Best riff ever of all time

[BenEllerGuitars]

The first two in Master Of Puppets, obviously!

Also, the riff that comes in at 2:30 before the guitar solo here is just.... unreal. it sounds nasty, and with every new element that is tossed into the riff as it goes along, it just KEEPS getting nastier! ... and its in standard!

 

[avenger]

4:52/thread.

Lock it up mods.

 

[MFB]

Yo Nightcrawler,

Have my babies for your Dragonaut toss-up.

 

[Woke Up Dead]

I realize this is an old thread but I've been looking for riffs to learn and stumbled upon it. This is the song that made me realize the guitar is all I care about (vocals be damned). I wish this band had toured.

Nonexist - Ebony Tower

 

[TRENCHLORD]

Second riff in Deicide's TRIFIXION. Hell, the first and second for that matter!

 

[Semikiller]

I always thought this beginning riff was in a league of it's own. It's a shame I didn't hear this track till much later. I could imagine how this track was avant garde for it's time.

 

[scherzo1928]

I agree with humanfuseben. Heir apparent at around 2:30 is one of my absolute favorites... at least the one that came to mind when I read the thread's title.


(Im posting it again, since the video he linked was deleted)

 

[Jet9]

Tom Morello wil always be one of my favorite guitarists

 

[ghostred7]

 

[yingmin]

Right now, the intro for Long Way Down to Eden by Disillusion is what does it for me.

 

[8Fingers]

Who doesn't know Beat It Eddie's riff?
The best or not but still probably the strongest one cause it has been stuck for decades to millions heads out there
After 2 notes we all already know what song is.

 

[yingmin]

There's no such thing as best this or that cause it's all about personal tastes but...
Who doesn't know Billie Jean Eddie's riff?
The best or not but still probably the strongest one cause it has been stuck for decades to millions heads out there

...you mean Beat It?

 

[Prydogga]

2:41. You know the riff I mean.

 

[8Fingers]

...you mean Beat It?

Yeah man ,before quoting this foreigner give me time to correct my english mistakes
Yep Beat It.

 

[yingmin]

Yeah man ,before quoting this foreigner give me time to correct my english mistakes
Yep Beat It.

Eddie didn't actually play the riff, anyway. He only played the solo.

 

[TRENCHLORD]

Who played the riff ? Quincy Jones?

 

[8Fingers]

Eddie didn't actually play the riff, anyway. He only played the solo.

Who said he played it?
It doesn't matter who played it.
Eddie composed it.

 

[DLG]

 

[8Fingers]

Who played the riff ? Quincy Jones?

If it wasn't Eddie maybe a studio guitarist.

 

[yingmin]

Who said he played it?
It doesn't matter who played it.
Eddie composed it.

No, he didn't. The only thing Eddie Van Halen did for that song was record the guitar solo.