Top 10 'Spooky' Riffs
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9 ай бұрын'Creepy', 'atmospheric' and 'dark' are other words you could use to describe these riffs. The kind that send a shiver down your spine. Some of these may be a bit obvious, some maybe you weren't expecting. Whether it's 'hard rock', 'metal', 'post-punk' or 'grunge' it's that kind of playing that seems to have it's roots in the darker side of 60s psychedelic rock.
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TRACKS
0:01 Bauhaus - Dark Entries
0:25 Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath
0:57 Marilyn Manson - Sweet Dreams
1:20 AC/DC - Hell's Bells
1:59 Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
2:24 Led Zeppelin - Dazed And Confused
3:01 Slayer - South Of Heaven
3:36 Alice In Chains - Frogs
4:00 Pink Floyd - The Narrow Way (pt. 2)
4:38 The Beatles - I Want You
TUNINGS
All standard tuning except 'South of Heaven' and 'Frogs' (Eb) and 'I Want You' (Drop D)
@markbarrett4440 9 ай бұрын
I Want You is so heavy that all other riffs gravitate towards it's superdense singularity and impact on it's opaque surfaces
@EvanEdwards 7 ай бұрын
I love how it never resolves on the album, and it's a great mirror on that idea here. After CDs and digital merged album sides together, the cut from what had been the end of side one to instantly jump to Here Comes the Sun is good as well, but that needle hitting the end groove with such abruptness was fantastic. My dad had all the mono and stereo versions of The Beatles albums and he shared his love of them with us as we grew up.
@linuslandin5781 9 ай бұрын
I think that 4th of July by Soundgarden would've been a good one. Very underrated song imo.
@NEMESISISDEAD 8 ай бұрын
Applebite was creepy
@alicemilton8756 9 ай бұрын
These were all cool, but you know it’s not Halloween until you’ve heard Monster Mash 👻
@bloxsy_ 9 ай бұрын
True!
@seatspud 8 ай бұрын
That's more of a Valentine's Day song, in Springfield anyway. ;)
@devintariel3769 7 ай бұрын
Wasn't their a beach boys cover where Mike Love was dancing? Yeah that's terror.
@deantodd8103 7 ай бұрын
@@devintariel3769 Now I have to go do a KZfaq search for the Beach Boys doing Monster Mash. 😂
@deantodd8103 7 ай бұрын
@@devintariel3769 I'm back. And you were right. It was terrifying. Though probably not for the reasons they intended. 😂
@owensw0228 9 ай бұрын
Aero zeppelin by nirvana was a riff that definitely gave me chills the first time I heard it
@kylephelan6989 8 ай бұрын
I came to the comments to mention paper cuts
@guy8029 9 ай бұрын
Another great band for spooky riffs is Type O Negative - hugely inspired by Black Sabbath and The Beatles. Always enjoy your videos, great tones as usual!
@FedeG13 9 ай бұрын
The first minute keyboard riff in Black Nº1 is absolutely terrifying
@guy8029 9 ай бұрын
@@FedeG13 Proper Halloween feel
@FortyWink 8 ай бұрын
Great band, frontman was a bit of a tool though.
@joaquinlezcano2372 8 ай бұрын
@@FortyWinksorry, I'm not English speaker, what does that mean
@raefinoh1172 8 ай бұрын
@@joaquinlezcano2372 an idiot basically
@GregDixson 9 ай бұрын
Props for including Floyd's the Narrow Way ..that track crept me out when I first heard it
@Greeze 8 ай бұрын
Spellbound by Siouxsie and the Banshees is a classic Halloween riff imo, great list though
@Heisenbinks 8 ай бұрын
Alice in chains frogs is such and underrated song, might be their darkest and very best one, glad to see you give it some love here!
@edyb2097 9 ай бұрын
"21st century schizoid man" by King Crimson
@leechild4655 8 ай бұрын
that one came to mind. also jimmy on the bow playing dazed and confused live. it always sounds like he is summoning the demons from hell with that scratchy bow with echo and feedback. crazy!
@avi_69 9 ай бұрын
Nirvana - Big Long Now. Gives me shivers everytime
@moodieboymusic4376 8 ай бұрын
Holy fuck, how have I never heard of this song before???
@MalMotorDedo 8 ай бұрын
Should've played Halloween by the Misfits at the end just for the laughs 😂
@iain9889 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for giving some ideas for new riffs to learn! Another Alice in Chains riff I love that sounds really dark is from "What the Hell have I?"
@bloxsy_ 9 ай бұрын
Ah yes I always forget that one!
@WhenHariMetKari 8 ай бұрын
Not to Touch the Earth. That’s a good one.
@Astrokillernaut 8 ай бұрын
I love how you ended I Want You just like they did on the album! haha
@raphaelfp 9 ай бұрын
Black Sabbath's riff sounds scary even when you listen to it in a low volume. Great selection, Frogs and I Want You were great picks. I've always thought Cross the Breeze by Sonic Youth sound like pure despair until Kim starts singing. It could have made the list. Or anything from Spiderland by Slint. Every song on that album could have been the soundtrack for a horror movie
@LaDaveNCLa 8 ай бұрын
This is so bad ass! I needed to see this
@ryanabbott208 7 ай бұрын
Love that you included Bauhaus!
@BG-bq1qp 8 ай бұрын
amazing guitar tone, i love it!
@aziziabdrahman7756 8 ай бұрын
Perfect birthday present for me. Thanks for this. I also think another spooky riff is Don't Fear the Reaper
@bloxsy_ 8 ай бұрын
Happy Birthday!
@aziziabdrahman7756 8 ай бұрын
Thank you
@adamschmalz1179 8 ай бұрын
Glad to see Dark Entries and Frogs on here.
@briankelly5182 8 ай бұрын
For anyone wanting some tips to get this sound: 1. They're all minor key 2. Frequent use of either the tritone (eg Eb in the key of A minor) or the b6 (F in the key of A minor). Noodling around the fifth (E in the key of A minor) with those notes = SPOOPY I'd also recommend use of the major 7th note, making the V chord major (e.g. using E major in the key of A minor- while E minor is the technical chord of the natural key). Run your fingers over these notes: E F G# A E (higher octave) Eb
@markkrousos5011 8 ай бұрын
God, I have to learn music theory...
@briankelly5182 8 ай бұрын
@@markkrousos5011 Learn the patterns of major/minor keys, how chords are built based on that, and common chord progressions. That's all you need for most songwriting stuff
@mysteriousoul 8 ай бұрын
Metallica’s The Call of Ktulu would have slotted in here nicely - BTW: Great guitar tone!
@XenophobicAlien 8 ай бұрын
“The Doors - People Are Strange” is a spooky riff 😨
@raywt3237 9 ай бұрын
I am suitably spooked, good job
@willbyler6271 8 ай бұрын
i think that black sabbath riff might be the greatest of all time? great vid!!
@jesush.tap-dancingchrist7328 9 ай бұрын
Your vibrato is lovely stuff
@bloxsy_ 9 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@dimitrisilva6452 8 ай бұрын
Floyd's "The Narrow Way" was a pleasant surprise in this video 👍
@nick3718 6 ай бұрын
you alway have the sickest tones dude
@bloxsy_ 6 ай бұрын
Thanks dude
@moodieboymusic4376 8 ай бұрын
4th of July - Soundgarden Good Morning, Captain - Slint Silver Lights - Coconuts New Dawn Fades - Joy Division Micro Cuts - Muse The Fun Machine Took A Shit And Died - Queens of the Stone Age
@aithe1314 9 ай бұрын
these were so spooky!1!!
@amdacool1 8 ай бұрын
Good Morning, Captain by Slint is a spooky favorite for me.
@moodieboymusic4376 8 ай бұрын
i miss you
@Sr19769p 9 ай бұрын
Nice. Killing Joke had some good ones mid-period and The Birthday Party. 'Garden' by The Fall is chilling. 👍
@jumpboy29 9 ай бұрын
Don't Fear the Reaper creeps me more than any of this
@fernandoy.narciso 9 ай бұрын
A Cool idea: play the soundtrack from Wolverine for Sega Genesis, it's essentially 16-bit Black Sabbath
@marioalexanderski9598 8 ай бұрын
Welcome Home Sanitarium is another spooky riff
@jorgenitales5882 9 ай бұрын
My timbers have been positively shivered
@metalheadeli 7 ай бұрын
THE ENDING WOO
@progun4653 9 ай бұрын
Haunting week awaits🎃
@Chamomileable 8 ай бұрын
idk what it is, but "Nosferatu" by Blue Oyster Cult never gets enough love. Super cool spooky song with some great studio effects layered to really sell the effect.
@bloxsy_ 8 ай бұрын
I’ll check that one out. Thanks!
@mikhamaxi904 9 ай бұрын
SY "Protect me you", most of early Nirvana like "Big long now" or (suddenly!) "Clean up before she comes", Tricky "Overcome", Aphex Twin "Curtains", Wojciech Kilar "Vampire hunters" (by the way, many of thriller and horror movies have awesome sinister melodies in their OST, like main theme of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" or "Cape fear"), noise intro in album version "Svoboda" by Grazhdanskay Oborona (first time i listened it in earphones in evening twilights i almost shit my pants i swear))), ending in Pixies's "I bleed", maybe MBV "Lose my breathe" and The Doors "Not to touch the earth" a little, Fuck Buttons "Ribs out", PJ Harvey "The Wind", Carter Burwell "Thugs Passing in the Night", Bobby Krlic "Gassed", Tchaikovsky's "Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy", Zvuki Mu "Gadopyatikna", any dark jazz album and many of my own songs)))
@guitaristslair 9 ай бұрын
"Nooooo!! You cant recognise song by just one power chord!!" Power chord: 0:26
@AdolfStalin 8 ай бұрын
You should do top ten Paul Chain riffs. He improvises a lot but I think he’d be down your alley as well as mine
@lach3763 8 ай бұрын
The intro riff to Bull in the Heather always creeps me tf out
@roachrip 7 ай бұрын
Frogs .. sick spooky tripy
@NotAlfmann1 8 ай бұрын
Any thing off bad moon rising by sonic youth is pretty spooky
@solunnne 8 ай бұрын
I need to learn them all 🕸
@tiki_trash 9 ай бұрын
That ad was 15 seconds. thankyou for all that other shit.
@n2ogames2022 7 ай бұрын
4:40 this Beatles song makes me think that they invented doom metal
@LautaHern 8 ай бұрын
Amon Düül II - Between the Eyes Echo & the Bunnymen - No Dark Things The Cure - The Top Neu - Negativland Siouxie and The Banshees - Voodoo Dolly
@nintendobl00d 9 ай бұрын
wooooo
@allantucker4972 8 ай бұрын
Maybe Halloween by samhain or some John Christ riffs
@Owen_plays_music1049 8 ай бұрын
Cool list, i might have added Angry Chair instead of Frogs :D
@deantodd8103 7 ай бұрын
In addition to the obvious choices - "Black Sabbath," "South of Heaven," "Hell's Bells" - I was stoked to see the Beatles' "She's So Heavy." I remember the first time I heard that song on the radio at an old factory job where I once worked, I thought at first it was an obscure Black Sabbath song that I had somehow missed - despite owning every album they had made with Ozzy Osbourne or Ronnie James Dio.
@sherri573 8 ай бұрын
Paper cuts by Nirvana should be in this video Like, these riffs got that spoooooooky vibe but Paper cuts turns on my fight or flight mechanism
@corporalclegg914 9 ай бұрын
01:21 did anyone else hear the Bells (in your head) that aren’t there?!..or did I just confirm me insanity?!?!
@germangonzalocastroPhantomLord 8 ай бұрын
Great list, i would put Silverchair untitled (the breakdown riff exactly) and Mailman by soundgarden XD
@postpunk6947 9 ай бұрын
Well, well.
@wavving3alupa 9 ай бұрын
for me godspeed you! black emperor have spooky and wild song under name Mladic
@sumspring4112 9 ай бұрын
One riff on the punkier side that I consider spooky is Totalimmortal. Could just be because it was record for a Halloween ep, but still.
@tommasopellegrini9888 9 ай бұрын
Love You To of The Beatles is also very spooky
@leechild4655 8 ай бұрын
had a friend tell me the song Elenore Rigby sounded spooky and it does have a spooky feel to it now that i hear it that way.
@FortyWink 8 ай бұрын
Do some Corrosion of Conformity riffs.
@MrOoYT 8 ай бұрын
You could’ve played Satori Part 1 by Flower Travellin’ Band. I’ve heard people say slayer were inspired by it for south of heaven, and even though I don’t think it’s true they are still quite similar
@lol_cccc9195 8 ай бұрын
Hey man it sounds wierd but im looking for exact this fender cyclone every where and wanted to ask if you would sell it or know someone who sells it 🤘
@alekblaser 3 ай бұрын
Big Long Now - Nirvana spooky as hell dawwg
@lynnpehrson8826 5 ай бұрын
Early bauhaus goes hard
@guop59 9 ай бұрын
sweet dreams, Marilyn Mason version for me it is the best
@dreamofyouandi 6 ай бұрын
videos that make you realize how incomplete the black sabbath opening is without bass
@meanmetalmike666 8 ай бұрын
10 Spooky Sabbath Riffs 😊
@bloxsy_ 8 ай бұрын
Or 10 heaviest Sabbath riffs? Any excuse to play some more Sabbath 😅
@HandHdigital 7 ай бұрын
"Love Hate Love" is also a moody one by Alice in Chains
@justmichael2508 8 ай бұрын
I HAD TOO MUCH TO DREAM
@Lleimzjames 8 ай бұрын
A forest by the cure
@YaBoyBLove 8 ай бұрын
Frogs is the darkest sounding song…. Cantrell was a master at making a guitar weep.
@ConeFlower-gx2qk 7 ай бұрын
Yo Bauhaus dude I feel like you listen to everything I do
@Ixe2077 8 ай бұрын
If you make a part 2 add Rx Queen by Deftones
@ajanator5263 7 ай бұрын
would definitely include cirice by ghost
@paressehylton 8 ай бұрын
Nice sound. What you using?
@bloxsy_ 8 ай бұрын
Thanks. I’m playing through a boss katana amp
@adrianorozas6172 8 ай бұрын
don, aman - slint
@jsanch7 9 ай бұрын
You didn’t do Spooky by Classics IV 😔
@FriendlyNeighborhoodBallsack 8 ай бұрын
Mayhem - Freezing Moon, easily.
@Faks.09 9 ай бұрын
Senser - Oyster The riff after the first verse ☠️
@_Corndawgg 8 ай бұрын
Never seen a mustang with a strat bridge, is that a cyclone?
@andrewpappas9311 7 ай бұрын
Some other songs I’d have included here as well would’ve been Black No. 1 or Christian Woman by Type O Negative or Cirice or Ritual by Ghost (or just about anything from their entire discovery)
@tiki_trash 9 ай бұрын
You want to hear scary? She came in through the bathroom window.
@bloxsy_ 9 ай бұрын
Maxwells Silver Hamer
@markbarrett4440 9 ай бұрын
@@bloxsy_ 'The horror, the horror' 😱😱😱😱😱
@leechild4655 8 ай бұрын
helter skelter starts off like a death metal song and death metal wasnt even a thing at that time. unreal@@markbarrett4440
@andrewhardage6561 5 ай бұрын
That last was "Heavy".
@DoNuT_1985 7 ай бұрын
Droning seems to be a thing with those ...
@jmason61 8 ай бұрын
The Sabbath riff is based on an old classical music thing about tri- discord sounds....or something like that? Anyone knows? PS you have a version of Dead Souls that's killer
@louiseoc6844 8 ай бұрын
The sabbath riff was inspired by Holsts the Planets, Mars the bringer of war. The guitarist was trying to play it but didn't quite get it right. Mars is one of the all time great pieces of classical music
@IgNaceus Ай бұрын
@@louiseoc6844Plus the heavy blues sound of bands such as Cream, The Jimi Hendrix Experience and Ten Years After.
@csnide6702 8 ай бұрын
No "Hand of Doom."..?
@Supernautiloid 8 ай бұрын
What guitar is that?
@bloxsy_ 8 ай бұрын
Fender cyclone
@octavechords 9 ай бұрын
no birthday party?
@Sr19769p 9 ай бұрын
Yeah I thought that. Rowland.S.Howard. The riff on 'Garden' by The Fall snags me, really spine-tingling.
@commondog3956 8 ай бұрын
The Beatles wins the whole show. That is one of the darkest tunes I have ever heard in all my 37 years.
@jmr5707 6 ай бұрын
No Cramp's, huh?😩
@Pedro_Alvarez1601 8 ай бұрын
Tuning?
@bloxsy_ 8 ай бұрын
I've put the tunings in the description box now.
@Pedro_Alvarez1601 8 ай бұрын
@@bloxsy_ thank u
@jonnuanez7183 8 ай бұрын
You should have just cut off I Want You (She's So Heavy) right in the middle of playing it like the original song.
@ivancruz3522 4 ай бұрын
No danzig?????
@professoradaurimatematicaf1192 6 ай бұрын
Top guitar player man. Covers Social Distortion?
@barbillosantander8226 8 ай бұрын
Segunda parte? I miss halloween -Sonic Youth, Big long now- Nirvana, What the hell i… -Alice in Chains. Bye ✌️
@jeconi5250 8 ай бұрын
Shouldve gone for dead skin mask instead of south of heaven
@ThaPhantazm 8 ай бұрын
Since when is dazed & confused spooky?
@IgNaceus Ай бұрын
Since its very inception.
@Fullmoonhowl101 8 ай бұрын
None of those were "spooky" exept the Sabbath riff
@skyportalmusic7178 7 ай бұрын
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