20 Metal Guitar Riffs for Beginners (with Tabs)

Painkiller is 1000% not a beginning riff, I think all guitar players can speak on that cause I don’t think anyone sits down and says yep that song is going to be one of the first songs I learn right as they pick up a guitar

0:10 - Am I Evil? (Diamond Head) 0:22 - Rammstein (Rammstein) 0:39 - Stand By Him (Ghost) 0:54 - Children Of The Grave (Black Sabbath) 1:16 - For Whom The Bell Tolls (Metallica) 1:33 - Symphony of Destruction (Megadeth) 2:01 - Crazy Train (Ozzy Osbourne) 2:16 - Freezing Moon (Mayhem) 2:31 - Black Sabbath (Black Sabbath) 3:00 - Whole Lotta Love (Led Zeppelin) 3:19 - Seek & Destroy (Metallica) 3:46 - Breaking The Law (Judas Priest) 4:10 - South of Heaven (Slayer) 4:27 - Holy Diver (Dio) 4:48 - Madhouse (Anthrax) 4:59 - Painkiller (Judas Priest) 5:18 - 2 Minutes To Midnight (Iron Maiden) 5:39 - Raining Blood (Slayer) 5:50 - Hand of Blood (Bullet For My Valentine) 6:00 - Downfall (Children of Bodom)

The first riff I ever learned was master of puppets lol. It took me forever and had to do it so so slowly. Its all I wanted to be able to play! Also was the song that made me pick up a guitar!

I’ve been playing guitar for over 20 years, and my first riff/song I learned was Breaking the Law 🥰

I like how they builded up into more complex riffs towards the end

Downfall definitely not for beginners :D Also, Slayer and Painkiller (Judas Priest) may be relatively simple, but would argue it still takes time for some beginners to nail them (i.e. to do alternate picking accurately and at original tempo)

Some of these riffs are definitely not for beginners. I would have struggled with some of these when I was starting out. That's not to say that they are good riffs to aspire to for a beginner cos the definitely are. Good choice.

A few of these riffs are a bit more challenging, but if you already learned the easier ones you'll be able to practice and understand the more difficult ones too. Keep it up!

Love the variety of bands!

Freezing Moon is a great mention and very addictive riff

Thanks for your videos! They are so useful, and they have soo great songs

This is exactly what i was looking for. Needed some inspiration to pick up the guitar again and this setlist is perfect for some warmups

These are really good. They're simple but sound professional.

The addition of Freezing Moon was awesome lol of course I'm gonna play this by candle light in the middle of a thunderstorm for maximum edginess 🤘🏻

This video can help me building my technique on this stile, good selection, well played and thanks for the tabs!! Good work!!

2:33 for every beginner

Props for starting with Am I Evil?, love that song and the riff kicks ass as well

The first song I learned to play through entirely was shepherd of fire by avenged sevenfold, unless you don’t count not doing the right solo, me and my teacher improvised a different solo that still fit the tone of the song because even now I’d still consider myself a beginner, so obviously I wasn’t gonna pull off a Synyster Gates solo for my recital, but since shepherd of fire, I learned how to play the middle by Jimmy eats world and my hero by the foo fighters in my school’s rock band program

Great video. Takes a lot of time putting that altogether, we'll done dude.

Guy on youtube trying to be helpful ~ Here's some guitar riffs for beginners People on Youtube ~ Uh, excuse me! A lot of these are not for beginners! People on Youtube replying to people on Youtube ~ I was shredding when I first picked up a guitar at 6 years old and Steve Vai asked me for lessons! Guys, we get it. Shut up and play.