riffs in English

noun
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(in popular music and jazz) a short repeated phrase, frequently played over changing chords or harmonies or used as a background to a solo improvisation.
a brilliant guitar riff
verb
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play musical riffs.
the other horns would be riffing behind him

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1. 23 No hooks, no memorable riffs.

2. Ratt have some chunky riffs but no great songs.

3. Aperitif recipes, from herb-infused riffs to classic sparkling cocktails.

4. The next three tracks lace brain-stretching riffs with quick, shrapnel rhythms.

5. 2 Riffs, 3 Chords, Up Yours! by Chartbusters, released 14 February 2019 1

6. Guitar riffs still aggravatingly cheesy. Crowds continuing to fill seating. Ceremony has yet to start.

7. Balefire is a Youngstown based rock band with heavy riffs and spacey vibes.

8. © Austrotonic/Chapter One Productions(Archive for Songs/Riffs/Ideas etc,)2021-08-18_Budless.wav

9. As a band, Catamenia are known for their relentless energy and excellent guitar riffs

10. 11 Pretty much where they started -- full of loping bass lines and slithery sax riffs.

11. Formed in 1989, Thunder's trademark sound is a Bluesy metal with twin guitars and solid riffs.

12. Still, Amok is a perfect choice for everyone who likes heavy metal with complex rockish guitar riffs

13. Riffs, turnarounds, chords, and box patterns all take on new life when played through a Baritone guitar

14. Local trio Sun Giants bring just as many crushing riffs, but with a slightly Bluesier take on things

15. Cerement is equal parts hair-raising screams and riffs, tactfully tasteful interludes, brooding bullfrog synths, and loin-tingling cleans.

16. And with its emphasis on hefty guitar riffs and surging blues solos, The Churls definitely strives for the former

17. Featuring heavy riffs, enchanting melodies, grand keyboard soundscapes, and varying tempos, Crepuscle has much to offer to the metal scene.

18. My style is as deeply influenced by Charlie Parker's repeated freewheeling riffs, say, as by F. Scott Fitzgerald's elegantly flowing prose.

19. Reed snarls the words over an organ continuo Counterpointed by lead guitar riffs that come down like the clap of doom

20. Cobain, Nirvana's main songwriter, fashioned chord sequences using primarily power chords and wrote songs that combined pop hooks with dissonant guitar riffs.

21. Known for their heavy riffs, groovy beats and explosive sound, the progressive rock duo Aligns, is a band based in Brooklyn, NY.

22. Known for their heavy riffs, groovy beats and explosive sound, the progressive rock duo Aligns, is a band based in Brooklyn, NY.

23. Aligns Known for their heavy riffs, groovy beats and explosive sound, the progressive rock duo Aligns has been electrifying the New York scene since 2010

24. Aligns Known for their heavy riffs, groovy beats and explosive sound, the progressive rock duo Aligns, has been electrifying the New York scene since 2010

25. 2008 marks the debut for The Barbacans, garage band from central Italy, characterized by powerful Garage Revival sounds, 60s riffs, Fuzz and Farfisa

26. The Bangles combined the chiming riffs and catchy melodies of British Invasion guitar pop with a hint of the energy of new wave

27. His new book, 11/22/ riffs on an old trope: If you could go back in time and stop a horrible event, would you?

28. Ultimate Rock Ballads brings together incredible guitar riffs and pounding drums combined with big production and passionate lyrics to produce incredible and moving power Ballads

29. Like the best metalcore bands, Fit for A king offer an uncompromising, high-energy live show full of chugging riffs, clean and unclean vocals, and thudding drums.

30. Argle bargle is a nine-piece, high energy pop ensemble whose music fuses catchy melodies and witty lyrics with funk guitar riffs, jazz harmonies and ska beats

31. Aligns Aligns Known for their heavy riffs, groovy beats and explosive sound, the progressive rock duo Aligns, has been electrifying the New York scene since 2010

32. Horrified, he riffs on Thoreau’s “Walden” (which wouldn’t be written for 62 years): “‘I am going into the woods,’ I Chirred to my crew, ‘to live deliberately.’”

33. The opera is a miracle of Beethovenian motivic development, a gossamer score made up of wondrous, quirky bits, pieces and strands of motifs, melodies and dancing riffs.

34. Ah, «traditional» doesn’t mean that these songs are simple and straight – Almah has its interesting riffs, solos, breaks, some amazing catchy stuff that attracts, - nobody would deny it.

35. Backtrack's live performance is a confrontational affair, with raw, brutal hardcore riffs aplenty that reminds of Black Flag as well of Pantera and Dimebag Darrell's chunky guitar tones

36. 7 Questions for the Baby-Boomer Generation’s Bluntest Life Coach, Michael Kinsley In the pages of Vanity Fair, Michael Kinsley riffs on Trump, Clinton, and all the world’s political pundits.

37. Hiding behind all this silliness is a guitar virtuoso with a knack for making face-melting riffs appeal to the Arctophile in all of us-balls of yarn, florescent clutter,

38. There are loopy, deadpan monologues about people's ''real inner disgustingness'' in these stories, as well as farcical Barterings of society gossip, stoned riffs on the subject of smoking and

39. Editors’ Notes For their sixth studio album, Avenged Sevenfold tempers the typical assault of sharp-edged metal riffs with blues-rock elements that inspired ’70s heavies like Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin

40. Brume are a San Francisco-based doom metal trio who combine the weight of Black Sabbath’s pioneering distorted riffs with the graceful beauty of singers like Bjork and Portishead’s Beth Gibbons

41. Synth player Robin Amos, who now plays the keys for Cul De Sac, takes on the Allen Ravestine role, bleeding formless clouds of electronics all over bassist George Condo and guitarist Mark Dagley's misshapen riffs. There are some great straightahead blasts of snot, like the 50 second "Just Got Back", but generally The Girls cut their riffs with plenty of tight power-pop hooks and an Anglophile's taste for flowery melodies.

42. That whole combination of great, choppy Chuck Berry-like guitar hook riffs, funny, loopy lyrics & just all around heavy metal thunder wall of sound Bombastics shows the band at it's peak

43. With soaring, gritty vocals and impeccably blended gritty guitar riffs over top of a heavy southern stomp, Blacktop Mojo’s live shows are sure to leave fans’ screaming at the top of their

44. For instance, the Knight’s tale of courtly love, chivalry, and destiny riffs on romance, while the tales of working-class narrators are generally comedies filled with scatological language, sexual deviance, and slapstick.

45. More Barbecues Cross-Country Hot Dogs Cross-Country Hot Dogs This tasty trio of hot dogs riffs on iconic regional sandwiches from Philadelphia, New Orleans, and Miami, each has all the key fixings

46. On Animosity, Sevendust stick to a workmanlike alternative industrial metal formula of mind-numbing aggression propelled by rapid-fire pentatonic riffs, growling lower-register bass rumblings, and polyrhythmic drum patterns intermixed with electronic samples.

47. With their brutal, simple riffs and aggressive, fast tempos, Accept are one of the top metal bands to debut in the early '80s and a major influence on the development of speed metal and thrash.

48. Miscreants of Bloodlusting Aberrations aims to be rhythmically compelling and to add some additional interest in its tendency to massage a maze of related riffs out of the midst of a riff salad so dense it would defy mapping

49. Baroness' sophomore "Blue" album is another gem with a mix of power chords with heavy riffs, pretty wide vocal range & a bass & percussion section that holds each composition with its crescendos & de-crescendos intact

50. These are great little books, and my pupils are often astounded that they can play 'riffs' that look and sound so impressive very early on - such as Acciaccaturas and hand-over-hand arpeggios (these come later, in book 1)