Praising it as " a finale to be proud of ," Riley notes that " Sugar Baby " is " built on a disarmingly simple riff that turns foreboding.

" BDP used this riff in the song " Remix for P is Free ," and it was later resampled by artists such as Black Star and dead prez.

Arguably the first influential classic electric blues slide guitarist is Elmore James, whose riff in the song " Dust My Broom " is copied from Robert Johnson and is held in particularly high regard.

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.

The opening horn riff in Arthur Conley's 1967 hit " Sweet Soul Music " is borrowed from the theme.

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.

" Get Back " is unusual in the Beatles ' canon in that almost every moment of the song's evolution has been extensively documented, from its beginning as an offhand riff to its final mixing in several versions.

The central theme of Rhapsody in Blue is used as a riff in The Electric Light Orchestra's " Birmingham Blues " off their 1977 hit album Out of the Blue.

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.

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.

The 1980 Adam and the Ants song " Killer in the Home " ( from their Kings of the Wild Frontier album ) is based on the same ominous, descending three-chord glissando riff that is featured in " Rumble " ( Ants ' guitarist Marco Pirroni, an avid Wray fan, has described the song as " Link Wray meets Col. Kurtz " — the latter being a reference to Apocalypse Now ).

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 ".

This is so associated with his persona that he wears the mask even when dressed as a duke, a riff, a pirate, or a Viking.

That same riff is referenced near the end of " Give It Away " by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

The guitar riff played is all but missing when played on the Commodore 64c or the Commodore 128.

The intro is not usually played in concert and instead the song begins with the main riff.

Each fiddle solo is composed of a major scale riff, repeated between verses.

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

The riff and parts of the song was also shortly featured live by Pantera in their song " Cowboys from Hell.

The tune was written originally as " Amarren Al Loco " (" Tie up the crazy guy ") by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. – also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo – but became best known in the arrangement by René Touzet which included a rhythmic ten-note " 1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2 " riff.

Mentasm, co-produced with Mundo Muzique, became iconic within rave culture, as it was the track that gave birth to the " mentasm riff " ( also known as the " Hoover sound "): a churning, dirgelike synth pattern that wormed into techno's communal genome and has since been mutated and reused in literally thousands of records.

" Steve Huey of Allmusic described his and Jeff Hannemans guitar solos as " wildly chaotic ," and Thom Jurek, also of Allmusic, described his work on 2006's Christ Illusion as " create an intensely harrowing and angular riff that changes from verse to verse, through the refrain and bridge, and comes back again.

The song is also known for the metal anthem bass riff by Megadeth bassist Dave Ellefson.

Initial demo sessions with Powell yielded numerous recordings, including two unreleased songs – " The Night Life " ( also called " Next Time "), the riff being later used for " Psychophobia " on Cross Purposes, and " Bad Blood ", which sounds very similar to " I " on Dehumanizer.

The group's biggest song, "( We Ain't Got ) Nothin ' Yet ", whose Vox Continental organ riff bears an uncanny resemblance to the 1962 hit by Ricky Nelson, " Summertime " ( Deep Purple also used this riff in their hit " Black Night "), was released as a single in 1967 ( albeit from their 1966 album ), with " Gotta Get Away " as the b-side.

The Lanstrum sound although primarily driving riff rock / metal also shows some flavorings of drum / bass groove, a hangover from Drews days playing with Melbourne band K-Oscillate.

* At the end of False News Travel Fast, Jani Liimatainen plays a riff that is closely similar to the main riff of the song Speed Of Light by Stratovarius ( a similar riff is also used in Future Shock ).

Jani Liimatainen also plays that riff before the first chorus of Blank File in the same concert.

The song's main riff was also featured on an earlier recording with different lyrics, titled " Dirty Eyes ", which saw official release on Volts, part of the Bonfire box set.

Polysics have also creatively repurposed Devo and other New Wave / Punk material in their own original songs ; for instance, in the song " Each Life Each End " from the album " Neu " they borrow the opening riff from the Devo song " Girl U Want " ( along with a sample from " Love Missile F1-11 " by Sigue Sigue Sputnik ), and the lyrics are playfully paraphrased Engrish-style from Devo's " The Day My Baby Gave Me A Surprise " and " Red Eye Express.

The bass riff was recycled later and slightly modified for the coda of Queen's 1989 song " The Miracle ", also composed by Mercury.

*" The Honeydripper " by Joe Liggins, recorded on April 20, 1945, synthesized boogie-woogie piano, jazz, and the riff from the folk chestnut " Shortnin ' Bread ", into an exciting dance performance that topped the R & B " race " charts for 18 weeks ( a record later shared with Jordan's " Choo Choo Ch ' Boogie ") and also made the pop charts.

For Presley's version of " Mystery Train ", Scotty Moore also borrowed the guitar riff from Parker's " Love My Baby ", played by Pat Hare.

The album also featured a brief, a cappella horn riff, Pankow's " Free Flight.

It is also very much similar ( same descending pattern ) to the opening riff of Elton John's " Screw You ( Young Man's Blues )".

" Master of the Universe " was written by Brock and Turner, although Anderson contends that he should also have received a writer's credit for writing the main riff.

The riff is a familiar one of the time, and it was also later used by Marc Bolan for his " Children Of The Revolution " single.

The music was quite simple: programmed drums, scratches, short samplings, guitar riff, raps and shouts.

" Leiber and Stoller liked the song but felt that it was not quite right and the four held an overnight brainstorming session which culminated in the better-known version of the song, now in simple time and with a backing riff that modulated down to the flattened 7th, giving it a more bluesy feel which matched the new lyric in which the singer was now actually on Broadway and having a hard time.

The bass and rhythm guitars in the solo section of the song play a riff close to that of " Enter Sandman ", and even though the band mentions it in lyric immediately after the riff, the band was forced to remove the part from the later CD versions of Cereal Killer and pull the music video from MTV.

On Third, the riff from " Mousetrap " can be heard near the end of " Backwards ", and gives the impression the group are about to launch into this piece to close ( and it's possible they did so in the original studio session ), but an abrupt edit brings the music to a reprise of " Noisette " instead.