Iconic, Easy, and Awesome Riffs

My Band Director asked me to come up with some easy riffs that are well known for the band (especially the Middle School Band) to play at basketball games. So far he has:

*Smoke on the Water
*Iron Man
*Frankenstein
*We Will Rock You

My friend and I are going to write up:

*Fire
*Rock You Like A Hurricane
*Black Dog
*Money

If you guys can think of anymore, that would be appreciated.
...please....

Sweet Child of Mine.

T.Rex - "Children of the Revolution".
Wolfmother - "Joker and the Thief".
Judas Priest - "Better By You, Better Than Me".
Fleetwood Mac - "Oh Well".

EDIT: And NO on the Black Dog. Not with that swinging ballistics. And it's basically a rip-off of Oh Well, which is a much better riff.

I'd say The Immigrant Song is more recognizable than Black Dog.

But it only has one riff. Over and over and over.

ok, last night my friend and I worked on a few songs, and completely finished:

*Rock You Like A Hurricane
*The Ocean (Led Zeppelin)
*Whip It (Devo)

Keep the ideas coming if you think of anymore.

Judas Priest- Breaking the law

Blackout
Cowboys from hell(i dunno lol)
Tom Sawyer,(once again, i dunno lol)

Whatever

back in black is insanely easy

also barracuda.

hotsnakes wrote:

back in black is insanely easy

also barracuda.

Read the title again, carefully.

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

hotsnakes wrote:

back in black is insanely easy

also barracuda.

Read the title again, carefully.

seriously. its known, but harder that a crapload of concrete that's fallen of your head

zomg headless avocado wrote:

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

hotsnakes wrote:

back in black is insanely easy

also barracuda.

Read the title again, carefully.

seriously. its known, but harder that a crapload of concrete that's fallen of your head

No, "Iconic, Easy and Awesome riffs".

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

zomg headless avocado wrote:

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

hotsnakes wrote:

back in black is insanely easy

also barracuda.

Read the title again, carefully.

seriously. its known, but harder that a crapload of concrete that's fallen of your head

No, "Iconic, Easy and Awesome riffs".

as if the students are as musically well-minded as you

they won't be all like "OMG WAT WE WNAT HOLE LOTA ROSY" or "OMG WER IS DA T REKS".

um.....

First off, Avocado, Back in Black is not extremely hard...far from it.

Secondly, I have to agree with gear and snakes, it's well known and much more familiar, but not very awesome. However, I'll give it some consideration, along with TNT.

In any case:
Today, I tried to talk the band director into getting parts for Crazy Train(since we did the song in a show 2 years ago and I know we have it) and Final Countdown (because we don't play it for some crazy reason). Unfortunantly, he turned me down on those 2...

Disappointment....

So Sunshine of your love OR in da gadda da vidda

hotsnakes wrote:

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

zomg headless avocado wrote:

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

hotsnakes wrote:

back in black is insanely easy

also barracuda.

Read the title again, carefully.

seriously. its known, but harder that a crapload of concrete that's fallen of your head

No, "Iconic, Easy and Awesome riffs".

as if the students are as musically well-minded as you

they won't be all like "OMG WAT WE WNAT HOLE LOTA ROSY" or "OMG WER IS DA T REKS".

Whole Lotta Rosie sucks

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

hotsnakes wrote:

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

zomg headless avocado wrote:

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

hotsnakes wrote:

back in black is insanely easy

also barracuda.

Read the title again, carefully.

seriously. its known, but harder that a crapload of concrete that's fallen of your head

No, "Iconic, Easy and Awesome riffs".

as if the students are as musically well-minded as you

they won't be all like "OMG WAT WE WNAT HOLE LOTA ROSY" or "OMG WER IS DA T REKS".

Whole Lotta Rosie sucks

INCORRECT.

Or in Chinese, bu dui.

Isaac(Viviultima) wrote:

So Sunshine of your love OR in da gadda da vidda

In a Gadda da Vida would be good. I don't know if you guys know the song "Take On Me", but we wrote the intro to that song.

Jinzo wrote:

Isaac(Viviultima) wrote:

So Sunshine of your love OR in da gadda da vidda

In a Gadda da Vida would be good. I don't know if you guys know the song "Take On Me", but we wrote the intro to that song.

By whom?

You literally wrote it?

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

Jinzo wrote:

Isaac(Viviultima) wrote:

So Sunshine of your love OR in da gadda da vidda

In a Gadda da Vida would be good. I don't know if you guys know the song "Take On Me", but we wrote the intro to that song.

By whom?

You literally wrote it?

oh, no. I mean Arranged it, and I have no idea who originaly recorded the song. My friend came up with the idea. I recognized the lick, but I wouldn't have known the song without him telling me.

Prowler - Iron Maiden
Raining Blood - Slayer
Black Star - Yngwie J Malmsteen's Rising Force
Ain't Talkin' Bout' Love - Van Halen
Judas Rising - Judas Priest
Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
Over the Mountain - Ozzy Osbourne
Kill the King - Megadeth
Evil Eyes - Dio
End of the Begining - Jason Becker

Toki wrote:

Prowler - Iron Maiden
Raining Blood - Slayer
Black Star - Yngwie J Malmsteen's Rising Force
Ain't Talkin' Bout' Love - Van Halen
Judas Rising - Judas Priest
Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
Over the Mountain - Ozzy Osbourne
Kill the King - Megadeth
Evil Eyes - Dio
End of the Begining - Jason Becker

COTG = C# tuning, dude.
EOTB = While it's no strain on technique, it is a bit quick to be considered "easy" on the same level as Smoke on the Water and Prowler.

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

Toki wrote:

Prowler - Iron Maiden
Raining Blood - Slayer
Black Star - Yngwie J Malmsteen's Rising Force
Ain't Talkin' Bout' Love - Van Halen
Judas Rising - Judas Priest
Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
Over the Mountain - Ozzy Osbourne
Kill the King - Megadeth
Evil Eyes - Dio
End of the Begining - Jason Becker

COTG = C# tuning, dude.
EOTB = While it's no strain on technique, it is a bit quick to be considered "easy" on the same level as Smoke on the Water and Prowler.

I didn't know we were judging by difficulty, I just posted riffs I liked

Toki wrote:

Eifion! Shred! T.Rex! wrote:

Toki wrote:

Prowler - Iron Maiden
Raining Blood - Slayer
Black Star - Yngwie J Malmsteen's Rising Force
Ain't Talkin' Bout' Love - Van Halen
Judas Rising - Judas Priest
Children of the Grave - Black Sabbath
Over the Mountain - Ozzy Osbourne
Kill the King - Megadeth
Evil Eyes - Dio
End of the Begining - Jason Becker

COTG = C# tuning, dude.
EOTB = While it's no strain on technique, it is a bit quick to be considered "easy" on the same level as Smoke on the Water and Prowler.

I didn't know we were judging by difficulty, I just posted riffs I liked

And yet you didn't post Go Off!?

AND YOU CALL YOURSELF A CACOPHONY FANBOY.

Carry On Wayward Son

dun dun dun DUNNN dun dun DUN DUN dun dun dndndnDUNDUN DUNDUN

WingsOfSteel wrote:

Carry On Wayward Son

dun dun dun DUNNN dun dun DUN DUN dun dun dndndnDUNDUN DUNDUN

Funny you mention that, our marching band played Carry on Wayward Son for our main show, the one we play at away games. we always have a different home show, but all of our away games are the same show. I am so tired of Carry on Wayward Son, we've played it atleast 50 times.

Also, I went back and checked, and We already have arranged music for In a Gadda Da Vida and Back in Black, and crazy train too...