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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 ...
Resource Interchange File Format (RIFF) is a generic file container format for storing data in tagged chunks. [2] It is primarily used for audio and video, though it can be used for arbitrary data. [3] The Microsoft implementation is mostly known through container formats like AVI, ANI and WAV, which use RIFF as their basis. [4]
A ringtone maker is an application that converts a user chosen song or other audio file for use as a ringtone of a mobile phone. The ringtone file is installed in the mobile phone either by direct cable connection, Bluetooth, text messaging, or e-mail. On many websites, users may create ringtones from digital music or audio.
At 4:40 Taylor takes over from Richards and carries the song to its finish with a lengthy guitar solo. [1] Richards described writing the guitar riff: "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" came out flying – I just found the tuning and the riff and started to swing it and Charlie picked up on it just like that, and we're thinking, hey, this is some groove.
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.
The Oriental riff and interpretations of it have been included as part of numerous musical works in Western music. Examples of its use include Poetic Tone Pictures (Poeticke nalady) (1889) by Antonin Dvořák, [6] "Limehouse Blues" by Carl Ambrose and his Orchestra (1935), "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas (1974), "Japanese Boy" by Aneka (1981), [1] [4] The Vapors' "Turning Japanese" (1980 ...
Riff (dinosaur), on Barney & Friends, a supporting character from 2006 to 2018. Riff, a character in Allegra’s Window; Riff (Sluggy Freelance) Riff, the leader of the Jets in West Side Story; Riff Randle, protagonist of the Ramones film Rock 'n' Roll High School; The Riffs, a gang in the film The Warriors
Crazy Frog (originally known as The Annoying Thing) is a Swedish CGI-animated character and Eurodance musician created in 2003 by actor and playwright Erik Wernquist. . Marketed by the ringtone provider Jamba!, the character was originally created to accompany a sound effect produced by Daniel Malmedahl while attempting to imitate the sound of a two-stroke