Your favorite non-guitar riff?

[Nogoodnamesleft]

Bullet by Covenant - I've thought about doing a guitar version of this several times.

 

[LPMWal]

So many great sax riffs already mentioned! Let me add/reiterate the sax part at the very end of Fogelberg's Same Auld Lang Syne, Dave Koz-The Dance, and the piano/sax/classical and electric riffs in Al Stewart's The Year of the Cat. Great stuff!

 

[BigDaddyLH]

Of course, they sampled Quincy Jones's Soul Bossa Nova

 

[68tele]

Accordian riff @1:33...

 

[kilroy6262]

Somebody already said Superstition, so..

 

[DonM]

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?

 

[Cpt Adama]

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?

John Paul Jones Intro for "In the Light" on Physical Graffiti

 

[zencat]

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?

Many, but one that comes to mind without going through a list is Edgar Winter's riff on Frankenstein.

 

[joe.attaboy]

Chuck Leavell's piano solo on he Allman Brothers' "Jessica".

Still gives me chills.

 

[ChadMilesR]

Pretty much anything from Fever Ray's s/t debut. Not sure if they all qualify as "riffs" but 'If I Had a Heart' certainly does. And 'Neverland' by The Knife is up there. Oh, 'Fresh New Eyes' by Brainiac, too.

 

[ChadMilesR]

And obviously 'Army of Me' by Björk. 'Joga' too.

 

[BigDaddyLH]

You can't escape it!

 

[Knows3Chords]

 

[dasherf17]

This could start a whole 'nuther thread as the coolest riff leading to a "meh" song...

and

Why, oh why weren't the songs better?

 

[BlueGillGreg]

I like the Standup Bass riff on Miles Davis's All Blues. I've been known to play it goofing around on break at orchestra rehearsals. When I taught K-5 our Kindergartners used to really enjoy this number, and they learned blues changes on xylophone. They'd always remind me that Jazz is for dancing.

 

[GlasgowCraig]

Jimmy Smith Back At The Chicken Shack, coolest organ ever!

 

[Wildcard_35]

I think this fits the category

I actually play the "Doo doo doo doo" part on guitar when my band plays this one. Sounds pretty good if I do say so, myself!

 

[Wildcard_35]

 

[glenlivet]

So simple. But just kills it.

 

[dv]

Anything by Greg Hawkes of The Cars. His keys riffs were so signature and integral part of their sound.