The track has a relentless pounding bass line and guitar riff coupled with orchestral arrangements and narrated excerpts from the United Kingdom Public Information Film series Protect and Survive peppered throughout the song and its various mixes.

The album included " U-Mass ", which has been described as being about college apathy, and whose guitar riff was written years before at the University of Massachusetts before Francis and Santiago dropped out.

It is set up in the manner of a Broadway-esque musical number, complete with string and brass ensembles, and is only topped by David Gilmour's guitar riff.

Later, on watching McCabe to come up with a guitar riff for one scene, Cohen decided he didn't like the film.

It's something that fits the song rather than trying to create a song around a riff or guitar figure ... What I think comes through this album is that sense of longing, of love, of suffering and in all of this there can be hope.

The song was based on a guitar riff by Jody Williams.

The guitar riff was also used by Dave " Baby " Cortez in his 1962 instrumental song " Rinky DinK ",

At a concert at Howard Theatre in Washington, D. C. Mickey & Sylvia heard Jody Williams play a guitar riff that Williams had played on Billy Stewart's debut single " Billy's Blues ".

Pitbull samples part of the song's guitar riff in his song " Back in Time " for the film Men in Black III, which was released in April 2012 by RCA.

America scored its second chart topping success with Beckley's " Sister Golden Hair " in mid-1975, a song which featured a memorable opening guitar riff admittedly inspired by George Harrison's " My Sweet Lord " and frank relationship lyrics admittedly inspired by Jackson Browne.

As part of a contemporary craze for recycling oldies recordings to create new hits, Janet Jackson's 2001 single " Someone to Call My Lover " sampled the " Ventura Highway " guitar riff and rose to No. 3 on the Billboard pop charts.

A significant error on the Kingsmen's version occurs just after the lead guitar break ; as the group were going by the Wailers ' version, which has a brief restatement of the riff, two times over, before the lead vocalist comes back in, it would be expected that Ely would do the same.

Richards came up with the classic guitar riff while playing around with his brand new Gibson " Fuzz box ".

Their songs usually began with a guitar riff, followed by the tenor Bill Kenny, who sang the whole song through.

The song's opening slide guitar riff is one of the best-known sounds in all of blues.

It is essentially the same riff that appeared in the recording of the same song by Robert Johnson, but James played the riff with electric slide guitar.

On the 1974 record Second Album, Roy Buchanan included an instrumental song he wrote titled " Tribute to Elmore James ," which begins with James ' classic slide guitar riff, and uses his soloing style throughout.

The musical structure of this song is complex ; though on the surface hard rock, it is a tango in 4 / 4 time, with an opening electric guitar riff by Barry Reynolds in which beats 1 and 4 of each measure are accented on the up-beat, and beat 3 is accented on the down beat.

Marriott and Lane are credited with creating the instrumental to the song, " borrowing " the guitar riff from the Solomon Burke record " Everybody Needs Somebody to Love ".

Their successful and critically acclaimed albums White Blood Cells and Elephant drew them attention from a large variety of media outlets in the United States and the United Kingdom, with the single " Seven Nation Army " and its now-iconic guitar riff becoming a huge hit.

The album, featuring Jourgensen's electric guitar work on several tracks, drew mixed reviews, although the singles " Tin Omen " and " Worlock ", the latter of which paired a riff sampled from The Beatles ' " Helter Skelter " with a clip of Charles Manson singing the song, became enduring favorites among many fans.

Among his best-known guitar playing is the riff to Tom Tom Club's " Genius of Love ", the overdriven solos on Talking Heads ' " The Great Curve ", the wild slide melodies on his own Top 10 hit " Oh Daddy " and the careening elephant impressions on King Crimson's " Elephant Talk ".

Its combination of a simple heavy guitar riff and flirtatious lyrics helped it to quickly become a garage rock standard.

Future Black Sabbath producer Rick Rubin sampled Sweet Leaf's main guitar riff in producing the Beastie Boys ' 1986 song " Rhymin ' and Stealin '".

This form resembles techniques used by guitar makers to " impart alternating regions of flexibility and rigidity to a stick of wood.

The concept of playing solo steel-string guitar in a concert setting was introduced in the early 1960s by such performers as Davey Graham and John Fahey, who used country blues fingerpicking techniques to compose original compositions with structures somewhat like European classical music.

Fahey contemporary Robbie Basho added elements of Indian classical music and Leo Kottke used a Faheyesque approach to make the first solo steel-string guitar " hit " record.

No instruments are used, except for maybe an electric guitar, though fans are claiming it to be her synthesized voice.

There are many types of electronic amplifiers, commonly used in radio and television transmitters and receivers, high-fidelity (" hi-fi ") stereo equipment, microcomputers and other electronic digital equipment, and guitar and other instrument amplifiers.

The bass guitar is used in many styles of music including rock, metal, pop, punk rock, country, reggae, gospel, blues, and jazz.

It is also used in guitar and piano strings.

Bronze is also used for the windings of steel and nylon strings of various stringed instruments such as the double bass, piano, harpsichord, and the guitar ..

The bass guitar is seldom used to play stand-alone melodies.

In November 2009 the guitar used by Diddley in his last-ever stage performance sold for $ 60, 000 at auction.

As the guitar is tuned to one octave below that of the violin, the same size gut could be used for the 1st strings of both instruments.

For their fourth album, Together Alone, Crowded House used New Zealand-based producer Martin Glover ( aka Youth ) and invited touring musician Mark Hart ( guitar & keyboards ) to become a permanent band member.

His first guitar had a nail for a nut and was so bowed that only the first few frets could be used.

Orchestral instruments such as the flute are often used for solo melodies, and lead guitar is less frequently in disco than in rock.

While the electric bass guitar was used intermittently in jazz as early as 1951, beginning in the 1970s bassist Bob Cranshaw, playing with saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and fusion pioneers Jaco Pastorius and Stanley Clarke began to commonly substitute the bass guitar for the upright bass.

" Slap style " may have influenced electric bass guitar players who, from the mid-sixties ( particularly Larry Graham of Sly and the Family Stone ), developed a technique called slap and pop that used the thumb of the plucking hand to hit the string, making a slapping sound but still letting the note ring, and the index or middle finger of the plucking hand to pull the string back so it hits the fretboard, achieving the pop sound described above.

In the 1960s Ringo Starr used a sizzle cymbal as a second ride particularly for use during guitar solos.

There are many types of electronic amplifiers, commonly used in radio and television transmitters and receivers, high-fidelity (" hi-fi ") stereo equipment, microcomputers and other electronic digital equipment, and guitar and other instrument amplifiers.

Effects are used during live performances or in the studio, typically with electric guitar, keyboard and bass.

The first electric guitars used in jazz were hollow archtop acoustic guitar bodies with electromagnetic transducers.

An early proponent of the electric Spanish guitar was jazz guitarist George Barnes who used the instrument in two songs recorded in Chicago on March 1, 1938, " Sweetheart Land " and " It's a Low-Down Dirty Shame ".

Alfred Schnittke also used electric guitar in several works, like the " Requiem ", " Concerto Grosso N ° 2 " and " Symphony N ° 1 ".

In the 21st century, European avant garde composers like Richard Barrett, Fausto Romitelli, Peter Ablinger, Bernhard Lang, Claude Ledoux and Karlheinz Essl have used the electric guitar ( together with extended playing techniques ) in solo pieces or ensemble works.

Originally used on gut-strung instruments, the strength of the system allowed the guitar to withstand the additional tension of steel strings when this fortunate combination arose in the early 20th century.