The songs are call-and-response tunes set to lean but spellbinding guitar patterns.

Two bands look back to the brittle guitar patterns of postpunk.

The first verses, set to a tidy seven-beat guitar pattern, yearn for isolation: "Are you such a dreamer?

Zimbabwean dance music, built on intricate, interlocking guitar patterns, is known as chimurenga, and it helped propel the country's revolution.

They're propelled by plucked guitar patterns in odd meters that defy foot-tapping.

Despite some intriguing guitar patterns, the tepid set never showed the life that's in Mr. Oryema's albums.

It has its roots on samba but features less percussion, employing instead a distinctive and percussive guitar pattern.

The music features a fast, high guitar pattern, with violin playing long notes over it, and a drum filling in the spaces.

The National's songs plunge into insecurities and damaged romance while guitar patterns wind tightly and crescendos build.

The songwriting is more focused than ever, and the guitar patterns filligreed through every song are simply devastating.