Top 20 Beatles Guitar Riffs
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- Опубліковано 16 чер 2024
- A couple of years ago I did a video of Beatles 'Top 10' guitar riffs, but quickly realised that 10 wasn't enough! While The Beatles are often celebrated for writing some of the greatest pop songs and albums of all time, their guitar work is usually overlooked. Here is a brand new video of Top 20 Beatles riffs.
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TRACKLISTING
0:00 Revolution
0:14 It's All Too Much
0:28 Come Together
0:43 Drive My Car
0:55 Here Comes The Sun
1:09 Ticket To Ride
1:17 If I Needed Someone
1:28 I Feel Fine
1:38 I've Got A Feeling
1:54 Don't Let Me Down
2:10 Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
2:26 Birthday
2:42 Helter Skelter
3:00 And Your Bird Can Sing
3:14 Dig A Pony
3:28 Hey Bulldog
3:39 Day Tripper
3:54 I Want To Tell You
4:07 Paperback Writer
4:20 I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Check out my Top 5 Revolver album riffs! ua-cam.com/video/IuuYW-_wLbc/v-deo.html
Bloxy,could you add The End?
😂 0:09
😂 0:09 0:10
George was a criminally underrated player
And he could sing with the best of them!
@@Steve19345 talented man. No Beatles without George
Some of these are actually put together by Eric Clapton as well as George, though I do agree that Harrison was great 👍 one of my all time favourites for sure .
None of these are Clapton. He only played on one Beatles song, While My Guitar Gently Weeps
@@owenJCC
he helped george with a lot of riffs. Not to take ANY credit away from George but in some written biographys Clapton is named as a joint part of the creative process that aided George to write some of the Beatle's hits. I didn't mean to say he played these riffs himself. I amended my original comment. @@hollycrawford6054
The riff of “And your bird can sing” is amazing
Probably the best melody the Beatles ever wrote, and one of the best riffs of the entire 60s decade
And the tone is simultaneously crunchy and distorted and bright and chimey! Amazing guitar duet!
Makes you want to listen to revolver
IT FREAKIN ISSSS
@G&M Media TV that version is amazing too
I really love how shes so heavy keeps going. You really can't cut that riff short.
Such a (forgive me) heavy riff
You can't cut it short? That's exactly how the song ends, though. The white noise in the background reaches a crescendo and suddenly all sound cuts out.
I always thought that was an interesting way to end the song.
@@acidwizzardbastard tis the joke i believe
@@acidwizzardbastard I made a playlist changing the order of Abbey Road, with the medley on side 1, and ending with Shes so heavy, and i must say, it changed the entire tone of the album.
@@acidwizzardbastard Yes - John picked the exact spot and told the engineer, "Cut it off ........ THERE!"
Harrison an underrated riff writer.
Not underrated. The man was amazing. If other people can't see that, they are blind and most cetainly deaf.
My names Harrison
The Drummer of OZ you’re an underrated riff writer
John and Paul were both great as well. George just has that signature, you can always tell when it’s him playing
John and Paul wrote a lot of those riffs here as well
George Harrison was very much under rated as a guitarist, perhaps because he was the quiet one?
how can you even say "George Harrison" of "The Beatles" was an "underrated" guitar like what
@@icebear2049 Because sadly he wasn't put on a pedestal like Clapton, Hendrix, Page, May, Beck, Slash or Van Halen. He was just referred to as the 'Quiet Beatle'...
Always makes me laugh when I hear people say this. George was an underrated lead guitarist, Ringo was an underrated drummer, Paul was an underrated bass player, John was an underrated ballad writer etc etc etc. Underrated by whom exactly? They were/are The Beatles - they couldn’t be more rated and praised if they tried. They changed, like actually changed, music at the time and will continue to do so forever. To say one of them, any of them, was underrated is such an ‘internet’ thing to say and really unfounded.
@@20yearsagotoday1 lots of technical players about but they are not music makers
@@20yearsagotoday1 The Beatles are praised as a band of course. But they may be underrated in terms of their individual abilities. I think all of them get less praise than they deserve for their instrumental ability
2 bands that inspired me to play instruments
1. The beatles
2. Nirvana
Opposite ends of the spectrum
Not the same level
Jean, I can understand your statement, but Rhianna has sold as many albums as the Beatles have. That's so fucked and hard to type out, but I managed it.
Nirvana's impact on the music scene at the time, was just as influential as The Beatles. I can guarantee you one thing, The Beatles were never influenced by Nirvana.
Both bands deserve all the accolades they get. Both bands can change/inspire your moods. Both bands ceased too soon.
@@therapist6328 I think Nirvana was the group that ended the good rock, yes they were big influencers but their influence is tragic
Mine are the Beatles, Nirvana, acdc, and the white stripes
This is so fucking amazing, my favourite The Beatles' riff will always be I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Thank you!
That riff (its so heavy)
My favourite is hey bulldog
Is the tuning drop D?
@@rhedrhed yeah, sounds like one
FINALLY someone includes Hey Bulldog. Such an underrated song.
It's actually kind of cool how many of these don't sound "right" without the bass. Hell I play the bass and many of their songs, but didn't know it was THAT integral to the guitar part sounding correct.
That's the thing about The Beatles - they weren't just interchangeable. They brought out the best in each other and made each other better. Remove just one of those elements, and it just becomes a "different" song. They each made some amazing music in their solo careers, but they never really topped what they accomplished as a unit.
@@DrDespicable George Harrison’s all things must pass was pretty close though…
Same with the Chili Peppers.
That Helter Skelter riff was _so_ on point, along with Birthday and Day Tripper... And damn, I Want You is just such a way to end a video!
Thanks very much!
Personally I would have put Taxman on there somewhere
Ever heard ‘Start!’ by the Jam?
Unreal tune heavily inspired by Taxman, (well the riff anyway)
The End and Good Morning, Good Morning too
@@chairmanmeow3693 this is about riffs. Good Morning would make my list if it was about guitar breaks (and played by Paul btw if anyone doesn't know).
@@bouwebear597 I did know that. Taxman too
I think taxman is a great combination of guitar + bass, if you play only the guitar parts as in this video the song sounds super empty
The Beatles! The most important band of all time
The ISO of Music ☺️ The barometer of success! 😍🇵🇭
Someone once commented that Michael Jackson was better than the Beatles because he was "The King of Music". Unbelievable
@@chairmanmeow3693 king of pop ! Not king of music
@@therodgodproject9942 That's what was so funny. I put his phrase in quotation marks in case you didn't notice.
@@chairmanmeow3693 King of What?I mean rest in peace to the great Michael Jackson but he aint on The Beatles’ level!
She’s so heavy is such a great riff. It’s basically stoner rock. Such a great riff to jam to
The 'And your bird can sing' riff blows my mind every time.
Time Stamps:
Revolution - 0:02
It’s All Too Much - 0:14
Come Together - 0:28
Drive My Car - 0:45
Here Comes The Sun - 0:56
Ticket To Ride - 1:11
If I Need Someone - 1:17
I Feel Fine - 1:29
I’ve Got A Feeling - 1:40
Don’t Let Me Down - 1:54
Norwegian Wood - 2:11
Birthday - 2:26
Helter Skelter - 2:42
And Your Bird Can Sing - 3:01
Dig A Pony - 3:15
Hey Bulldog - 3:29
Day Tripper - 3:40
I Want To Tell You - 3:54
Paperback Writer - 4:08
I Want You 4:21
If something is wrong just tell me
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Who asked?
@@joshwmusic6838 YES I AGREE I WATCH THEM
Ghost they’re in the comments
@@joshwmusic6838 Yes I agree
Wow never realized how complex some of their riffs are
If that"s the case, twinkle twinkle little star must be mozart.
They're not
@@lolxd7753 They're not complex in the sense that they're difficult/complicated to play nor do the riffs contain the extreme nuances found in a Mozart piece. However, the Beatles consistently utilized a lot of creative and memorable twists to aid and create very sophisticated melodies, which is one of the main reasons they are as successful and well known as they are.
@@connormichael2005 Mozart literally did twelve variations of the French folk song from which the music of Twinkle Twinkle comes from. And it's awesome.
@@connormichael2005 Thanks Connor, very cool!
I just realized how underrated Lennon is as a guitarist. He came with around half the riffs in this list and he wasn't even the lead guitarist. Like day tripper, revolution, I feel fine etc
He was so good. I don’t know where this idea that Lennon wasn’t good at guitar came from. I guess because everyone is always compared to Hendrix and Clapton. Paul is also a good guitarist.
Yes. John Lennon is also underrated...
8/20 at most, and Revolution and I Feel Fine are a bit derivative. still, remarkable stuff.
@@huh-by2lr Some writers claimed he had an iffy sense of time/rhythm, which is weird...he may not have cared about conventional bar length/metre etc, but that helped make the Beatles' music different and original. His lead playing was usually more rough and (intentionally) sloppy, but good, and the solos on "Get Back" show he could be clean and fluid when he wanted to. Paul was easily the best of the three technically at guitar or any other instrument.
@@JDrevolver66 I've read here and there about John's "iffy" timing, but I cannot find any timing issues in his playing, anywhere. Anyone who can come up the rhythm for All My Loving and then play it live perfectly has no timing or rhythm issues. Any variations were deliberate inventions to add to a song.
George harrison really knows how to build something incredible from simple things.(btw i know there are some riffs in here that arent from George)
Yeah, George only came up with the riffs for the George songs. The rest is John and Paul, EXCEPT...And I Love Her - George gave them that one.
@@bouwebear597 John and Paul had the basic idea I am sure because it was their melodies, but of course George fully shaped many of them into what they were as the finished product.
@@bouwebear597 Absolutely incorrect.
"And Your Bird Can Sing" is 🔥⚡Glad it made the list
And the crazy thing is it’s not even the third or fourth best song on that album. Revolver is likewise quite underrated. I personally think it’s better than Sgt. Pepper’s
Finally somebody actually plays "Birthday" correctly
In a perfect world. All four are still alive and making music and have adapted to today’s music, still hitting the charts and playing sold out shows around the world
wouldn't want them to adapt to today's music OR play when they're this old but yeah
Can't believe Ringo is the only living Beatle
@@schizophrenicgaming5007 you just killed paul mccartney
Then they would be The Stones.
I play Guitar over 40 Years, i never thought the beatles had so much good riffs! Thank you!
Thank you for watching.
You played guitar for four decades and never knew The Beatles had good riffs. Sure. That sounds plausible.
@@asportingview9712 shut up
@@Mike-ro9xh shut u u
@@asportingview9712 he might be one of those ignorant plumbs that think the beatles only wrote songs like I want to hold your hand😂
When ur too early for the time stamps
I was too lazy to do them and I thought I'd leave people guessing :P
Bloxsy that’s definitely the way to do it plus some kind heart in the comment section is gonna do it for ya
Literally an hour early
Bloxsy random question I know but with your Lithium cover (either your first or second cover whichever you said was similar to the Reading 1992 performance of this song), is the entire riff just picking downwards (idk the proper name) or are there some upstrokes in there? Because looking at your cover u seem to do only downstrokes but Kurt does some upstrokes in the video? Idk if this question makes any sense lol. Love your work keep it up 😊
I think the way I picked it was trying to be more similar to the album version but I did use downstrokes and upstrokes. In live versions I think Kurt just strums it in a loose way, I'm guessing it's easier for him to sing and play at the same time. Thanks!
Nice to see Its All Too Much getting some love. Definitely their most underrated song.
By the time it comes around at the end of the (slightly too long) Yellow Submarine movie, I really AM thinking "it's all too much"
Great Job! But I think "She Said She Said" deserves a spot on this list
Good suggestion!
I Want You (She's So Heavy) is my favorite Beatles song. Insane instrumentation. The bass, the MANY guitars, drums, and synthesizer. Such a tasteful, groovy, and sinister track.
"It's all too much" my favorite less known Beatles tune.
You nailed them... Kudos for placing "Paperback Writer" in 2nd. I love that song. 👍
Thanks man.
music haha
Definetely agree. 👌
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For sure! I love how it switches to more jazzy feels at parts as well!
How far off was yer blues? That’s heavy as
Cream haves heavier and oldest music
Day Tripper is number 1 for me. Just perfectly encapsulates the sound of 60s rock perfection.
I've heard it's the most recognised riff in music history.
Oh wow, ringo's drums add so much
I always forget how amazing of a riff And Your Bird Can Sing has
If you see any hate comments... ignore them! You played every riff 100% perfectly! Great Video man keep up the great vids!
It's okay, I'm getting used to them now! Thanks for the kind comment. Much appreciated!
Lets pretend we just can't see his face
Ah, yes. Drive my car sounded really perfect, no flaws there. Seriously, it's a good video but it's stupid to say that every riff was played 100% correctly. Have some respect for the origin works.
For me it’s:
She Said She Said
Dear Prudence
Two Of Us
Day Tripper
In My Life
It’s All Too Much
You Can’t Do That
I Feel Fine
Birthday
I Want You
Sun King
Drive My Car
Don’t Let Me Down
Come Together
Dig A Pony
Get Back
What You’re Doing
Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
Paperback Writer
I’ve Got A Feeling
Nice list. I'm sure if you redid it in 2 weeks after listening to all of their recordings non stop, you could come up with a whole new list. So many hits. Too many to choose from!
'She Said She Said' is an absolute monster of a song. Probably one of the best songs of all time and I would've put it on this list over 'Come Together'.
I love it, it's definitely not the usual beatles riffs order and usual list everyone does so it's really nice to hear.
It’s amazing to me that the biggest band in the world at the time wrote songs that had odd time signatures.
that's probably (at least initially) because they didn't know what a time "signature" was (and therefore were not constrained to any of them). The only "signatures" they knew were their own when they were signing autographs. Timing, along with chording (at least in the beginning) was just on pure collective instinct.
Hence they could say to Ringo, "it goes bum-ba-da da-bum-bum, can you make that fit?" They cook it up with Ringo stirring the pot and at some point George Martin tells them what a time signature is.
Ignorance of formal nomenclature means being free of any limitations. You naturally think outside the box because you didn't know you were supposed to be in a box, or that you were in one in the first place. That's how Lennon wrote Strawberry Field: two different bits in different time signatures and he just threw it to Producer George, who sped up or slowed down one of the tapes and joined them together.
@@bouwebear597 the two different bits of "Strawberry Fields Forever" were in different keys, not in different time signatures. One part was sped up and the other was slowed down until their respective keys approximated one another.
I’ve always loved the “I Feel Fine” riff!!
I think that Sun King off of Abbey Road deserves to be featured in these lists more, it's criminally underrated
Exactly the kind of cover video I'm looking for. So many out there have the fake annoying backing tracks, or someone talks for five minutes. I just want to hear the guitars. This is perfect in every way, thank you!
The Beatles were the first band I got into when I was a kid (started listening to them at age 10 and I’m 21 now) and George Harrison was (and still is) one of my biggest guitar heroes in terms of songwriting and guitar techniques
most of them are lennon chord
@@carmelovillena6174 True
Great job! You played these riffs with a lot of precision. I loved your choice of number 1! I could listen to that riff for minutes on end and not get tired of it. It is perhaps the greatest guitar riff of all time.
It's easy to forget that the Beatles were a ROCK band. Thanks for reminding me!
You're not getting enough respect for how close you got those guitar tones considering how many riffs you went through.
Thanks man. I appreciate it.
This is the best top 20!!! So many iconic, instantly recognizable riffs! Thank you! 😍🙌🏻🎸
Thank you for appreciating and acknowledging It's All Too Much. Definitely in my top 10 songs by them.
Love the riffs, love the guitars, love the playing! Great job!
Top class work yet again, Bloxsy. Sneaking in some relatively obscure little gems (if there even is such as a thing with the Beatles) like Dig a Pony, Hey Bulldog and I Want to Tell You typifies what you’re about with these videos - drawing attention to little oft-overlooked bars of gold instead of going for the same old riffs done a million times over. Keep up the good work, lad 👏🏼
Superb compilation and fabulous playing!
Can we appreciate 50% of his t-shirt
Lmaooo
Yeah, just the left half. John was a piece of trash.
@@user-wx2ek3uv1i wtf dude
My thoughts: Don't let me down, please include Don't Let Me Down
He didn't let you down
Really enjoyed that. Thanks for posting
If I needed someone is so exquisite, the harmonics in the second bar just take you places. I loved your selection, really well played 👏
George harrison is The most underrated guitar player of ALL time
What?
Are you sure you know what underrated means?
You should have put the riff from Eleanor Rigby, She's Leaving Home, or maybe even Good Night
Most heaviest riffs
Don’t forget Blue Jay Way that’s the best song from MMT
@@ClaptonsWig not my personal favorite from the album but I do see why you say that
Are you trolling? Those songs are not guitar riff based
@@marcsullivan7987 No, those songs have the best guitar parts in the Beatles discography
I’m a huge Beatles fan and you nailed all of these. Awesome job. 👍
I really enjoyed your covers of all these amazing riffs from the greatest band of all - time, The BEATLES!!!!
I want you she's so heavy is truly an underated song but it is so good.
Not even remotely anywhere close to underrated in any shape or form
@ghost mall exactly what I mean
Gosto de todas... Beatles é pura inspiração! Parabéns e gratidão!
so happy that i want you was at number 1. super simple riff yet so powerful and entrancing. never get tired of it
I'm glad you included "It's All Too Much", that's one of my favorites from them and it's really underrated because of being on "Yellow Submarine".
I Want You (She's So Heavy) might be the greatest Beatles riff ever, especially on the original recording with it going for like 3 minutes and that white noise machine fading in and out, then a cut and boom, end of side 1
I love I Want You (She's So Heavy). Didn't think it'd make the list... cool to see it at number one!
This guy plays everything!!! Love all the videos 🎸🎸🎸
Beautiful guitars! Gorgeous sounds!! Thank you!! 😎😎😎😎
Man this was so good!
Here comes the sun is my very favorite song from the Beatles 😊
Thanks!
Gracias por esos bonitos y bellos recuerdos de The Beatles.. 👍
un saludo 🙌🙌
Been watching some riff videos of yours. I'm amazed to hear such accuracy in tone and notes. Maybe the most accurate in youtube. Great
Thank you!
It's All Too Much! - Good choice of riffs & Really great playing.
Top 20 Pixies Riffs pls
Good call.
They have only 1 song, isn't ?
HeavenTurr - they have loads of excellent songs. What are you on about?
@@theduck1433 he's taking the piss
@@nispvlcc1276 I think you are talking about Jet
I Want You (She's So Heavy) is such an underrated song and I don't understand how
I'm getting a bunch of intros together to play at a family party; it'll be sort of a charades game set to music; guess the song and artist, by the intro. All styles of music, but the Beatles have so many songs with distinctive intros, I'm using several of them. Thanks! Your video helped, and saved me time. Great job!
FANTASTIC!
The best band ever
I just bought an Epiphone SG and I love it! The I want you (she's so heavy) was such a pleasant surprise, really happy :D
Nice one. The best never gets old.👏Thanks
Huh, I've never seen It's All Too Much played like that before, but I absolutely dig it! Great video!
How did the Beatles hide all these riffs?You listen to these great songs in the radio or any music player and it sounds normal.You look at how they were played and then suddenly you will be surprise like..”Wow!That ain’t simple to play!” 🇵🇭😍
Who else also hears Ringos drumming and Paul’s bass
Top notch playing! I've listened to these songs so much that hearing you play the riffs my brain automatically filled in the other instruments lol
You're not alone!
great stuff - thanks!
Great selection. Pleased to see that you didn't merely go for the obvious. The variety of styles and moods only goes to show just how good the Beatles were.
Listening to this, it has now occurred to me that John Lennon and George Harrison anticipated the sludgy doom-riffing of Black Sabbath with "I Want You (She's So Heavy)".
bruh when i clicked on the video i said please have shes so heavy as number 1 im so happy XD
Really awesome video! Love the Beatles ;)
My word, Bloxsy......these are sooooo good!
That's one beautiful guitar !
Thats one sweet sounding acoustic tho ngl, and the tone you did in Helter Skelter was on damn spot! Well I guess not tjust that but everything!
Was so happy when I saw I Want You (She’s So Heavy). Very good song and the guitar is awesome in it
Very nice work bro!
I like your SG how the neck matches the body. Nice!
It’s such a great sounding sg
Amazing! Please do a 2nd part!
Thanks!
this made my day! 👏
Love your song choices. The guitar effects were so amazing. (Especially on “Don’t let me down.” ). Love your SG! Immediately subscribed!
Thank you!
I want you(she's so Heavy) & with one song riff the Beatles created doom metal before Black Sabbath really took off.
You have forget the best, She said She said
Absolutely fabulous. Especially no.7 obvs
Another great installment to learn. Thanks mate. Keep them coming. Cheers
Thank you for watching.
John Lennon actually came up with most of the best riffs and got George to play them.
He didn't write a ton of riffs, but the ones he did are among the best and most recognizable by anyone.
Unless it's Here Comes the Sun, in which case is 100% Harrison's riff.
AYBCS is John's riff, but Paul and George play it on the recording.
@@flankerroad7414 Day Tripper, Hey Bulldog, I Want You, Ticket to Ride, all his riffs too
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Obrigado!
@##### Olá
Mais um brasileiro aqui!
Amazing playing,great video