Scorpions Style: Rhythm Lesson

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- Bogdan Radovic5th June 2011
  Awesome! Scorpions are one of my favorite bands
- Marek Rojewski5th June 2011
  Great lesson Ben, sounds bad-ass m/ We must work on my rhythm playing one day!
- Kristian Hyvarinen5th June 2011
  Scorpions is one of the tightest guitar bands ever, it's ALWAYS great to see lessons covering their style. THANKS!
- Ben Higgins5th June 2011
  Thanks guys.. glad that the Scorpions are still appreciated !
- Gitarrero5th June 2011
  Awesome lesson Ben! Gotta laern it right away. Gut gemacht
- Ivan Milenkovic5th June 2011
  Great job man, cool punk/rock style riffing, sounds excellent! You captured the vibe of Scorpion riffs very nicely!
- Kristofer Dahl5th June 2011
  Love it - and thanks so much for showing me some rhythm tricks in the video chat the other day!
- Sinisa Cekic5th June 2011
  great vid Ben, good riffffing
- Juan Cortes6th June 2011
  Great lesson Ben, awesome sound!
- Ben Higgins6th June 2011
  Thank you very much guys.. and Kris you are welcome, glad I taught something to the Master ! ;-)
- thefireball6th June 2011
  COOL
- Christopher Stortz7th June 2011
  Great lesson, Ben!!!
- Gabriel Leopardi14th June 2011
  Great riffing Ben!!

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- Tags: Scorpions, Rudolph schenker, Mattias jabs, Heavy metal, Riffs, Power chords
Hi Everybody. Welcome to a riff based lesson in the style of the Scorpions, the German heavy metal band who enjoyed their biggest success in the early 80's with albums like Blackout and Love At First Sting.

The Scorpions had a very powerful rhythm player in the shape of Rudolph (Michael's older brother) Schenker and his riffs have been the foundation of all their classic anthems that have been famous worldwide.

This is an uptempo track which uses 2 note power chords and diads, which I've introduced in previous lessons. The lesson requires you to be accurate with your right hand strumming, incorporating alternate up & down strokes to achieve the effect of the riffs. You might develop your own personal way of strumming the pattern but it will definitely be a combination of some upstrokes and some downstrokes.. there will be occasions where you play 2 downstrokes next to each other because it is the most practical way to play it.

For the tone I used my trusty Marshall JVM on the RED channel of OD2 and a small touch of reverb.

Enjoy this trip into the crazy world of the Scorpions and I shall see you soon ! Prost !

Tempo: 120bpm
Key: Am
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