10 CLEAN Guitar Riffs That Will Make You Better at Guitar
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0:00 - Riff 1
1:41 - Riff 2
3:00 - Riff 3
3:42 - Riff 4
4:10 - Riff 5
4:56 - Riff 6
5:57 - Riff 7
6:44 - Riff 8
8:39 - Riff 9
9:59 - The Final Riff
played Stellar a little sLoOoOoOow but dang that glass sounds gOoOoOoOd
You are insanneee!
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bro hope you get more subs!!
Sweet ❣️
Any chance you have videos of your cover band days? Big incubus/Mike Einziger fan here also.
imagine dropping that guitar
😢
I would just put it back together it would look awesome
“Well now I got spare parts” 😂
Imagine it's your dad’s guitar you just wanted to play a little.
Honestly, it’s so dense that it might just chip
The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult. Great for picking out individual notes and some semi quick chord changes.
Needs more cowbell!
and its a brilliant song
That's funny I'm learning that song and Godzilla, making it super fuzzed out
its a dirty riffs 😄
(Don’t fear)
Takes a lot of guts to sing "Hallelujah" man, and it sounded really good...MORE SINGING FROM TYLER!
Thanks dude, working on it!!
@@MusicisWin Your voice is good, dude! Use it :)
@@MusicisWin sounded great my man.
@@MusicisWin Your voice sounded great, man, I was super impressed
I would go with Riviera Paradise…There is so many things to learn just in that intro
There are so many good clean riffs, but one of my personal favorites that doesn’t get much notice is “Wicked Game” by Chris Isaak”. It’s a simple and “hauntingly pretty” riff, but not many people play it correctly.
I’m sure you’d enjoy learning it if you don’t know it already. I still love singing and playing it!
Nice. You are right
Corey Taylor's cover is also great!
@CliffProwse: 100%
Great song, and often played *_nearly_*_ correct_
It's so nice to see another musician who actually recognizes incubus for how skilled and creative they really are! Been my favorite band since I was in high school and so many people just right them off as an alternative 90s stoner band. They're some of the most gifted people to ever come together and make music, so refreshing to see someone a whole lot smarter and more talented than I am come to the same conclusion. Great vid as always Tyler!
I saw them open for 311 in 1997. They were promoting The Fungus Amongus. That's when I became a fan.
Incubus is a legendary band.
@@boofert.washington2499 among us🤨📮
They had some awesome stuff. I absolutely loved S.C.I.E.N.C.E!
Message In A Bottle and Every Breath You Take were a big step up for my playing back in the day.
Good ones!
Message in a Bottle is even more fun to play when you learn the harmony part too!
Always love the clean parts of To Live Is To Die. The intro and interlude
Axis Bold as Love, Hey Joe, The Wind Cries Mary. Three songs by that one lesser known fella from the 60's, all packed with clean punchy sounds and some interesting movements and techniques.
Over the hills and far away! It was the first riff I learned that made me feel like I was getting somewhere with the guitar.
Appreciate you so much bro. You remind me of why I fell in love with the guitar. You've got so much passion and it shows in every video you post. It speaks to new players and it speaks to people that have played for a while. I'm glad you're on UA-cam!
I love Yellow Ledbetter by Pearl Jam and also kinda helps with chord embellishments
SRV "Lenny" is actually much easier than it sounds, love the intro love the tone.
Lots of slides and interesting chords, aside from a couple difficult stretches if you do it often you can play along. Feels great.
Where are the stretches?
@@sriyansh1729 The c# madd9 can be a little tricky for beginners
@@sriyansh1729 “we look pretty sharp in these clothes (yes we do)”
That's another good one but I think mine is little wing.
I would take a look at Mayer’s version from one of his live albums. The arpeggios, double stops and sweep picking make it a lot more complex
It’s really good to hear you explore using your singing voice more and more in your vids. I think you did a very good job with hallelujah. Thanks Tyler.
I couldn’t agree more
Ya for sure I could hear his voice through the reverb and if he explores that mor he could be a great singer👌🤘🏾
As dreamy as all those tones were, I have to say my vote for number 10 would be the entire intro to Dream On by Aerosmith. Attempted it when I was a complete beginner, and it took me longer than I would like to admit to get it just right, but the movable triads and ascending part at the very end were a great step forward for me at the time, and I still get chills every time I play it now!
Great song
Hell yeah. I just popped over to Marty Music and I think I need to give it a try.
All these cool songs I grew up with, when I sit with my guitar my mind goes blank.
F-'n love Aerosmith!!
Beautifully done Tyler - one of your best videos yet!
Awesome list dude! I got to see Joe Satch in 1988 and I was blown away by how amazing Midnight sounded live when Joe played it but even better, I was able to see what he was doing and i went home and was able to learn it after a few days of practicing! Great vid, keep up the stellar work!
After years of wanting to learn stellar (but not bc the tabs looked complicated) your vid was what made it make sense. I just learned it by ear after watching you play it once. Feels great!
The opening few phrases from Shine On You Crazy Diamond have been a great teacher to me. I've been learning guitar for just over 7 months now, and beginning to learn this song has shown me a lot of shortcomings moving on as a beginner player. Bending with vibrato being a really tough one to nail cleanly for me.
this man just keep getting new guitars
Hallelujah: written and first recorded by Leonard Cohen (1984), received Canadian Vocalist of the Year for that one. It was later covered by Jeff Buckley in 1992 for Columbia Records. Both versions are amazing, but let’s give credit where it is due. 😎
He also said that tapping was invented by EVH, Zappa was doing it in '76
@@roadkillmoth5610 he never said EVH invented tapping though..
@@chikinonfrydai He said it in another video, the one about the WatchMojo hardest guitar riffs
Everyone knows that’s Cohen’s song. Tyler was referring to Buckley’s guitar playing, you know, the point of this video.
@@roadkillmoth5610 i’ve seen that video before, he just mentioned that he has made a video about the origin of tapping, and in that video, he literally says EVH didn’t invent tapping.
Have always loved your videos have been watchin them for years 🤘🏼🤙🏼
Haven’t watched your channel in a while and right when I heard neon start I remembered why I loved your channel for so many years
Man, you’d have to be super careful with that. Imagine if you bumped the neck on something and chipped it. That could be dangerous and it unusable.
That would make it a "chip-son"
I'm sorry.
Definitely worth avoiding neck bends
@@Willemguitar nobody gives a shit what you'd spend your own money on
It looks like he uses atleast tempered glass. This would most likely be fairly durable.
You all are trying to give *Tyler Larson advice on buying and maintaining guitars.* this man went to every state literally just to buy guitars, owns his own custom prs *from the factory,* and has played both Eric Clapton’s and Eddie Van Halen’s guitars, You Do Not Need To Warn Him To Be Careful With Something He Bought.
That guitar is completely absurd. You could do an entire series with it. The response on that thing is crazy!
Just want to thank Tyler so much for creating guitar super system! The Guitar Super System is amazing, and, indeed, super.
“This Charming Man” by The Smiths is pretty technical and enormously catchy.
Shape of My Heart off of Sting's Ten Summoners Tales. The guitar part was written by Dominic Miller. He played it for Sting who promptly went for a walk outside and wrote lyrics and had the arrangement done in his head in like an hour! Gorgeous and challenging.
great tune. If you search youtube..there is fantastically wonderful video of Dominic Miller showing how it's played and other stuff..in a hotel room in Europe somewhere. awesomely informative and insanely intimate.
Blackbird - Alterbridge, it definitely helped me with my finer picking. Some thing for baby I’m going to leave you - LED Zeppelin.
Blackbird
Subscribed and post notifications on love your stuff man
Good stuff, Tyler. I hadn’t thought of that RHCP riff. Very nice! Now I gotta learn it. 👍🏻
Very nice to see you playing 316 it was already on my list to learn. I love Van Halen 🤘
Pretty easy to learn but also very rewarding. I learnt it few month ago: no regrets. I have so much pleasure each time i play it it is a great tune!
my vote for 10 is Girl Afraid by the Smiths. It's one of my favorites among their early numbers and as someone who began fingerpicking it was a great way for me to learn to do dexterous lines with a pick.
Oh, man! The Smiths didn't even cross my mind, for some reason! You many of their songs have great clean riffs!
Solid choice, friend.
Watching Morningstar MAKE those guitars on YT and Instagram! Amazing! Amazingly talented, no corners cut !!!
Sounds great
Something always happens in my life that makes me forget or I just end up not having time to, bit this is inspiring to me. I always get reminded of where I can go to regain that passion, and that is to you, sir. I hope you're doing well, and thank you for always reigniting my passion for guitar!!!
6:45
I'm a little confused here.
Set to the bridge pick up, with BOTH humbuckers split.
What difference does splitting the neck pick up make, when you're set on the bridge pick up only ?
Same here
Yeah, I was wondering about that. I have a guitar with two split-able pickups, another with a split-able bridge pickup and another with a split-able neck pickup. Splitting a pickup that isn't engaged doesn't affect the tone of the other one and I don't know why it would.
Yes agreed And at 6.00 he sets it to the neck pickup with the bridge split?
I don't get it either. Am i missing something?
I came here to ask this same question.
That guitar is SICK
All the music in your older stuff just makes me melt dude like a drug its delicious to the hears i miss all this old music 😅
Funny guitar - very cool playing. I have been watching your videos for a long time, and i am always entertained or educated. I am amazed with your talent. 🤘
Can you explain the wiring scheme on this guitar? Why would splitting the bridge pickup have any affect when only the neck pickup is selected? Are they always in series rather than parallel? That seems odd. I have this as an option in one of my guitars but there is a switch that engages the series wiring, this way it will also function as a typical parallel circuit for lower output.
Exactly what I was thinking
@MattBridges: Two guesses...
1) The humbucker split also switches the pickups from parallel to series--which would render the selector switch irrelevant.
2) Tyler enjoys making corny jokes, and (due to Poe's Law) it's shrouded in mystery without a cartoon sound effect or a sideways smirk to an alternate camera.
Since #1 doesn't really answer the question, and #2 has no resolve... I'm still as confused as you are.
Alter Bridge - In Loving Memory. I am not a good guitar player and can't play this riff, but every time I listen to it it just gives me so great vibes and Mark's playing is on point.
This said, I could be slipped out of the main topic since I'm no guitar player, but I'm sure this riff will make you a better guitarist❤️🤘
Nice cool guitar thanks for the riffs can't wait to get better 🤙😊
Your best video so far. Thank you for making it!
@Music Is Win - I think this "themusiciswin" account is up to no good.
Domenica bestiale by Fabio Concato has an amazing jazzy guitar chord progression. Sweetest song ever from an italian artist from the 70’, you won’t regret checking it out!
My 10th is My Curse - Killswich Engage, great list Tyler!
For that clean gallop tapping, I love Satch’s “Day At the Beach”.
Great vid Tyler! :)
Razor by Foo Fighters. Always fun to play, and good practice for timing, hand coordination and pull-offs.
That is a crazy cool looking guitar!
Cool riffs, neat playing, gorgeous guitar.
I love the clean riff from the interlude section of master of puppets. The bass notes and the part of the song give such a mellow feeling and it just feels really enjoyable to play.
Hey Tyler, in my opinion “in loving memory” by alter bridge is one of the greatest intros/riffs that I have ever heard. I know you like tremonti and alter bridge as well, so what’s your opinion on their clean intros and riffs?
Blackbird is another one, by Alter Bridge.
Tremonti is a beast on clean riffs!
@@rodkozevenikoff6665 Always loved from his Creed days is One Last Breath.
Mark Tremonti is a savant for gorgeous clean riffs
I've been trying to learn "Never Going Back Again" by Fleetwood Mac, it's technically an acoustic riff but I've been playing it clean on my electric and it's actually pretty challenging.
By these qualifications you have to include “Big Love”
Never Going Back Again is harder than almost all the songs on this list.
@@marth_6126 yeah it's been a challenge for sure
@@maxmunzert9725 Actually, it's just one guitar. There may be a second track on record for a studio mix, overdubs, etc but the main thing you are hearing is one guitar. There are on UA-cam that show how to play it. Paul Davids has a good one. Lindsey Buckingham is just that good, and when he left, yes, they indeed had two guitarists to replace him for awhile. But yeh, there are videos of him playing the whole thing. It's one guitar.
Your playing and those pickups sound lovely. Great choices to challenge myself to some more advanced playing. Those coil splits sound passable. Amazing.
The clean tone is amazing with that guitar. Clear, even.
Great choices! My fav clean riff by RHCP is still Under the Bridge 🎸 ✌🏼
I was just about to comment that! Nice blend of techniques, voicing, and dexterity to that one.
I was thinking the same thing. Great clean tone with a nice rhythm
Personally I love the shattered Dean style glass guitar, but this is pretty cool too 😎
I was watching the video then I hit “Like” as soon as you started singing! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The first song i learned was Paranoid Android in an old 5 string acoustic guitar (D string broked xD) and it's still is one of my I WANT TO IMPRESS SOMEONE riff ahahaha.
I’d add a Dave Matthews riff to the list, like (for example) “Satellite” or “Lie in Our Graves”. Cool guitar! And great video! Thanks!
Agreed. Dave doesn’t get enough credit as a guitar player. He was a huge reason of why I picked it up in the 90s.
@@rickywilliams9937 Totally! Dave has a really unique style of writing guitar parts. 🎸
The sound of that low E string 🥲
First time I see crystal clear riffs being played! Great 🤘🏼😎🇲🇽🍻cheers!
Wow, man you can sing too! Keep it coming! Talented Tyler!
I think Slow Dancing in a Burning Room by John Mayer is one of the ultimate clean riffs that will make you better at guitar. 🤙🎸
#10 would be the opening riff from CHON's Fluffy. It's a good combination of many techniques that also includes some interesting chord voicings as well as a section with a run. It's kind of like a superfood for practicing many things all in a mere 26 seconds.
Holy crepe, Batman. I'd never heard of CHON before but your comment intrigued me - thank you, this is brilliant!
I've been following you for a few years and I had no idea that you were a big incubus fan! It makes sense, a lot of your chord phrasing choices in your guitar testing videos are a bit Einziger-ish. I'm stoked on this!
Sounds awesome dude
The one clean riff that really helped me improve was the intro to "A Farewell to Kings" by Rush. Very cool little piece of classical guitar work.
Broken wings from alter bridge is an amazing showing of tremonti's brilliance
i think wayward one is better and blackbird is more iconic
In loving Memory >>>>>
Any clean riff off of Alter Bridges first album is brilliant
@@blacktears4206 I forgot that it was actually brilliant
Lovely glassy tone
Your guitar sounds sooo clear!
The Alice in Chains Unplugged version of "Nutshell" was a favorite of mine for learning a great clean riff. "Under the bridge" done acoustically is also a great clean riff. Anything off of the Incubus "Make Yourself" record is also amazing clean
Favorite clean riff: A view from the top of the world by Dream Theater
Thanks... Another motivation to play more guitar
As a New Hampshire native, glad to hear you've lived here before! Awesome listA
Little Wing ...by far
"I'm set to the neck pickup with the bridge pickup split" - 😳😳😳 Am I missing something, or does that make no sense?
Sounds like he’s in the middle position with both pickups selected and the bridge coil split/tapped. 🤷🏻♂️
Never mind. Can’t delete my last comment. You’re right. That makes no sense to me haha.
No sense whatsoever
Please tell me that this is only confusing for me because i dont use humbuckers
The way the pickups are wired, both pickups are influencing the tone so when I adjust the treble pickup while the neck pickup is selected, it sort of creates this fourth position Strat thing. It’s strange, I know!
Great vocals man
Hallelujah is just one of those songs that you get the urge to sing to.
You can barely hear the low E, A or D strings, Way too much high-end on that thing. Pretty sure with all of the different materials people have made guitars out of players always keep coming back around to wood because it seems to be the only material you can get all of the tonal qualities of all strings from. You can get a deep low-end & mid-range from Mahogany & other body woods with a nice high-end of a Maple top like that found on Les Paul guitars. We cannot forget what qualities a wood fretboard provide either. The cornucopia of tonal qualities of good woods in a guitar are seemingly unmatched by any other construction material.
yeah and considering the weight of that thing...even switching from a les paul to a strat took a huge weight off my back. Glass looks cool but seems completely impractical.
Really doesn’t sound that good at least the clean tone…
Nothing Else Matters got me into guitar when I was a kid and is one of my fav clean things to play!
Wow! Sounds great! Thanks! :)
My absolute favorite clean guitar riff is Hanging By A Moment by Lifehouse, one of my favorite bands ever, and favorite songs ever
Honestly that's as smooth as I've ever heard someone cover Snow at proper speed! So many axe soldiers have fallen to the cold snow...
Cheeky bastard staring down the camera during Snow... you're a sicko, great riffs, great playing, love your channel!
Hudson NH, I grew up in NE Vermont. Moved to Alabama after second -50 degree Christmas. Enjoy the videos you create.
My guitar instructor threw Mother Superior by Coheed and Cambria at me one day and I love it so much. Add the amazing vocals and that's a challenge for just about all of us mere mortals. Love the guitar and the playing, Tyler!
Brings break angle to a whole new level lol… Tyler awesome vocals man, I was expecting some subpar singing but wow!
Just A Phase - by Incubus . super helpful for picking and switching chords . This was the first Incubus song I learned and I played it pretty much every time I picked up my guitar. Super fun song to play too
The intro to Soothsayer by Buckethead has definitely increased my dexterity and it's such a beautiful intro!
Have to say your voice on the Buckley tune took me by surprise...beautiful!
That guitar is amazing. Sounds awesome.
BRAVO 👏🏼
Thanks for the inspiring video! I’ve found Nile Rodgers´ riffs eg the intro riff from I`m Coming out by Diana Ross really useful for learning rhytmic funky playing with my right hand. Especially after watching a few videos where Nile himself explains his playing style. Limiting the notes you hit at a time with your right hand to max 3 sounds a whole lot different than playing a full barre chord.
thanks for sharing the love, Guitar!!!
Nice sounds 👌🔥 glass guitar 🎸 so cool
Your "guitar face" during the intro was fantastic! 😁
Always Focused by Tiny Moving Parts, was my first introduction to open tuning and leveled up my tapping game once i got it down