Examples of riff

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Excessively brief or fragmented traits, such as riffs, are absent.
As with many of the repeated riffs here transcribed, slight variations are evident in the rhythm as it is repeated throughout the song.
Meanwhile, the rhythm and metre components of the music largely comprise syncopated, power chord riffs in common time.
The fast drumming dominates everything and gives the guitar riffs an indistinct feel.
As mentioned above, the introduction consists solely of unpitched and single-pitch riffs.
Every piece, or movement, started with strange esoteric strivings and ended with the old riffs the players know best.
To hear these searing alto riffs lumbering along an octave lower than they were meant to sound creates an effect of sheer struggle, more sub- than superhuman.
As a result, the various metric placements of the riff give the studio version a looser, more improvised feel.
When the riff is put back within the context of the entire song, however, things get a bit more interesting.
The music was decidedly different, relying on riff-based extended improvisations with little harmonic movement over a soul-based rhythmic foundation.
I turn now to the second question: the linear ordering of the two vowels: riff-raff and see-saw are well-formed, but not *raff-riff or *saw-see.
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