TOP 30 GREATEST CLEAN RIFFS
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2019
- Hey guys! This is my own Top 30 Greatest Clean Riffs. You might be disagree with me and it's absolutely ok but this it just my own choice and riffs I love to play through time. I really hope you'll enjoy it and maybe discover something new to you, who knows.
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As a fan of arpeggios, I think your compilation is near-perfect!
You're awesome dude,your knowledge about Metallica is insane lml
I LOVE YOU!
@@thedamnedchile9893 Thank you guys!
Hi frrriend
Thank you so much, bro! I'm very pleased.
0:00 0:00 Under the bridge 0:29 0:29 Don’t fear the reaper 0:41 0:41 Fade to black. 0:58 0:58 Cemetery gates. 1:13 1:13 Kryptonite. 1:30 1:30 Wanted dead or alive 1:52 1:52 What’s my age again 2:02 2:02 Wake me up september ends 2:21 2:21 Run 2:34 2:34 The ministry of lost souls 3:02 3:02 The house of the rising sun. 3:14 3:14 Mutter. 3:31 3:31 Give in to me
3:55 3:55 Stairway to heaven
4:18 4:18 Is there anybody out there
4:36 4:36 Heart shaped box
4:58 4:58 One last breath
5:12 5:12 Dust in the wind
5:34 5:34 Sweet home alabama
5:52 5:52 Buried alive
6:48 6:48 Still loving you
7:06 7:06 Black bird
7:34 7:34 See you on the other side
7:58 7:58 Street spirit (fade out)
8:16 8:16 Aerials
8:40 8:40 Every breath you take
8:57 8:57 Dream on
9:37 9:37 Vermilion pt 2
9:52 9:52 Dreaming (tell me)
10:43 10:43 Love of my life
Thank you for encouraging me.
Cmon man, complete the list you can do it
You did well soldier
Thanks bro
One day I'll do something great
ナイス！
Metallica to live is to die clean part is the most beautiful thing ever
I know, that's why I have "Top 10 Metallica Clean Riffs" and "All Metallica Clean Riffs" videos.
@@VERMILIONGOD For the cleans I'd have included Call of Chutlu
Are you talking about the intro/outro or the break?
@@jto541 The riff is repeated several times, but they add up distortion and solos on top.. but i'm talking about the intro as the outro is with distortion :)
Fight fire with fire intro is also heavenly.
That's some *clean* quality mate
I hope you enjoyed it, pal!
your profile picture fits your name sooo well
Can we all collectively agree that the majority of these rifts display a wide array of talent but buried alive is just pure raw perfection
thank you.
It's on nightmare not hail to the king...
YoStefan what? I thought buried alive was on their nightmare album not on httk?
@YoStefan they are right, Buried Alive is on Nightmare... all HTTK songs are homage to the greats (especially Metallica) to a certain extent but Buried Alive is their own masterpiece... it does resemble Metallica a bit but imo it's one of their songs that surpasses a lot of Metallica's stuff
Buried alive is said by M. To be their best song and for good reason. It's perfect. Its powerful. The playing and writing is flawless. And you cant help but be sucked in by that intro
Frusciante king of riffs clean!
Under the bridge
Snow
Scar tissue
I could have lied
The zephyr song
Soul to squeeze
Californication
Otherside
By the way....
DITTOED !
I could have lied is Acoustic along with hella songs he played but they song good on both
By the way has overdrive bruh
@@gorjesito but an introduction doesn't have!

Wet sand?
He’ll yeah. Buried Alive Intro is my favorite clean riff.
I love it too. Hail to Syn!
Wasn't expecting Buried Alive. A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
Daniel Abreu cheeky Star Wars reference there mate
Just found that song, I’m exploring A7X finally. I think it might be overall one of my favorite songs ever. Just awesome from the intro to the end.
Doo Doo Fiend I’m a huge A7x fan (my wardrobe is mostly avenged shirts) and I’m glad to hear you’re looking into them. Nightmare is a great album to start on along with Hail to the King as it’s more of a hard rock/ classic metal style album. Hope you enjoy them as much as I do :)
0:00 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
0:29 Blue Oyster Cult - (Don’t Fear) The Reaper
0:41 Metallica - Fade To Black
0:58 Pantera - Cemetery gates
1:13 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
1:30 Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
1:52 Blink-182 - What's My Age Again
2:02 Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends
2:21 Snow Patrol - Run
2:34 Dream Theater - The Ministry of Lost Souls
3:02 The Animals - House of the Rising Sun
3:14 Rammstein - Mutter
3:31 Michael Jackson - Give In To Me
3:55 Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
4:18 Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There?
4:36 Nirvana - Heart-Shaped Box
4:58 Creed - One Last Breath
5:12 Kansas - Dust in the Wind
5:34 Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
5:52 Avenged Sevenfold - Buried Alive
6:48 Scorpions - Still Loving You
7:06 The Beatles - Blackbird
7:34 Ozzy Osbourne - See You on the Other Side
7:58 Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
8:16 System of a Down - Aerials
8:40 The Police - Every Breath You Take
8:57 Aerosmith - Dream On
9:37 Slipknot - Vermilion pt 2
9:52 Yngwie Malmsteen - Dreaming (Tell Me)
10:43 Queen - Love Of My Life
Cemetery gates is so beautiful
Thats why pantera is my favorite band
Buried alive intro gives me chills every time. It's so perfect
I love it too, bro and I hope you enjoyed my performance
@@VERMILIONGOD i definetly did!
@@stonehillproductions129 Thank you!
I actually think it’s just par to the rest of the list imo
For don’t fear the reaper all I could think of was will Farrell Playing the cowbell
I am going to learn every single one of these by the end of August.
By june imma be playin that 😂
Good luck
@@ryan0150 lol Flight team stand up
Ryan Shumaker This isn't a competition lmao
Do it, upload a video, and I'll give you a free custom guitar. No bullshit. (my choice of what I make lol)
Here are a couple of suggestions for tye top 100 clean riffs
Pearl Jam: Yellow Ledbetter
Foo Fighters: Everlong
Everlong is very distorted.
@@birdsaresinners3373 I meant Dave's part, not Chris's
@@theorionprogram3323 oh yeah, alright man
Don't talk to strangers - DIO, to continue this top 100
Don't Fear The Reaper... there's nothing better to play.
Needs more cowbell
@@gwaptiva just a tad more
@@gwaptiva it's like i have a fever, and the only cure, is more cowbell
ua-cam.com/video/_aGFWXHwhII/v-deo.html
Unfortunately sans cowbell, but cool version.
Beatles: I Want You (She's so Heavy)
Alice in Chains: Heaven Beside You
Def Leppard: Foolin'
Soundgarden: Black Hole Sun
Audioslave: Like a Stone
I will make "Top 100 Clean Riffs" next time. Share me your list, bro.
I Want You is the original heavy doom metal song
FOOLIN FOR LIFE
@@VERMILIONGOD добавь ещё fear of the dark и sultans of swing
@@user-ns6fi9un9i Money For Nothing - абсолютный хит Dire Straits не забыть
Since you played the Ministry of Lost Souls I would love to see a top Dream Theater riffs or something like that. Great video dude. Keep it up!
I might make Top 50 Dream Theater riffs but I'm afraid of copyright claims. I used to do videos with DT but they was blocked. Anyway, I love Dream Theater!
@@VERMILIONGOD As a DT fan,that would be an awesome video, but yeah youtube is trash sometimes :/
Anyways thanks for answer
Or what about a top 10 Foo Fighters riffs vid
@@loz2590 Really good band as well! There's some nice riffs in there
Oh wait, there is already one 😂
5:52 This made me very happy to see because i haven't listened to that intro in a while. I was once addicted to this song, especially the intro, and to see it come back in favor of great clean riffs was just a major agreement and happiness to see.
Same. Avenged Sevenfold are beyond amazing.
A7X Forever Baby!
I thought you tracked buried alive's studio audio at first, that's how good that was, keep up the work, amazing job
Awww, really? Sound good to me! Thank you!
so... you got your name from a slipknot song? pretty dope
it explaines everything
But.. Do you know how the Slipknot song got it's name? :)
@@befrnigel I know you didn't ask me, but i got curious and i don't know so can you tell me?
@@MrPecz-eg8qs Sure. :)
Corey the singer said "When i first heard it i couldn't think about anything but Red" (And Vermilion is indeed a shade of red)
But people linked the name of the song to Corey's ex wife who's named "Scarlett" and once again it's a shade of red close to the vermilion and since the song is about a stalker who can't get a girl/the girl doesn't want him anymore, it could be possible. :)
Now you know. ;)
@@befrnigel Pretty interesting, thanks for answering :)
A Tout Le Monde - Megadeth
Good morning Black Friday
Foreclosure of a dream
@@badjuju6430 That my favorite out of Megadeth's clean riffs
Maggieman-boss. Huzzah a man of quality.
Rust in peace... polaris, main riff its a beauty
Death - 'Voice of the soul' Deserves to be on this list
I was hoping to hear One Last Breath by Creed and when it came up I was so glad! Great video!
I love the way the video is filmed with the guitar lit up and the top all blacked out 👍🏼
Looks very effective.
This compilation has some nice variety. Great job! 🙌🏽
Mark tremonti is an expert in clean riff! My own prison is also nice and in loving memory from alter bridge!
Clean riffs always seem so much more melodic and sad other than maybe Skynyrd
That's the hole point :D
You haven't heard simple man then. Most depressing riff of all time.
If you haven’t cried while listening to free bird you ain’t COUNTRY BOI
I think there's something in my eyes... 😭 The closing arpeggio was just the icing on the cake!! Thank you, this literally made my day 🙏🙏
My goodness man you’ve got some skill to pull these riffs off so clean and precise. Hats off to you!
Thanks a ton buddy! It means a lot!
Loved hearing Aerials by System of a Down. The atmosphere of that riff is so moody, dark and foreboding. Great choices man.
That Stairway was so clean, i thought id slip on my way up
Awesome video, I can not only instantly know the song, but also, see the level of practice that went into this as well as the talent to pull it off
Really nice video ! Thanks for the gear info, very useful for sound improving!
Great video as always! I always enjoy watching/listening to you play.
Thank you so much, dude. I'm very pleased
o h y e a h h h
VERMILION you are very welcome!
@@doomie8777 That's very kind of you
godlike technique, dude. instant subcribe.
Thanks, bro! I really appreciate that.
So many people are requesting for Blackbird and more Tremonti riffs in general and it’s making me so happy
I love how raw this was!!! Absolutely fantastic my dude 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Thank you so much, George! It means a lot.
Great content man!
Glad you appreciate it! Thanks!
Audioslave - Like A Stone
Korn - Hushabye
Slipknot - Circle
Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole
Nirvana - All Apologies
Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
Stone Temple Pilots - No Memory
Mad Season - River Of Deceit
Mother Love Bone - Stargazer
Black Sabbath - She's Gone
Pantera - Suicide Note (Part 1)
Pink Floyd - Grantchester Meadows
Syd Barrett - Baby Lemonade
Elliott Smith - Let's Get Lost
The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
The Doors - Love Me Two Times
The Velvet Underground - Here She Comes Now
Prince - Purple Rain
Kiss - Forever
Beautiful list
Dream of me an Julie Ann, oh Xana come back again
Paul McCartney buried alive
Fell on black days is distorted bro
@@ComaAlpha R.I.P. Andy Wood
That was an awesome video and I feel like you started it off perfect. Favorite clean riff of All Time tho is Cemetery Gates!
I’m so glad I found your video. Instant sub. Quality content right here.
Heart shaped box has a great timing
Thanks!
3:30 and Dream Theater's Endless Sacrifice intro are wickedly similar!!!!
Absolutely agreed with you, sir :D
DT : Standard D tuning
MJ : Standard E
i agreed with you too,
thank you :D I was utterly scared that it was just me who thought so :D
Holy crap they do
Really good work mate, and you nailed the sound for each riff too 🤓💥🥓😲👌😍💝
I watched it from beginning to end, the choice of riffs is perfect! Good taste, man :)
Thanks my dear!
More than feeling - Boston
I'm so fucking happy you stuck Street Spirit in here. Good man
Great job, excellent selection, loved it.
Great job! awesome video!
I like how you included blink but maybe the Stay Together for the Kids riff would have been a better choice. Nice job.
Under the Bridge: You don’t need to bar the second fret. Just hit second fret G
Thanks!
This video is great. You don't do any commentary or exposition. Just the riffs. I wish more channels, on a host of subjects, did their videos like this.
This is an awesome list for guitar players that are just starting to play the guitar. Great songs to pick from! ❤️
Is it bad that when I hear black bird by the Beatles I immediately thought of of Kmac
Nope, not at all
Yes. It is
When u love the beatles but also love death metal :)
Amen
One last breath intro is a masterpiece. Tremonti will go down as an all time great.
Awesome stuff. Blackbird gets me all the time. Classic.
Nice, lots of stuff here I rarely see get love on other lists. I like it
Granted I don't check these kind of list videos often anymore but still, was personally happy to see Buried Alive and Still Loving You here. Along with a lot of the others, of course
Loving the lighting in your videos
Awww, thank you! Appreciate that.
@@VERMILIONGOD You're welcome, it's a nice change from all the full body shots you see, and easy on the eyes
@@ollyholmes1835 Really glad you like it
Shred collab 2019?
With a great pleasure
Wow! Good selection! That Queen song at the end just killed it! I loved that!
I missed "the kill" by 30 seconds to mars tho, but, anyway, here's your "thumbs up"
Thank so much my dear! I really love Queen stuff and Brian May style. Btw, I will make about 100 clean riffs next and you can share me your favorite riffs
God the tone of your guitar is awesome. I keep on coming back to listen to this. It's amazing.
Wow! How good of you, bro. Thanks a ton!
am i the only one whos here because the string on my electric broke and all guitar stores are closed and all i have is my acoustic and idk what else to learn
That was awesome, but can’t believe the clean bit of Seasons in the Abyss wasn’t in there!
Thank you buddy! There's always missing something, sorry.
Awesome choices on your list I agreed with 2/3rds of your picks but I def respected all your choices, well done! Nice variety from RHCP to Michael Jackson, to the Beatles, and a lot more. A little bit of everything and that's def how one becomes a better musician is by trying everything and then finding your style from everything u heard. Nice choice of music and nice playing!!! Keep on rocking bro!
That's definitely the most decent list on UA-cam. Great Job!
Great video man! I am thinking of buying a guitar soon.
Glad you like it! And I wish you to get a great guitar!
@@VERMILIONGOD I love it, and thanks maybe i build one.
@@donpalanqueto5952 Got you, bro!
Right in Two
Tool
Or Tool Riffs \m/
they'r not completely clean. but i also love hem
Many songs that i have forgot over the years thanks man love your channel
Honestly that is the main reason why I made this video. I don't want to forget this :D
Dude this makes me really want to go play guitar right now, thank you for the inspiration. That clean tone is like, sonic equivalent to getting a hug from a dog, just beautiful.
Has anybody ever tried question everything by FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH ? Yes i know many hate them...
But did u listen to that MASTERPIECE clean guitar part in the middle ? That's art.
Honestly, I'm glad you brought it up. I listen to so much FFDP that it's hard to remember stuff. But that song will always be remembered.
Good job :)
I suggest you listen to some songs from Alter Bridge/ Tremonti: blackbird, in loving memory, broken wings, unable to see, as the silence becomes me. You will find interesting tunings there. Maybe you like them and you can play them in a next video.
Thanks, dude! I will check it and take note of this.
maaaaaaaaaaan that "Dream on" you played it perfectly, with the milisecond suspend, i got chills. I guess i do not realise how many great songs i know, definetly im going to learn to play some of those now :D
You got some pretty amazing tones from the way you play and the guitar sounds
I would add "Blackbird" by Alter Bridge in there too.
0:30 MORE COWBELL!!!!
Definitely!
You have a great guitar skill. Thanks for your job.
Great riffs well played 👍
I'd add Periphery's Priestess. One of the coolest acoustic lines ive ever heard
Agreed! That's awesome and I'll take of this for my future videos. I'm going to make about 100 clean riffs in the nearest future so you could type me your own favorite riffs, bro.
I told myself. Creed wouldn’t be on here. And it was and it made me so happy tbh
They're douchey, but their guitarist has a tight sound
ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! LOVE ALL YOUR VIDS MAN! KEEP IT UP! maybe another muse vid please :)
Thank you very much my dear! That is so kind of you and I really appreciate that! I'll think over about Muse. Maybe smth about underrated Muse riffs :D
I really dig your tone, man!
Thank you! That Joyo Zombie clean channel is awesome.
Impressive, but can you do a “Top 30 reverse riffs” vid?
Nothing sounds as good and beautiful as an electric guitar played by a real guitar player.
Excellent video 👍👏👌
Aww, thanks a lot for that my friend! That's very kind of you and I'm very pleased.
NIce... I see a lot of people add their own opinion regarding their fav clean riffs, so this video is a treasure-full chest of information. Making a complete list may be a little unattainable task, still, these are some the finest clean riffs put together, and thanks a lot for this effort. I would like to add one of my fav clean riffs which is sort of a bit rare tune: Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits.
Great riffs, nice playing.
soothsayer in part 2, cheers
Hope Leaves by Opeth would be a great option if a second part comes out
I mean, anything by Opeth would fit perfectly!
Guitar Center: *watches the video* Also Guitar Center: *skips **3:55**-**4:18*
We can't blame them
I agree with these riffs more than most of the other videos like this on YT!!
Love how each riff plays into the next
Every Mark Tremonti riff.
totally agree
It would of been nice to hear Call of Ktulu from Metallica but very nice job my man. I might put this on my sleeping playlist
You should watch my "Top 20 Clean Riffs", bro. I really glad you like it!
Oh. 😂
If u can do a top 50 DragonForce riff vid, I will be beyond impressed. Or a top 100.
@@loz2590 Aww, I'll think it over and I also going to make "Top 100 Clean Riffs" in the future. Any suggestions for it?
Born in Winter by Gojira and I am a Highway by Audioslave
Great job man!👍😁 I'm trying to figure out who the hell would give this thumbs down!
cool music compilation dude!
If you do a second part, please include Blackbird by Alter Bridge, I think the whole song is a masterpiece!
Btw I love your videos👍🏻
Sure! Thank you for the suggestion and for appreciating my videos. It means a lot.
I was going to comment “Under The Bridge needs to be here” but I didn’t have enough time to comment because it was the first riff.
Excellent list
Amazing playing as usual bud, an those tones were killer man
Thank you so much my friend! I really glad you noticed the tone. I was playing through Joyo Zombie amplifier and I really love the clean tone. I also noticed you subscribed to my Twitch, I'm going to use it soon. Just need to figure out how it works :D Anyway, thanks again for all your support.
@@VERMILIONGOD looking forward to seeing you on Twitch pal 😊 that Joyo amp sounds Huge for what it is, I was expecting a 5150 haha
@@AnthraXFPS See you, my friend! Cheers!
I think Dire Straits deserve a spot :)
That's fair enough. I will make "top 100 clean riffs" next time. Type me your own favorite clean guitar riffs please. I'm very curious.
@@VERMILIONGOD a few of my favourites:
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Get Lucky - Daft Punk
Angie - The Rolling Stones
Closer to the Heart - Rush
Kurenai - X JAPAN
@@H1SHU Thank you, buddy! I'll take note of this.
@@VERMILIONGOD I don't know how far you are but there are also some german songs worth listing, like
Alles aus Liebe and Tage wie Diese
Great list. Would have loved to see Over the Hills and Far away by Zeppelin. Dreamer Deceiver by Judas Priest and also More Than a Feeling by Boston coulda made it too.
I'm going to make 100 clean riffs in the nearest future so you should type me your suggestions. I'll take this into account.
Over The Hills And Far Away is known also by Nightwish
@@IvanChernenko Actually Nightwish made a cover but original "Over The Hills And Far Away" song is by Mr. Gary Moore. R.I.P. Gary
Amazing work and its nice to see some DT
Btw I love how you play Still loving you
Thanks a billion Eduardo! I love Dream Theater, they're one of my fav bands ever. And thanks for noticing my performance of Scorpions, appreciate that a lot.
respect for including Street spirit, underrated masterpiece.