Riff Edit Meaning

1.

A select tune or Melody of a guitar tab in a song, like in AC/DC's "Back in black" the little tune that gets stuck in your head, is a RIFF

Jimmy Page can throw down some COMPLICATED INSANE AND FAST RIFFS

2.

1. Music, mainly guitar: A musical phrase based on or around musical scales*. Riffs can be pre-prepared and repeated, or improvised on the spot and of indefinite length based loosly around the melody of the song.

Scales are a way of arranging musical notes so that they a coolto listen to. Basic scales for guitar include:

Major

Minor

Pentonic

Blues

2.There is also an Arabic people called Riffs.

The lights went down and the lead guitarist then played a long, slow, sweet blues based riff that had the hairs standing up on the back of peoples necks.

3.

Something that nu metal bands can't seem to use with good effect.

no needed

4.

Plain and simply: Selected guitar melodies.

HORNS UP! ^nn^

KEEP IT SICK AND BRUTAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Black Sabbath: IRON MAN!!!!!!!!!!!

The latter encompasses one of the catchiest riffs ever created.

5.

To make stuff up on the spot.

Can be applied to nearly anything--music, writing, lying, whatever.

I riffed up an excuse as to why I didn't show up... she laid off eventually.

6.

A segment of a song that puts emphasis on a certain instrument by using a distinctive sound. The instrument is usually a guitar.

The main guitar riff in Tool's "Third Eye" is 1 minute and 3 seconds long

See solo, breakdown, highlight, robot, banana

7.

West Midlands insult similar to chav. Origins are uncertain but it is thought to be an abbreviation of the phrase riff-raff, and localised use in Bromsgrove dates back as far as the late 1980s, if not earlier

Can be both a noun (riff), referring to the antisocial underclass, or an adjective (riffy), meaning something cheap, scummy or gully gully.

- "What a riff!"

- "He was the riffiest kid in school."

- "Those trainers are well riffy."

- "I'm a riffy stig."

See chav, gully gully, stig, scummy, Creese