Evolving Metal Riffs Lesson

- Kristofer Dahl24th June 2010
  Very cool development of a theme Lale - and good analysis of what you are doing throughout the lesson!
- Ivan Milenkovic24th June 2010
  Great lesson, great riffs! )
- Wilska24th June 2010
  Cool lesson Lale, a really nice riff and a useful demonstration of riff variation. Thanks!
- Bogdan Radovic24th June 2010
  Very useful lesson Lale!
- Adrian Figallo24th June 2010
  very cool lesson!
- Piotr Kaczor24th June 2010
  Great riffing, Lale!
- Lian Gerbino24th June 2010
  very nice playing man!!!
- Vasilije Vukmirovic24th June 2010
  Great lesson! I love these rhythmical riffs!
- ZakkWylde24th June 2010
  E phrygian dominant sounds SO metal!
- thefireball25th June 2010
  Nice evolution!
- Lale Nikic25th June 2010
  thanx!!
- skennington26th June 2010
  Cool lesson man!
- badfingers9327th June 2010
  awesome...just the inspiration i need...
- Aleksander Sukovic29th June 2010
  This could be useful for practicing musical memory
- donboyd20th May 2011
  Nice, having trouble with the picking,can't tell looks like D D D U D U D on the open E anyone know.thanks.
- Ivan Milenkovic20th May 2011
  Hi!
  
  I will help. In what video exactly are you having problems with?
- donboyd21st May 2011
  Hi Ivan it's lesson Evolving metal riffs by Lale nikic can't make out the picking on the open E string.thanks
- Ivan Milenkovic22nd May 2011
  No no mate, I meant what video (inside this lesson) you are having problems with!
  
  For example, in the video number 2, this is the kind of picking you can use:
  
  CODE
    PM        PM PM       PM PM   PM   PM PM
     |------3-----|  |--3--|  |------3-----|
     E         E  E  E  E  E  Q    Q    E  E
  --------------------------------------------|
  --------------------------------------------|
  *-------------------------------------------|
  *-------------------------------------------|
  -------------------0------------------------|
  ---0---------0--0-----1--0--0----0----0--0--|
     ^         V  ^  V  ^  V  ^    ^    ^  V
  
    PM PM PM          PM   PM   PM PM
    |--3--|  |--3--|  |------3-----|
    E  E  E  E  E  E  Q    Q    E  E
  ------------------------------------|
  ------------------------------------|
  ------------------------------------|
  ------------------------------------|
  -----------0------------------------|
  --0--0--0-----1--4--0----0----0--0--|
    ^  V  ^  V  ^  V  ^    ^    ^  V
  
    PM PM PM       PM PM   PM   PM PM
    |--3--|  |--3--|  |------3-----|
    E  E  E  E  E  E  Q    Q    E  E
  ------------------------------------|
  ------------------------------------|
  ------------------------------------|
  ------------------------------------|
  -----------0------------------------|
  --0--0--0-----1--0--0----0----0--0--|
    ^  V  ^  V  ^  V  ^    ^    ^  V
  
    PM PM PM PM PM PM
    |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|  |--3--|
    E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E  E
  ---------------------------------------||
  ---------------------------------------||
  --------------------------------------*||
  -----------------------------2--3--2--*||
  --------------------2--0---------------||
  --0--1--0--4--0--1--------4------------||
    ^  V  ^  V  ^  V  ^  V  ^  ^  V  ^
  
  Feel free to play this in any way you want tho, as long as it is comfortable for you. The best way to play something like this would be to use alternate picking (down-up-down-up..), and try to decrease movements with your hand when changing strings. Example of this would be if you were going from low E string to A string, it would be good to finish on downstroke on low E, because the downstroke move will "lead" the hand naturally into position for A string, more so than the upward move on the low E.
  
  However, you will notice that Lale made some drifts out of the Alternate picking playing. This is because he is used to playing lots of these riffs, and it's more comfortable for him to insert multiple consecutive downstrokes (for example). He is aware that he will not skip tempo or cross the time signature - in fact playing multiple downstrokes will only make your tone sound consistent.
  
  To cut the long story short, if you want me to give you detailed explanations for any of the videos in this lesson, let me know. In the meantime, I advise you that you try to find your most comfortable way to play these riffs. Don't worry, it will be fine!
  
  Let me know if I can help with other videos too!
- donboyd22nd May 2011
  Thanks Ivan sorry about that its video 1 on the open E he plays 12 then 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .On those open E notes looks like 3 downstrokes in there not sure.Thanks for yuor help.
- Ivan Milenkovic23rd May 2011
  Here is suggested picking pattern that you can use for video 1, but feel free to do the way that is comfortable for you:
  
  CODE
        Example 1
        PM        PM PM             PM   PM   PM PM
        |------3-----|   |---3---|  |------3-----|
        E         E  E   E   E   E  Q    Q    E  E
  E||-----------------------------------------------|
  B||-----------------------------------------------|
  G||*----------------------------------------------|
  D||*----------------------------------------------|
  A||-------------------12--------------------------|
  E||---0---------0--0------13--12--0----0----0--0--|
        ^         V  ^  V   ^    V  ^    ^    ^  V
  
    PM PM PM             PM   PM   PM
    |--3--|   |---3---|  |------3-----|
    E  E  E   E   E   E  Q    Q    E  E
  ---------------------------------------|
  ---------------------------------------|
  ---------------------------------------|
  ---------------------------------------|
  -----------12------11------------------|
  --0--0--0------13------0----0----0--0--|
    ^  V  ^  V   ^    V  ^    ^    ^  V
  
    PM PM PM             PM   PM   PM PM
    |--3--|   |---3---|  |------3-----|
    E  E  E   E   E   E  Q    Q    E  E
  ---------------------------------------|
  ---------------------------------------|
  ---------------------------------------|
  ---------------------------------------|
  -----------12--------------------------|
  --0--0--0------13--12--0----0----0--0--|
    ^  V  ^  V   ^    V  ^    ^    ^  V
  
            PM
     |---3--|   |---3---|  |---3---|  |---3--|
     E   E  E   E   E   E  E   E   E  E   E  E
  -----------------------------------------------||
  -----------------------------------------------||
  ------------------------------------9--10--9--*||
  -------------------------9--------------------*||
  -------------11-------------12--11-------------||
  --12--13--0------12--13------------------------||
    ^   V   ^   V   ^   V  ^  V   ^   ^   V  ^
  
  Let me know if you need any additional help with this!
- donboyd24th May 2011
  Thank you ivan,you have been a big help.Thanks for your time.D.B
- Ivan Milenkovic24th May 2011
  No prob, glad to help. Cheers

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Hello GMC, here is my first lesson! :)

In this lesson we will cover the topic about evolving metal riffs. This is related to composing a metal song, and should help you to understand and develop skills for making a solid metal riff, and creating different variations of it, depending on the song part.

For this lesson I've made several variations of one riff with the ending/bridge kind of a riff in the end. All riffs are repeated twice, and when all played together, should give you some very good metal riffing workout! :)

For this lesson I used ReValver MKIII Peavey 6505 emulation, and doubletracked riffs, so they can be put in stereo for more convincing sound. If you have any questions, feel free to ask them!

E Phrygian Dominant:

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