10 Acoustic Guitar Riffs That Will Make You A Better Player
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Published 2021-07-28
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All Comments (21)
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In my list are: “Never Going Back Again” by Fleetwood Mac, “Here Comes the Sun” by The Beatles, “Going to California” by Led Zeppelin, “The Boxer” by Simon & Garfunkel, and “Dust in the Wind” by Kansas
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The first riff in Paranoid Android was the acoustic guitar part that really made me excited to play acoustic guitar, it was super hard to learn but after I finished learning it I felt incredibly happy that I accomplished something I never thought possible, and it inspired me to start playing more acoustic music rather than just metal and grunge.
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As a kid born in the 80s and going to high school in the 90s, no music class jam would be complete without 6 acoustic guitars poorly playing 'fade to black' by MetallicA. Good times!
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The Rain Song is another great acoustic Zeppelin tune, so much fun to play and such a weird tuning, Page is a genuis!
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I would add Wish You Were Here. Otherwise great list!
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Blackbird and Dust in the wind taught me how to fingerpick, they basically made me learn how to Travis pick and that changed my entire style of playing.
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Led Zep's "That's the Way" is a killer composition. Immortal masterpiece.
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Nick Drake — Pink Moon — not just the song, the whole album. Great tunings, great picking patterns, great strumming patterns, and it’ll break your heart with beauty
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Wish You Were Here is always a big one also for another finger style song I’d pick Deep River Blues by Doc Watson. I think the first acoustic song I ever learned was Night Moves by Bob Seger.
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The whole Clapton unplugged is one of my favorite too. Great for learning guitar.
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This is probably the best “top 10 acoustic” list that I’ve seen. You are thoughtful and erudite throughout. Keep up the good work!
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"Time in a bottle" is my favorite. The chord movement is incredible!
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Rain Song is another great song with great acoustic. When I listen and play that song I’m just in awe of Jimmy Page. It’s truly stunning.
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Love the variety, relevance to my own tastes, and you’re commentary on every song is unbiased and just good bro. Loved it
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One of my favorite videos from you. I like to rock out but, there is nothing like the soothing sound of an acoustic especially if played as well as you do! Something to aspire to! Great songs, thanks!
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I think Landslide are really important on a list like this, to learn and practice travis picking with simple chords (i was only playing the chord for the verse for like over a year just to get down the picking with the chord changes sounding good), for the dynamics of the song, a song everybody knows instantly when you play it so crowd pleaser for sure etc etc. Love the video and the list tho!
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Fast Car is a must!
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I love the intro to "I'd Love to Change the World" by Ten Years After. It was the first song I learned to play on acoustic guitar.
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New to your channel Rhett, but I got here as soon as I could. Your playing is right up there with the musicians that wrote these songs. That guitar sounds so amazing!
