Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
All these songs use twelve-bar blues riffs, and most of these riffs probably precede the examples given (Covach 2005, p. 71). In classical music, individual musical phrases used as the basis of classical music pieces are called ostinatos or simply phrases. Contemporary jazz writers also use riff- or lick-like ostinatos in modal music and Latin ...
"Run and Hide (The Gun Song)" - Edwards/St. Paul, 2013 (Bula Quo!) "Running Inside My Head" - Letley, 2013 (Bula Quo!) "Saddling Up" - Rossi/Bown, 2007 (In Search Of The Fourth Chord) "Solid Gold" - Rossi/Young, 2002 (Heavy Traffic) "Takin' Care Of Business" - Bachman, 2003 (Riffs) "The Bubble" - Bown/Edwards, 2005 (The Party Ain't Over Yet)
Music lovers in the UK have done their best to finally put to rest the endless debate of what is the greatest guitar riff in music history. The voting was sponsored by BBC Radio 2 for a just over ...
In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine placed "Smoke on the Water" number 434 on its list of the "500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [5] Total Guitar magazine ranked the song's riff number 4 on its "Greatest Guitar Riffs Ever" list, [6] and in March 2005, Q magazine placed it at number 12 in its list of the 100 greatest guitar tracks. [7]
Riffs (Status Quo album), 2003; Riffs (Jimmy Lyons album) "The Riff" (Lordi song), 2013; The Riffs, American band "Riff", a song by Sander van Doorn from Supernaturalistic "The Riff Song", a musical number from The Desert Song
[6] From there, the song enters an extended instrumental interlude, with guitarist Adam Jones going through many guitar riffs and guitar solos; with publications like Metal Hammer noting that, while many bands would build entire songs around the riffs, Tool instead runs through them once or twice and then moves on to the next one. [5]
The album saw the group adopting a more rock-influenced sound, with several tracks prominently featuring heavy guitar riffs. The song "Roots, Rap, Reggae" features Yellowman, and was one of the first hybrids of rap and dancehall. King of Rock peaked at number 52 on the Billboard 200, and number 12 on the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums chart.
In contrast, the riffs, samples and rap of "Justified & Ancient (Stand by the JAMs)" were secondary to its conventional song structure of verses and choruses. Still, a riff borrowed from Jimi Hendrix' "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" runs through the choruses.