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3pts @stratman3142 - nice riff as usual
1pt @fretmeister - nice bass riff
3 pts - @AndyJP - Nice funk tone!
1 pt - @fretmeister - Nice driving bass riff
3pts @AndyJP - love that funky style
1pt @stratman3142 - nice riff to keep on soloing forever
yup, this was fun to do and to hear and totally different entries. What abundant variation at TF. Well, perhaps it's still my honeymoon period @ TF, but thus far I like it
@Springywheel Bloody love it. Love the lazy feel.
@poopot Again love the lazy feel. Stonesey too.
Well done all. All brilliant and love the variety as said by @jeroenvanhulsteijn. Ask me a different day and I give you a different top 3. @fretmeister some bass riff! @jeroenvanhulsteijn love the vibe to that one, how did you record it?
This was my first attempt for making a blues riff some 25 years ago (I am an old bloke). I already learned to play the guitar at that time, but was playing classical music only. Then I got my first electric guitar. Over the years I discovered that classical music covers a lot of ground and is a good basis to get familiar with different chord positions, phrasings et cetera. I never encountered string bending in classical music though.
So I have played the guitar for a long time, but sadly didn't get to play much the last 15 years. Live is keeping me busy. I guess I'm happy to play an hour every week. Recording this stuff really made me aware that I became really sloppy in my playing. So I find it great fun to do again and learn.
3 points to @Springywheel
1 point to @poopot
I'm seeing a pattern in my own tastes - riffs without anything on top appeal to me most I think. Like those bits in 80s thrash and old school funk where they could have started singing already but instead do a verse worth of riffing before the vox comes in, just letting the riff alone get into my head. I'm a simple man and I know what I like!
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5 points : @fretmeister : Nasty dirty bass complemented by a punky ringy snare then solid guitars. Like a hard rock version of The Stranglers
3 points : @AndyJP : Really nice funky feel from the rhythm guitar, which is what I focused on.
1 point : @Springywheel : Mean dirgy grunge.
5 points @fretmeister Definitely my type of riff.
3 points @poopot
1 point @AndyJP
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Scary good. How long to people spend putting these together nowadays - all the instrument tracks, production/mixing, etc?
As always, how do you "judge" - just on the basis of what my ears like! So, voting from the TT jury;
5points @stratman3142 - bouncy riff, well put together, quite easy to hear this being played on a radio show as a proper release. Head & shoulders winner for me.
3points @poopot - is it a riff or a semisolo? Either way, I'm back in the 80s in a hotel restaurant with background music. All very polished.
1points @fretmeister - close run for the 2nd place, but the intro was just a bit overlong and I'd happily swap that for more bass riffing!
We spend less time on this than we do setting up new email addresses for everyone involved that’s for sure
The recoding and mixing is usually fairly quick, because I use a similar approach each time.
That's the beauty of a riff. Full compositions take me ages.
Life's changes might allow me to put more time into these challenges though. Be good to have a purpose to picking up a guitar!