50 Riffs To Master Math Rock

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Hey there, Steve here. Enjoy this mega math rock riff compilation from a selection of some of the coolest riffs I've had the pleasure of learning and sharing with you over the past few years.

Riff time stamps:
00:00 1 - Tiny Moving Parts - Always Focused
00:13 2 - Meet Me In St Louis - All We Need Is a Little Energon and a Lot of Luck
00:36 3 - Delta Sleep - Spy Dolphin
01:00 4 - Mountains - Out of Sight Out of Mind
01:34 5 - Maps & Atlases - Every Place is a House
01:52 6 - Covet - Parachute
02:12 7 - TMP - Day Drunk
03:08 8 - American Football - Never Meant
03:48 9 - Mountains - Incandescent
04:20 10 - Gulfer - Nature Kids
05:18 11 - TTNG - Lemur
05:44 12 - American Football - Stay Home
06:31 13 - Covet - Bronco
07:00 14 - Standards - Smile
07:33 15 - Colossal - Hot Probs
08:13 16 - Tiny Moving Parts - You Lost Me
08:41 17 - CHON - Bubble Dream
09:00 18 - The Fall of Troy - I Just Got This Symphony Goin’ (Break)
09:28 19 - Delta Sleep - After Dark
10:06 20 - TTNG - Elk
10:54 21 - CHON - Book
11:16 22 - Yvette Young - Adventure Spirit
11:58 23 - TTNG - I’ll Forget About You Throwing That Rock Cos That Dance Was Pretty Funny
12:46 24 - Forests - Feels Like Your Best Friend Is Going Away Forever
13:27 25 - toe - Two Moons
14:01 26 - Delta Sleep - Camp Adventure
15:07 27 - Tiny Moving Parts - For The Sake of Brevity
15:48 28 - Tangled Hair - Campfires
16:16 29 - American Football - Honestly
17:09 30 - Algernon Cadwallader - Some Kind of Cadwallader
17:44 31 - Mountains - Restarts
18:08 32 - Tubelord - Night of The Pencils
18:39 33 - toe - Goodbye
18:56 34 - TTNG - Chinchilla (Intro)
19:19 35 - Don Caballero - Fire Back About Your…
19:43 36 - Tera Melos - 40 Rods To The Hogs Head
20:08 37 - Slint - Breadcrumb Trails
20:31 38 - Sleepy Dog - Screamers
20:59 39 - Covet - Shibuya
21:32 40 - Faraquet - Cut Self Not
22:00 41 - Standards - Kale & Strawberries
22:31 42 - TTNG - Baboon
22:54 43 - Covet - Pelagic
23:30 44 - TTNG - Chinchilla (Outro)
24:08 45 - Tiny Moving Parts - Medicine
24:17 46 - The Fall of Troy - I Just Got This Symphony Goin’ (Intro)
24:48 47 - Tera Melos - Trash Generator
25:00 48 - Tiny Moving Parts - Caution
25:13 49 - TTNG - Pig
25:33 50 - Tera Melos - Melody 4

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[aymericdoucet]

Discovering Marh Rock at 37...

Why could anyone told me about that before??? Damn, this gonna be my new obsession! Everything I love : advanced guitar technique, sound, jazz chords, strange rythms, energy, sweet begginer apeggios. I discovered Yvette Young yesterday too. With this vocabulary, we can use so many more modes with open strings and other guitar tunings.

How could I miss it until now?

I should have been in another dimension.

[neves]

My toxic trait is thinking that I can play at least 10 of these riffs flawlessly

[kylerackley]

Little did I know that my middle school obsession with The Fall of Troy would lead to my lifetime obsession with math rock, happy to see them on here! Sleepy Dog too!

[lusterspider]

ugh that yvette young signature ibanez in slime green made me feel some kinda way

[hutchatlek]

I think it will be interesting if you do one specifically for Japanese Math Rock

[brandonwasemiller]

God Steve, I haven't been back to your channel for a few years but I remember asking and talking about guitar through comments and you gave me lots of advice and I always tell people you were the one to teach me how to play

love your band, thanks for everything friend. I recommend your channel anytime guitar is mentioned within earshot it seems.

Cheers

[UsernameyMcUsernameFace]

We definitely need some Hella riffs in part 2

[TeenCrisisMusic]

Hey Steve, I usually come to these videos of your for recommendations, but because I saw some of these bands weren’t included in your video.. here are some Riff recommendations

Alarmist - Lactic Tang
Alarmist - Popular Demain
Alarmist - Petrichor
The Bulletproof Tiger - Everything Popular is Wrong
Clever Girl - Elm
Daijiro Nakagawa - Words and Words
Dear Human - Nomadic Music Box
El Ten Eleven - Indian Winter
Elephant Gym - Underwater
Eleventwelfth - Your Head as My Favourite Bookstore
Enemies - Nag Champa
Enemies - Love Unlimited
Enemies - Houran
Ghosts and Vodka - Andrea Loves Horses
God vs Gods vs Giants vs Reptiles - Egged
Hauste - Bassball
Hikes - Been Thinkin’
How to Count 1 to 10 - Swimming Pool
Invalids - Thethered
Jyocho - Family
LITE - Echolocation
Little Tybee - Tuck My Tail
Little Tybee - For Distant Viewing
Look Mexico - You’re Lucky You Didn’t Lose Your Arm
Minus The Bear - Pachuca Sunrise
Monobody - Former Islands
Murphy Radio - Welke
Murphy Radio - Sports Between Trenches
Polyphia - Playing God
Polyphia - ABC
Really From - I Live Here Now
Rooftops - Astray Life
Six Gallery - A Live Nativity Scene
Tang - Swan Gang
Terra Collective - Anchor
Their / They’re / There - Their / They’re / Therapy
Things Amazing - Black Rainbow
Three Trapped Tigers - Engrams
Tide/Edit - Always Right, Never Left
Tom’s Story - Anchors
Tommy Boys - Estate Sale
Tortuganonima - Aleph
Totorro - Chevalier Bulltoe
8m - Slow Dance

[seenthsoul]

Oh this is what I call dedication and passion

[Shiveringpug]

I always loved that specific blue tele, i'm a boring white, natural or black guitar person but I would totally love a jazzmaster or tele in that colour

[DatingTV]

I was always way more into the type of riffs that Tera Melos, TFoT, MMISL etc would write, but this genre has been my favorite for over 15 years now and I don't see that stopping any time soon. The variety is just incredible.

[scarv]

The mountains riff at 1:15 reminds me a little of the fall of troy at 9:00

[MammothEricR-rm]

Awesome music i hope one day i can mimic it...

[ZakkiLowe]

This is great. I'm new to this genre, and I've attempted to start writing music like this. This is excellent inspiration for me.

[slowestjabroni]

you're a fucking legend. imma make it my goal this year to learn all these. thank you!

[SirPizzaPanda]

I love Standards and CHON, and the Acoustic ones from TTNG I can't get enough of the riffs :D
I hope when I Practice enough I come to a level to be good enough to play Math Rock as well :9

[wsxxmioe]

Having been watching ur tutorials on another platform for 1year+, appreciating Friends since its released.The most charming math rock player I'd ever seen.Hope UR doing well!(BTW Incandescent riff s been a great meme here cuz its so interesting and impressive) :)

[Sliceace]

Yay! I have a couple I have in mind. Thanks

[ErebosGR]

A lot of these have mad djent potential. lol
Thank you so much!

[thealanmurphy]

This is so incredible dude, thank you