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  1. Day 366 – The bitter end

    January 1, 2013 by Nic

    This is kind off a bitter end for me.

    Riffaday is done, I’ve reached my goal. I loved doing it and have learned a lot about recording audio and video. I even learned a few new tricks on my instruments too while venturing out of my comfort zone to record certain riffs. It took a big part of my time last year which made it hard for me to do much else than record riffs. I couldn’t have done this without the support I’ve got from a lot of people. If you ever listened to one of my riffs, shared them or even commented on them, you’re one of them! Especially thanks to Kiddarqo and Samson who even filled in for me when I wasn’t able to play myself.

    But the person I’d like to thank the most is my girlfriend who often had to be on her own while I was recording. Without her loving support and willingness to let me do this crazy thing, riffaday wouldn’t have happened.

    Is this really the end of riffaday you might ask. Well I can tell you this. I won’t be posting coverriffs everyday anymore. That’s been done already and I feel the need to do something different. Yes, that means I still have plans for this site. It bothered me sometimes that I couldn’t always cover a song/riff to it’s fullest potential because of the time limit I had. So I will still post some covers but will take my time to get the details right. I probably won’t be posting any covers that are true to the original. I had most fun when I could do something different with the original and will be doing that for the future. Maybe I’ll even look for someone to sing on them too but that’s remains to be seen.

    I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did and I hope to hear from you in the future.

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  2. Day 366

    December 31, 2012 by Nic

    Well there you have it! This thing is done now. I managed to record 366 riffs in the last year. Thanks for following me and sticking with me untill <insert song title>.

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  3. Day 365 – Evil

    December 31, 2012 by Nic

    Puppets creep me out!

    So I love this song but hate the video. I went to see interpol a few summers ago and only knew this song. I can safely say it’s the only one you need to know because the rest of the set was pretty boring.

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  4. Day 365

    December 30, 2012 by Nic

    Damn you leap year! I’m not yet finished… I hope you’re still enjoying this. I’m still having a blast.

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  5. Day 364 – Wouldn’t it be nice

    December 30, 2012 by Nic

    The beach boys always get me feeling good.

    Good vibrations I guess? Wouldn’t it be nice has such a great message and a great hook, it really deserved its place on riffaday.

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  6. Day 364

    December 29, 2012 by Nic

    I wanted to do this one a long time ago but for some reason it never got done, untill now!

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  7. Day 363 – Chariots of fire

    December 29, 2012 by Nic

    This is a great uplifting soundtrack that Vangelis wrote for the film chariots of fire.

    Although I just said it is great I also find it the most cheesy song to put under any sporting event. That’s always the piece of music they use to emphasize greatness in sports and I just think it sucks when it’s used like that…

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  8. Day 363

    December 28, 2012 by Nic

    Some uplifting music never hurted nobody…

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  9. Day 362 – Highway star

    December 28, 2012 by Nic

    Every guitar player starts out with smoke on the water but most of them never continue the great path deep purple layed down.

    They should because everything they did is great to play and really helps you think about composition and generally about riffing too. If your a bass player it gets even more sweeter because Glover is just so fluent with his lines every bass player can learn from him.

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  10. Day 362

    December 27, 2012 by Nic

    The ultimate driving song!

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