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Songwriting Lyrics and rhymes, song structure, genres and forms, arrangement and instrumentation. Verse, chorus, verse and so forth.

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Old 11-18-2005, 11:24 AM
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Ok kids, top 5 riffs. Lay em on me.

Mine be is:
"Creeping Death" - Metallica (the bridge riff, also known as the DIE! part)
"Rumble In Brighton" - Stray Cats (verse riff)
"Hangdog" - Bill Frisell (the "A" section...more of a head than a riff but if you were to call it a riff, it would be a serious one)
"Goodbye Sober Day" - Mr Bungle (Crazy metal riff near the end...great example of a whole band working together to make a non-cliche brutal metal riff)
AC/DC - Any and all
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Old 11-18-2005, 12:55 PM
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Some pretty goood ones in no particular order.

Monster Magnet--"Negasonic Teenage Warhead" (Kiss + Hawkwind = Monster Magnet)

Queens of the Stone Age--"No One Knows"

Fu Manchu--"Evil Eye"

Mick Ronson--"Queen Bitch" (it's not the three chords its how you play em)

My Bloody Valentine--"Only Shallow"
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Old 11-18-2005, 03:05 PM
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Black Sabbath - The main riff to "Faries Wear Boots"
Jimi Hendrix - Opening riff to "1983... (A merman I shall become)"
Zepplin - Bass riff on the verse of "Ramble On"
Captain Beefheart - Slide guitar riff from "When Big Joan Sets Up"
Kind of Like Spitting - Verse riff from "Birds of a Feather"
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Old 11-18-2005, 03:19 PM
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Black Sabbath - The main riff to "Faries Wear Boots"
Fairies Wear Boots = Best Sabbath Tune!

That has been one of my favorite jams since I was like, born. I got to see them play it at Ozzfest a few years back, and went apes$243t. Much love 4 yo tastes.
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Old 11-18-2005, 06:17 PM
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1 Vincent Come on Down - Brainiac
2 New Noise- Refuse3
3Waiting Room - Fugazi
4 Black Dog - Led Zep
5Bellbottoms - Jon Spencer Blues Explosion
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Old 11-19-2005, 04:18 PM
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Cockney Rebel's guitar player at the time - Make me Smile (Come Up and See Me) Solo Riff
Rolling Stones - Bitch
T. Rex - Jewel
Miles Davis - Yesternow (Sonny Sharrock's mindblowing riff)
Chic's - Good Times
Fripp on Bowie's Heroes or Eno's Third Uncle
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Old 11-19-2005, 04:21 PM
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Herbie Hancock - Watermelon Man
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Old 11-23-2005, 02:20 PM
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Djengo Reinhart- I'm Confessin' (unkown Album)
George Benson- Oleo (witchcraft)
Eric Dolphy- Out to lunch (the whole album)
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme (the whole album)
Oscar Peterson- Nigerian Marketplace
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Old 11-23-2005, 04:28 PM
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Djengo Reinhart- I'm Confessin' (unkown Album)
George Benson- Oleo (witchcraft)
Eric Dolphy- Out to lunch (the whole album)
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme (the whole album)
Oscar Peterson- Nigerian Marketplace
You have inspired me to write a riff the length of an album!
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Eric Dolphy- Out to lunch (the whole album)
I like the way you think.

Captain Beefheart - Moonlight on Vermont
King Crimson - Indiscipline
Frank Zappa - Apostrophe(')
Cardiacs - Faster Than Snakes With a Ball & Chain
Devo - Come Back Jonee
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