Practice Riffs

[Copperhead]

I keep adding to my list of Practice Riffs. Most of these are introductions or beginnings of songs. I just like to have “challenging” things to warm up with or practice. Some of these address specific topics, like string skipping, or picking techniques, etc. At some point I may try to put together a video of some of these, but they can all be found (in some degree of accuracy) on YouTube. If you’re getting bored running scales, you might try some of these.

Some of these I probably don’t play “correctly” but they still make good warm up riffs. Here’s some off the top of my head:

Like to Change the World – Ten Years After
Still of the Night – Whitesnake
Long Cool Woman – Hollies
Kryptonite – Three Doors Down
Ramblin Man – Allman Bros
Heartbreaker/Living Lovin….= Led Zep (Opening riffs mainly, but I’m liking Mark’s cover!!!!)

Just added these two:
Welcome to the Jungle – Guns N’ Roses
Pour Some Sugar on Me – Def Leppard (I looked up the opening to Hysteria too – very cool, may work on that one)

BTW you could include the obvious: Sweet Child O’Mine and Don’t Fear the Reaper, but I usually don’t. Same goes for Every Breath You Take (aka The Stalker Song) by the Police. Hard to play right.

[superblonde]

The Ten Years After is the one I performed for a while. Really great arpeggio/string skipping practice. I used it for a band audition too.. 🤫 great practice song because it can be played around & around forever. It took me forever to get it up to perfect speed.

For really cool rhythmic variety try some of the Vernon Reid songs, he has amazing riffs in syncopated time, still sounds metal too.

For Drop D, I was really getting into Dope riffs. So the fretting is simplified, and the challenge is the rhythm. (Some metal songs which are in lower dropped tunings, I jsut play them in drop D anyways)

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

[superblonde]

Son And Daughter – Queen – Guitar Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T1areJi6sA

I'm an intermediate student of Metal Method. I play seitannic heavy metal. All Kale Seitan! ♯ ♮ ♭ ø ° Δ ♩ ♪ ♫ ♬
And on the Seventh Day, Mustaine said: ∇ ⨯ E = - ∂B / ∂t ; and there was Thrash; and it had a ♭3; and it was good.

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