How to pronounce “riff” in English

Let’s meet a couple folks who are geology rock stars to me.*Guitar riff* In 1909, when J. Harlen Bretz started asking geologists about how the scablands came to look like that, they didn’t have an answer.So he became a geologist himself to figure it out.

Los Cuernos are amazing not just for their unique visual features, but because they showcase every part of the rock cycle.*guitar riff* Listen, Dwayne, if you do that every time I say “rock” in this episode, we'll be here for a while.Just tone it down a little bit, pal.

Alright Dwayne, it’s your time to shine!*guitar riff* This is limestone. Get a load of that puppy.It’s a sedimentary rock that forms biochemically, meaning from the shells or bones of once-living organisms.

- So you're thinking about song learning. So different components of song learning.So riffs in songs, lead-in songs.- And then you have finger picking, if you have Stairway to Heaven, songs like that.

So you've got a lot more bankruptcies.Just riffing off the previous question, if you said the retail investors in certain countries or locations tend to be more whimsical or so, have you seen,

And here are different aspects of Astrobee.So riffing on that whole thing there.

All right. Well, that's-- I know it's a roller coaster ride, but I-- But for the third season-- that is not cancelled, I'm hoping--I riffed that-- that's season four.

conclude what about the next 10 or 20 years and of course I'm I'm I'm now going beyond the book I I I've been sortof riffing on the book starting with things that are in the book and I drawing on some some more recent research but my guess is that we'regoing to mostly see continued job growth that the in other words the impact of information technology has largely been positive

So a lot of what I have to sing, especially in the beginning of the play is very straight.No riffs. In fact, some of this stuff is like songs that we have-- the recordings of them, there are riffs, but we took them out, because Marie is so contained,especially for a large portion of the play, and so that was really exciting for me to work on stuff where I had to really just use economy with singing

And we basically built on a system that we tried in the Philippines after Haiyan-- the big storm there, the typhoon there-- and built on thatand riffed on it a little bit.And we came up with this system.

And I think the goal is to get everyone there.You will have to riff more.

So I talked about chicken-- either fried or smothered.It's just a riff off that West African drink.

And so-- But it was, like, also a reaction to "Seven Nation Army" because of course you can't go anywhere in the worldwithout hearing that riff.And so I was thinking a lot about the Red Wings and like, man, how do I write a song for the Red

On my phone, those people get one ring tone, which is the opening bars of Derek and the Dominos' "Layla," because no matter where I am, I am going to recognize that EricClapton and Greg Allman riff.So it cuts through anything.

we would just riff and throw things out there.

There's a riff on this, which is, no, no, no, no.

I basically tried to riff on this because a lot of what goes on, too, in theory-making and also jazz music is that we riff.

So I riff on this.

So just to riff on what you said, there's this notion of "Mare Liberum," which is sort of in some ways a conceptual precursor

Just to riff off that for a second, do you think California and the Bay Area continues to be one of the main places

Maybe you could riff a little on that.

I can also riff without it, but it would be nice to get that back.

you say a riff you you know reduction in force and you ask well how many people were riffed that day and they like two

So I started riffing at these competitions, and then probably five meets in, I had a pretty well structured

And just kind of riffing off a little bit of what you had mentioned earlier, this idea that corporations and organizations at scale

player Pat were riffing on "Oh You Pretty Thing" by David Bowie.

Because I'm riffing off of 1980s video culture a little bit.

And we riffed on this idea that a wizard-- what if a wizard turned your tongue into, like, a cat?

Not add too much.And in the riffing age of today, you have to just water it down and take all that out and just be plain and vulnerable, just let your true musicianshipshow. And you can tell that we're married, because look at what we're wearing.

We're both riffing on the same thing, and she's also been studying in Mexico, so we brought in this whole aspect of a culture

As I riffle my thumb through-- what are you doing?

These two start riffing and talking, what do your parents think of all this?

So we kind of riffed on that idea, the idea of heart rate variability or this kind of stress signal inside of the heart

We're kind of riffing on that as well in India over the fall.

There are a million riffs on environmentalism, but everybody knows that at the end of the day, what they're about is that the Earth is precious it ought to be protected, right?

And then we can just kind of riff from there, if that works for you.

And she played this little riff.

So I talked about chicken-- either fried or smothered.But banana pudding is a riff off an old British dessert called a trifle.

like this thundering kind of bass riff, and then the band would kick back in again and it would be like whoa, what is that.

And then kind of create a riff or some sort of a groove, and I'll move that through different keys, and I'll kind of just do that kind of thing

to five stars can i riff off your rule of three by the way okay so that's

We're going to play a riff of a song.

One that combines my Marshall Stack riff rock fury with big EDM drops and some of the electronic components of today.

So people then play and riff on that.

of the Carnegie-Hall-produce performance of Riff's "Get Cool, Boy" number.

I started playing this blues riff, and then I finished the song.

And that's all a riff on materialism, that is, trying to understand the world through the traces, the evidence, of what it used to be.

And then I got hold of the riff, and changed it to make sound like the Sex Pistols.

1979 where I did a riff on the house on American Activities Committee to try and establish that they were demanding that