Rockers Play the First Riffs They Ever Wrote

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Even the greatest guitarists had to start somewhere. Check out this collection of rockers playing us the first riffs they ever wrote, whether in their lives or with their best-known bands.
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@RobinSijtsma Ай бұрын

50% of the video: Plays the crappiest teenage riff ever Other 50%: First riff ever was our number one song to date

@jyejye1077 20 күн бұрын

A lot of them Like Satchel, Ben Bruce, and Michael Paget got asked what was the first Riff they wrote for their Band.

@upstating Ай бұрын

"...jealous of all the kids on the subway, and shit." I felt that.

@mattc8723 Ай бұрын

The 'Cold Beer' riff is a solid banger tho.

@andrewpappas9311 Ай бұрын

That riff does go hard though

@DaP84 Ай бұрын

Just a chromatic walk down. Similar to Green Day's "Brain Stew".

@RobotronSage 20 күн бұрын

@@DaP84 Yeah no shit did you read the title of the video? It's called ''guitarists play their first riff''

@DaP84 20 күн бұрын

@@RobotronSage yeah, but I countered op calling it a banger. Somithing that rudimentary isn't a banger, it's at most a noob exercise lol. Green Day gave it finesse, made it a riff by combining it with that rhythm

@XtremeKillah101 Ай бұрын

Jim root mic quality sounds like he’s calling from Mars

@BetinaRad Ай бұрын

\m/ 0:09 Lzzy Hale 1:20 Satchel 2:18 Jim Root 3:23 Mark Tremonti & Myles Kennedy 4:39 William Duvall 5:14 Ben Bruce 6:15 Michael Paget 7:13 Mark Morton 7:54 Bill Kelliher 8:31 Buzz Osborne 9:25 Kenny Hickey 9:50 Kirk Windstein

@X66966 Ай бұрын

Thank You. 🤝

@k7l3rworkman97 Ай бұрын

You rock 🤘🏼♥️⚡️

@layjahlove 22 күн бұрын

I knew that was Lizzy hale i used to live here when i was in HS

@nicolausteslaus 19 күн бұрын

Lzzy Hale is a really shitty guitar player

@KaninTuzi Ай бұрын

4:39 William Duvall was probably the only one who actually showed the real first one. The rest of them just chose early riffs.

@seste87 Ай бұрын

Shows a lack of ego and comfort with oneself.

@bray2424 Ай бұрын

in reality they've been doing it so long they probably don't remember the exact first riff they wrote. I don't know the first riff I wrote. I don't think many people do

@Speckhuggarn Ай бұрын

I was just trying to remember my actual first off, there's just no way to remember.

@CoffeeStain-Music Ай бұрын

@@bray2424 If they don't remember, they sure had some elaborate, detailed backstories to go with their supposed "first riff".

@tunizra Ай бұрын

@@seste87 which side is insecure? cause the aic guy is not

@toxiccat0988 Ай бұрын

7:33 "i play it till it sounds cool and then i see if i can do it again" thats cold

@bigol9223 17 күн бұрын

Way it goes

@Vicaralus Ай бұрын

Mark Tremonti writing With Arms Wide Open as one of his first riffs is just amazing.

@cainealexander-mccord2805 Ай бұрын

A lead-off home run. That *is* amazing.

@the_ch3mist Ай бұрын

lol beyond horrible song

@SkitchOnGuitar Ай бұрын

@@the_ch3mistanother creed hater

@the_ch3mist Ай бұрын

@@SkitchOnGuitar Who doesn’t hate creed 😂 One of the worst bands ever

@halesbythabale2873 Ай бұрын

@@the_ch3mistsuch a butt opinion

@JasonKB Ай бұрын

My first riff was 3 power chords right next to each other into a bad groove. I called it a song, “Smut.” It totally sucked. But I was just so happy I could make some kind of sound come out of my guitar. A start. I was on my way.

@noahmusicstuff Ай бұрын

Lmao

@BaldTorment 26 күн бұрын

Mine was three chromatic power chords at on the first three frets, I was in drop tuning trying to copy the slam part from Liege of Inveracity by Suffocation, it was ass.

@noahmusicstuff 26 күн бұрын

@@BaldTorment Lmfao

@ravenelder7325 Ай бұрын

COLD BEER! 💚🖤🤘

@andrewpappas9311 Ай бұрын

That riff does go hard though

@louisl7788 Ай бұрын

That's like when Spinal Tap say their early stuff was rubbish and it sounds better than what they're doing now 😅🙃

@burritosupreme333 Ай бұрын

My kinda song🤘

@aidananderson6043 Ай бұрын

"Cold Beer" did not disappiont. Validation. We are Kenny.

@DirtyDirkDiggler Ай бұрын

In reality, pretty much nobody (myself included) remembers the first riff they ever wrote.

@Big_betty2 Ай бұрын

I actually do because I happened to catch a video of it and I never got it. It’s so basic though

@ejiggle Ай бұрын

idk man, I for sure remember the first few I wrote and the first few I learned lol. That shit is burrned into my brain because it's all I could play and I just played it over and over

@earlenglish4674 Ай бұрын

@@Big_betty2I feel like mines probably so basic you probably couldn’t even call it a riff lol

@Mariooo57 Ай бұрын

I only remember because I transcribed it on Guitar Pro back in the day, otherwise I probably wouldn't!

@matturner6890 22 күн бұрын

No way, I definitely remember mine.

@jamiemacdonald436 Ай бұрын

I saw Crowbar open up for Pantera on the Vulgar Display tour. I wasn't familiar with them when I walked in, but I was an instantly a fan.

@dethkon Ай бұрын

Type O Negative guy with “COLD BEER!” wins so far

@cainealexander-mccord2805 Ай бұрын

2:53 I understand Randy Rhoads was exactly the same way. He used to snarl at his, apparently. RIP RR.

@xirrantos Ай бұрын

"not much has changed," LOL

@DenisBeskov Ай бұрын

yeah, this way you can tell TypOs had a lot of irony besides grim image

@RobotronSage 20 күн бұрын

yea lmao

@stevesharts361 Ай бұрын

I was watching this video and then my neighbor came and we watched it together. He said that this video changed his life and touched his heart. I then went and rented a projector in a big field and all my neighbors watched it and it changed their lives too. We all are so grateful. Thank You for this video…

@beanzburriton4263 Ай бұрын

your neighbor is worthless and he used you

@lucasguillaneux7240 Ай бұрын

What the hell 😂

@cainealexander-mccord2805 Ай бұрын

DuVall makes me think Lenny Kravits and Phil Lynott had a kid.

@yootoob1001001 Ай бұрын

His was my favorite story.

@rustyshackleford1 Ай бұрын

hahaha when I first saw him in this video for a brief second I was like Lenny Kravits? 🤣🤣

@cainealexander-mccord2805 Ай бұрын

@@rustyshackleford1 So it's not just me!

@rustyshackleford1 Ай бұрын

@@cainealexander-mccord2805 haha definitely not 😅

@StacheBigote Ай бұрын

You can tell who is being honest and who isn’t.

@johnnyRandomadness Ай бұрын

Like who?

@chayseferrier3793 25 күн бұрын

@@johnnyRandomadness Duvall was pretty honest

@notedcorpse 23 күн бұрын

im kinda autistic so can you help me out

@alexion2001 19 күн бұрын

I don't know if it's honesty or they just misunderstood the question, cause a few of them said "the first riff I wrote for bandname" meaning it's probably not the first riff they ever came up with.

@ianspeckmaier9565 17 күн бұрын

Lmao. You're absolutely right.

@oriontikkit Ай бұрын

i remember the first riff i wrote. no fucking clue how i used to be able to down pick that fast lmao.

@mushafasa 24 күн бұрын

I feel that, my arm cramps so bad when I try to play some of the stuff the same way I used to 15 years ago lol

@figdestroyer Ай бұрын

Cold Beer is a hit!!!🤘

@benwasilewski Ай бұрын

Kirk Windstein with the most honest answer on this video lol

@texasrebel210. Ай бұрын

It’s crazy hearing some famous musicians home setups 🤘🏼

@michaelespinosa9168 Ай бұрын

1:50 gotta keep en separated into the pit

@mrfleisch1636 Ай бұрын

Mark Morton seems to be such a sweetheart !! 😊 His riff is great btw ❤

@dmitryowens Ай бұрын

So William Duvall wrote Paint It Black by The Rolling Stones - got it 😎

@WitchSmeller74 Ай бұрын

Cold Beer is the best one. Rocks!

@NonnyStrikes 20 күн бұрын

This video needs to gain ground! Underrated! I still remember the first song my drummer and I wrote. Open string Dtuning, harmonic 3, 3rd fret to 1st fret ha. Epic.

@TheAwfulWaffle95 21 күн бұрын

I think it’s interesting that a lot of guitarists when playing or demonstrating, they will shorten the empty space almost as if skipping a beat. Probably just to not bore people and to get to the point. Cool video.

@coryhoff6997 Ай бұрын

Cold Beer!!!

@eric-. 18 күн бұрын

Cold Beer is exactly the kind of song I have been searching out lately. I want that whole song, and some other slow but heavy stuff like that.

@HonzoNebro Ай бұрын

As always, the firsts things a band makes is what defines it.

@ankhor9252 17 күн бұрын

Thank you LDub. This is good stuff.

@mikeschaeffer530 7 күн бұрын

I've been playing for a little over 20 years and I'll be damned if I can remember the first riff I LEARNED let alone the first riff I WROTE...

@andrewpappas9311 Ай бұрын

I remember the first riff I wrote was back in 2017 when I was 18 was to a song that I called Inhuman and thought that it sounded really cool with this melodic droning tone over it, but it didn't take me until a couple years later to realize that I just took the main riff (and subsequently the main chord progression) from Pictures of Matchstick Men by Status Quo

@sundaetheguitar Ай бұрын

Damn

@GibsonVienna Ай бұрын

I don't know why, but now I need a cold Beer.

@PirminZemp2731 Ай бұрын

Very Metal Riff Awesome

@noahmusicstuff Ай бұрын

Which one?

@ragberkotobuki41 21 күн бұрын

The boy is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And he is still absolutely broken

@gotohellaaron Ай бұрын

That "It's Not You" thing is cool and I don't even know the song.

@randomrob2221 20 күн бұрын

Imagine writing your very first riff as a band, and it was the final episode, that song was mind blowing back in the day

@fran06585 Ай бұрын

It would be great make an album with all first riff songs from these people.

@user-py3cl5el4i 23 күн бұрын

Moral of the story. Jim root and mark tremonti are naturals.

@davidg1612 Ай бұрын

Was Jim Root underwater or something? Lmao

@ab4246 Ай бұрын

Same assignment, interesting how some folks go back to the beginning & others only go back as far as their egos allow them too.

@Bumbaskida 9 күн бұрын

3:01, damn that's how i feel. I have always been able to just get it, the problem is i will be doing a riff and not have any idea what i am playing. Its like being able to read different language and pronounce every world perfectly, yet you have no idea what any of the worlds mean.

@sashenzee3779 Ай бұрын

Buzz ozbornes camera is straight out of 90s xd

@dmitryowens Ай бұрын

Jim Root's as well.

@mariuscervantes3845 10 күн бұрын

7:46 when you try to play foxy lady for first time.

@RowanCowley-nt5fb Ай бұрын

Wow, I had no idea William Duvall wrote the Up & Go protein jingle.

@dmitryowens Ай бұрын

I thought it was Paint It Black.

@ChaosPootato Ай бұрын

Crazy how many musicians don't have the most basic setup for recording in their PC

@mushafasa 24 күн бұрын

I don't expect a lot of them to know that much about recording, not really a requirement to playing. Most of them probably only ever recorded on a 4 track themselves.

@lyanzo768 24 күн бұрын

Cold beer sounds like the riff from 'Simulation' by Avenged Sevenfold

@mikeanderson1370 Ай бұрын

The first riff I can remember writing was based on the idea that "hey, I can basically due what Chet Atkins did, except in rock" and I basically was playing a bass line while picking a melody. Everything I ever wrote before that was just strumming chords..basic strumming patterns. I showed off that riff tons of times, over the years, but never really used it until a good decade later, when it ended up on a band's album.

@FeuerUngeheuer-ö Ай бұрын

1:50 Sounds to me like Johnny Blade from Sabbath 😈

@JakeTheDawgMusicOfficial Күн бұрын

i made a really similar melody thing to what duvall made without even knowing about it lol

@maxzubic Ай бұрын

I came for Lzzy Hale.

@CaseyWinehouse Ай бұрын

Gross. Didn’t need to know that, man.

@maxzubic Ай бұрын

@@CaseyWinehouse "Came" as in watched the video because she was in the thumbnail. Y'all have such dirty minds. 🤦‍♂️

@haydenmlundgreen Ай бұрын

@@maxzubic”gullible” backwards spells elbillug

@CharlieWielowski Ай бұрын

@@CaseyWinehouse For Fs sake 😂😭

@noahmusicstuff Ай бұрын

@@maxzubicLmaoooo

@Bryman5000 25 күн бұрын

I remember mine. It was one string. In fact I’m gonna record it as a song for fun

@_ukhammers 26 күн бұрын

very humble guitar players :)

@CaptCanuck18 3 күн бұрын

Fuck, Set Me Straight is such a great song

@AlexCantTalk Ай бұрын

I have no clue what the first riff I wrote was but I remember liking it lmao

@vinylated Ай бұрын

I'm stealing COLD BEER. I highly suggest you all do the same too 😁👍

@stephandarnutzer5622 Ай бұрын

We should all make a pact to play "Cold Beer" at open mic nights.

@mushafasa 24 күн бұрын

I hide mine in the crisper drawer and it doesn't get stolen as often.

@bobhope4949 Ай бұрын

lol I found a tape from highschool that had a song I completely forgot I wrote, whole band in my parents garage lol it was pretty solid, I was like damn…….. I was a lot better back then, sounded like zeppelin mixed with sabbath guitar wise, vocals were incubus and not poppy incubus but aggressive incubus, lol still hang out with the drummer and showed him the tape and he forgot about it too lol

@tractorgt Ай бұрын

I ran sound for that crowbar guy. 🤘

@krisfrederick5001 Ай бұрын

I still remember the first riff I ever wrote and it was only two chords. I guess that makes it memorable! It sounded flamenco yet I had never heard that style. Music is about feeling and spirit not what makes sense. Some times it Smells Like Teen Spirit.

@user-ft4jo8ev1v Ай бұрын

Kirk's Tonight song is a total hit!!! Ramones style

@SLENDRBOI 21 күн бұрын

The first lady holds the guitar and plays it like she's 3 weeks in... Question is, why?

@aaronhaynes3067 Ай бұрын

was Jim Root a part of JSOC? couldn't find any relation in my searches. spotted the blackbeard on his wall and its not very common to come across as a decorative piece in someone's home.

@thefacelessmist Ай бұрын

COLD BEER!!

@beanzburriton4263 Ай бұрын

you can tell buzz is like 'this is how good i was, i showed kurt everything" lol. his attitude has always stank

@stephandarnutzer5622 Ай бұрын

Im just gonna put 9:25 here so everyone can have quick access to "Cold Beer"😂

@BudderTak0 24 күн бұрын

the alter bridge riff sounded like dust in the wind by kansas

@TheOnlyGuitarFather Ай бұрын

The first riff I ever wrote gets better each time I play it

@seanriley2534 10 күн бұрын

William Duvall accidentally writing alternate universe Paint it Black is hilarious lol

@taylormay9938 Ай бұрын

Michael Paget reminds me so much of Ser Davos from GoT... 😂

@LaurieValdez-zk3dy Ай бұрын

Everybody is their own worst critic😂

@TailicaiCorporation 25 күн бұрын

I can do that cuz I still play it to this day… nothing fantastic but it was when I first was learning and I wrote it in 6/8. It’s kind of an entire song but no lyrics behind it just what I played on guitar. Really minor and I was in my emo phase musically (no skinny jeans or anything, just mcr and what not ) I wish I could play it, but I kind of want my band to use it at some point.

@ianspeckmaier9565 17 күн бұрын

Satchel definitely almost said "get girls".

@samtheman7066 20 күн бұрын

I'm not myself no musician or have any skills or doesn't understand a lot of playing guitar but my riff wasn't ever that good but it was heavy. Only grabbing the guitar from up the neck and playing the first two strings and maybe using only one chord? And my friend back then said "Wow, just wow" and I said "Sounds shit, right?". Think I was 13 years old and started to think that I'll never be a guitarist or rock star whatsoever so I only wanted to smash my acoustic to the floor. Never did, tho. And still my head is running full of riffs like it used to be back when I was teenager. But hey, I love that COLD BEER!

@l8tapex 7 күн бұрын

yep Cold Beer simple works

@sideshowblob 12 күн бұрын

The only one's I believe are Kenny Hickey and Kirk Windstein

@Castlevi3w Ай бұрын

tHOUGHT IT WAS jUSTIN hAWKINS IN THE THUMBNAIL

@pedromarques5682 Ай бұрын

The first riff that Jim Root wrote it sounds like old school Megadeth!!! It almost seems it belongs on Killing is my business... or in Peace Sells!!!!!

@ChloeBrown-wn7yy 8 күн бұрын

Why are some of these guys filming on a webcam from 2007?

@FixNewsPlease Ай бұрын

You should have talked to Dany Villarreal

@vladv5126 20 күн бұрын

Not gonna lie, Cold Beer is an absolute banger.

@Guitarplayer724 Ай бұрын

Isn’t Satchel Ben Stiller with a wig?!

@InkedMisfit Ай бұрын

Lizzy ❤ a hometown hero

@joeknowles3721 Ай бұрын

The only one being honest is the guy from crowbar. The rest are like oh yeah I remember the first time I touched a guitar I picked it up and instantly played this (plays epic tapping van haylen solo)

@aaronfeller141 Ай бұрын

Isn't it about the first one they wrote and not about the first song they played? A lot of em also say "yeah, the first song I wrote for (Band name)

@Dhanijel1 Ай бұрын

I also believe Kenny, the second to last.

@vuri3798 Ай бұрын

I don't know William Duvall doesn't sound that unrealistic either 🤣 But honestly half of them are playing the first riff they wrote with their band, not litteraly first one ever. As for the more "complicated" ones, I'd argue that's how they sound today but I'm sure there were a lot of wrong notes in between back in the days.

@KTF0 Ай бұрын

Hard to remember tho. I'm below average/mediocre, and I don't remember the first riff I wrote.

@guitarplayer1495 Ай бұрын

the tapping section of the EVH solo is really easy. like beginner level... tapping is not difficult.

@philipwilson3430 17 күн бұрын

After hearing most of that shite I don't feel so bad about myself.

@SaulG88 Ай бұрын

That last riff from Kirk Windstein doesn't sound so bad actually..

@forestsnow6508 Ай бұрын

Accirding to RB, Thank Roger Glover for Smoke on the Water riff.

@fromhereon 19 күн бұрын

Kenny rules

@valinhorn42 Ай бұрын

From the thumbnail, I thought that was Justin Hawkins holding the white Firebird

@dmitryowens Ай бұрын

Justin rocks!

@valinhorn42 Ай бұрын

@@dmitryowens I agree, and his ramblings are fun to listen to.

@dmitryowens Ай бұрын

@valinhorn42 He's a cool dude. A little arrogant, but most lead singers are.

@valinhorn42 Ай бұрын

@@dmitryowens He's entertaining doing it, and he does play it for laughs. Plus I like the music of The Darkness. But you have to admit he can look like a lady at a distance or in a small thumbnail 😂

@Kruncklenucker Ай бұрын

Kirk Windstein = George R. R. Martin's stoner-rock cousin

@BataraKado Ай бұрын

duvall with that lame ass riff is soo realistic of when guitarists learn and try to improve there skills, you dont start out as a rockstar.. also king buzzo always is the goat... same with kenny hickey, fuckin COLD BEER!!