5 Famous Guitar Riffs That Are Ripped Off

Okay, playing just the first few notes is enough for everyone to recognize this song anyway, we all know it Johnny Be Good by Chuck Berry, but did he really write that riff? Well, you decide why it came out nine years earlier or in the same key and put a little overdrive on it, it sounds practically identical, but this traditional John Blues line is performed by Carl Hogan in the 1946 song Ain't That Just Like a Woman by Louis Jordan, any intro is even cooler when played with big band or wind instruments, but Barry changed a few things, so he used double stops instead of single notes and added the slide action, so , although the melody is slightly different, it is delayed so much if you play it together it sounds very good.

I miss John Blues in rock and roll and settling for inspiration anyway, let's move on to number two, it's Nirvana's hit song and a lot of

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ists are the first

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ist Come As You Are and it's funny because if you rush like crazy and you mess up the timing of the Riff a little like many beginners do and add some overdrive, it sounds almost exactly like a song released eight years earlier. Thanks This is the 80's song by the post punk band Killing Joke and before we compare it back to back let's first look at all the striking similarities between the two so first of all both

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are played on guitars that are tuned a step down, it sounds great and secondly, both

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alternate between an E minor chord and a D5 chord and thirdly, both riffs almost have an identical rhythmic pattern. and lastly, they both use the chorus effect, so no chorus, so let's play a Nirvana riff first and then play Killing Joke right after and it's up to you if you hear closely where it changed, you probably wouldn't be surprised if you layer. the Gum as you are vocal over the 80's guitar riff sounds pretty awesome, ah but here's the thing, so at the time Kurt was pretty nervous about releasing Come as you are as a single because he also felt it was too similar and he was right. because Killing Joke complained but they didn't sue for financial reasons and also maybe because even his song was inspired by another riff.

Here's the song Life Goes On by the Damned and they released the song in 1982, three years before Killing. Joke released in the 80s, listen to this very flashy foreign song, so it's literally the same chords again with the same beat, but now it's played with a bass, so now three songs at the same time. Kurt Cobain singing comments that you already finished Killing Joke from the eighties to do a riff with the Damn all three together, let's move on to number three, Deep Purple and their most iconic song, Smoke Underwater, so I made a whole video about the peculiar events that surround the birth and existence of this riff and this album.

It's a surprisingly interesting story. Check it out here, but now to the creativity or lack thereof that led to the birth of this riff, according to Richie Blackmore it is Beethoven's Fifth Sword in reverse and well, I'm not sure if it was a joke, but let's say it is it an exaggeration, I mean, you get something that sounds vaguely familiar if you invert Beethoven's fifth, change the rhythm up, and change the notes up, so what's left of the riff? I mean, listen to this, I don't know, but what's more? The logical explanation is that Blackmore could have heard a song by Brazilian guitarist and composer Carlos Lira.

This is the bossa nova version of Smoke on the Water and it's called Maria Moita and it was released in 1964, so it was eight years before Smoke on the Water came along. It came out in 1972, so I don't know Beethoven's Fifth. It's a coincidence that there is some inspiration. I don't know, tell me if you plan together in the same key. By the way, it sounds absolutely hilarious, but then again, it's just playing the blues scale. the beat pretty basic so you could argue that both could have been written on their own but it's eerily close if you ask me, let's call it inspiration and move on so at number four we find two classic Beatles riffs that were , well this is Revolution I.

I need a different guitar again and it's definitely not a stretch to contribute to John Lennon's fiery double-stop slide action with Chuck Berry, but it's really not, it's the triplets and the timing of the slides which basically turn it into a one to one copy of do. to others from blues guitarist Peewee Creighton, so let's listen to this, this is Lenin in 1968. Oh, and here's Mr. Creighton 14 years earlier, in 1954 54. I think he sounds better than the Beatles, but he creates an absolute tone that killed him. the performance is a bit ridiculous from 1954 to be honest, anyway let's call it inspiration and the next one is more interesting.

I guess it's I Feel Good with the Beatles and it's supposed to sound a lot like Bobby Parker, Watch Your Step. I definitely will. I'm getting the vibe, it's pretty evident when John Lennon literally said that What's Your Step was one of his favorite records, so look at the similarities first. Both are traditional Blues formats, they basically play the four and five chord. where the riff is layered over the chord that is playing, so this is your step: chords one, chords four and chords five back to one and if you do it with I Feel Fine by The Beatles, they start with the five chords for the four chords and the y chord rhythmically is also very close with the accents almost literally in the same place and the first notes are identical, let's put them in the same key e, so the first notes are the same.

Both riffs and then Parker ends like that, so it stays in that minor pentatonic vibe in pentatonic notes, but John Lennon really goes further, he goes to the fourth of the chord, to the three and then to the nine, and that definitely gives it a very different. The Riff sounds so different that to me it really morphed into something new but it was definitely inspired by Bobby Parker just as good and ready, that's Moby Dick which to my ears sounds even more like watching your steps but again it's just playing the skill pentatonic in a blues lick or a blues riff.

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I love it. This was all before Iron Maiden released Two Minutes to Midnight in 1984 and then dare you say all modern pop music. sounds the same anyway I guess it's just metal 101 Paul muted open strings syncopated rhythms some drums playing it's basically the one four five of the Blues the 251 of Jazz the 808 of hip-hop it's just a sound and I don't think you can blame anyone for use it to its fullest, it's pretty impressive anyway, there you see that much of modern music history is tied together by similar riffs, similar rhythms, similar chords, similar patterns and that's why the current trend of suing for plagiarism is It's kind of scary every time I write something down, it's usually somewhere my ears direct me to and it's either because it sounds vaguely familiar or it's some subconscious thing trying to copy something I heard before, you never really know unless you hear it.

Whatever you do on purpose, of course, anyway. I'd love to hear your thoughts on this too or any riffs I missed in this video. I'd love to know what you think, so let me know in the comments section and for now I wish you a lovely day, keep playing. Keep writing until next time and check out the power lift links below. Thank you so much. Have a nice day bye.