Sentences with phrase «own riff»

«The English bands thought the American bands were stealing their riffs and their music, and they didn't feel comfortable staying with them at the Riot House,» Gruendyke says.

To test the principle I decided to learn three simple guitar riffs: Smoke on the Water, 7 Nation Army, and Iron Man.

As a college student, Kaling illustrated a daily comic for the school paper called «Badly Drawn Girl,» which «riffed on day - to - day campus life and took a witty stab at everything from fraternity life to alumni.»

Every week, the company posts a literal story, usually riffing on a well - known children's book or movie.

Then I tried learning three more riffs: Highway to Hell, Dirty Deeds, and TNT (because too much AC / DC is never enough.)

But what he couldn't have known is that riff would become a part of popular culture, inspiring stadium chants like this:

But this time I tried interleaving; once I had the basic chords kinda / sort down, I alternated playing those riffs during three 20 - minute sessions.

Connor's company is called Riff Raffs and he want to offer a range of natural grooming products including a dry shampoo for men, which currently does not exist on the market.

He hopes that Riff Raffs will become dominant in the grooming Industry, and that it grows from a small local business to a much bigger national brand.

So the designers started riffing on what they called the «X factor,» coming up with names like Axiom, Xponent, Xorb, Xcellerate, Orbix, X Axis, and X Force.

Each name you propose is met with rival riffs and counter suggestions.

Last year, wear and tear forced PDX to replace the iconic carpet, but the new design is a riff on the old.

It's caused people to be scared whenever they hear a particular banjo riff since its release in 1972.

And for those affected, saying you got «riffed» sounds better than saying you got laid off.

Or they can riff on advertisements.

There's no new theme to it, just more riffs on the old one of a self - reinforcing spiral of slower growth in China crushing the economies of its raw material suppliers, while an appreciating dollar makes it ever harder for emerging market companies and governments to repay the debts they gleefully took on when the Federal Reserve was giving away dollars for free.

After building up his social - media presence «on the side,» he's partnered with NBA players and celebrity artists Waka Flocka, G - Eazy, and Riff Raff to build theirs.

The royal family have faced many scandals and other public scrutiny over the years, and they most certainly don't want another riff in the family due to a silly little board game.

An upbeat, diminutive, and youthful 46, he riffed confidently on the challenges facing the Canadian economy.

Keen's primary frame for the work is Utopia, Thomas More's celebrated 1516 work that was written in an age that experienced some of the same turmoil and dread as our own (there are extended riffs on Moore's Law versus More's Law).

Later that night, while riffing on the vile comments left by trolls on his YouTube videos, headliner Chris Hardwick talks about the nerd uprising.

As he embarked on his second five - year term as China's President last week, Xi Jinping pledged to «Make the Skies Blue Again»: a riff on President Trump's «#MAGA» mantra that nodded to China's acute urban pollution problem.

Riffing off Donald Keough's book The Ten Commandments for Business Failure, Risk Capital Partners investor Luke Johnson pens his own steps for killing your company for the Financial Times.

When he left his job at Yahoo in 2008, Butterfield famously did so in one of the all - time weirdest resignation letters, a drawn - out riff on his passion for tin.

There's a tartness that could make for a riff on sweet and sour.

(The store's name is a riff on the name of his father's bar, The Blue Room, where Williams grew up listening to music.)

Because even in 2015 I still see people riffing on ideas and working on business plans, product flows or coding on projects without first forming a company, signing contracts that assign intellectual property to that company and trusting that «friends» would never sue you.

Trump riffed that closing loopholes and reducing the complexity from the tax system might cost him personally, but said that the complex current tax code «disadvantages ordinary Americans who don't have an army of accountants while benefitting deep - pocketed special interests.»

And it definitely means you've never walked into a music store; Smoke makes every list of overplayed guitar store riffs.

If you aren't familiar with the opening riff of Smoke on the Water, that probably means you haven't heard of, oh, Harry Potter.

It has certainly worked for Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, getting him the main riff of his most famous composition, «Satisfaction.»

That year, Litle explained to Inc. the decision to keep riffing off the same idea as a technical challenge.

«With his improvised riff, Dr. King took a leap into history, jumping from prose to poetry, from the podium to the pulpit.»

«Your workload is never going to get lower until the day you retire, technology is just going to get faster, the amount of information coming at you is just going to grow and grow and grow,» said Riff.

Poor health can be expensive too, and stress makes people less productive at work, which causes other problems, said Joshua Riff, Medical Director at Target Corporation, at the Harvard stress forum.

Riff's advice is to find 15 minutes every single day to disconnect from the technology tying you to the office.

In the end, Riff says, that may be the only way to keep up with the pressures of the modern world.

Riffing off of the edited «if you've got a business» line is fast becoming one of the primary messages of the Romney campaign.

«Bitch, I turned into Patti,» he says, before launching into a series of stunning vocal riffs.

If your goal is to avoid the riff - raff at the back of the plane, then Qatar is your airline.

In a forthcoming short article in Canadian Business, I riff on a recent Globe and Mail story about a South African winery that is working hard to face up to its slave - holding past.

«I like riffing off of other people and that process where you build something that's bigger and better than you can imagine.»

While listening to the rendition, he found a four - bar phrase that he liked and looped it while layering on a piano riff and lyrics — on the spot — to finish the song.

While still nowhere near as popular as Oreo's famous «dunk in the dark» tweet, Charmin's Uranus quip is a textbook example of how brands can riff on popular culture and delight consumers.

Instead, riff off of your script and let your words flow naturally, in a warm, friendly manor.

As a result, we organized our first - ever Tuna Tank, a riff on Shark Tank, which allowed teams of employees to pitch their business idea to executive leadership, get feedback, insight and the experience of presenting in front of the management team.

His premise was that music could be broken down in an objective way by trained musicians; he called his effort the Music Genome Project, a riff on the drive to map human DNA.

A riff off a Budweiser commercial, the ad features a dog that's lost and then returns to its owners only to find out its being sold on a GoDaddy - powered website.

Until the axe came down, I'm told British action game studio Ninja Theory had been working on material based on December's Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, while Studio Gobo, a studio largely known for external Disney Infinity development, riffed on the upcoming Disney animated film Moana.

The site has 71,000 square feet of buildable space overall and currently houses the four - story Riff Hotel.