9 Iconic Guitar Riffs You Can Learn Almost Instantly
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0:00 - Introduction
1:00 - Riff 1
1:40 - RIff 2
2:37 - Riff 3
3:19 - Riff 4
3:47 - Riff 5
4:38 - Riff 6
5:15 - Riff 7
6:06 - Riff 8
7:38 - "Riff" 9 - เพลง
I like how Tyler got a guitar for every single riff
No booty sniffer, he reused one a couple of times!
Replying every Tylers vid until he get me a guitar
@@chill_redditstories Travis Brownie
Hopefully he decides to give one away..to someone who needs one...again.
@@RByrne no one needs a guitar
"almost instantly" yeah no
Pentatonics are actually not that easy
Easy and Iconic is truly a guitarist's paradise. Accessible, and bound to please everyone. I look forward to that analyzing.
Thank you so much, Tyler! As a beginner guitarist, I was running low on ideas and inspiration for those mundane practise sessions. This video is exactly what I needed!
The intro to Limelight from Rush still gets me every time. It’s so easy and so iconic at the same time! Don’t even get me started on the solo.
What a fantastic video. And I love the changes from guitar to guitar!
Day Tripper by The Beatles is very easy to learn and is one the best combinations of minor and major pentatonic in a guitar riff.
Paperback Writer too.
Oh my god! A new Music is Win video delivered to me in a timely manner?! What have I done to deserve this?
Great stuff! I was first taught the Minor Pentatonic Scale way back in high school (around 1979). It was my junior year and I was taking guitar lessons from a senior, who was already a really good player. My 2 stated goals were to learn how to play Stairway To Heaven and to learn how to “play lead.” We accomplished the first goal in no time flat, and when we moved on to LEAD GUITAR, he assured me the magic door to reaching my goal was THE PENTATONIC SCALE!!!
So he taught it to me; just the first position, and I must have played in a few hundred times. When we got together for each weekly lesson, he played a basic 12 bar blues progression and I went up and down that damn scale. No riffs, no licks, just some awkward pauses on various notes, hoping I’d suddenly and miraculously start jamming like Jimmy Page.
After about the 5th or 6th “lesson,” I bailed. I couldn’t see how that damn scale would transition to LEAD GUITAR. I should mention, I also played trombone in the high school band, so I had a pretty solid understanding of basic music theory; all be it in bass clef. Anyhow, week or so after I quit, the guy’s little brother (who played the baritone) told me his brother said it was a shame I quit, because he could tell, I was “almost there.”
Holy shit, almost there? So I kept practicing that damn scale, but nothing happened. And then I went to college and only brought along my acoustic guitar. So for about the next 25 years or so, I only played acoustic guitars. I never forgot that scale, but I’d given up my dreams of playing LEAD GUITAR.
Now fast forward, and after a 3 year sabbatical when I never touched a guitar, I decided to get back into it. And this time, I was going to really try to learn new things. I now know all 5 positions of the minor Pentatonic Scale and practice them every day. You tube and channels like this have been a big help, too. I am definitely a better olayer now, than I was before, but I have to admit, I still can not improvise (i.e, play LEAD GUITAR), and I know very few licks to noodle around on. Kind of pisses me off, now that I think about it. But I am what I am.
So, thanks for trying. Big fan.
If you want to get good at improvising, I'd suggest learning intervals, the minor pentatonic is great, but its not everything, start trying to learn simple solos by ear, califonication by red hot chilli peppers, summer of 69, smells like teen spirit, these are all simple songs to work out. I do it with little jingles i hear all the time, it's taken me from no improvisational skills to being able to sound half decent. Also when your practising your minor pentatonic, don't just play up and down the scale, you wont learn how to use it that way, its great to start with for getting the patterns ingrained, but when you have that down start to mix the notes of the scale up, (make sure you know it up and down first) start skiping strings and working in patterns for example try playing note 1, note 3, note 2, note 4, note 3, note 5, note 4, note 1 work up and down like that, and just change it up every time you've figured it out. That's how you'll learn to use it in improvisation, when you know it inside and out, and know what the intervals sound like, thats when it comes to life.
@@troublingleaf thanks. I do all that already. Truly do. And I’ve learned solos and practiced them, over and over, but I sound stiff when I do that and it just doesn’t translate. On the other hand I’m super comfortable improving chords and sound smooth and melodic. And not just 145 stuff either, some really interesting chord transitions. I also have a strong ear for music and can typically quickly pickup whatever is playing in the background while watching TV or YT.
But the effortless lead guitar stuff has always eluded me. I need to learn more licks that I can chain together in different combinations, but I haven’t found a good place to pick that part up.
Thanks again for your thoughtful advice and your lengthy reply. All the best.
Love your videos man, longtime watcher
This is so wonderful! Thank You!
Tyler your comedic presence is perfect in this
Hey Tyler
I've been really really hoping you would do another video about arpeggios soon, would love to see it ! Thanks for the edutainment
Some riffs are simple notewise, but the tricky part is the feel
& War Pigs has other sections that are trickier
Hmm, seems I have been “choosen”
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....WOW!!!! THANKS FOR THIS INTERESTING LESSON/DEMO! YOU HAVE A LOT OF GUITARS!!!
Damn it, I'm 7 guitars short!
Joking aside, thanks Tyler! I've recently signed up to Guitar Super System and it's been superb so far!
Tele definitely my fav of all times... Great video!
Can you do a video sometime on your music room. Set up, guitar racks and storage etc. Thanks. Love your stuff
Great list!!
That Explorer is sick! Awesome Guitar
we need a updated guitar collection video and a studio tour video!!
Great choices. There's definitely no shortage of great pentatonic riffs out there. My picks:
Rush, "What You're Doing"
The Kinks, "You Really Got Me"
Pearl Jam, "Even Flow"
Audioslave, "Cochise"
Mountain, "Mississippi Queen".
ZZ Top, "Waiting For the Bus"
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You captured Hendrix’s sound beautifully. Mad respect.
he literally just used a strat on the neck pickup
@@mesic3333 yeah, I probably shouldn’t compliment a person then.
@@matthewwilson9749 Don't worry about that guy.
I agree with you, it did sound great.
@@nine9whitepony526 Thank you
@@mesic3333with literally an amp too! 😱 your ignorance is awesome 😆
Excellent! You always make it look so easy like I should just pick up my guitar as a total beginner and make some music! Of course, I am horrible and make it sound like crap and have no idea how to make my amp/guitar sound right. But, it does not matter, its all about the journey! Thanks as always!
Easy one to get right. All the gain all the time!! Ha ha ha ha, just kidding. But seriously, I was told by a great musician to do the following to get the very best out of your amp, no matter what it is: Turn all knobs/dials to 10 or max and then do the same on your guitar, strum a chord or even just hit a string, and then slowly turn them down until you start finding that magic zone. Then either go analog and take a marker or something to make a mark on the amp where those settings are, or take a phot with your phone of all the settings, amp and guitar. Now you have the start of a great tone for your set-up. Do this with any pedals you have too. If it doesn't sound good with pedals, re-arrange the order they are in and try again. Rinse and repeat until you have "your" sound. Happy playing and experimenting. Oh, and if you are like me, you will do this with every guitar and amp and pedal you own, and notice how different they all sound. Loads of fun.
I was so pleased that I guessed you would feature My Girl as it doesn't at first seem like it's a pentatonic.
Dude that SG is sick 🤘
Finally some guitar playing!!
This is so awesome, I wish I found this video last week 😂
Would love to see some mandolin orange/watchhouse song tutorials. Beautiful folk/bluegrass songs
I just loooove that blueberry fade-kinda thingiemagoo finish on your Gibson @ riff 9. Saw an SG with the same color and I think I had a small guitargasm.
Thank you Tyler for braking down your video. I took a screenshot of the pentatonic scale tab and I'm learning lead. So thank you very much.
you have such a talent! playing gutair i wished i could shred like that! on gutair!
Amazing as always thank you Tyler ! Hmm a Easy penta Riff , like u Said let’s watch : interworld and the new innocence from Buckethead ?
If I was to teach somebody guitar I’d show them Mississippi Queen. It’s super simple and sounds great, it would definitely inspire me to learn some more.
It sure was for me! So powerful 🤘
@@jeffpodrug8942 First thing my dad taught me how to play was Black Sabbath’s Paranoid. Another good one.
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar we were all over Sabbath. So cool to have your dad teach you how to play! My dad didn't play, but he knew I wanted it so bad, that he took me to buy my first guitar. I was so stubborn, I worked with him. We had a water well drilling business. I wanted to pay for it with my own money. He knew me so well. He wanted to pay for it, but he knew how badly I was drawn to this, and I believe he just wanted to support me. Our personalities were the same. God rest his soul. My mom was played Sax when she was younger, and had stacks of wax. The old big bands, Glen Miller etc. I luckily had 3 older sisters who were hippies, so I had access to all the everything 60's. I borrowed my oldest sisters portable record player, and holed up in my bedroom for 6 months. It know it had to sound terrible, but I was on my way. My mom never said a negative word about my hacking. She gave me the most important thing anyone could give a kid who was starting their journey with a musical instrument. Encouragement. One negative word from her, and I might've quit. Years later, my other two sisters took my parents out for drinks and dinner. What they really did was bring my parents to a nightly gig I was doing in San Diego, I was playing guitar and some percussion at this bar right on Pacific Pier. We were between sets and just about to come back on stage, and my sisters got a table and they excused themselves. They told my parents they had to go to the restroom and came over to this little cubby where we ran the sound board, and a small table. They came over just as I was getting up, drink in hand, about to follow my mates over to the stage. They came up to me, and I was happy to see them, gave them a hug and kiss and told them to hang out and get some drinks on my tab. I made my way to the stage, and something about the way they were smiling, seemed kinda weird, I quickly dismissed it by thinking that they were stoned or something. It took me halfway into the second song to realize that my mom and dad were sitting there, with my sisters watching me play. It was so cool, that I butchered the lead break smh. Nobody even noticed, but I became nervous, and I had to calm myself down. Believe it or not, I turned my back to the audience and told the percussionist that my sisters brought my parents to see me play. Now we're laughing and the drummer, and Bass player/ lead singer have no idea why, but they start laughing too smh!! That was one of the best nights of my life. My mom and dad never heard me play, with a band. They told me how proud they were of me. Up until that night, I never identified myself as a musician. I'm sorry, Tyler. I didn't mean to write a novel, but all four of the people who were at that show, to see, and hear me play, are no longer with us. I miss them dearly. I'm so glad that my parents were able to witness the end result of, what began as a bunch of noise. I still have the guitar that I bought that day. It's a Peavey T-60 lead, which is hilarious by it's own merits. I believe it's a 70s model. Serial number is 001973, and I named it Dolores, because if it wasn't for her gentle voice telling me to keep playing, I wouldn't have continued to hack away at it. BTW, Tyler. I hope and pray that your father, and everyone who helped you on your journey is somehow blessed, recognized, acknowledged, and loved. 🤘✌️❤️🎸
@Musiciswin-_..wow!! A new low. Trying to scam me twice in the comments on the same video! I know Tyler is a good human being, and musician. I have a friend in the Cyber Criminal Division of The FBI. He'll be in touch with you. Good luck with that.
I've got one iconic. Tito&Tarantula "After Dark" intro is pure pentatonic. Cheers m8..
That guitar at Riff 9 is such a beautiful color
Wow! Those guitars are Fancy
Dope idea for a video. I love this. Def gunna learn immigrant song now. How long have u been playing guitar man?
Thanks man
That Hendrix lick was awesome!! 🤘. I don't know why I wasn't expecting any Sabbath 🤣💯✅
@Musiciswin-_..I'm sure Tyler wouldn't appreciate you being dishonest on his TH-cam channel. Just stop it. This is a really great channel smh.
Good pick up.❤
Looks like I'll have to buy some more guitars to be able to play these riffs.
THIS is just what i needed i NEED to know what was the guitar for the 5th riff IM BEGGING
You got a nice assortment of guitars bro
1:00 Shape of You by Ed Sheeran
1:41 Born Under a Bad Sign, Albert King Version
2:37 Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin
3:19 Play That Funky Music by Wild Cherry
3:47 War Pigs by Black Sabbath
4:38 My Girl by The Temptations
5:15 Gasoline by Audioslave
6:06 All Along the Watchtower by Jimi Hendrix
7:39 Pentatonic licks
Cool, good to know it's all things I have absolutely no interest in. Thanks.
Do you like playing your Explorer?? I finally bought one last year and I absolutely love it. Just wondering your thoughts on it?
Number 9 absorbs half of my practice time
Need to drop a couple of more tones to get to the actual notes of "Gasoline" although I suppose drop D does a solid in terms of getting the feel. As with most drop tuning riffs tbh. Or throw a morpheus droptune in the signal chain and never worry about string tension again! Lol.
Not to be that guy, but Gasoline is in drop B, the sixth being tuned down to B with the rest of the guitar the same
Yep, I was bout to say that. Just wondering if he missed that or just didn't give a shit
Man, how do you play the last one? It was a beautiful song!
I am in love with that 335.
So much yes
THE Best Guitar Channel on TH-cam! I said it! I stand by it.
That was a Cool video now you gotta follow up with "These 9 HARD yet ICONIC Guitar riffs all share one thing"
Hey man I love ur channel, but I haven't been seeing you in my recommendations. I had to search for you
A video on gretch/D Angelo guitars would be sick
I dig it.
First riff I ever learned was Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple. But I guess that's more blues scale then pentatonic.
Damn that tele tone is nasty!
The riffs were good, but I’m not gonna lie, I was here to get a better look at the finish on your 335 ❤
2 Big thumbs Way up
That harmonic at the end of the noodling solo was nasty
I discovered that part of the solo in Shine On You Crazy Diamond is in the pentatonic scale. You know, the part that goes b string 3, e string 3, b string 6, g string 5 bend, g string 3. There's more. I just can't remember it...
Does Guitar Super System have a course/lessons for slide guitar?
I FELT the last one
Rainbow in the Dark by Dio is another fun one
Bros got more guitars than Cher has shoes! Loved that olive sg p90 ❤
Idk why but I actually look forward to seeing how Tyler is going to advertise guitar super system on every video lol.
Ok...I guess this wasn't click bait...this time! (Kidding love your videos)
Back on New Year’s Eve 2002 my guitarist buddy and me (drums) played a house party in Anchorage Alaska where two opposing school hockey teams broke out into an all out team vs team brawl right there in the living room. We played (in my opinion) the very best cover of immigrant song as we watched people beat the absolute shit out of each other. Best part was it all happened as the clock struck midnight.
Dear Mr. Tyler Larson I think you have forgotten one of the most iconic riffs of all times ;-)...and it is in maj D pentatonic (if I am not mistaken): Sunshine of Your Love by Cream.....
Beautiful guitar in the thumbnail
Best riff was Mindless Pentatonic Noodling by Tyler Larson, whoever that guy is. . . 😉
Kinda proud that i didn't know the 1st tune
One riff i think is easy ish is last resort by papa roach, its after the iconic lines of "split my life into peices this is my last resort..... sufocation, no breathing" if anything its just quick
How did you get the tone for the 2nd riff?
You should do gear reviews
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Did you take off the bigsby from the hollow body?
Miss you by The Rolling Stones is all minor pentatonic!
What happened to the bigsby on the Blueberry Burst 335?
Muffin Man by Zappa is a heavy super easy riff that sounds bad ass
Does anybody know what that blue strat is? Its got the big headstock. I don't know if its custom shop or a player series strat or something else.
Fender is awesome. ❤
What happened to the bigsby on the 335? 😭😭😭
I wanna learn how to play 115 but specifically on a strat, I've been trying to play it but all the videos are out of date, there is a low chance that my comment will be seen but I hope it happens and I hope you can teach me PLEEEEEASE 🙏
May be a dumb question but how do you read the white pictures with the black dots? I really don’t get it
Are you gonna go my way, by lenny kravitz is a great simple pentatonic riff
Hey Tyler, I don't want you to get me a guitar. I just want you to check out a song that I thought had a cool solo. It's Gotta Get Away by Interesting Situation. Let me know what you think!
Bro put cliffs of dover like no one would notice :)
What kind of chain are you wearing?
9:00 I think Tyler may have been born a Ramblin' Man.
Can you pls make a new guitar collection video? I think you have 2X guitars than last time.😉
didnt your install a bigsby on your es 335?
What kind of color/model is the purple guitar?
I love the little staircase.
Yo Tyler, love the video man but one mistake- Gasoline is in drop b
I very much like the riff from Bad Craziness by D.A.D, pretty easy to play and sounds great. Check it out
5:14 - 13 year old me has entered the chat
You know what I just realized, the solo to 'Nothing Else Matters' would fit perfectly in this
You know it’s serious when he pulls out a different guitar for each riff.
What do the white and black dots mean
Well I would say standing in the sun by Slash ft Myles Kennedy and the conspirators is one such riff