Riffs you've never mastered

[Bent out of shape]

I've still to learn the main Captain Nemo theme, only recently got on top of Doctor Doctor live version lol. Probably many others.....eg LA connection . How about everyone else?

[Osky]

I'm sure everyone else here can play this standing on one leg whilst drinking a pint blindfolded but for the life of me I can't get my fingers around the intro to Sweet Child O Mine.

[Bent out of shape]

Ha....struggle w that too!

[M11]

There are many, but off the top of my head, Finding My Way by Rush. I just can't get those pull-offs in correct time.

[Agrippa]

I still struggle with the "Take me Away" riff, by Buck Dharma and BOC, it´s the repeated G# Bb notes at the "end" of the riff I can´t get in rythm.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2ZvIe7Iia8

[Tatosh Guitar]

I am afraid in my case the question should be "riffs you HAVE mastered". Easier and shorter answer...

[Dr Nick]

Not a specific riff, but I've seriously neglected the fast downstroke move - I tend to alternate pick instead, which for something like Number of the Beast, makes for interesting string skipping moments.

[Tatosh Guitar]

Dr Nick said:


Not a specific riff, but I've seriously neglected the fast downstroke move - I tend to alternate pick instead, which for something like Number of the Beast, makes for interesting string skipping moments.


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I was better at playing that one when I was 20 than now. Getting the whole alternate thing going kinda screwed my downstrokes, and that kinda bugs me.



Also, like others in this thread, I don't think I have ever been fully able to play that opening link to Sweet Child Of Mine right. Mostly because I don't care for that song or GnR in general. But I feel I should be able to play it since everybody and their mamma does...Also, my wife is not familiar with 90% of the stuff I usually play, but that one she knows, and has commented aloud on how I can't play it, which pisses me cause she probably thinks I suck at guitar, period. To be fair, she is probably right anyway... :'(

[M11]

I should add that there's a lot of riffs that were recorded using nothing but down strokes/strums that I alternate pick/strum, otherwise it's a one way ticket to tendonitis. For example, the entire Ramones discography

[Duojett71]

Adrian's opening riff to "Back In The Village". I can't seem to get the picking pattern right.