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Based on the novel Perfume by Patrick Süskind, "Scentless Apprentice" is unique among Nirvana songs in that the main guitar riff was written by Grohl, rather than Cobain. The band briefly considered releasing it as the album's second single, following " Heart-Shaped Box ," but no single for the song was released by the time of Cobain's suicide ...
Author Rikky Rooksby states: "A riff is a short, repeated, memorable musical phrase, often pitched low on the guitar, which focuses much of the energy and excitement of a rock song." [ 4 ] BBC Radio 2 , in compiling its list of 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs, defined a riff as the "main hook of a song", often beginning the song, and is "repeated ...
The opening lyric and riff of "Aqualung" are muttered by Tony Soprano as he comes into the kitchen in episode #71 ("Live Free or Die") of the TV series The Sopranos. [9] In the Family Guy episode 16 of season 19 (entitled "Who's Brian Now") the opening guitar riff can be heard in a scene every time Peter enters the living room. [10]
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 ...
I had riffs – this was the late '80s and I was writing a lot of songs. I called it "drone," where you either drone the A or the E, and play a melody under it. So, I had a bunch of them that the band I was in at the time were playing. But I always had the "Shine" riff, and I thought, "That's a cool riff."
"Here Comes Your Man" opens with the Hendrix chord, favored by Pixies guitarist Joey Santiago and was used on "Tame". [12] The acoustic guitar plays a D–G–A chord progression, while Santiago plays a guitar riff which is the result of him double-tracking a 12-string Rickenbacker and a Telecaster.
Grohl also contributed the main guitar riff for "Scentless Apprentice". Cobain said in a late 1993 interview with MTV that he initially thought the riff was "kind of boneheaded", but was gratified at how the song developed, a process captured in part in a demo on the Nirvana box set With the Lights Out. Cobain said that he was excited at the ...
The African guitar parts are drawn from a variety of sources, including the indigenous mbira, as well as foreign influences such as James Brown-type funk riffs. However, the foreign influences are interpreted through a distinctly African ostinato sensibility. African guitar styles began with Congolese bands doing Cuban cover songs.