tookatooka
35 posts
Dec 02, 2008
1:22 PM
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What's a chop?
What's a lick?
What's a riff?
Or are they the same name for the same thing?
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Oliver
25 posts
Dec 02, 2008
3:21 PM
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I thought a lick and a riff are the same thing.
'Chops' I always thought refered more to the technique of a certain player, i.e. 'he has good chops'.
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Blackbird
13 posts
Dec 02, 2008
3:29 PM
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I agree with Oliver on the chops definition. I always understood a lick to be a fill, or embellishment - a little flourish added to, or between riffs or during solos, etc. Whereas a riff is a brief or repeated melodic or rhythmic verse - think of Deep Purple's classic "Smoke on the water" repeating melody as a riff that drives the song.
Last Edited by on Dec 02, 2008 3:30 PM
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TylerLannan
22 posts
Dec 02, 2008
6:17 PM
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A riff to me is one string of notes that u would play repetively in an improv. Then you would swith or use a different riff.
A lick in my opinion is a reference as to a whole song syonomous with a cut or track
Chops I believe is in reference to a harp (or any wind instrument player for that matter)'s stamina and mouth muscle strength.
This is only what I've gathered but I think that most players will have different definitions as well as mix and match them
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Miles Dewar
98 posts
Dec 02, 2008
8:23 PM
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Arpeggios i think (licks, and riffs) are called.
and I just think of Chops as a person's mouth......."He's got good chops". like a girl saying...."He's got good hands".... our hands are not good, it's what we do with our hands.
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