Ludwig van Beethoven: was he the inventor of the rock riff? Beethoven needed just four notes to create an entire musical cosmos - and one of the most famous compositions of all time. His Symphony No. 5, first performed in 1808, is a global hit. Its opening motif shaped musical history to this day: Da-da-da-DUM. The riff had been born.
One hundred and fifty years later, rock bands rely upon the same recipe for success. Like Beethoven, they make use of striking motifs made up of just a few notes. For example - The Kinks: “You Really Got Me”, The Rolling Stones: “(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction”, Led Zeppelin: “Whole Lotta Love”, Jethro Tull: “Locomotive Breath”, Deep Purple: “Smoke on the Water”, Scorpions: “Rock You Like a Hurricane”, Nirvana: “Smells Like Teen Spirit“, and The White Stripes: “Seven Nation Army“.
Sarah Willis, French horn player with the Berlin Philharmonic, meets Rudolf Schenker of the Scorpions and Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson, and has them explain how their infectious riffs have been shaped by Beethoven’s Da-da-da DUM.
“No Rock Riffs Without Beethoven?” is one of the focuses of the Deutsche Welle documentary film project “A World Without Beethoven?”. In it, the question is posed of how the world might look if Beethoven and his work had never existed - a thought experiment as fascinating as it is provocative. The other focuses of the series are: “No Concert Business Without Beethoven?”, “No Political Music Without Beethoven?”, “No Concept Albums Without Beethoven?”, “No Movie Soundtracks Without Beethoven?”, “No Precise Tempo Without Beethoven?”, and “No Jazz Without Beethoven?”.
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