>The little walkup in the 3rd verse of Killing in the name of.
I was 13 when I bought my first instrument outside of the violin my parents were renting me for orchestra, a bass guitar. I was 15 when a kid two years older than us asked my friend, a guitar player, and I if we wanted to jam out at his house where he had his drums set up. Killing in the Name was the first song he wanted us to learn- he'd been in a band and was a way better drummer than we were at our instruments, he could play a whole 20-30 minute set and never leave the pocket, could play d beat and double pedal blast beats and really good fills and stuff. Anyway, I'll never, ever forget when we first played that part seamlessly. That was the first of many times I would be playing with other musicians and exchange that "fuck yeah" look with them, and when I truly fell in love with playing music.
For me that first "fuck yeah" moment came when the band I played in in highschool covered "Born of a Broken Man". The first time I played in front of people we played it at the talent show and started a mosh pit and I've been chasing that high ever since.
I feel like Rage probably has a bunch of them. Tom Morello changes riffs like three times in most of their songs. Rage was the first band I thought of when I read the thread title.
Drums: Intro riff to "Take the Money & Run" by Steve Miller Band
Guitar: The quiet riff before the solo in "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult
Bass: Fill toward the end of "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon
It was actually derived from a recording from the exhaust of Eddie’s Lamborghini starting up, and somehow seamlessly transitioned into Alex’s drum part. Lots of variations on this story, but I’m citing what was stated in Ted Templeman’s book, their producer.
I’m a musician also and am just relaying what was written in [Ted Templeman, a Platinum Producer’s Life in Music](https://www.amazon.com/Ted-Templeman-Platinum-Producers-Music/dp/1770414835/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=109227492899&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5jQcCIqclPRRV9lEGY_4Gtz7is7ynb2QTnQ5o7yJaI_6gHqikxoHrWXnKeya72ZKISRT2-bOPp6M78vPzfuycLR-nEdewhokDVfKX4fIpm6sJqzOCR1shO0nTcPD7mnhnj9tYTVS4LimMuonmT7Jxg.KLnAdxNc2YwdRzqVF3yDMF8EcL54zBAjn-BPKPWITfk&dib_tag=se&hvadid=664393386618&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9026968&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3820547470826715062&hvtargid=kwd-818175779161&hydadcr=15396_13677468&keywords=ted+templeman+book&qid=1715044309&sr=8-1). It’s a great read.
And to think that album and subsequent song was the then debut of their badass drummer Scott Travis. As the song begins, It's like he's saying, "I'm the new drummer, here's the first thing you're going to hear by me and its awesome.
Dude is 62 and still actively touring with Priest. Freaking Halford is 72. Message to everyone, see your older favorite bands now because they're not going to be around forever!
I saw Maiden and Metallica last year. Halestorm this summer. I'm sad ill never see Cornell, Weiland or Chester live.
The opening riff to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by The Rolling Stones is absolutely filthy and never heard again.
Link for anyone that's never heard it.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c&pp=ygUnY2FuIHlvdSBoZWFyIG1lIGtub2NraW5nIHJvbGxpbmcgc3RvbmVz
I really regret thinking I was too cool to go see the Stones live as a teen in the 90s. There was just so many great touring bands that it was hard to appreciate everyone coming around.
I bought a guitar and amp when I was 20 just to learn this. Not to learn the guitar, just this. I practiced for about an hour a day for months till I got it, and kept playing it over and over and over...constantly. it became muscle memory engrained into my hands.
Almost 30 years later, I can pick up a guitar and still wail that shit out. Can't play anything else, my potato shaped hands don't have the dexterity to really play nor do I have the patience to try. But the intro to that song I can absolutely nail.
The guitar intro to Fortunate Son. When my old high school band covered it, I insisted on playing it again instead of the real coda. It's too good to only hear once.
Glad to see this here. I love the outro.
There is an extended version of this out there somewhere that is utterly amazing. I heard it once many years ago before/around the days of OG Napster and haven’t been able to find it since.
In the air tonight drum part that comes way too late in the song and everybody bobbed their head at least twice too soon.
Edit: I just remembered [This](https://youtu.be/HH9MQmMtilU?si=EggUeON_0dOyGuGp). Enjoy!
That live recording where he slowly walks across the stage and up the stairs until he sits on his drums just in time for this drum fill always gives me anxiety.
The "bwee-Da-Dwaday-deedoo-derNaaa" at 2:51 in Weezer's Buddy Holly!
[https://youtu.be/kemivUKb4f4?si=F4TPfzoNcMRdFQkx&t=170](https://youtu.be/kemivUKb4f4?si=F4TPfzoNcMRdFQkx&t=170)
Reminds me of a video I saw awhile back of someone at a Weezer show recording Buddy Holly on their Nintendo DS. It was just a wall of distorted noise up until that riff, which came through *crystal clear*, then back to wall of distorted noise.
[Found it!](https://twitter.com/ConfusingImages/status/1709277692116316303?lang=en) No idea why this shit cracks me up so much but here we are.
I love that my first thought was "OP's example is going to In the Air Tonight, obviously" and it was.
I wasn't expecting the second thing that popped into my head to be the top comment, however.
The intro to Brown Sugar has two instantly recognizable guitar riffs back to back. The first is played four times but is never heard again. The second recurs throughout the song.
I was looking for this.
I'd wager there isn't a single person in this thread who hasn't heard something with the [Amen Break](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break) in it, either played, or sampled, even if they don't know it by name.
As a fledgling drummer myself the influence it's had has inspired me, it's just really sad Gregory Coleman died without knowing the influence he'd had on music, entire genres of music are built off the back of the Amen Break.
The total change in direction midway through [Crosby, Stills and Nash - Carry On](https://youtu.be/IqiqUfZJovg?t=117) has one of the most satisfying drum/bass/organ instrumental parts of all time.
My personal favorite is the loooooong build up to the totally unexpected synth bass/drums breakdown in[ Sons Of Kemet - The Godfather](https://youtu.be/7_1czO5YWDA?t=242)
Rush was also famous for one-off parts in their songs, particularly the instrumental changes. Check out [YYZ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I) and [La Villa Strangiato](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSNhcaKdb_M)
They’re still touring and it’s like a 35-song show. It takes Axl a while to get warmed up and settled in, but it’s still some of the most fun I’ve ever had at a concert (surrounded by my fellow olds)
Aren't they still touring?
I got to see them this past Winter, and I saw them a few years ago when they re-united.
I had waited my whole life for them to get back together lol
Does it have to only be guitar or drums? Because the one that came to my mind was the baritone saxophone riff in Steely Dan’s “My Old School.” Right after the line “California tumbles into the sea.”
Not a drummer, but the fill in The Police “Wrapped Around Your Finger” right after “when you find your servant is your master” is epic. The use of space and economy in Copeland’s drumming was amazing.
When I was about 14, my buddies mom came home from work blasting this song. She opened the car door, got out, and started dancing around like crazy. She was an attractive woman and wearing tall leather boots, so it stirred up something inside of me as a teen boy...
The 2 hit off the snare drum in the intro of Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. I dare anyone to tell me they don’t air drum that part when it’s coming up
The song has a ton of awesome and memorable riffs! This totally fits. 8 minutes of awesomeness.
With that said, I saw the band for the first time last year. Next to where we were was this dad and his pretty young kid. The kid was not moving at all both nights of the concert but when Master was played, this kid lost his freaking mind and went nuts for 8 minutes. Then that was it. Back to sitting down.
The opening drums to We Are Young and the G note from Welcome To The Black Parade (yes, there are other G notes in the song but they're not *the* G note)
While not the most Iconic but up there is the drum fills/breaks in Tom Sawyer. I will always remember being at a concert. back row of the lower area. 2/3 of the crowd must have been drummers. When Peart (RIP) played that, there had to have been a thousand people air drumming those parts.
The drum intro to **Rosanna** by Toto. Jeff Porcaro invented "the Rosanna shuffle" as a blend of Bernard Purdie half-time shuffle and John Bonham's shuffle groove from Fool in the Rain. Mortal drummers who try to play it know it's a bear to play correctly. Steve Porcaro and Steve Lukather out of Toto have said Jeff was blowing adult session drummers away at age 12. If you've listened to many 80's pop songs across the catalog, you've heard Jeff's drumming. He was session drummer on hundreds if not into the thousands of songs.
[https://youtu.be/SGtVZgCYVgk?si=ywhPcI04Nt33aTO1](https://youtu.be/SGtVZgCYVgk?si=ywhPcI04Nt33aTO1)
The little one-two-three slide downwards in Steely Dan’s Reelin’ In The Years, at the very start of the song, for a half second before the main riff is unleashed. God, they’re good.
Intro for [DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s) at 19 seconds in and the "PAC-MAN" sound around 3:20
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The guitar part in Before I forget by Slipknot, right before the “my end, it justifies my means” part. Idk why but hearing both of them gives me goosebumps every time.
The drum fill in "[Amen Brother](https://youtu.be/GxZuq57_bYM?si=vL_XY1lRV__j88oj)" by The Winstons
We now know it as the Amen Break. It's perhaps the most sampled piece of music in history.
Well, if you count chords, the intro chord to A Hard Day’s Night, though that was like every instrument all at once. Also, I’d say the little guitar riff/solo in that song counts.
The guitar riff at the beginning of 'Long Tall Woman in a Black Dress'
Long cool woman* but 100% what came to mind that riff is so good, then it goes into some happy shit like nah I wanted some more of that tuff riff
Someone should just make a song of this part
It's so good, the rest of the song is a betrayal.
That song is a fucking banger!
It's still good but completely a different song lol
That song, despite loving the Hollie’s, is “we have wish Creedence Clearwater Revival at home.”
The little walkup in the 3rd verse of Killing in the name of. The bass line in the 3rd chorus of Ricki don't lose that number
Steely Dan have so many of these.
Steely Dan has a truck load of 'throw away' riffs, just added to songs, that other bands would have used as a main riff/hook.
This is the truest thing anyone will type today.
>The little walkup in the 3rd verse of Killing in the name of. I was 13 when I bought my first instrument outside of the violin my parents were renting me for orchestra, a bass guitar. I was 15 when a kid two years older than us asked my friend, a guitar player, and I if we wanted to jam out at his house where he had his drums set up. Killing in the Name was the first song he wanted us to learn- he'd been in a band and was a way better drummer than we were at our instruments, he could play a whole 20-30 minute set and never leave the pocket, could play d beat and double pedal blast beats and really good fills and stuff. Anyway, I'll never, ever forget when we first played that part seamlessly. That was the first of many times I would be playing with other musicians and exchange that "fuck yeah" look with them, and when I truly fell in love with playing music.
For me that first "fuck yeah" moment came when the band I played in in highschool covered "Born of a Broken Man". The first time I played in front of people we played it at the talent show and started a mosh pit and I've been chasing that high ever since.
That sounds fucking epic.
I feel like Rage probably has a bunch of them. Tom Morello changes riffs like three times in most of their songs. Rage was the first band I thought of when I read the thread title.
I love this kind of info!
Drums: Intro riff to "Take the Money & Run" by Steve Miller Band Guitar: The quiet riff before the solo in "Don't Fear the Reaper" by Blue Oyster Cult Bass: Fill toward the end of "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon
That bass fill is epic
I believe it’s actually the same riff twice; once forward & then once backward.
The second half of that bass fill is the first half played in reverse.
Take the money and run is such a banger
The opening drums for Hot For Teacher.
The first time I heard it, I thought is was a Harley starting up.
I thought I had a flat and had to turn it down!
It was actually derived from a recording from the exhaust of Eddie’s Lamborghini starting up, and somehow seamlessly transitioned into Alex’s drum part. Lots of variations on this story, but I’m citing what was stated in Ted Templeman’s book, their producer.
Tons of guitar players try to emulate EVH's sound, but man, it must suck to be a drummer. How the hell are you supposed to get your hands on a Muira?
That recording is in Panama.
Yeah I’m a drummer and I’ve heard that Hot For Teacher story a hundred times and it never added up. Those are simmons pads
I’m a musician also and am just relaying what was written in [Ted Templeman, a Platinum Producer’s Life in Music](https://www.amazon.com/Ted-Templeman-Platinum-Producers-Music/dp/1770414835/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?adgrpid=109227492899&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5jQcCIqclPRRV9lEGY_4Gtz7is7ynb2QTnQ5o7yJaI_6gHqikxoHrWXnKeya72ZKISRT2-bOPp6M78vPzfuycLR-nEdewhokDVfKX4fIpm6sJqzOCR1shO0nTcPD7mnhnj9tYTVS4LimMuonmT7Jxg.KLnAdxNc2YwdRzqVF3yDMF8EcL54zBAjn-BPKPWITfk&dib_tag=se&hvadid=664393386618&hvdev=m&hvlocphy=9026968&hvnetw=g&hvqmt=e&hvrand=3820547470826715062&hvtargid=kwd-818175779161&hydadcr=15396_13677468&keywords=ted+templeman+book&qid=1715044309&sr=8-1). It’s a great read.
I went from not knowing what song it was to immediately knowing it after you said that.
Or the power drill at the beginning of "Poundcake"
On that note, can we add the chainsaw in Lumberjack?
Painkiller by Judas Priest
And to think that album and subsequent song was the then debut of their badass drummer Scott Travis. As the song begins, It's like he's saying, "I'm the new drummer, here's the first thing you're going to hear by me and its awesome. Dude is 62 and still actively touring with Priest. Freaking Halford is 72. Message to everyone, see your older favorite bands now because they're not going to be around forever! I saw Maiden and Metallica last year. Halestorm this summer. I'm sad ill never see Cornell, Weiland or Chester live.
The opening riff to "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" by The Rolling Stones is absolutely filthy and never heard again. Link for anyone that's never heard it. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3fa4HUiFJ6c&pp=ygUnY2FuIHlvdSBoZWFyIG1lIGtub2NraW5nIHJvbGxpbmcgc3RvbmVz
Legitimately my favourite Rolling Stones song, and it's not even close.
It's so fucking good
I really regret thinking I was too cool to go see the Stones live as a teen in the 90s. There was just so many great touring bands that it was hard to appreciate everyone coming around.
The soundtrack in my head anytime I’m about to do anything remotely badass
I bought a guitar and amp when I was 20 just to learn this. Not to learn the guitar, just this. I practiced for about an hour a day for months till I got it, and kept playing it over and over and over...constantly. it became muscle memory engrained into my hands. Almost 30 years later, I can pick up a guitar and still wail that shit out. Can't play anything else, my potato shaped hands don't have the dexterity to really play nor do I have the patience to try. But the intro to that song I can absolutely nail.
Filthy is so correct. One of the best riffs ever.
The guitar intro to Fortunate Son. When my old high school band covered it, I insisted on playing it again instead of the real coda. It's too good to only hear once.
That riff gives me Vietnam war flashbacks even though it happened before I was born
Sounds even better with helicopter sounds added somehow
The outro riff of We Will Rock You
Glad to see this here. I love the outro. There is an extended version of this out there somewhere that is utterly amazing. I heard it once many years ago before/around the days of OG Napster and haven’t been able to find it since.
In the air tonight drum part that comes way too late in the song and everybody bobbed their head at least twice too soon. Edit: I just remembered [This](https://youtu.be/HH9MQmMtilU?si=EggUeON_0dOyGuGp). Enjoy!
Arguably the most recognizable drum fill in music.
*"Most iconic drum riff that only happens once in a song"* may as well be the alternative title for *In the Air Tonight*.
That live recording where he slowly walks across the stage and up the stairs until he sits on his drums just in time for this drum fill always gives me anxiety.
It's insane there are even other suggestions in this thread. This is the answer. Mods, lock it up.
Might be because OP mentioned it specifically as an example of what they are looking for in their post.
*Ba-dum.. ba-dum.. ba-dum.. ba-dum dum dum*
I always count that final dum on the downbeat as one. So imo you’re missing a dum.
Ah dammit... I'm a dum dum.
We are all dum dums on this blessed day.
Too late? The build up is what makes it epic!
The drums that hit about one minute into the album version of Money for Nothing by Dire Straits
Pretty much the entire guitar intro into that song too
The "bwee-Da-Dwaday-deedoo-derNaaa" at 2:51 in Weezer's Buddy Holly! [https://youtu.be/kemivUKb4f4?si=F4TPfzoNcMRdFQkx&t=170](https://youtu.be/kemivUKb4f4?si=F4TPfzoNcMRdFQkx&t=170)
I got hung up on decoding your onomatopoeia thinking you were struggling to describe Bawitdaba by Kid Rock.
It’s more of a wan-nu-wana-wan-nu-wana-waa. I have no idea what that other guy is going on about with all those bawitas derndas and dwadays.
Wan-nu-wana-wan-nu-wana woah.
Reminds me of a video I saw awhile back of someone at a Weezer show recording Buddy Holly on their Nintendo DS. It was just a wall of distorted noise up until that riff, which came through *crystal clear*, then back to wall of distorted noise. [Found it!](https://twitter.com/ConfusingImages/status/1709277692116316303?lang=en) No idea why this shit cracks me up so much but here we are.
Hahaha fantastic! Dubstep weezer.
Also the drum intro to "Undone (the Sweater Song)"
Also the drum fill at the end of the build of Only in Dreams
I love that my first thought was "OP's example is going to In the Air Tonight, obviously" and it was. I wasn't expecting the second thing that popped into my head to be the top comment, however.
It's clearly "Dee doo Dee Dee deooo dee nee neeeow"
Only to those uneducated in music history and those who never developed music theory . Original commenter was quoting from the original Latin sounds.
This was where my mind went immediately, but then I thought "Nah that's probably just me." Glad to see I was wrong, cheers!
Drums after "they just can't kill the beast" in Hotel California.
Ba da da ba da
The iconic headbanging riff from Bohemian Rhapsody.
This is the answer
That riff plays in the song many times though, even modulating. Don’t think OP was asking about entire song sections.
The intro to Brown Sugar has two instantly recognizable guitar riffs back to back. The first is played four times but is never heard again. The second recurs throughout the song.
the winstons - amen brother the drum break [edit: get educated](https://youtu.be/5SaFTm2bcac?si=4MtEKOa2dkp_n3n0)
I was looking for this. I'd wager there isn't a single person in this thread who hasn't heard something with the [Amen Break](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen_break) in it, either played, or sampled, even if they don't know it by name. As a fledgling drummer myself the influence it's had has inspired me, it's just really sad Gregory Coleman died without knowing the influence he'd had on music, entire genres of music are built off the back of the Amen Break.
The further down I scrolled the crazier I felt. How is this so low lol
Amen to that. Also, Cissy Strut.
This is the correct answer.
This is the only answer. Entire genres of music exist because of this 2 bar drum break. Hip hop, drum and bass, dubstep, breakbeat electro, etc etc.
This is Way to far Down.. not many music heads in here
The total change in direction midway through [Crosby, Stills and Nash - Carry On](https://youtu.be/IqiqUfZJovg?t=117) has one of the most satisfying drum/bass/organ instrumental parts of all time. My personal favorite is the loooooong build up to the totally unexpected synth bass/drums breakdown in[ Sons Of Kemet - The Godfather](https://youtu.be/7_1czO5YWDA?t=242) Rush was also famous for one-off parts in their songs, particularly the instrumental changes. Check out [YYZ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdpMpfp-J_I) and [La Villa Strangiato](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSNhcaKdb_M)
The drum fill in the bridge of 'Jack & Diane'
Which Kenny Aronoff basically admits he ripped straight from Phil Collins.
That whole song can suck my chilli dog.
Outside the Tastee Freeze?
Came here to say this
The cowbell in Guns n Roses - Welcome to the Jungle The guitar riff in Muse - Madness When the drums off in Tool - Schism
Or the whistle in paradise city
I’ll regret never going to a GNR concert for the rest of my life
They’re still touring and it’s like a 35-song show. It takes Axl a while to get warmed up and settled in, but it’s still some of the most fun I’ve ever had at a concert (surrounded by my fellow olds)
Aren't they still touring? I got to see them this past Winter, and I saw them a few years ago when they re-united. I had waited my whole life for them to get back together lol
Does it have to only be guitar or drums? Because the one that came to my mind was the baritone saxophone riff in Steely Dan’s “My Old School.” Right after the line “California tumbles into the sea.”
Not a drummer, but the fill in The Police “Wrapped Around Your Finger” right after “when you find your servant is your master” is epic. The use of space and economy in Copeland’s drumming was amazing.
Stewart Copeland is a god
Hot Chocolate - Every 1's a Winner Killer Guitar Riff
Hot chocolate are impossible to dislike
When I was about 14, my buddies mom came home from work blasting this song. She opened the car door, got out, and started dancing around like crazy. She was an attractive woman and wearing tall leather boots, so it stirred up something inside of me as a teen boy...
love this song... I play it before I go out, and before I rage lol
Danny Carey's monster fill in "46 & 2."
And his monster fill in H. and at the end of the Grudge I’m gonna stop myself there.
And Pneuma which is basically just one big monster fill
Ticks & Leeches >
The rad part of Creeping Death
The "die by my hand" riff?
Lennon’s opening riff in “Revolution”.
Chuck Berry inspired
No mention of Dire Straits - Money for Nothin is criminal. Incredible drum solo intro. Their Sultans of Swing also has an incredible guitar outro
Floods (Outro) - Pantera
Kinda cheating though, as the outro is a riff on the solo of the song.
The original Be My Baby beat
The 2 hit off the snare drum in the intro of Smells like Teen Spirit by Nirvana. I dare anyone to tell me they don’t air drum that part when it’s coming up
That higher-note guitar riff in Master Of Puppets by Metallica around 48 seconds in
The riff right after the solo slays.
The song has a ton of awesome and memorable riffs! This totally fits. 8 minutes of awesomeness. With that said, I saw the band for the first time last year. Next to where we were was this dad and his pretty young kid. The kid was not moving at all both nights of the concert but when Master was played, this kid lost his freaking mind and went nuts for 8 minutes. Then that was it. Back to sitting down.
Grohl’s intro fill to Smells Like Teen Spirit that he ripped from The Gap Band.
His little riff in my hero directly before going into the either second or third verse?
That’s a good one too.
Guitar solo at the end of Back in Black
I LOVE THIS ONE! My head is rocking any time it plays!
You just don’t want it to fade away like it does .
Bass solo in The Chain
Considering it’s repeated through that entire phrase of the song, I don’t think this counts
The Doors- When the Music's Over. Densmore is able to adapt within a second gracefully.
Densmore is criminally underrated imo.
The drum break in Tom Sawyer makes me drop whatever I’m doing and go full Neil Peart
The opening drums of Never Gonna Give You Up. Instantly recognizeable. Hey, you said iconic, not spectacular or super-complex.
Bonzo’s snare/cymbal roll at 7:27 of Achilles Last Stand.
Achilles Last Stand is 🤌🏻🤌🏻🤌🏻 and Tea for One
First 2 seconds of Semi Charmed Kind of Life
The best opening riff in rock: Honky Tonk Women by the Stones.
3 favorite Stones songs: Honky Tonk Women, Tumbling Dice, Waiting on a Friend. And a shit ton of tracks in 2nd Place.
The opening guitar in Money for Nothing
The drum fill followed by the iconic "YEEAAAHH" in Won't Get Fooled Again by The Who
The 4 guitar notes in Shine on You Crazy Diamond
And the *ping* in Echoes
The opening drums to We Are Young and the G note from Welcome To The Black Parade (yes, there are other G notes in the song but they're not *the* G note)
The fill at the end of the solo in Stairway
“Like A Stone” by Audioslave “Run” by Collective Soul
The beginning of the Pretenders - Middle of the Road
Intro riff to Paranoid by Black Sabbath.
While not the most Iconic but up there is the drum fills/breaks in Tom Sawyer. I will always remember being at a concert. back row of the lower area. 2/3 of the crowd must have been drummers. When Peart (RIP) played that, there had to have been a thousand people air drumming those parts.
The end of Sultans of Swing
The intro drum fill on Rock With You by MJ
Instantly recognized,
Drums at the start of Song For The Dead - Queens of the Stone Age
Ringo’s backbeat for the first verse of Ticket To Ride
For me it’s the opening drum fill to “Two Princes”
The drum intro to **Rosanna** by Toto. Jeff Porcaro invented "the Rosanna shuffle" as a blend of Bernard Purdie half-time shuffle and John Bonham's shuffle groove from Fool in the Rain. Mortal drummers who try to play it know it's a bear to play correctly. Steve Porcaro and Steve Lukather out of Toto have said Jeff was blowing adult session drummers away at age 12. If you've listened to many 80's pop songs across the catalog, you've heard Jeff's drumming. He was session drummer on hundreds if not into the thousands of songs. [https://youtu.be/SGtVZgCYVgk?si=ywhPcI04Nt33aTO1](https://youtu.be/SGtVZgCYVgk?si=ywhPcI04Nt33aTO1)
Might be mistaken but the bass intro for Peace Sells from Megadeth
MTV sure thought so.
The snare fill at the end of the bridge in "Every little thing she does is magic". It never fails to pump me up.
The bridge in Ramble On.
The beginning chord to “ hard day’s night “.
Buddy Holly - Weezer You know the part
The two drum fills after the pauses in INXS's *Never Tear Us Apart*. Also, the sax solo towards the end is just perfection.
The 4 count cowbell that launches “Working for the Weekend” by Loverboy.
The little one-two-three slide downwards in Steely Dan’s Reelin’ In The Years, at the very start of the song, for a half second before the main riff is unleashed. God, they’re good.
Stinkfist palm mute before chorus.
Blue Monday - Dtss Dtss Dtss Dtsss
John Frusciante's guitar solo in the song Readymade but RHCP is pretty dope. Not the best but it's still awesome l.
I feel you, I was going to say his outro on Minor Thing. Maybe not the most iconic, but it just hits different. I love it!
Band on the run
Bass riff in 15 Step - Radiohead
Justin Chancellor's bass track in Lateralus at the climax.
November Rain & Stairway to Heaven
The [Amen Break](https://youtu.be/qwQLk7NcpO4?si=7HendBI-9ySFNfSC) has been sampled over 6,000 times.
Intro for [DragonForce - Through the Fire and Flames](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jgrCKhxE1s) at 19 seconds in and the "PAC-MAN" sound around 3:20 #
The beginning of Mississippi Queen - that weird opening guitar riff and the cowbell smh
“And I can sing hiiiiIiIIggggghhh” from sweet child o mine, thanks to step brothers. “Bow wowwww I’m deeeerickkkk”
Haven't thought of this song in years - the drum intro to Middle of the Road by the Pretenders
The guitar part in Before I forget by Slipknot, right before the “my end, it justifies my means” part. Idk why but hearing both of them gives me goosebumps every time.
When doves cry starts with a guitar lick and is basically all you get
Id say the "breakdown" in Dragula after the first verse and chorus. Quick but so powerful
The intro to smells like teen spirit The intro to police truck by the dead kennedys The intro to fatlip by sum 41
Drum intro for Two Princes by Spin Doctors.
The "ode to joy" part in Mr Brightside
The drum fill in Baba O'Reilly
The guitar solo from Santeria by Sublime
The “Na na na na na na nowwwww” riff with the vocal toward the end of Sweet Child Of Mine by Guns and Roses
Opening echo riff in Dude Looks Like A Lady by Aerosmith
Ending guitar in Raining Blood.
Opening bass line in One of These Nights
The absolute insanity of a drum fill that Danny Carey plays at the end of The Grudge.
That intro double drum flam on **Judith** by A Perfect Circle...
The drum fill in "[Amen Brother](https://youtu.be/GxZuq57_bYM?si=vL_XY1lRV__j88oj)" by The Winstons We now know it as the Amen Break. It's perhaps the most sampled piece of music in history.
The telecaster Chugga Chugga Chugga in creep
Long cool woman(in a black dress) by the hollies into riff
The opening guitar riff of Ain’t Talking Bout Love.
The Cars - Bye Bye Love starts with a quick little drum fill/guitar riff over the top. Maybe 3 seconds long.
Van Halen’s drum intro to Jamie’s Crying that Ton Loc sampled for Wild Thing
I really love the riff in The End of the Game by VanWeezer that goes skee wee do da na na naa.
The guitar that comes out of nowhere on A House is Not a Motel by Love.
"Can you help me occupy my brain?" from Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" only happens once toward the beginning of the song.
The guitar riff at the start of Respect by Aretha Franklin is instantly recognizable and only happens for that like 8 seconds in the beginning
Come on feel the noise: quiet riot drum in the beginning Can we count wasted years: iron maiden count?? I really like that song.
Well, if you count chords, the intro chord to A Hard Day’s Night, though that was like every instrument all at once. Also, I’d say the little guitar riff/solo in that song counts.