Your favorite non-guitar riff?

[outtenbucks]

Which riff or riffs do you love, that aren’t played on guitar?

I especially love riffs from electronic from the 90s that aren’t guitars, but would make sick guitar riffs, and I always thought Breathe from The Prodigy was an epic riff.

What’s yours?

 

[Vibroluxer]

Ok, I like this song but the riff is at 2:28.

 

[Engine Swap]

 

[Willie Johnson]

Plus just about everything by the Memphis Horns.

 

[BryMelvin]

Which riff or riffs do you love, that aren’t played on guitar?

I especially love riffs from electronic from the 90s that aren’t guitars, but would make sick guitar riffs, and I always thought Breathe from The Prodigy was an epic riff.

What’s yours?

Ray Manzarek's intro and solos in the long version of Light My Fire.

Bob Dylan's Harmonica licks on Watchtower ( I copy them on guitar!)

Several of Herp Alberts licks Taste of Honey is one.

 

[G Stone496]

Which riff or riffs do you love, that aren’t played on guitar?

I especially love riffs from electronic from the 90s that aren’t guitars, but would make sick guitar riffs, and I always thought Breathe from The Prodigy was an epic riff.

What’s yours?

Beethoven’s 5th Symphony.

 

[brookdalebill]

The sax intro on Wham’s Careless Whisper.
The sax intro on Baker Street by Gerry Rafferty.
The steel drum/marimba solo on the Hollie’s Carrie Ann.
The sped up harpsichord solo (George Martin?) on the Beatles’ In My Life.
The brass band on the Beatles’ All You Need Is Love.
The pan flutes on Simon & Garfunkel’s El Condor Pasa.

 

[Double Stop]

Echo & The Bunnymen "The Cutter". The opening riff and main motif.



Procol Harum "Whiter Shade Of Pale"



And pretty much anything by Kraftwerk

 

[raito]

Elsewhere, there was a thread on favorite synth riffs. It was pointed out that any phrase in Bach's Toccata And Fugue In Dm, properly played on pipe organ, is a favorite synth riff.

 

[Refugee]

I'm A Man
Spencer Davis Group

Heard the Dead cover this tune and it rocked.

 

[yegbert]

There is some guitar in this, but Ennio Morricone and Sergio Leone made some really awesome other music and sounds in all their collaborative efforts. The flute (or flutelike) and following “wawawa” voice(?) part in this theme is unforgettable.

 

[Andy B]

Giant Steps John Coltrane

 

[trev333]

trumpets...

 

[trev333]

more brass..

 

[Skyhook]

Which riff or riffs do you love, that aren’t played on guitar?

I especially love riffs from electronic from the 90s that aren’t guitars, but would make sick guitar riffs, and I always thought Breathe from The Prodigy was an epic riff.

What’s yours?

This thing! The riff in question starts right after the intro when the drums come in.
This riff has swinging balls the size of dump trucks!
Playing this thing on keyboards was one of the bright points in my murky cover band history.

 

[dogmeat]

cut straight to 1:45 and 3:10

 

[timbgtr]

+1 for the one that came immediately to mind:



Let me add the riff between verses of:

 

[johnny k]

The girl in the clip has got a see though top and i am not sure if would fly here, so here is the safe for work one

 

[ClashCityTele]

+1 for Breathe by The Prodigy. How about some reverse engineering -


So, I'll go with this -

 

[suthol]