and slowly and fastly. I will play it like touching a bird. Kind touches. Then i will play it like i am punching someone. Goddamn i miss playing guitar...
Pshhhh
Oyuncunun RockSeveni I once sold mine for heroin but I’m better now. Still no guitar tho.
More like he plays with greasy hands and doesn't clean the fret board regularly
I play for hours every day and my fretboard is spotless
Hard to believe that only 60 years ago there was no such thing as a 'guitar riff', yet somehow humans still managed to survive and multiply, lol.
Enjeru its a joke
What kinda guitar is this?
shut up bobbycrispy
@Enjeru you are a moron.
frr
I didn't even notice the fretboard I was in the feels listening to the music.
Everyone is commenting about that damn fret board lol
I wish people would stop talking about it
Yeah but it's nasty dude, a man's gotta clean that thing once in a while.
@@guitarist6494 Heres an idea, Clean the fucking fretboard every now and then and maybe you wont have the comments.
what of it
100 000 Views…. When I made this video back in March, I never thought it would have gotten this amount of views ever. Definitely not in just over 2 months. If I did I would have brushed up on the sloppiness of Miserlou (#10) and Is This Love (#8).
A lot of people are commenting saying wheres this riff? Wheres that riff? As I stated at the end of the video, and the description, this is just my personal Top 20. I know there’s are a lot more than 20 great clean riffs.
As for Stairway and Hotel California, please be aware they are both ACOUSTIC… Not electric clean riffs.
If you still have any ideas or think I missed some out, comment and let me know for a possible vol. 2 ;)
I plan to do a few more of these countdown style videos (currently working on another now) so let me know what type you want to see.
Anyway thanks for watching, liking and subscribing it means a lot !!
….As for the dirty fretboard, don’t worry it was cleaned months ago ;)
Awesome video man, views are well deserved :)
I loved this vid man, hope to see a part 2. Also, gotta love that fingerboard grime, it's the best part! Cheers
You are really good :o
Now it's almost three times as much as that.
nirvana - lithium!
Damn you ain’t gotta flex on us like that at 2:29
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Well it’s been exactly 365 days since I uploaded this video and I never would have thought it would have gotten nearly 3 Million views in 1 year 😱😨
I know some riffs in this video are pretty messy (before I made this video i only had around 100 subs), my playing standards were a lot lower assuming it wouldn’t even get many views…. 😅😓
And yes, I am well aware the fretboard was pretty dirty in this video (still getting people saying "you should clean your fretboard bro). Reason being, I actually liked the look of a dirty maple fretboard, so I wanted it to look that way for the video. Cleary this is very subjective but I feel it gets shown better or worse depending on the camera angle.
Before you comment saying “Fuck dude!!! That fretboard is narly!!!” “OMG please clean that fretboard!!!!” It has been cleaned multiple times since the video as you can see in my other videos. There is even a video I made comparing the tone of a dirty fretboard and a clean fretboard with pretty surprising results 😫😒😠.
Also for people saying, “Where is Stairway to Heaven!!!???? 😱😱😱” “How can Hotel California not be on here??!!!!! 😠😠😠
My friends please…. They are both ACOUSTIC, not electric guitar played clean, as the video implies. I have a list for a Top 20 Acoustic video which I will be making in the near future but for now I’m working on some other ideas.
But anyway thanks for love (…or hate).
-Alex
guitarist6494 The tech has never been stronger
guitarist6494 dude, why are you explaining yourself? you play great and that's all that matters..
Great video. Wish there were tabs already written out for them. I guess I will get off my lazy butt and transpose them.
Thanks for sharing your talent.
yo dude i'm starting a youtube show and would if you made a cool riff for it you're probably a very busy person but if you might be able to let me know
guitarist6494 I am a way better guitarist than you
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have tabs pls?
Love the vid, however some suggestions:
Under the Bridge
One
Sultans of Swing
or little wing
or sweet home alabama
Under the bridge has actually some distortion... Not much but has. And sweet home Alabama is not quite a clean riff as well
or This Charming Man
I was thinking sultans of swing right away!
No clickbait, CLEAN content :D
Not the fretboard tho
@@leocontreras1181 stfu
I hate you
@@leocontreras1181 lmao
The "Snow" riff was damn impressive!
yes! :D awesome
From RHCP i would've rather expected Under The Bridge, but... I guess the guy might be too young to have caught that x)
yep, i tried to do it like a month ago and its difficult XD
+jpegjjo asd capo on second fret then the song changes into open c, e chord and F# barre chord with simple "mini-licks"
r u really impressed about a guy playing snow's riff? God, its one of the easiest clean riffs to play out there... Get some knowledge. Also, most of the riffs here are quite off the tempo
"Don't Fear The Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult should've made that list.
yeah,that riff is simple yet immense
yeh
That riff is played with chorus, so its not exactly clean
agreed
+Jacek Rogoziński it's clean because it's not saturated.
Every chord you make, Every fingerbones you break
I mean as long as u have big hands. I think the song isn't difficult
@@chriswang8343 I have big hands and I still struggle to play easy chords.... And I definitely know how to use my fingers, I played bass and piano
lol i love ur pfp 😂
@@chriswang8343 Got small asian hands and still play Billy Talent and other 2 - 7 stuff, its a question of streched fingers. Like splits with your hand :D
@@vio2326 Smaller frets might help, but my hands are used to medium big, medium, and jumbo frets so a smaller neck might take me a while to get use to lol.
0:47 it sounds like californication
you know, I always thought that!
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bro people are complaining abt the fretboard and i want my fretboard to look worn like that
I thought so too bro. Just don't make a youtube video with it looking like this hahaha
Guitarist6494 i mean your guitar skills are really good.
It's not really worn looking, its just general finger gunk. I'm pretty sure it comes off
It aint worn tho its just dirty
Guitarist6494 fretboard looks cool I’ve got a Tele e we ohh a maple fretboard like that.
√ - my favorite
20. Teenage crime
19. Every breath you take √
18. The breakup song √
17. More than a feeling
16. Master of puppets
15. White wedding
14. Pretty woman
13. Mama, i'm coming home √
12. What's my age again?
11. Snow √
10. Misirlou
9. La bamba
8. Is this love
7. Wake me up when September ends
6. Just a dream √
5. Leave me alone
4. Fear of the dark
3. Hysteria
2. Black diamond √
1. Paradise city √
Hysteria i like that 👌👌
PUNK ROCK IN THERE YESSSS
(I don’t care that it’s pop punk, punk is punk)
2:30 OMG! Yes! Yes! Yes! :D
KraszanQa stop Please
Yeaah
Yes
Hey oh
I don't know why you're surprised, it's in literally every clean guitar riffs video ever.
It should be illegal to make a video dedicated to clean riffs played with such a dirty fretboard.
It's not dirty, but eaten by a lemon oil.
true
Josh Mist lol
Dirty tone more like it. Half of it was light overdrive. Wasnt much clean going on.
I like that on guitars, makes them have a cool used rugged look.
I know it's been 3 months but I hope he cleaned that fingerboard
dirty finger boards have characters. I just saw Eric Clapton's dirty finger board and it looks great. his is just not dirty enough yet.
It is just plain stupid to not clean your fretboard
+J-P Salmi its made like that Perposly
@sonnyrocker eric clapton's fretboard is not dirty, the laquer is worn through, he couldn't clean that off, im sure eric clapton cleans his fretboards regularly.
+Alex awesomee y dish mention Eric clapton
gotta clean that fretboard ;)
a lot of people prefer to not clean the fretboard. its just personal preference.
+CommonConnor it's common sense , lazy people wouldn't , there's no benefits from a dirty fretboard.
+CommonConnor didnt some people let it on purpose. it's just kinda gross, all the dry sweat
Mz2250 My mentor doesn't clean his all that much, maybe once a year, not because he is lazy, because he prefers not to, the natural oils from our fingers help certain types of woods.
+CommonConnor first maple fretboard don't need oil like rosewood does, second the dark grey spots you see it's only the dust you have on your finger when you play, third always clean your freatboard it's better foor wood , if you don't , more on rosewood, dirtiness will be more difficult to be removed every time, don't take everything your teacher told you as law, please clean your fretboard.
Man, I loved those clean riffs...the best selection I've found untill now...Aplauses 👏👏👏👏👏
The tank screams 80s hair metal, but there’s some 90s mixed in. Love it man great work and gorgeous tone.
No Sultans of Swing? The greatest clean riff and greatest clean solo in all of rock guitar?
ikr
Agree
no fade to black, one or pull me under? the greatest clean riffss in all of metal guitar?
FFFUUUAAAARRRRRKKKKKK !!!!!
1 Million views brahs !!
Keep sending it ya dawgs
Congrats on the views zyzz!!
Haha didnt know you had a youtube brah thanks Cleland, ya absolute dawg x
ZYZZ FUAARKKKK
Hey dude :) I really liked the riffs. where did you get them?
What kind of guitar is that
Great video and a nice trip down memory lane. Love the intro to Black Diamond. Very well done.
I'm surprised he didn't put sweet home alabama there
Check vol. 2 ;)
guitarist6494 oh dear god you answered
Same
Since when does a song that's played with overdrive considered clean?
it has distortion
Man, I totally forgot how beautiful Clean Guitar Riffs can be.
As a big RHCP fan,
- Californication
- Can't Stop
- Under the Bridge
- Scar Tissue
- Venice Queen
- Readymade
- Tell Me Baby
- I Could Have Lied
- Otherside
- Road Trippin'
Literally every clean riff on "The Empyrean"
Sorry to bother, but good list
I came here cuz I knew there'd be at least one RHCP song. all time favorite band
readymade and can't stop don't sound good on clean, especially not readymade
RHCP
Hannes Lehner Most definitely
also otherside
Misirlou, probably one of the first riffs I ever learnt....memories :)
The fret board isnt dirty its just worn
nice work man, and solid list!
Overall good choices, but I was surprised Sultans of Swing by Dire Straits wasn't on here
true! Me too!
Too hard I guess. :P
+Daniel John Prutton yes there is
+Daniel John Prutton the entire song.Listen to David knopfler on the rhythm guitar he is playing a solid riff for the entirety of the song
+Daniel John Prutton every riff is a progression that's what makes it a riff, it doesn't Matt if it's simple or not it's still a riff and a very catchy one at that
this video was surprisingly relaxing. thanks man :D
Miserlou was butchered lmao but good job on the rest
Agreed
scruntgunt u took words right out of my mouth😂
Also sounds better on a single coil bridge pickup
thats my boyfriend youre talking to
You forgot heart shaped box
finally a Nirvana fan! thank you for finally saying it
David Abbatangelo or what about All Apologies
David Abbatangelo and under the bridge
David Abbatangelo my favourite song❤
#NirvanaFan
Can put a clean nirvana song in because there all too good
I wanted Don't Fear the Reaper to be on here, but Paradise City being #1 is awesome!
I’ m looping this video everytime ! I love it!
Golf job bro !!!
Thank you for posting this. I have so many riffs to learn!!
Thanks, glad you like it. New video next week
Excellent choice of riffs!
I visit this video from time to time just to check up on the clean puns
So clean and so nice !!! love your guitar man !!!
I hooked up my computer to a guitar distortion pedal, and now this video is super enjoyable.
Sultans of swing >>>
that's not clean though...
+Dylan Collins wth sultans of swing is THE riff clean what you talking about
NickRiveraMusic my bad, I somehow mixed up sultan's of swing with money for nothing
There's not really a true riff in Sultans of Swing
Than try to listen that song, evidently for first time in your life.
Great video but holy shit dude clean your fretboard
sup dude
omg horrible ugh
lol sweat and muck can make 'somehow' for a good sound
looks like he accually plays the damn thing.
Cedar Potter how
2:33 THANK YOUUUUU I've been randomly getting this riff in my head all day but couldn't figure it out and didn't know any following lyrics so I had to google pretty hard but as soon as I heard it I knew that was the one!!!
I was in barcelona this summer and I was walking trough the metro tunnels and there was a man playing electric guitar and it gave me so much chills i love it
the title of this video should be called "20 riffs I happen to know that are clean"
Clean your fretboard man.
I know right
How about "Wash your dang hands before you play your guitar"? I'm so turned off by the sweaty-dirty grossness. And I could have enjoyed this video if I didn't have to be distracted by that filth while trying to appreciate the talent the player has.
Sweaty dirty hands all over the fretboard. ugh
Tune your strings man.
+Charis Zhang its grime. not a relic process. you can tell the difference if you've ever done any form of neck maintenance.
+JoelZBub not to be rude music is each to his own but i dont think hes that talented... nor were half of the songs in a clean tone.. poor choice of guitar as well imo
Love your music taste!!! I love your videos!!!
Brilliant video, loved the more than a feeling one
When the light begins to change
I sometimes feel a little strange
A little anxious when it's dark...
Fretboard is dark
Fretboard has marks
I have a constant fear that something's always near
Fretboard is dark
Fretboard has marks
lol Great video... don't let the dirty fretboard comments bother you. If I had that guitar i'd play the hell out of it too.
Why am i the first liker
Don't bring iron maiden into this.
I'm sad that he didn't include "Lonely Day" by System of a Down...but I LOVE that he put "Snow" 😆
2nd best song ever by soad no. 1 is spiders
maybe he didn't include that one 'cause it is on Half step down tuning and he was using standard, so changing the tuning for one song wouldn't be good at all
+Ban Quiroz it's possible to do it with standard tuning...sounds a bit off but some the concept of the song is still there.
+Patrick Interiano yeah exactly it's still the same riff
thank u for this video.
i'm gonna learn most of them or even all of them thanks
Thanks, this video helped me set my amp. Cool riffs.
You butchered Miserlou.
he said that himself even
Did he now?
Shubham Pandey yeah, he commented when he hit 100K views and he said that he would have cleaned up the sloppiness of it
Alright.
yeah and so Every step you take, Master of puppets, Fear of the dark.....
I swear this is one of the coolest things ever
Good riff collection man and nice playing!
Great tone! :D
Anything that The Edge has made, I hear that he is known for not using any effects at all...
Just heavy delay, chorus, phasers, tape echos, tremolo, etc...
Hahah yeah!
I'm not sure where you're getting phasers, tremolos and tape echoes but from what I can tell he's wrote a hell of a lot cooler music than you will. You're just a speck of dust compared to him. But nice try hating.
+Aaron Richards I'm not hating I'm just making a joke
He's probably getting from the fact the Edge plays through every single effect known to man on every song? Just a guess. Good artist, not saying I don't like his stuff, but to pretend his technique isn't 99% effects driven is willfull ignorance.
Sultans Of Swing is one riff that should have been there. Rest all are awesome.
You are right Baji, maybe it will appear in a vol. 2
100% agree
Yeah. Watched the whole video waiting for Sultans of Swing lol. But still awesome!
why couldnt he use a clean guitar ?
great video man
Great clean guitar riffs!
Hysteria! nice choice. Speaking of Def Leppard, also the clean riff from Photograph is really cool
"Photograph" is a great one
"Is there anybody out there" -Pink Floyd should have been on the list
+ Kiss and Iron Maiden were amazing
FruitSnakee although I agree that is there anybody out there is one of the most beautiful pieces of guitar ever, it’s not clean, it’s just nylon-string acoustic.
Hey you
great stuff :)
Glad to see some one recognizes the beauty in black diamond by kiss, such a beautiful opening riff
when you are watching this in the middle of the night and they play a riff that you haven't played in forever and so you get up to see if you remember how to play it
Too many haters. Rock and Roll ain’t supposed to be perfect... Rock on brother🤟
My family loves the second song. My brother dedicated it to my friend who passed away. It's an amazing song! ❤🤘
Great work.
clean that damn fretboard man...
somebody else noticed hahaha
I was gonna say the same thing. idk how he can play it like that! lol
That is to get a dirty tone out of the guitar
He either has really dirty hands or that guitar has seen ALOT of use.
2:30 how do you make it look so easy?
Because the riff is easy, it's very simple and not at all difficult to play. The tough part is making it sound clean while playing fast. So although it looks easy which it is. Its painfully fast
It really isn’t as hard as people make it out to be lol
Dude, as a huge GNR fan, I never even saw number 1 coming. It's my favorite song idk how I didnt see that being in the list even!
Great video thanks!
The fret board makes the guitar look like it’s been played
And I like it
Nice tone, but sometimes your timing was completely off:(
Um....not really.
Yeah I agree but then again no one is perfect.
You're right
I thought that to
agreed
Great topic! I always move the pick up switch to the top for clarity in these situations
Great list bro
Needs reverb, and quite a bit. Video was quite hard to watch
Fuck outta here Craig
+PixelzGaming he used a chorus and a small bit of crunch so they're not all without effects. Clean means without distortion anyway
+PixelzGaming clean means no distorsion... u can play clean even with reverb, flanger, wah wah...
guitarist6494 Wow, yet another video maker who can't take criticism. I never stated the video was bad, just some of the stuff didn't sound right because of how empty it was. Some of the songs do actually have the reverb effect on them you know.
***** None of it actually. I understand it's called 'Clean Riffs' doesn't mean he shouldn't add some much needed reverb. Jesus, it's like people can't take an opinion that isn't the same as theirs.
I'm here just listening and appreciating. I didn't even give a dang to that fret board until I read the comments. Surpised how people are nowadays. disappointing.
music is for ears, not for sightseeing.
Really good work👌
Cool riffs, I just had to comment, LOVE that Charvelle,
you are very good man
clearly missing under the bridge from RHCP
"Californication" and "Stadium Arcadium" too...but fuck it...one RHCP song on the list is better than none
+Patrick Interiano he had californication didn't he?
+Dylan Collins nah...it was "Snow" that he did.
+Patrick Interiano ahh my mistake, I don't know how I mixed up californication with the breakup song 😂
+Dylan Collins lol its all good...although for some reason...I thought "Californication" had a bass line for an intro instead of Frusciante playing the guitar.
I like your stuff... u put a lot of time into it.
Seeing him casually playing MOP and snow. Like is well deserved, sir.
So everyone who complains about the fretboard never heard about vintage guitars? Probably have an ocd overkill
that fretboard grime is nasty
So good to see that you practice alot to this level. 😍
the clean guitar riffs are relaxing ill give them that
1:30 remember it when i played gta san andreas long ago
Same!
You forget Scorpions - still loving you :)
I can play that
Actually when the smoke is going down better
Excellent!!!
Cool riffs and the instrument sounds amazing.
Nice work! 'One Last Breath - Creed' would have been a good addition too!
Creed? Come on..
If you ever do a part two include Don't Fear The Reaper
awesome man.
Fall To Pieces wasn't here, I'm surprised! Nice playing bro!!