riffage
/ˈrɪfɪdʒ
/noun [mass noun] informal
Guitar riffs, especially in rock music.Most of the record is fast, somewhat furious and filled with enough riffage to make any gearhead drool....
- Later songs like "Innocent" and "Whatever" still have the guitar riffage but experiment more in empathy.
- Hence, Thieves and Poets: a ballet score in which John McLaughlin surrounds his machine-gun acoustic riffage with impressionistic bursts of orchestral colour.