I've noticed a number of peculiar incidents among the members of the student body all having to do with rock and roll music.

Oh, I'm down, bet you man. Now if you don't think this song is the greatest song ever. I will fight you.

In rock and roll there's nothing more exciting than

unforgettable guitar riff. I'm Greg Kott.

And I'm Jim Deregadis. We'll share some of our favorite guitar riffs of all time and later

we'll review the new album from the Doom Band The Obsessed. Plus we'll pay tribute to the director

Jonathan Demi.

That's all coming up on sound opinions. And the You're listening sound opinions. I'm Jim De Irgatus. My partner is Greg Hot.

And that is Chuck Berry with Johnny B Good.

A great guitar riff, Greg, a great song about being a guitarist playing riffs.

Pretty good place for us to start our discussion of guitar riffs in

rock and roll. Let me define what a riff is and then you can give us some of the classics

to get us rolling. It's not completely limited to rock and roll. There's a term in classical

music, Astonado, right, which is a repeated rhythmic phrase, a hook. And of course, the jazz

guys throughout the history of jazz were big on

riffs that would in between moments of improvisation bring you back to a song.

There's a classic 1945 Charlie Parker recording called Driving from a RIF, which may have launched

the popularization of that term.

But in rock and roll, it's a hook, a musical hook that's repeated several times rhythmically most often on the

guitar. Yeah Jim I think it's the part of the song that you can hum in a lot of ways

you know people talk about the guitar solo in rock a lot but you can't hum a solo or at least in very

rare instances but a riff is something that sticks with you it recurs

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