How Good Are You At Riffing?, and how do you practice them? |
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How Good Are You At Riffing?, and how do you practice them? |
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Jun 24 2011, 04:42 PM |
I never considered myself a very good heavy metal riffage player, due to the fact I was hardly using it in my playing. However, it's very important to practice your palm muting and riffing chops.
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Jun 24 2011, 08:29 PM |
I consider myself really good, I just enjoy rhythm a lot. I play a bit of drums and I also think about odd time rhythms all the time in my head and also interesting ways of rearranging a 4/4 normal beat. Polyrhythms as they call them...
Technique wise, I just learned all of Metallica's repertoire. Why? because I loved their music too much...still sometimes to this day -------------------- Visit my:
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Jun 24 2011, 09:02 PM |
For what interests me - I know enough
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Jun 25 2011, 12:30 PM |
No matter how good one thinks he/she is.. There is always a new challenge waiting to test you (within the same technique).
Ivan, I can handle simple metal rhythms but working on developing the stamina for faster ones and also for odd time rhythms. I don't practice them that much though. Only through songs I jam and cover. But yes, I absolutely love rhythm guitars. -------------------- "If the need is deep, you WILL find a way , if it isn't, you'll find some excuse"
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Jun 25 2011, 12:48 PM |
Those are some great thoughts guys!
It may seem from this discussion that the more advanced your rhythm playing becomes, more evident is breaking away from regular 4/4 timing and creating more elaborate patterns? Would you consider this true? If not (or not entirely) - what was the direction and way of progression in your riffing voyage? This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Jun 25 2011, 12:48 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jun 25 2011, 02:33 PM |
Well, it depends, I for one am not the adept of complicating things just for the sake of it if something asks to be complicated from itself, it's just gonna come out that way, but I would never try to incorporate something complex just because I want to showcase something. Please forgive me if the impression was that as more advanced playing becomes, it tends to get complicated. This was not the intention. The thing that I was curious about is to learn through what kind of steps does the riffing evolution goes through with players that have made progress with this technique. For example, starting with simple powerchords, then adding component here, or here, as time goes by. Hope it makes sense -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jun 25 2011, 04:47 PM |
Very similar way mate. Creating riffs out of something I'm singing during the day, something catchy. I just sometimes need to "snap out of it", remember the riff that was there, and write it down (often harder then it looks because I'm drifting most of the time and don't have that great memory )
Although during the recording process, some alterations occur, so it's never certain how it will sound in the end. Sometimes it comes out good, sometimes doesn't. I've destroyer lots of cool riffs with poor drum programming in the early days of my composing voyage. Opposite to that, I've come to make some very cool ones by accident, while having one riff idea, programming drums, and recording something completely different on top of the drums. So, there are no rules, but it's basically very similar process. This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Jun 25 2011, 04:48 PM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Jun 25 2011, 06:38 PM |
Very good mate! I like the tone very much! I also like Red Cosmin, I wonder it you could do some lessons in the style of Red or Skillet? |
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Jun 25 2011, 06:51 PM |
I'm happy with my riffing technique nowadays but it has been a weakness in my early days... I dedicated too much time to solo techniques and not too much too riffing so then I had to balance that...
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Jun 25 2011, 09:35 PM |
Cosmin, I wonder it you could do some lessons in the style of Red or Skillet? HA! Sure I'd love to do that! |
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