10 Insanely Fun 80s Riffs You Must Learn Now
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Here are 10 insanely fun guitar riffs from the 1980s that are essential learning for any respectable guitar player. Each riff is ranked in difficulty level from 1-10 but ALL of these riffs are within reach of players of ANY skill level. I encourage beginners to give all of them a shot. For more seasoned players, see if you can nail each of these riffs in one sitting. What better way to put in some quality practice time than to challenge yourself to learn these classic riffs? Included are riffs by Van Halen, U2, The Police, Guns n' Roses, Ozzy, Zebra, Bon Jovi, The Smiths, Metallica, the Rolling Stones, and more. If you'd like FREE TABS for any of the songs, just shoot me an email at markaranalli@gmail.com. Must you learn them now? It's up to you...but I would.
00:00 Crazy Train
00:21 Intro
00:36 Confession - I thought the 80s sucked!
01:17 Videos ranked 1-10 by difficulty level
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02:28 Shoutout to your local music store!
02:42 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
02:58 Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
03:23 Start Me Up - The Rolling Stones
03:40 Fade to Black - Metallica
04:10 Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi
04:28 Unchained - Van Halen
04:43 Check out the Rok-Lok
05:10 Beat It - Michael Jackson
05:30 Every Breath you Take - The Police
06:00 Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns n' Roses
06:27 What Difference Does it Make? - The Smiths
06:58 Panama - Van Halen
07:14 Who's Behind the Door? - Zebra
07:47 Final Thoughts
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@MoviesNStuff Ай бұрын
Great Video! Too many great riffs! (Also, I sent that Email!)
@hansvandermeulen5515 Ай бұрын
"When I was living through it, I thought the music of the 80s sucked." I'm with you there. I grew up in the 80s in the Netherlands and apart from British heavy metal, underground hip hop and Kate Bush there wasn't much music I really liked.
@stankruger6823 Ай бұрын
all of these riffs are undeniable classics. I wouldn't really call Who's Behind the Door intro a riff per se, but I love it so I'm not complaining.
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
sometimes I forget that they are supposed to be riffs in the classic sense. I have a broad definition of riff. :)
@kenpullin4937 Ай бұрын
Zebra kick ass
@d-jake1667 Ай бұрын
Thank you for the flashback. I know younger generations can learn from this video and keep that vib alive. Passion for music is in the soul. Creating a rode map for our younger musicians is a responsibility we should all take on. Thank you once again! #winaguitar.
@salvadorsepulveda6415 Ай бұрын
Great riffs, and Every move you make is a finger stretcher 🎉
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
for sure. I was just talking about that with somebody. I should have used the shorter scale neck. :0
@jim3041 Ай бұрын
Great video, as usual Mark. The orange, and white Rok-Loks look hot! Can't wait for the release of them. How a video of some surf guitar songs?
@roklok9856 Ай бұрын
Rok-loks lookin' good
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
always
@amandadavidson6228 Ай бұрын
best one yet!
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
not as good as the next one....
@clemlabelle8740 Ай бұрын
crazy train kicks ass. Every breath you take is a high point. I could never do the stretch it takes to get it clean
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
I was thinking that I should have used the shorter neck, funny.
@donschenk429 Ай бұрын
Thank you, Mark. That Rok-Lok looks great - exactly what I need so my arthritic hands won't need to deal with pulling a strap off the guitar. I just now ordered one.
@bobshomewoodshop7996 Ай бұрын
I was not listening to stations playing contemporary music in the '80s, but I have heard most of those songs at one time or another somewhere or another. Great demonstration, as always. I keep missing your new releases in time to get in on the chat. I need to make sure I am online next time.
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
No worries at all Bob. I was already off to a tough year with trying to get videos uploaded in time and then my brother got sick and died and it really threw me off. The shorts have provided a good stop gap but I haven't been consistent about my upload time with those either. Hopefully, the second half of the year will be more predictable. Thanks for always supporting the channel and being positive. Mark
@bobshomewoodshop7996 Ай бұрын
@@8MinuteAxe Mark, I am so sorry to hear about your brother. I thought maybe you had just gotten busy with other things and your video release schedule suffered because of it. I have come to think of you as a friend, so I try to follow you as closely as I can. I am over the 1K mark for subs, but not at the 4,000-hour mark yet. I'm not sweating it, when it happens, it happens. I am adding one or two videos every week. In the meantime. I purchased a CNC machine and have added learning CAD CAM software to my list of things to do.
@gdkopinionator4356 Ай бұрын
Super fun! I find that a lot of the top guitarists from the previous decades continued to do great work in the 80's. Gilmour did some amazing stuff, not only on the two Floyd LP's of the 80's, but as a guest (particularly on "No More Lonely Nights" by Paul McCartney). Alex Lifeson practically invented a school of rock guitar between "Moving Pictures" and "Hold Your Fire". Clapton did some fantastic pop hits on "August" and "Journeyman" (My fellow Ferrante disciple John Mayer, based his latest LP largely off of nostalgia for those tones). Genesis, though not known for guitar work after Hackett departed, did some amazing stuff w/ Rutherford on lead guitar between "Duke" and the Shapes album. It's difficult to be objective about the 80's, because my teen-angst and I were stuck in the heart of it. I find myself going back to a lot of pieces from that era because they hold some emotional weight for me. Some stuff, particularly the adult contemporary stuff, is so skillfully produced that it is absolutely essential study material for studio work.
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
I was just thinking about how many songs did I learn in real time. I believe the closest I ever came was learning (or trying to learn) New World Man during the premiere after having picked up the guitar 3 months earlier. I didn't know that Gilmour played on No More Lonely Nights. My musical life is neatly divided between 80 and 81. Everything from 80 and earlier (Back and Black, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath) was the distant past. Everything that's come out since 81 I still consider "new" music.
@yellowcat1310 Ай бұрын
arghh i missed the live
@TheBluesman56 Ай бұрын
Nice work Mark 👍😎🎶
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
Hey! Long time no talk. Thanks for always supporting. I'm glad you enjoyed it. Have a great week. Mark
@maryannkarlvalois7597 Ай бұрын
Very nice!!
@user-ts8qw2xp2k Ай бұрын
Loved this one for inspiration! Thanks, Mark!
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
That's great. By the 80s, guitar players were trying to figure out how to outdo each other. I tried to keep the technical stuff out of it. Thanks so much for always supporting. Mark
@michaelhogan7866 19 күн бұрын
Hard to believe you listened to all that Cream while this was going on! I had a buddy who listened to nothing but Aerosmith in the 80s. I introduced him to music and he’s now in an 80s cover band
@8MinuteAxe 13 күн бұрын
Everything changed the day my brother brought home the blue and the red album (the two Beatles greatest hits albums)
@garym5676 Ай бұрын
Where can u get an orange Rok-Lok?
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
The orange ones that I'm using were actually an accident. They were supposed to be red. We are trying out a couple of colors with the next run (white, chrome, and purple I believe). If we get enough interest we will expand the line. Thanks Gary.
@vintagethrifter2114 Ай бұрын
Good idea for a video. You can definitely do more on the subject matter. Wait on the one with Dire Straits Money for Nothing.
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
Thanks so much. I did Money for Nothing in the Enya review and it's tough to pull off exactly like the record. I felt like I set a reasonably high bar with the performances and my rendition of Money needed some work and I ran out of time so I bumped it for Every Breath. Money is certainly one of THE essential riffs of the era no doubt. Take care and have a great week. Mark
@grievouserror Ай бұрын
I can't say yet how much fun they are to play but they're great to listen to. You look like *you're* having fun and it made for a great video. Thanks again, Mark, and excellent choices!
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
Thanks for always taking the time to watch and support. I really do appreciate it. Have a great week. Mark
@CatchersCatch Ай бұрын
Excellent presentation.
@jrocket50 Ай бұрын
Great stuff 8 Minute Axe keep up the good work.
@baddatesandstupidworkstori4653 Ай бұрын
Fully expected "Moving in Stereo" by the Cars based on that thumbnail
@luisalbertoalomarflores5161 Ай бұрын
cool
@sandrataylor51 Ай бұрын
It just goes to show that when you always thought that the 80s was almost as bad as the 90s, there was still some decent stuff being made Mark. You found a few good ones from that decade 🎸🎸🎸🙂
@officialWWM Ай бұрын
Almost as bad? wtf? There was some awesome music being made in the 80s and 90s!
@Domn879 Ай бұрын
*Almost as good as the 90s.
@sandrataylor51 Ай бұрын
@@officialWWM Nowhere near as many excellent or even as good as the ones in the 60s since about 1972 and it seems to be continuing to deteriorate since the imposition of rap, drill and other strange forms of noise that its “performers” claim to be musical but has no resemblance to classical or any other genre of real music before to around the start of this century.
@officialWWM Ай бұрын
@@sandrataylor51 😂😂You sound so old! You do realise not everyone has the same taster, right? 😂
@JSaltyfabricator Ай бұрын
Lady, this has to be the most ignorant comments I have ever read.
@CthulhuInc Ай бұрын
oh, man, this was another great trip down memory lane, mark! my 20s were in the 80s, and there was lots of good stuff around, despite our b*tchin' that things weren't the same "as they useta be"! 😊
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
even the 90s were great considering what came after. :o
@iloveitall Ай бұрын
Music starts 2:42
@freesk8 Ай бұрын
Wow, man, great riffs! You inspired me to play White Room! :)
@freesk8 Ай бұрын
And I love my Rok-Lok! :)
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
It's awesome that what you took from it is how great of a song White Room is. 12 hours in a row of it. LOL. Mark
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
I'm glad you like it. It was a lot of work to bring to market and even more work now. I'm glad it actually makes life easier...in a small way...but still, easier and not harder. :)
@JohnA000 Ай бұрын
some of the tunings were different, just Eb or were there others. they were fun.
@simonprice2845 Ай бұрын
Is that a Taylor 424 koa on your wall?
@yellowcat1310 Ай бұрын
Sweet Child o' Mine is deceptively harder than it looks to play. i get the notes. but they just don't sound right. more practice...
@stankruger6823 Ай бұрын
muting is the key. start with a clean sound and add more gain as you feel more comfortable about how clean you're actually playing the riff. Watch the direction of your picking too.
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
I think you got excellent advice about the muting. I'm actually teaching it to one of my students now and he's having a tough time muting. Take it slowly is the most important thing. And for sure watch your picking. Be consistent with it and try to upstroke the first string notes.
@Dreyno Ай бұрын
Always sounds better when you pick pretty hard. With a fairly heavy pick (something around 1mm).
@yellowcat1310 Ай бұрын
thanks, i'll be trying it watching the picking direction closer and muting.
@jennifermyslajek6015 Ай бұрын
Hey :)
@JN-wg1nl Ай бұрын
Starts at 2:45
@vincentlussier8264 Ай бұрын
So what does the chick in the picture have to do with guitar?
@8MinuteAxe Ай бұрын
It's Phoebe Cates in the classic scene from Fast Times. It's an iconic image from a movie and soundtrack that represents the 80s as well as anything. I could have used leg warmers, a DeLorean, or Molly Ringwald but judging by the 8k views out of the gate, I think it resonates well.
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