riffs's Usage Examples:

Though riffs are most often found in rock music, heavy metal music, punk rock, grunge.

lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure.

improvised music (rock and jazz), in which they are often referred to as riffs or vamps.

emphasis on heavy guitar riffs with usually syncopated rhythms, with the riffs sometimes being somewhat similar to death metal riffs.

More developed rhythm techniques include arpeggios, damping, riffs, chord solos, and complex strums.

melodeath) is a subgenre of death metal that employs highly melodic guitar riffs, often borrowing from traditional heavy metal.

metal bands are often characterized by heavily downtuned, mid-paced guitar riffs, a mixture of accessible melodic vocals and harsh vocals and sometimes unconventional.

While riffs are repeated, fills tend to be varied over the course of a song.

The songs usually use fast percussive beats and low-register guitar riffs, overlaid with shredding-style lead guitar work.

Basslines in popular music often use "riffs" or "grooves", which are usually simple, appealing musical motifs or phrases.

venues and favoured loud, simple songs based on drums and electric guitar riffs.

He is known for his aggressive, melodic solos and bluesy riffs.

new beat, acid house squelches and bleeps, and often upbeat house piano riffs and vocals.

among the Igbo people of Nigeria following World War II, taking the guitar riffs of the Akan music that originated in Ghana, mixed and perfected it with.

16th notes and syncopation on all basslines, drum patterns, and guitar riffs—and rock and psychedelia-influenced musicians Sly and the Family Stone and.

Hendrix was the first well-known recording artist to combine the rhythms and riffs of early funk with his rock sound.

Synonyms:

ostinato;

Antonyms:

switch on; unfold;