The riffs that changed my life as a guitar player! How I was inspired to play guitar for 30+ years

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This is the story of the guitar riffs that have been fundamental in my life as a guitarist and a musician!

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I’ve been playing guitar since I was a boy, and there have been so many bands, songs, and guitarists who have inspired me to play in that time. This list contains the best of them – the riffs that I’ve been playing over and over again ever since I first heard them.

This video idea was partly inspired by the wonderful Andy @TheGuitarGeek Ferris, by the way – he’s done a similar fundamental riffs video (link below!) which you should really watch as well if you’re so inclined.

It took me a massive amount of time to compile this list, by the way – I’ve timed myself at over 100 hours of listening, shortlisting, and then recording and making this video!

So finding my fundamental riffs has really been a labor of love, and a hugely fun one, because along the way I’ve been able to reconnect with so many awesome bands and records – and great guitar riffs – from my life (including a great many who didn’t make this list in the end).

Helping me craft the perfect guitar tones for each of the riffs here is the Walrus Audio Fundamental Series of FX pedals – the guys at Walrus sent me the entire range to check out (this was before the new Ambient reverb pedal that just came out!) and I made a nice little board out of them, also using the Walrus ACS-1 as my amp, and their brilliant Canvas Tuner to keep myself in tune at all times. Many thanks to the tenacious Mario at Face MI for sorting this out!

So, enjoy the riffs, and I hope this video also inspires some of you to search out your own fundamental music, songs, bands, and riffs. Believe me, this is an extremely worthy (and at times even cathartic) exercise, and it’s inspired me no end as a guitar player and as a songwriter.

Here are some links to the various riffs and parts of the video:

00:00 Hello and what we’re doing today
01:16 My Fundamental Riff Rules
04:07 How I got started on guitar and my first influences
06:20 Riff 1: Queen (Brian May) – Tie Your Mother Down
07:19 Riff 2 AC/DC (Angus & Malcolm Young) – T.N.T.
08:56 Riff 3: Nirvana (Kurt Cobain) – Territorial Pissings
10:40 Riff 4: Green Day (Billie Joe Armstrong) – Nice Guys Finish Last
11:57 Riff 5: The Seahorses (John Squire) – Love Is The Law
13:26 Riff 6: Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl) – Monkey Wrench
14:29 Riff 7: System Of A Down (Daron Malakian) – Sugar
15:28 Riff 8: Foo Fighters (Dave Grohl/Chris Shiflett) – Aurora
17:00 Riff 9: Stereophonics (Kelly Jones) – Pick A Part That’s New
18:12 Riff 10: Rage Against The Machine (Tom Morello) – Guerrilla Radio
19:45 The Walrus Audio Fundamental Series of pedals!
20:56 Riff 11: The Hives (Nicholaus Arson) – Main Offender
22:10 Riff 12: Jetplane Landing (Andrew Ferris – not that one!) – The Boy You Love To Hate
23:13 Riff 13: Muse (Matt Bellamy) – Plug In Baby
24:27 Riff 14: Oceansize (Mike Vennart et al.) – One Day All This Could Be Yours
26:30 Riff 15: The Darkness (Justin & Dan Hawkins) – Black Shuck
27:41 Riff 16: Mastodon (Brent Hinds & Bill Kelliher) – Blood And Thunder
29:04 Riff 17: Bloc Party (Kele Okereke & Russell Lissack) – Blue Light
30:24 Riff 18: The White Stripes (Jack White) – Icky Thump
31:42 Thank you for watching!

Check out the Walrus Audio Fundamental Series here:

And don’t forget to watch Andy Ferris’s awesome Fundamental Riffs video here:

My setup was as follows: I ran from my guitar into the Walrus Canvas Tuner, then into the drive pedals (Drive, Distortion, Fuzz). Then I went into the ACS-1 and out into the time-based and modulation effects (Tremolo, Phaser, Chorus, Delay, Reverb), and from the Reverb straight into my Focusrite Scarlett 2i4, which went into Logic Pro X. That's it. No post-processing on the sounds was done.

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Backing music from the YouTube Audio Library: Duck In The Alley – TrackTribe.

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