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Ten sequences of notes that made ten million people pick up a guitar and annoy their families.

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   Smoke on the Water — Deep Purple

   The first riff every human learns. There's a reason.

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   Whole Lotta Love — Led Zeppelin

   Menace you can dance to.

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   Back in Black — AC/DC

   Swagger, quantized.

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   Seven Nation Army — The White Stripes

   Not even a bass, and it conquered every stadium.

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   Enter Sandman — Metallica

   The riff that put metal on daytime radio.

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   Day Tripper — The Beatles

   Pop perfection in a single guitar line.

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   Sweet Child O' Mine — Guns N' Roses

   A warm-up exercise that became immortal.

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   Johnny B. Goode — Chuck Berry

   The intro that invented rock and roll's vocabulary.

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   Heart-Shaped Box — Nirvana

   Beauty and dread in drop D.

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    Money for Nothing — Dire Straits

    That pick attack, that tone, that opening.

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