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10-19-2009, 01:14 AM
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Well I think the title says it all. What are some of those riffs you fully completely absolutely refused to learn, but one day you were noodling, and they played through your fingers, and you went, "awww, dammit!"
I'll open this tin of beans with Smoke on the Water. Just when I was starting up, I was sort of messing around near open E, and that happened 
Play that Funky Music White Boy is another. The thing about that one is it stops being cool after it gets played constantly by other new bassists, and it just gets annoying.
Any others have this happen?
Cheers!
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10-19-2009, 01:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Minnesota | | | well not one that i refused to learn but the bass line in the new subway commercials just came out while i was playing with my pick a couple of weeks ago i kept playing it then it donned on me a couple hours later while watching tv what it was from lol |
10-19-2009, 01:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Blown Cone Well I think the title says it all. What are some of those riffs you fully completely absolutely refused to learn, but one day you were noodling, and they played through your fingers, and you went, "awww, dammit!" | Two words I dread even typing...violent femmes. 
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10-19-2009, 01:52 AM
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im never going to learn sweet child o mine. ill literally smash my guitar the day i play that by accident
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10-19-2009, 02:41 AM
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There I said it! |
10-19-2009, 02:42 AM
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10-19-2009, 06:16 AM
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Damned near died of embarrassment, too 
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10-19-2009, 09:55 AM
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I might still rip that one off for an original song, once it's been long enough that it counts as an homage. |
10-19-2009, 11:03 AM
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10-19-2009, 11:54 AM
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10-19-2009, 12:02 PM
| | | | "Billie Jean." Or any other MJ tune for that matter. |
10-19-2009, 12:10 PM
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Not if there's a buck on the table.
Didn't like? "Dreams" by fleetwood mack - and I still got paid to play it.
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10-19-2009, 05:56 PM
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10-20-2009, 09:28 AM
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10-20-2009, 09:47 AM
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Originally Posted by murseli That must be Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes... | Seconded.
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10-20-2009, 03:35 PM
| | | | Lazy Eye by Silverspun pick ups.... |
10-20-2009, 03:56 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: KS | | | I don't think it's all that odd that someone would learn riffs by accident, when a lot of the riffs were accidents to start out with. The intro to sweet child of mine was a scale exercise that Slash was noodling around with during rehearsals. Ozzy stumbled into his apartment drunk early one morning and heard Randy playing around with a scale, which became the intro to Crazy Train.
I sometimes have the opposite problem...I'll come up with something that sounds good and two days later I'll hear someone playing it on the radio. =\
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10-20-2009, 04:23 PM
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10-20-2009, 04:26 PM
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10-20-2009, 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by BigOldHarry refused?
Not if there's a buck on the table.
Didn't like? "Dreams" by fleetwood mack - and I still got paid to play it. | 
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