Period/Style: Minoan. Location: Crete, Greece. Material: fragment of a fresco. Function: The walls of Minoan palaces and houses, both on Crete and the island of Thera, were painted with frescoes showing various aspects of Minoan life and images taken from nature.
guitar riffs. A riff is a cluster or sequence of notes or chords. A riff is used in a song. It can be repeated over and over again, but it may only be heard once, say for instance, in a lead guitar solo. Riffs can be minor decorative elements or they can be the basis of a song.
1 Players shape their fingernails for ideal tone and feel against the strings. 2  Strumming is a less common technique in classical guitar, and is often referred to by the Spanish term rasgueo, or for strumming patterns rasgueado, and uses the backs of the fingernails. 3  Rasgueado is integral to Flamenco guitar.