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Initially, and a similar sort of thing going on, the main riffs on 'Reelin' in the years' and 'Life in the Fast Lane'
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Quick listening just seems to show big chunky chords hit hard, but there’s so much more going on.
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Found it really hard to play.
2. Every breath you take, the finger patterns - hard to sustain throughout a whole song
3. Neil Young is hard to replicate because of the (beautiful) imperfections
I would also add anything by Paul Kossoff because his bend-vibrato technique is so masterful and hard to replicate.
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Mr. Brightside is just d*amn awkward - the intro riff in semi-tuned down guitar is nasty. The verse parts feature 5 fret stretches.
I'm currently playing this in standard tuning capo-ing at 4th fret.. but the intro riff just can't be replicated - you need those 2 b and e string notes bouncing around in unison for it to sound right.
Oddly enough a riff I struggle with is Judas Priest's Breaking The Law - the end part of that riff resolving back to the C catches me out if I haven't played it for a while.
Plug in Baby seemed a strange pattern at first and tripped me up a couple of times, now it's fine.
Sex on fire is easy enough but throws a lot of drummers ... as does Drive my car by the Beatles
I think sometimes I assume a simple riff has more going on and I complicate it myself for no reason. As ever the trick is to stop and have a really good listen.
Over the last couple of years I’ve auditioned more bass players than I care to remember. Since time has been limited we’ve asked them all to learn the same three songs and first up has always been Roxanne by The Police (which we do three semitones down from the original). The reason we picked this one is because, we thought, it was easy and it would be a good way to settle people down before moving onto something more challenging, but it just seems to trip people up for some reason.
As a former bass player I can just pick up the bass a play this no bother but it amazes me how many people struggle with anything that’s not on the beat.
The rhythm part, where it goes from the sus2 chord to the regular chord.
It never sounds right when I play along with the record, and I find it hard to play and sing it, or at least to play ot in a way that has the feel of the original.
One thing I learnt playing covers for 40 years is give yourself a moment to get into the vibe. A moment to remember how the riff or song sounds in terms of how it makes you feel rather than what notes it comprises of. Because that's what enables a decent player with an Epi LP and a cheap amp sound more like Brian May / Slash / Jimmy Page than some other guy with 4K's worth of gear. Play the right notes but get the feel. You can cop a Van Halen riff / solo note for note but if it doesn't have that aggression then it doesn't sound right and that applies to all music.
You've got to play it using Cobain's sloppy barre technique to get the sus 4s in.
It's one of those simple riffs everybody assumes is stupidly easy but there's a bit more going on.
See also Metallica - Enter Sandman - most people don't know the way Hetfield actually plays it holding down sustaining notes...
I keep stressing this to my lot. Every song has to feel right and that's way more important than getting the minutia of timing and tone exactly per the record. Every song and every player has their own swing or bounce or groove or whatever but all of them have something that makes them unique.