For Musicians: What is your favourite song or part of a song to play?

[Sazaranthran]

On any instrument, what riff, beat or whatever do you really love to play?
For whatever reason, because it challenges you, sounds brilliant or you're just so psyched you can actually play it.

I personally love to play the intro to Knight of Cydonia by(lead guitar) Muse because it sounds amazing through an amp with overdrive and chorus layered on.
The solo to Hysteria is also good because it's tricky enough to engage me but I am still able to pull it off.

So what do you guys like?

 

[diego_2112]

Metal: I like the solo to my band's [http://www.myspace.com/centervoid] song "Ragdoll," (it's not on our myspace... YET.) beacause it's just plain sweet... ok, ok, KNOWN metal: ANYTHING by Tony Iommi, in particular the main riff for Children of the Grave... LOVE that low chug it's got going on. On BASS, that'd be For Whom the Bell Tolls... DEAR GOD it's so much fun!

Rock: Stairway to Heaven... Not the solo, but the whole rest of the song. It's just plain FUN... The solo is too, but that's more like, "dude, EVERYONE can play that..." Not so with the REST of the song! ^_^

Also the bridge/solo to Man in the Wilderness by Styx...

HARD Rock: Detroit Rock City, the solo, and the entire chorus. Also the bass line is FRIGGIN TIGHT!

PROG rock: the intro to the Yes songs And You and I, Close to the Edge, and Siberian Khatru; the opeing riff to Pink Floyd's Run Like Hell (a HEAVY influence on the main body of Ragdoll, by the way), and the bassline to Dream Theater's Panic Attack.

Acoustic: Here lately I'm really digging Northern Sky by Nick Drake... It's a very simple progression (tuned BEBEBE capo on 4), but it's just... Soothing.

But mostly I just play my own stuff, either acoustically, or with my band. So yeah...

 

[Cunning Sage]

When I played cello in my school orchestra we used to play the can-can with grades 6-12 in the giant concert. That was pretty fun even tho I realized we sucked back then when I got older.

I'm trying to remember what it was called... but there was a song by Debusy that sounded really catchy with a good deep bass melody and it sounded really good even if it was pretty easy.

 

[Yosato]

The main riff and the bridge to 3s and 7s by Queens of the Stone Age since I lately got to the point where I can play it in my sleep, then also Can't Stop by RHCP; it was one of the first songs I (tried to) learn and I used to suck royally at it, and I read it early so I still play it using single stroke picking since I got so used to it instead of up and down D:

 

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

All of "Since I've been loving you" by Led Zeppelin, on the guitar.

That's a mind-blowingly powerful piece of music.

 

[fearofsleep]

i love playing the bassline to the song "the pot" by tool
and orion by metallica

 

[the Dept of Science]

Playing songs by the Magnetic Fields on my ukulele.

 

[Treefingers]

Any of this stuff:

http://ninja-starfish.bandcamp.com/

 

[Lerxst]

Spirit of Radio and Freewill (Rush). Playing them might not sound hard; playing them well, takes a lot of practice... and then some more.

 

[Hosker]

It changes a lot, right now the mgs2 theme.

 

[CrashBang]

At the moment I'm trying to learn a bunch of stuff off Parkway Drive's 'Deep Blue' album on drums. Some of it is pretty solid
Example:

 

[Ponch]

I can only play the intro to 3 Libras on the guitar.

 

[Sazaranthran]

then also Can't Stop by RHCP; it was one of the first songs I (tried to) learn and I used to suck royally at it, and I read it early so I still play it using single stroke picking since I got so used to it instead of up and down D:

I love playing that riff and I use that picking style for it too. But then I use it for pretty much everything that doesn't require tremolo picking. It doesn't make much difference whether it's an upstroke or downstroke on one string...same sound either way. It's chords where upstroke downstroke becomes really important. But again, whatever you feel is right.

 

[Wardnath]

The opening to "Death and the Healing" by Wintersun on the keyboard.

 

[Jumping_Over_Fences]

As a bass player, I love playing anything by Peter Hook.

 

[Blunderman]

On the piano: Chopin's Revolutionary Etude (as well as various nocturnes) and Fujisaki Shiori - Teach Me, Mr Sky.

On the guitar: Clapton's My Father's Eyes (unplugged version), Cayman Islands (Kings of Convenience) and Elliott Smith's Pitseleh.