Much skate punk music features lead guitar playing, guitar riffs, and sometimes guitar solos. This tune borrows some melodic riffs from traditional songs. Their sound employs screaming vocals, guitar riffs and breakdowns. Their style featured raspy vocals, palm muted guitar riffs, and frantic double bass drumming. The song features instrumentation of electric guitars, guitars, drums, keyboards and piano riffs. Metalcore often features breakdowns, screaming, growling, heavy guitar riffs, and double bass drumming. Deathcore consists of death metal guitar riffs, blast beats, and metalcore breakdowns. In between the riffs, choruses, solos, etc. The albums contained electronic beats blended with Wishbone Ash guitar riffs. The music tends to focus on textures and moods rather than propulsive rock riffs. Several songs would feature a more textured, slower sound in between fast, dominant guitar riffs. Kiedis and Frusciante often spent days together discussing song creation, guitar riffs and lyrical content. The track was driven by Bonham's drumming and Page's guitar riffs. It is based on both technical proficiency and the use of catchy riffs and choruses. The instrumentation consists of "buoyant acoustic riffs and a hook-laden melody".