12 Acoustic Riffs You Are Allowed To Play in Guitar Stores
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2024
- A list of 12 acoustic riffs you can play while trying out guitars :)
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0:00 Pinball Wizard - The Who
0:30 Is There Anybody Out There? - Pink Floyd
0:55 I Stay Away - Alice in Chains
1:20 Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
1:53 The Rain Song - Led Zeppelin
2:25 Jigsaw Falling Into Place - Radiohead
2:50 Norwegian Wood - The Beatles
3:08 My Friends - Red Hot Chili Peppers
3:33 Master Exploder - Tenacious D
3:46 Welcome Home - Coheed And Cambria
4:07 Drive - Incubus
4:30 Dear God - Avenged Sevenfold
4:56 People who support the channel - Hudba
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eww too much emo on his channel it's not 2007 LOL!
Funny, I can’t play snow to save my life and I’ve been practicing for years but I can play never going back again without difficulty.. I guess different skills come more naturally for different people sometimes
Outstanding. One thing though…do they get pissy with you for the alternate tunings? Happened to me a couple of time with Rain Song, even when I said it tune it back after
If I ever hear a person playing “Never Going Back Again” in a guitar shop, I’ll buy them the guitar they’re playing it on. That song is god-tier guitar work.
Right? I would do the same
What if it's not played well...
@@NoMusiciansInMusicAnymore If it’s played well enough that I know what it is, it’s played MILES better than I could ever do. So. Yeah.
@@WorldsOkayestSorcerer haha, fair call.
and that's only IF they can get it tuned to drop d without someone stopping them.
Seeing you not being able to do Never Going Back Again is such a reliever. Even an amazing guitarist like you can’t do everything. Makes me feel better about my subpar skills
Yeah, I would need months to be honest. That type of finger picking is something I really can't do haha 😆
That shit is so hard. It’s one of my bucket list songs. The syncopated finger picking is insane and then you gotta sing too
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Ironically, it's one of the easier ones for me to play and understand on this list. I learned to play guitar from folk songs using my fingers, so that syncopation is totally natural. Give me a pick and tell me to play lead and I'll sound like every 8-year-old that's ever walked into a Guitar Center.
It’s easier to play with E down to D and A down to G
What do you mean he was not able?
I love playing The Rain Song... every five years when I feel like tuning my guitar to it..
Oh yeah. No way someone's gonna play it in a store but... It's a fun one. I used to tune into it all the time however I learned to play in that tuning a little bit so sometimes I wouldn't tune into standard for days on end.
It's definitely an odd tuning and then trying to jump into another song after you just can't do it you need to have a second guitar as backup
Thank you Nikola for having me on this video! :)
Thank you for the help Simon! Appreciate it 😁
@@nikolagugoski I noticed, now I'm going to your page.
It is great to see a real lefty and not just someone who forgot to reverse their phone video
The intro to Crazy on You by Heart is a great acoustic part, fun one to play.
The Rain Song is one of the most gorgeous songs ever.
Glad to see Coheed getting some recognition. The Light and the Glass is another great acoustic riff of their's that I really love. But of course it had to be Welcome Home, its one of the best riffs ever created, acoustic or otherwise.
Good vídeo like always, love especially 5 riffs
Is There Anybody Out There is such an amazing song but so underrated, glad you put it in the video =))
Great list, Big ups for Aic and A7x for sure
Very cool list and you make it so easy to learn these songs! We should be very thankful that people like you make it this easy. Btw, I would have added Solsbury Hill to this list. Such a fun song to play.
Seeing Simon Macias out of nowhere just cause you couldn’t play Never Going aback Again was really surprising and pleasant. Love both your channels 👍
Simon is the best :)
Master Exploder. I see you are a man of fine taste. Excellent choice.
I'd also recommend Thick as a Brick by Jethro Tull and Trains by Porcupine Tree, I'd be surprised if anyone at the guitar store would actually recognize either
goat as always. the my friends intro is so underrated and if it was JF folks woulda say its the greatest riff ever. and i love the face that it sounds similar to john lol
Respect for that back-to-back of Coheed & Cambria and Incubus, nice to see someone play Welcome Home correctly for a change 🤩
Thanks for watching! Appreciate it 😁
RHCP, Tenacious D, Coheed and Incubus back to back.The only thing missing is the old couch in the garage, a bong and some Shiner Bock and I'm right back in 2007. Lol
Correctly? Oh no I don’t even want to know what most people do
@@therewasascene I was thinking of Music is Win's '50 Legendary Licks on 50 Amazing Guitars' where he plays it really sloppily and with an awful tone where it's almost unrecognisable
@@iliketrains3495 lol I’m about to go check that again
Oh my. Yep sloppy and wrong.
Man, never going back again is my Everest. I’ve tried many times over the years to catch that particular flame
Rain Song needs an asterisk for the re-tuning. 😆
The massive boxed set tab actually has it in standard tuning, but the correct tuning is way easier to play (and actually sounds correct).
Great set of songs, although the retuning of the guitar for The Rain Song may be a little much to just strum for a couple of minutes in a guitar store... and if you don't retune afterwards they may not let you play again next time!
Thinking the same thing - I love that song but hate tuning for it
Basic rule - dont ever change tunings on guitars in guitar stores outside a simple Drop D. In other words, make sure you know how to play in standard tuning!
Nice video! Have you already covered “Can’t find my way home” in some other video?
Thank you, Nikola! Pink Floyd, RHCP, AIC, Led... what more could we ask for? ❤
Crazy for you from heart should be on this list too
Cry of Achilles intro by Alter Bridge is also a banger on acoustic!
Hahaha I feel you man, Never Going Back Again is ridiculously hard. I gave up after a few days. Lindsay Buckingham is not to be messed with.
Hahah 😂 didn't even try it. But Simon is playing it flawlessly. So clean
It’s impossible to play but is perfect as exercise/practice routine. Easy to remember, excruciating to play. Perfect.
My Friends is so addicting to play on a loop!
Love music 🎼🎶🎵👌🎸✌️
Watching and hearing you play Is There Anybody Out There?, I could actually imagine the smell and feel of the guitar I had at the end of 1979
Great to see some Dave Navarro in there thanks!
Thanks 🙏👍🌷
I like to play
Epidemy - Ice Rider
Master - Crosses
AC/DC - Hells Bells
By Effect - Legion
My favourite go-to song for that occasion.
is there anybody out this is probably my second favorite song to play at all. only following wish you were here which just has so much more meaning to me after you go through life a bit. god i love pink floyd
Never Going Back! YES
Laughed a little seeing “Never Going Back Again” - Paul David’s has done a video on that song, tried learning it myself…proper mind melter for me
Used to play drive and welcome home all the time on acoustic, along with Tribute by Tenacious D. I feel like Mike Einzinger plays a much gnarlier version of Drive esp with em7/9 - which is common for him - he likes to take root chords and do them 10x harder.
Remember the scene in Animal house where they guy is playing acoustic on the stairway...? Exactly how these riffs make me feel.
Over the Hills and Far Away - Led Zeppelin
She Talks to Angels - The Black Crowes
Something Like Olivia (Acoustic) - John Mayer
Dare You To Move - Switchfoot
High & Dry - Radiohead
If one of those doesn't sound good, it's not the guitar for me.
I must be getting really old. I'm quite familiar with most of these and play four of them, but there are three of these I've never heard before. All good music though and a good job playing them.
Fantastic 👌 . Just one thing though. The one's with crazy alternate tunings would be impossible to play in the store!
... unless you know how to tune a guitar.
Nikola have you listened to Dinosaur Jr.?
i play a lot of creed at guitar stores. Helps separate the normies from the enlightened. Legit had someone mouthing the lyrics to "higher" when i played it in a guitar centre in seattle. blessed
Hello normie.
Handing the guitar back to a guitar store employee after tuning it for jigsaw is gonna be funny
Nice,,,,,,thank U,,,
Never going back again is unreasonably hard
I'm commenting here from Brazil. I am a simple subscriber of your channel and I'm learning to play guitar. Congratulations on the contents.
Jigsaw Falling into Place uses DADF#BD tuning. FYI
Fingerpicking is so hard to get right, i just recently got Travis Picking down, after 15 years of playing, it just finally clicked lol
A bit cheeky to tune the guitar store guitar for rain song and jiggsaw puzzle 😂
Hahah 😂 definitely wouldn't try for the rain song. Jigsaw is not that bad I think. Only two strings for a half step
Where's....stairway..
Who else saw the thumbnail and immediately knew it was “The Rain Song”
The Road by Nick Drake should be on this list
Hello what is thé modèl of your guitar?
Never Going Back Again was one of the first things I ever tried to learn. The thumb playing alternate bass notes and the fingers a 3 note repeating pattern is a mind-f*ck but once you get it, it's easy. Worth persevering with!
I've only heard like 2 in this list, now all 12 of them are in my playlist 😂
Which ones have you heard? 😁
@nikolagugoski I Stay Away, and Dear God. But all of them are really nice. I especially like the Jigsaw Falling into Place, and Welcome Home. Great selection there bro.
Yes, the Coheed seal has been broken! Bring on all the Coheed! Hahaha
Hahaha 😂 which songs should I check out?
@@nikolagugoski
The Suffering would be a fun place to start.
@@A.J.1656 thanks for the suggestion. I'll give it a try 😉
Is the intro to Paranoid Android allowed?
Anything from Rodrigo y Gabriela usually works 😅
The intro to Napolean bona part 1 and 2 by Budgie should be on here.
What about No Love Intro by Exodus?
Oh, Drive is allowed again? Damn. Now I know I'm old.
I should have swapped Drive with some other riff honestly. I think it's played pretty often
I E been trying to play that Fleetwood Mac tune on and off for a decade now and still haven’t mastered it
that was fun, educational, and most importantly, not a waste of my time.
That's great to hear! Glad you liked it 🙂
Goes to show how good Lindsay Buckingham is , that is a really hard riff , plus add the fact that he thought of it as well.
And he also sings while playing it 🤯
@@nikolagugoski Yep , the mind boggles , different class.
Awsome video ❤
Thank you 🙏 glad you liked it 🙂
i dont know if a guitar store owner would like to see you put the guitar in the Rain Song tuning
Incubus! Hell yeah!
*hits ill. More please. Music us more now sir. Thank you.
What a classic... playing the Rain Song at a store and not tune the guitar back for the person to hit the worst "a minor" of their lives 🙂 Nice video!
Who else knew by the thumbnail that The Rain Song was on the list?!😎
you must have forgotten the most allowed riff in guitar stores: stairway to heaven
Hahah 😂 totally forgot about Stairway to heaven lol
The Rain Song requires a different tuning. That’s a pain in a guitar store
I got away with Over the Hills and Far Away repeatedly when I was shopping for my 12-string
what about "Dear God" by XTC..?
Alice in chains, hell ya
Jar of flies is Sacred
One more time, with feeling…
Learning Fleetwood mac/Lindsey Buckingham parts are a whole exercise/video in themselves. I'm been doing that kind of playing of the past couple of years, learning it and such but some of his stuff just blows my mind considering he sings on top of playing it. He's just built different! Lol.
Yeah, singing over something like this is just unreal. What are some other hard songs you've tried to learn? I've never really listened much to Fleetwood Mac
@@nikolagugoski The most famous Fleetwood Mac song involving that kind of playing is "Big Love" There's a live version on YT here and it's just phenomenal guitar playing. He has an album with Stevie Nicks before they joined FM as well, it's full of great cool but awkward playing! Ha ha ha.
@@Jopeymessmusic Big Love is actual superhuman territory. I have a friend who can actually play it and sing over it and im amazed whenever he did it. He went overseas to study so he hasnt been playing guitar that much but he can still play it up to like 70-80% speed and sing it is absolutely mindblowing
@@phos927 It's insane. He's not underrated by any stretch but he's often overlooked in terms of technique, songwriting and straight up musicality imo. Certainly outside of guitar players anyway. I understand muscle memory comes into play with complex guitar parts but still, god damn is "big love" live crazy good.
@@Jopeymessmusic Lindsley Buckingham is definitely underrated in conversations about technique imo. A lot of people recognize his songwriting ability but i never see him mentioned in talks about technical playing which i think he definitely should be mentioned. And yes, big love live is absolutely amazing
Awesome stuff. I would include RHCP 'under the bridge' intro and verse 2 :)
Great riffs, though they probably are banned in guitar stores 😂
@@tommihaapanen846 oh no :O
I'll play any guitar riff I want in a guitar store. I'm there to do business not to negotiate what riffs I'm allowed or not allowed to play.
listen to Cantata de Puentes Amarillos
Dear god is in D standard, I think.
Either way, great video.
Thanks Tyler! Yes, but didn't want to detune since you can play it in E 🙂 did the same with some of the other riffs
I sometimes dream of a world where bars and shops don't play the top #1 song every single time. Instead of 'Enter Sandman', they play 'To Live is to Die'. Instead of 'Highway to Hell', they play 'Hell Ain't a Bad Place to Be'.
It's a fantastic world.
I had a show on a Community Radio station a few years back and that was what I was aiming for. If you wanted the big hits, you could hear those anywhere else, so why tune into my tiny show to listen to them?
Better to give people something different and besides, while we can generally agree that something like Sweet Child O' Mine or Back In Black (for example) are pretty good songs, does anyone really need to hear them on the radio *again*?
No shame on the Fleetwood Mac tune bro - It would take me a lifetime to learn it - another lifetime to play it at the originally recorded tempo - and a third life time to be able to sing along to it.
Is it really allowed to tune guitar to DCGCGD at a guitar store ?
That's what I was thinking.. I wouldn't try anything other than drop D in that situation
What are the forbidden ones then?
There are no riffs banned in guitar stores. Never going back again was well played though
Just play your own riffs in guitar stores 👍
Who's tuning for Rain Song in a guitar store?
Do the tab of my friends
Rhcp please❤
I've tried it multiple times but can't quite figure it out
Can you do i like dirt?
Please❤
No spoonman? 😅
Where's Wonderwall?
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Allowed in guitar stores??? I will play any song I want in a guitar store
I want to see face of shop assistant watching you downtunning guitar to Standart D just to play this riffs for 10 minutes)
Lindsey Buckingham is arguably the most underrated guitarist ever
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My acoustic riff was always here comes the sun, but at this point people are probably over exposed to it
Yeah, i was thinking to put it here since it's amazing, but figured it's probably played a lot everywhere
4:28
Could You make You aint the first by guns n roses i cant find good tab for it or You know youre right from nirvana
I'll have to try these out. Probably I wouldn't do a whole videos, but I can definitely try to tab them. Thanks for the support btw 🙂
@@nikolagugoskiOk, thank You
I didn't know there's things your not allowed to play In a guitar store😅
Dear God is so beautiful
Wait?!…No Stairway To Heaven??!!