List of rock instrumentals
The following is a list of rock instrumentals, including live performances and drum solos, organized by artist name.
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A
- "Personalities III. Tinnitus" (Today's Report, 1999)
- "Relationships IV. Second Thought" (Imaginary Friends, 2001)
- "Relationships VI. Gamophobia" (Imaginary Friends)
- "Dance Of Mr. Gumble" (Last Epic, 2003)
- "Intro" (Last Epic)
- "Silent Screams" (Silence, 2006)
- "The Movie" (Permanent Vacation, 1987)
- "Dulcimer Stomp" (Pump, 1989)
- "Circle Jerk" (Pandora's Box, 1991)
- "Krawhitham" (Pandora's Box)
- "Let It Slide" (Pandora's Box)
- "Three Mile Smile" (Pandora's Box)
- "Soulsaver" (Pandora's Box)
- "Boogie Man" (Get a Grip, 1993)
- "Don't Want You No More" (The Allman Brothers Band, 1969)
- "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" (Idlewild South, 1970)
- "Hot 'Lanta" (At Fillmore East, 1971)
- "Les Brers in A Minor" (Eat a Peach, 1972)
- "Mountain Jam" (Eat a Peach)
- "Little Martha" (Eat a Peach)
- "Jessica" (Brothers and Sisters, 1973)
- "High Falls" (Win, Lose or Draw, 1975)
- "Pegasus" (Enlightened Rogues, 1979)
- "Kind of Bird" (Shades of Two Worlds, 1991)
- "Instrumental Illness" (Hittin' the Note, 2003)
- "Chameleon Carnival" (Extension of the Wish, 2001)
- "Morphing Into Nothing" (II=I (Two Is One), 2003)
B
Most of Beck's recordings after Rod Stewart and Ronnie Wood left The Jeff Beck Group for Faces are instrumentals
- "Memmingem" (Shadow of the Moon, 1997)
- "Minstrel Hall" (Shadow of the Moon)
- "Beyond Sunset" (Under a Violet Moon, 1999)
- "Durch dem Wald zum Bach Haus" (Under a Violet Moon)
- "Possum goes to Prague" (Under a Violet Moon)
- "Mr. Peagram's Morris and Sword" (Ghost of a Rose, 2003)
- "Nur Eine Minute" (Ghost of a Rose)
- "Queen for a Day (Part 2)" (Ghost of a Rose)
- "The Messenger" (The Village Lanterne, 2006)
- "Rat Salad" (Paranoid, 1970)
- "Embryo" (Master of Reality, 1971)
- "Orchid" (Master of Reality)
- "FX" (Black Sabbath Vol. 4, 1972)
- "Laguna Sunrise" (Black Sabbath Vol. 4)
- "Fluff" (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, 1973)
- "Don't Start (Too Late)" (Sabotage, 1975)
- "Supertzar" (Sabotage)
- "Breakout" (Never Say Die!, 1978)
- "E5150" (Mob Rules, 1981)
- "Stonehenge" (Born Again, 1983)
- "The Dark" (Born Again)
- "Sphinx (The Guardian)" (Seventh Star, 1986)
- "Scarlet Pimpernel" (The Eternal Idol, 1987)
- "The Gates of Hell" (Headless Cross, 1989)
- "The Battle of Tyr" (Tyr, 1990)
- Several intros/outros on many albums were given separate names, but not comprised as separate tracks, some of these tracks appear below:
- "The Wasp" (intro to "Behind the Wall of Sleep", Black Sabbath, 1970)
- "Bassically" (intro to "N.I.B.", Black Sabbath)
- "A Bit of Finger" (intro to "Sleeping Village", Black Sabbath)
- "Luke's Wall" (outro to "War Pigs", Paranoid)
- "Jack the Stripper" (intro to "Fairies Wear Boots", Paranoid)
- "The Elegy" (intro to "After Forever", Master of Reality)
- "Haunting" (outro to "Children of the Grave", Master of Reality)
- "Step Up" (intro to "Lord of This World", Master of Reality)
- "Deathmask" (intro to "Into the Void", Master of Reality)
- "The Straightener" (outro to "Wheels of Confusion, Black Sabbath Vol 4)
- "Every Day Comes and Goes" (outro to "Under the Sun", Black Sabbath Vol. 4)
- "Homeward Strut" (Teaser, 1975)
- "Marching Powder" (Teaser)
Most if not all of the group's recordings are instrumentals. See Booker T. & the M.G.'s#Discography for more details
Most if not all of Buckethead's recordings are instrumentals.
C
- "Free Form Guitar" (The Chicago Transit Authority, 1969)
- "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: Anxiety's Moment" (Chicago, 1970)
- "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: West Virginia Fantasies" (Chicago)
- "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon: To Be Free" (Chicago)
- "Memories of Love: Prelude" (Chicago)
- "Memories of Love: A. M. Mourning" (Chicago)
- "Memories of Love: P. M. Mourning" (Chicago)
- "It Better End Soon: 2nd Movement" (Chicago)
- "Prelude to Aire" (Chicago VII, 1974)
- "Aire" (Chicago VII)
- "Devil's Sweet" (Chicago VII)
- "Italian From New York" (Chicago VII)
- "Hanky Panky" (Chicago VII)
- "Mongonucleosis" (Chicago VII)
- "Poorboy Shuffle" (Willy and the Poor Boys, 1969)
- "Side o' the Road" (Willy and the Poor Boys)
- "Rude Awakening #2" (Pendulum, 1970)
- "Crazy Otto" (live bonus track on 40th Anniversary Edition reissue of Bayou Country, 2008)
- "Broken Spoke Shuffle" (bonus track on 40th Anniversary Edition reissue of Green River, 2008)
- "Glory Be" (bonus track on 40th Anniversary Edition of Green River)
D
Most if not all of Dale's recordings are instrumentals.
- "Relief in Disguise" (Japanese bonus track on Rusted Angel, 1999)
- "Mine is the Grandeur..." (The Gallery, 1995)
- "The Mind's Eye" (The Mind's I, 1997)
- "Ex Nihilo" (Damage Done, 2002)
- "Silence in the House of Tongues" (Fiction expanded edition, 2007)
- "Winter Triangle" (Fiction expanded edition)
- "Switch 625" (High 'n' Dry, 1981)
- "Disintegrate" (Euphoria, 1999)
- "Cause We've Ended As Lovers" (unreleased track)
- "Jam I" (The Layla Sessions, 1990)
- "Jam II" (The Layla Sessions)
- "Jam III" (The Layla Sessions)
- "Jam IV" (The Layla Sessions)
- "Jam V" (The Layla Sessions)
- "Tell the Truth (Jam No. 1)" (The Layla Sessions)
- "(When Things Go Wrong) It Hurts Me Too" (The Layla Sessions)
- "Flyin' Fantasy" (Change Direction, 1997)
- "Trapped..." (Frame, 2009)
Most if not all of the group's recordings are instrumentals.
- "Ytse Jam" (When Dream and Day Unite, 1989)
- "Bombay Vindaloo" (Live at the Marquee, 1993)
- "Eve" ("The Silent Man" single, 1994)
- "A Mind Beside Itself I: Erotomania" (Awake, 1994)
- "A Change of Seasons I: The Crimson Sunrise" (A Change of Seasons, 1995)
- "A Change of Seasons IV: The Darkest of Winters" (A Change of Seasons)
- "A Change of Seasons VI: The Inevitable Summer" (A Change of Seasons)
- "Hell's Kitchen" (Falling Into Infinity, 1997)
- "Overture 1928" (Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory, 1999)
- "The Dance of Eternity" (Metropolis Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory)
- "Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence: I. Overture" (Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, 2002)
- "Stream of Consciousness" (Train of Thought, 2003)
- "Instrumedley" (Live at Budokan, 2004)
- "In the Presence of Enemies I: Prelude" (Systematic Chaos, 2007)
- "In the Presence of Enemies V: The Reckoning" (Systematic Chaos)
- "Raw Dog" (God of War: Blood & Metal EP, 2010)
Most recordings by The Durutti Column are instrumentals.
E
- "The Barbarian" (Emerson, Lake & Palmer, 1970)
- "The Three Fates" (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- "Tank" (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)
- "Infinite Space (Conclusion)" (Tarkus, 1971)
- "Hoedown" (Trilogy, 1972)
- "Fugue" (Trilogy)
- "Abaddon's Bolero" (Trilogy)
- "Karn Evil 9: Second Impression" (Brain Salad Surgery, 1973)
- "Toccata" (Brain Salad Surgery)
- "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Works Volume 1, 1977)
- "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Works Volume 1)
- "L.A. Nights" (Works Volume 1)
- "New Orleans" (Works Volume 1)
- "Two Parts Intervention in D Minor" (Works Volume 1)
- "Food For Your Soul" (Works Volume 1)
- "Piano Concerto No.1" (Works Volume 1)
- "When the Apple Blossoms Bloom in the Windmills of Your Mind I'll Be Your Valentine" (Works Volume 2, 1977)
- "Peter Gunn" (Emerson, Lake and Palmer In Concert, 1979)
F
- "Lift Off" (One Link Between Them, 2008)
- "Orbiter" (One Link Between Them)
- "Canon in D" (Baroque Rocks!, 2009)
- "Vivaldi's Summer" (Baroque Rocks!)
G
- "Trane" (Gov't Mule, 1995)
- "Dolphineus" (Gov't Mule)
- "Kind of Bird" (Live at Roseland Ballroom, 1996)
- "Thelonius Beck" (Dose, 1998)
- "Birth of the Mule" (Dose)
- "Devil Likes It Slow" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends, 1999)
- "Afro-Blue" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends)
- "Third Stone from the Sun" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends Collector's Edition, 1999)
- "Pygmy Twylyte" (Live... With a Little Help from Our Friends Collector's Edition)
- "Sco-Mule" (The Deep End, Volume 1, 2001)
- "Sun Dance" (The Deep End, Volume 2, 2002)
- "Babylon Turnpike" (The Deep End, Volume 2)
- "3 String George" (High & Mighty, 2006)
H
- "Applejack"
- "Diamonds"
- "Scarlett O'Hara"
- "Pali Gap" (originally released on the Rainbow Bridge soundtrack)
- "Hush Now"
- "Third Stone from the Sun" (Are You Experienced)
- "Star Spangled Banner" (Woodstock Soundtrack (live) and Rainbow Bridge (studio))
- "Third Stone from the Sun" (Are You Experienced)
- "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" (Electric Ladyland)
- "Villanova Junction" (Woodstock Soundtrack)
- "Jam Back at the House" (aka "Beginnings") (Woodstock Soundtrack)
I
The Jester Race
- "The Jester's Dance"
- "Wayfaerer"
Whoracle
- "Dialogue With the Stars"
Colony
- "Pallar Anders Visa"
- "Man Made God" (Reissue)
J
- "Cat's Squirrel" (This Was, 1968)
- "Serenade to a Cuckoo" (This Was)
- "Bourée" (Stand Up, 1969)
- "The Pine Marten's Jig"
Eric Johnson
- "Buried Alive in the Blues" (Pearl, 1971)
Bradley Joseph
K
- "The Devil's Triangle" (In the Wake of Poseidon, 1970)
- "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" (Larks' Tongues in Aspic, 1973 (Parts 1 & 2), Three of a Perfect Pair, 1984 (Part III), The ConstruKction of Light, 2000 (Part IV))
- "The Talking Drum" (Larks' Tongues in Aspic)
- "Fracture" (Starless and Bible Black, 1974)
- "Trio" (Starless and Bible Black)
- "We'll Let You Know" (Starless and Bible Black)
- "Red" (Red, 1974)
- "Providence" (Red)
- "The Sheltering Sky" (Discipline, 1981)
- "Discipline" (Discipline)
- "Sartori In Tangiers" (Beat, 1982)
- "Requiem" (Beat)
- "Industry" (Three of a Perfect Pair)
- "VROOOM" (THRAK, 1995)
- "Level Five" (The Power to Believe, 2003)
- "Elektrik" (The Power to Believe)
- "Dangerous Curves" (The Power to Believe)
- "Love theme from KISS" (KISS)
- "Escape from the Island" (The Elder)
Arpad Kollanyi
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M
- "All Alone With Friends" (All Alone With Friends album)
- Guitar Man
- The Guitar Player
- The Guitar Syndicate (album)
- Hank Plays Cliff
- Hank Plays Holly
- Hank Marvin (album)
- Heartbeat (album)
- Into the Light
- "Curly" (Thru the Years)
- "Driving Sideways" (Crusade)
- "Greeny" (Thru the Years)
- "Knockers Step Forward" (Thru the Years)
- "Hideway" (Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton)
- "Steppin' Out" (Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton)
- "The Super-Natural" (A Hard Road)
- "Aurora Borealis" (Meat Puppets II)
- "I'm a Mindless Idiot" (Meat Puppets II)
- "Enter The Phoenix"
- "Declaration"
- "Brown Acid"
Meshuggah
Mogwai
- "Minimum" (Muscle Museum, 1999)
- "Forced In" (Sunburn, 1999)*
- "Nishe" (Unintended, 2000)
- "Execution Commentary" (Plug In Baby, 2001)*
- "Bedroom Acoustics" (Plug In Baby, 2001)
- "Piano Thing" (New Born, 2001)
- "The Gallery" (Bliss, 2001)
- "Intro" (Absolution, 2003)
- "Interlude" (Absolution, 2003)
- "Osaka Jam" (live drum and bass jam)**
- "Man Of Mystery" (The Supermassive Selection, 2007) [The Shadows cover]
- "Popcorn" (Resistance, 2009) [Hot Butter cover]
- "Helsinki Jam" (live drum and bass jam)**
- "MK Jam" (live drum and bass jam)**
* Features some vocals but later played live completely instrumental.
** Referred to as simply 'Drum & Bass' on the bands' setlists.
N
- "A Warm Place" (The Downward Spiral)
- "Just Like You Imagined" (The Fragile)
- "Hyperpower!" (Year Zero)
- "999,999" (The Slip)
- "Corona Radiata" (The Slip)
- "The Four of Us Are Dying" (The Slip)
- Ghosts I-IV (Entire double album of instrumental music)
- Quake (The Soundtrack for the first ever game)
- "Complication" (The Fragile)
- "The Mark Has Been Made" (The Fragile)
- "Help Me I Am In Hell" (Broken)
- "Leaving Hope" (Still)
- "Pinion" (Broken)
- "The Frail" (The Fragile)
- "At The Heart Of It All" (Further Down The Spiral)
- "The Beauty of Being Numb" (Further Down the Spiral)
- "Erased, Over, Out"" (Further Down the Spiral)
- "Adrift And At Peace" (Still)
- "Gone, Still" (Still)
- "The Persistence Of Loss" (Still)
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Q
- "Seven Seas of Rhye" (instrumental) (Queen)
R
- "New Orleans Instrumental No. 1" (Automatic for the People)
- "Zither" (New Adventures in Hi-Fi)
- "Rotary Ten" (B-side to "Fall On Me")
- "White Tornado" (B-side to "Superman")
- "Last Date" (B-side to "It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)")
S
- Acapulco Sunrise (The Birth Of Santana)
- Ballin (Viva Santana!)
- Batuka (Santana III)
- El Corazon Manda (The Ultimate Collection)
- Europa (1976)
- Free Angela (Lotus)
- Funky Piano (The Fillmore Performance - San Francisco 1968)
- Gumbo (Santana III)
- Hot Tamales (The San Mateo Sessions 1969)
- Incident At Neshabur (Abraxas)
- Jam In E (The Ultimate Collection)
- Jam In G Minor (Mystical Spirits Parts 1 & 2)
- Jammin Home (The Ultimate Collection)
- Jungle Strut (Santana III)
- La Fuente Del Ritmo (Caravanserai)
- La Puesta Del Sol (The Birth Of Santana)
- Latin Tropical (The Birth Of Santana)
- Samba Pa Ti (Abraxas)
- Samba De Sausalito (Lotus)
- Savor (Santana)
- Santana Jam (The Fillmore Performance - San Francisco 1968)
- Se A Cabo (Abraxas)
- Singing Winds Crying Beasts (Abraxas)
- Song Of The Wind (Caravanserai)
- Soul Sacrifice (1967)
- Toussaint L'Overture (Abraxas)
- Treat (Santana)
- Waiting (The Woodstock Experience)
- Yours Is the Light (Lotus)
- "Interlude #1" (Carved In Stone)
- "Interlude #2" (Carved In Stone)
- "Interlude #3" (Carved In Stone)
- "Interlude #4" (Carved In Stone)
- "Interlude #5" (Carved In Stone)
- "Celtic Princess" (Carved In Stone)
- "Ghost Ship: Voyage" (Carved In Stone)
- "Ghost Ship: Dead Calm" (Carved In Stone)
- "Ghost Ship: Enchantmen"t (Carved In Stone)
- "Stiletto In The Sand" (Tyranny)
- "Chased" (Tyranny)
- "Cliffhanger: The Crusher" (Legacy)
- "Manhunt" (Room V)
- "Birth Of A Daughter" (Room V)
- "Death Of A Mother" (Room V)
- "Seven Years" (Room V)
- "Dark" (Room V)
- "Apache"
- "Atlantis"
- "The Boys" (EP)
- "Dance On!"
- "FBI"
- "Foot Tapper"
- "The Frightened City"
- "Genie With the Light Brown Lamp"
- "Geronimo"
- "Guitar Tango"
- "Kon-Tiki"
- "Man of Mystery"
- "Maroc 7"
- "Midnight" (B-side to "FBI")
- Out of the Shadows (album) (3 vocal tracks, the rest instrumental)
- "Peace Pipe" (B-side to "The Savage")
- "A Place in the Sun"
- "Rhythm and Greens"
- "The Savage"
- "The Shadows" (EP)
- The Shadows (album) (except 3 tracks which are vocals)
- "Shindig"
- Specs Appeal (album) (some tracks instrumental and some vocal)
- "Stingray"
- "The Stranger"
- "The Rise and Fall of Flingel Bunt"
- "Theme for Young Lovers"
- "The Warlord"
- "Wonderful Land"
- Oscillate Wildly
- Money Changes Everything
- The Draize Train
Solarized
- "Cloud King" (Neanderthal Speedway, 1999)
- "Monolith" (Neanderthal Speedway, 1999)
- "Southbound" (Driven, 2001)
- "Entering the Angel Diabolique" (Steelbath Suicide)
- "Centro de predominio" (Steelbath Suicide)
- Burning Box Gala
- Halleygretto
- Stormy Dome
- Black Materia
- Near Death Experience
- O.B.E.
- "The Storm" (Bad For Good, 1981)
- "Prelude 12" (Equinox, 1975)
- "Aku-Aku" (Pieces of Eight, 1978)
- "The Message" (Pieces of Eight, 1978)
- "Little Fugue In G" (The Complete Wooden Nickel Recordings, 2005)
- "Sonata" (Twilight in Olympus, 1998)
- "Transcendence" (V - The New Mythology Suite, 2000)
- "On the Breath of Poseidon" (V - The New Mythology Suite, 2000)
- "The Death of Balance" (V - The New Mythology Suite, 2000)
- "Rediscovery" (V - The New Mythology Suite, 2000)
- "Oculus Ex Inferni" (Paradise Lost, 2007)
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Note: a significant portion of Zappa's oeuvre is instrumental works, but many of these could be classified as modern classical or avant-garde music rather than rock
- "Peaches en Regalia" (Hot Rats, 1969)
- "Son of Mr Green Genes" (Hot Rats)
- "Little Umbrellas" (Hot Rats)
- "The Gumbo Variations" (Hot Rats)
- "It Must Be a Camel" (Hot Rats)
- "Transylvania Boogie" (Chunga's Revenge, 1970)
- "Twenty Small Cigars" (Chunga's Revenge)
- "Chunga's Revenge" (Chunga's Revenge)
- "Big Swifty" (Waka/Jawaka, 1972)
- "Blessed Relief" (The Grand Wazoo, 1972)
- "Cletus Awreetus-Awrightus" (The Grand Wazoo)
- "Eat That Question" (The Grand Wazoo)
- "The Grand Wazoo" (The Grand Wazoo)
- "Rat Tomago" (Sheik Yerbouti, 1979)
- "Asleep in the Desert" (Tejas)
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