riff
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1. riff - Noun
2. riff - Verb
3. Riff - Proper noun
Meaning
look through a book or other written material
a jazz ostinato; usually provides a background for a solo improvisation
a Berber living in northern Morocco
play riffs
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Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
The truth is, laughter always sounds more perfect than weeping. Laughter flows in a violent riff and is effortlessly melodic. Weeping is often fought, choked, half strangled, or surrendered to with humiliation.
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
One of my favorites has always been 'Swap Meet.' One of the reasons why I like that is it's a song that's in a drop-D tuning, and of course, also being a guitar player, it's one of the songs that I really like the riff on it.
In OK Computer, the guitar was already moving towards a tone generator as well as a riff generator.
Comedians are really writers who don't have pens and pencils about them, but they riff.