For instance, "Jesu død", a track of over eight-and-a-half minutes, is primarily based around variations of a single riff.

Not for Afghan Whigs the cop-out of basing songs on a single, howling riff.

The song "The Changingman" also features a riff from ELO's 1972 single "10538 Overture".

I'd spent weeks with him, listening to his endless prattle on life, death, and the immortal soul, and I'd yet to learn a single musical riff!

The song begins with a single riff repeating for a minute, before Gordon murmurs "Brave man run in my family/Brave men run away from me."

Son piano is more varied than salsa piano which is more formulaic and holds on to a single riff much longer.

Like many of Iron Butterfly's songs from the Heavy era, "Evil Temptation" is extremely simple, based entirely on a single riff.

It was conceived as a single riff before the band added a second, boosted riff over the top of the first.

The songs were usually little more than a single slow riff, perhaps a chord or two, with steadily strummed guitar and unswerving drumbeats.

According to Tom Petty, The Strokes have admitted to taking the riff for their 2001 single, "Last Nite", from this song.