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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 ...
To create lead guitar lines, guitarists use scales, modes, arpeggios, licks, and riffs that are performed using a variety of techniques. [1] In rock, heavy metal, blues, jazz and fusion bands and some pop contexts as well as others, lead guitar lines often employ alternate picking, sweep picking, economy picking and legato (e.g., hammer ons, pull offs), which are used to maximize the speed of ...
Fills are distinguished from solo breaks, which are short, often unaccompanied solo passages interpolated between sections of a song.Whereas fills are relatively unobtrusive, solo breaks are usually composed to draw attention to the soloist's virtuoso skills by using difficult techniques and rapid passages, as in guitar solos and bass runs.
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 ...
[2] [3] Alternative metal bands are often characterized by heavily downtuned, mid-paced guitar riffs, a mixture of accessible melodic vocals and harsh vocals and sometimes unconventional sounds within other heavy metal styles. [2] The term has been in use since the 1980s, [4] although it came into prominence in the 1990s. [5
In music performances, rhythm guitar is a technique and role that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with other instruments from the rhythm section (e.g., drum kit, bass guitar); and to provide all or part of the harmony, i.e. the chords from a song's chord progression, where a ...
Towards the end of the 1980s, Blas Duran and other bachata artists began to perform with electric guitar, and replaced the maracas with the güira. The new style that took root is referred to as modern bachata. [1] Traditional bachata bands played son, merengue, and waltz in addition to bolero based songs. Over time, the influence of merengue ...
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.