17 Soundgarden Riffs

I did a video of Soundgarden riffs a couple of years ago, but I wanted to have another go at it as I've had some different guitars since then. Also these riffs will never not be fun and cool to play.

0:01 Let Me Drown
0:24 Pretty Noose
0:52 Spoonman
1:21 Mailman
1:42 Black Hole Sun
1:59 Loud Love
2:24 Incessant Mace
2:54 Outshined
3:17 Jesus Christ Pose
3:33 Room A Thousand Years Wide
4:00 Rusty Cage
4:28 Burden In My Hand
4:49 Fell On Black Days
5:17 Hunted Down
5:39 Flower
6:17 All Your Lies
6:38 Been Away Too Long

[omgitsarjun]

Kim Thayil is a beast and super underrated. Really Sabbath sounding licks - and of course, RIP Chris Cornell

[cnrsfilms]

4th Of July is also really good. Probably one of the heaviest riffs I've ever listened too.

[rbnh]

11 riffs written/co-written by Chris, 2 by Matt, 2 by Ben and 5 by Kim. It’s time that people start paying respect to Chris as a riff writing machine that he was. People unknowingly credit Kim with most of the riffs and songwriting but whole band, especially Chris deserves all the Flowers.

[cyberdemon]

Tunings:
Let Me Drown: Drop D
Pretty Noose: CGCGGE
Spoonman: Drop D
Mailman: CGDGBE
Black Hole Sun: Drop D
Loud Love: E Standard
Incessant Mace: E Standard
Outshined: Drop D
Jesus Christ Pose: Drop D
Thousand Years Wide: Drop D
Rusty Cage: BADGBE
Burden in My Hand: CGCGGE
Fell on Black Days: E Standard
Hunted Down: E Standard
Flowers: Drop D
All Your Lies: E Standard
Been Away Too Long: EBEBBE

[icountupfast]

limo wreck, 4th of july, and room a thousand years wide have the heaviest soundgarden riffs i love

[aclockworkreview]

Soundgarden have one of those sounds thats just great to play as loud as you can
Also rusty cage is up there as my favorite riffs

[aziziabdrahman]

Fantastic 🙌 Batmotorfinger and Superunknown are spectacular albums

[DoNuT_]

Soundgarden have a special place in my heart, this mix of heavy Black Sabbath-ness and weird riffs/solos. Cool that you included Been Away, I never heard anybody praise their final record but I still think it has some good tracks and still captures the unique Soundgarden weirdness.

[masteryeet]

Not a big Soundgarden fan personally; but I’d be stupid to not say these riffs are badass.

[raheenb]

I was really hoping for arguably their heaviest one ever Fourth of July, but these were great! 💯

[taylormays]

Love that you had King Animal in there that's under appreciated

[thylacoleonkennedy]

I loved these! Flower in particular is a super underrated song tbh

[GWJ]

If possible could you do more down on the upside riffs. Favorite Soundgarden album.

[MalMotorDedo]

All amazing, I would add Somewhere, Holy Water, Black Rain, Limo Wreck and Zero Chance (this last one has one of the best sounding intros I've ever heard).

P.s: It is said that Bloxsy is still retuning his guitars after finishing this video.

[alicemilton]

Oh, Spoonman!
I often think I know a band, and then only recognize one or two of the songs.
💛💛💛

[roneyrodrigues]

Amazing! Love this heavy riffs. The metal influence in Soundgarden songs is evident.
You're a spectacular guitar player! Congratulations!

[hugocrema]

Amazing! I missed Gun, though. That riff was really cool.

[Anton-wklv]

Pretty Noose sounds so ridiculously badass.

[bigneon_glitter]

Beautiful. You can really hear the Sabbath influence when the lick is solo.

[sergionicolaifernandez]

Tenes que hacer una segunda parte: Black Rain, 4th of july, Gun, Slaves and buldozers, Cold bitch, Kristi, Limo wreck, New damage, Beyond the wheel, Holy water, never the machine forever, blood on the valley floor, bones of birds, blind dogs, y unas cuantas canciones más. Soundgarden tiene muy buenos riffs. Saludos desde Argentina!!!