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WickerRocker
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Topic: Best riff creators Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:39 |
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You should suggest some guitarists (or other musicians)who you think are top-riff creators. From names, which would appear more times, we can create a voting competition for a single champion. You should also add some riffs you like from that person.
Edited by WickerRocker - September 21 2006 at 10:42 |
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WickerRocker
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:41 | |
I suggest Tony Iommi with riffs like Iron Man, Sabbath bloody sabbath, Paranoid, Sabbra cadabra, Lord of THis world, Into the void,...
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'You can`t kill, what`s stronger than death': Zakk Wylde
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WaywardSon
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:42 | |
Blackmore and Iommi, the riff meisters!!
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chopper
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:47 | |
Jimmy Page, no contest: -
Whole Lotta Love
Custard Pie
Immigrant Song
Heartbreaker
Need I go on?
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JayDee
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 10:58 | |
Riff you say?:
Steve Vai
Joe Satriani
Dave Mustaine
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:27 | |
Michael Romeo. I'd have to list most Symphony X songs ... I guess that Symphony X - V: The New Mythology suite contains the best ones. Evolution, Fallen, ... riff heaven. And in The Odyssey (the epic) he plays two or three amazingly long riffs.
John Petrucci: Pull Me Under, Learning to Live, Take the Time, Erotomania, 6:00, ... the list goes on and on and on. James Hetfield - No comment necessary. |
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Abstrakt
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:28 | |
James Hetfield
Steve Howe
Tony Iommi
Jimmy Page
Jimi Hendrix
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:39 | |
I think we need to define the word "riff" ... I never thought of Jimi Hendrix as a riff-oriented guitarist.
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:41 | |
Blackmore, Page, Tony Iommi - i read somewhere that he has a huge collection of riffs on tape - a "rifflopaedia"
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mystic fred
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:44 | |
i would say it was "a sequence of notes repeated during a piece of music, or song, forming a framework for the song to be built around"......???
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OpethGuitarist
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:45 | |
Laurent Lebec/Trevor de Brauw(Pelican)
Mikael Akerfeldt(Opeth) |
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toolis
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 11:49 | |
it doesn't have to be notes but chords as well... |
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sometimes amateurs turn us on, even more... -sometimes you are the pigeon and sometimes you are the statue... |
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BaldJean
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 12:25 | |
a band with some of the greatest riffs of all time are VdGG (the song "Sleepwalkers" alone has enough great riffs to make a whole album from). and since Hammill writes most of the music for VdGG, he is the big riff creator. and indeed we find a lot of great riffs on his soloalbums too
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Leningrad
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 19:57 | |
Alex Lifeson.
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The Wizard
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 19:57 | |
Jimmy Page
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The Wizard
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Posted: September 21 2006 at 19:58 | |
Page could make a better riff off the spot than most guitarist.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 01:55 | |
Ok ... the wikipedia page makes sense: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riff
Apparently they're not 100% sure either ... but I'd say that not every repeating pattern or chord progression is a riff. It should have a rhythm (guitar) character - if it has a lead (guitar) character then I'd rather call it a lick. And it should not be based on complex chord voicings - it's more a melody than a chord progression. But you're free to use any other definition! |
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krusty
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Posted: September 22 2006 at 06:51 | |
I'm a big Page / Zepplin fan as well but when you read sites like this
You may question exactly how original Page is/was. I doubt whether he is the sole guitarist to 'borrow' riffs but the author of the above site seems to have a unhealthy dislike for both Page and Zepplin. Regardless of any plagiarism my vote would go to Tony Iommi, btw. |
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Abstrakt
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Posted: September 25 2006 at 13:13 | |
How can i forget Dave Mustain?
MEGADETH RULES!
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Mumakil
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Posted: September 25 2006 at 13:38 | |
C'mom people!
Why hasn't anybody mentioned the greatest riff Masters of all time: AC/DC's ANGUS and MALCOM YOUNG!!!!! - For those about to rock; - Highway to Hell; - Hell's Bells; - Whole lotta Rosie; - TNT; - Beatin' around the Bush; - Everything else... They created the greatest pure and harsh Rock and Roll riffs ever, and when you think they are done with it, they come with a lot more! And by the way, their riffs are always simple and easy to play and they tend to stick to your mind forever... Edited by Mumakil - September 25 2006 at 13:43 |
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