Smoke on the water is Like beethoven's 5th :O

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I was just watching a vid on you tube, and saw something I think is fun to share with you guys.

Ritchie Blackmore explain how he came up with that famous riff from smoke on the water.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzJJgSls5-U

For the impatience amongst us skip to 3.15.
I'm not surprised, Beethoven is the actual inventor of rock, and roll. You an hear it in a lot of rock songs.
I always thought classical music and what we call popmusic was quite different, its fun to learn, that this is not very accurate.
Haha, that was interesting.