10 Synth Riffs That Shook The World

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10 songs featuring synth riffs and lines that shook the world. In a positive way.

The Final Countdown, Thriller, Light my Fire, Save a Prayer, Take on me, Jump etc.
These riffs all whipped me into shape as a keyboard player, and composer in the mid 80s, all in a different way.
"Thriller" by the build-up into the main hook, "The Final Countdown" by it's majestic synth brass sound and also build up. "Take on Me" by it's catchy almost arpeggio-like way of playing, along with the staccato DX synth bass, "Save a Prayer" by utilizing the pitch bend wheel in a new way as well as the different keys the chords take throughout the song. Axel F for simplicity yet intoxicating main hook and bass, "New Song" for the way Mr. HJ so effortless managed several synths at the same time, yet playing that catchy riff. "Light my Fire" by sheer awesomeness in the outrageous use of different keys and chords in that short amount of time the solo lasts. "Deep Red" by its use of different time signatures and the way is so hypnotizing together with the visuals of the movie. Lastly "Toccata and Fugue in Dm", pure madness and every note just adds to the madness. I've taken inspiration from this piece for years and many of my songs have snippets of that in it, in different ways.

The synthesizer used in all the clips is a Korg DW-8000 from 1985. This video actually started out as a demo of this (somewhat beat up synth), hence me using it for everything. The sounds used are from my own custom patch bank for this synth. I sell this bank. A separate demo of this is on this channel.

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0:30 Thriller - Michael Jackson.
0:56 The final countdown - Europe.
1:28 Take on me - A-ha.
1:54 Save a prayer -Duran Duran.
2:29 Axel F - Harold Faltemayer.
2:58 Profondo Rosso - Goblin.
3:19 Jump - Van Halen.
3:48 Light my fire - The Doors.
4:16 New song - Howard Jones.
5:01 Toccata & Fugue Dm - J.S Bach.

giordanricardo
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Just imagine what Bach could have done with today's

cbmsysmobile
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0:31 - Thriller

0:57 - Final Countdown

1:28 - Take on Me

2:04 - Save a Prayer

2:30 - Axel F

3:00 - Profondo Rosso

3:20 - Jump

3:49 - Light My Fire

4:16 - New Song

5:02 - Toccata and Fugue Dm

UnstoppableFloridaMan
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The synthesiser was the King of the 80's music genre when you hear those sounds you always think of the music of the 80's

VeronicaMcCarrison
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When "thriller" stopped, my mind kept the rhythm on.

hajirizayev
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Everybody's gangster until Bach steps up to the synthesizer

donnythedingo
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Hey thanks for playing my song. Much appreciated.

AxelfoleyTheGreat
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Visage - Fade to Grey
New Order - Blue Monday
Donna Summer - I Feel Love
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
Robert Miles - Children
Darude - Sandstorm
Eurytmics - Sweet Dreams
Massive Attack - Angel

Just to name a few.

ChuckyDoll
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The 80s had the most iconic movie intros. Narrator starts to tell the story while a synth plays in the background. Camera glances at the white hightops in motion and follows a big head of frizzy hair and they glide outside and hop onto their bike, ready to sail the summer air

sapphire
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Me: time to go to bed

YouTube: wanna see a guy play the synth?

Me: well.. I should go to bed.. *clicks video*

StahpShop
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One of my favorite things about Thriller, as a jazz musician, is how nice and full the chords are. Listening to the Rhodes part, it's a lot of Minor 7s and Diminished chords, and at one time they even play a 7th chord shape on one hand and a 6th shape on the other, but they still didn't forget about simple chords.

Snavels
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Eurythmics - "Sweet Dreams" has to be on this list.

d.s.
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Mike Oldfield - Tubular bells
Vangelis Papathanasiou - Alpha
Alan Parsons Project - Lucifer
Alphaville - Big in Japan
New Order - Blue Monday
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (basically almost everything from Depeche Mode)
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity

Kraftwerk - anything...you name it
Yazoo - Don't Go
Bronski Beat (jimmy Sommerville) - Smalltown Boy
Jean Michel Jarre - Equinoxe 4, Oxygene 4, Magnetic Fields 2
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
A-ha - Take on me
Tears For Fears - Change
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Axel F. - Beverly Hills Cop Theme Song

silverstar
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The “Jump” synth part is extremely authentic to the original sound. Also, when a lot of people play this, they usually get the last chord wrong in the sequence. Subtle, but always the wrong notes. This guy got it right.

oddities-whatnot
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Sweet Dreams deserve top ten. The synths was amazing in it.

TruthTriumphs
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Thriller chords are absolutely stunning

EvgeniyBerlin
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Some of my favourite synth riffs/melodies in no specific order:


Level 42 - Running In The Family
Stevie Wonder - Living For The City
Giorgio Moroder - Chase
John Carpenter - Assault On Precinct 13
Prince - I Wanna Be Your Lover

deadmandancin
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Journey: separate ways. One of my favorite synth riffs

Kenoi_
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Jump is an all time classic. It was very bold to use a synth in place of rock guitar.

markalexander
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My god the synthesizer is such a sexy sounding instrument

kingle