Odd Meter Boogie

			
			RHYTHM/RIFFS LESSON. 
		
			Riffing in odd meters using thumb, index, medium fingers or pick.		

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			mats hedberg, shred, legato, bfh, morgan agren, BFH, king crimson		


		Hi again, its time for some riffing in odd meters. These examples comes from my metal-progressive trio BFH CD "The Gate", 58 minutes of music divided into 8 parts!



I called this "odd meter boogie". The meter is 5/4 shuffle groove with "triplet" feel, I also have prepared 2 pre-studies so you can get familiar with the triplet feel and the 5/4 meter feel! One for the right hand fingers and one for the left hand! In the end (riff D) you have 7/4 meter. 



You can learn all riffs, or pick up the best pieces you like and then incorporate them into your own playing! 



I play riffs A & D and prestudy A & B with my fingers to get a fatter "bity" sound but it can all be played with a pick! 



You should use alternate picking, on riff C only downstrokes! Its also a simple way to change chords using 2 strings!



The form of this lesson(song) is A-B-A-B-C-D, and also

Riff A  is repeated 4 times before changing to:

Riff B repeated twice (with a small change the 2nd repeat)

Riff C is repeated twice

Riff D internally each riff is repeated twice



The riff which was in my head when I wrote it was Deep Purples "Burn" with Ritchie Blackmore on guitar! This is a great way to make you get used to odd meter riffs! You have to concentrate a lot in the beginning, the rhytm section is doing a whole bunch of different stuff while you play your riff!



Watch out switching from riff A to B changing from finger to pick!



The guitar is tuned in drop D tuning = Lo2Hi = D,A,D,G,B,E



Good luck!



P.s for the complete backtrax to save space I put 86bpm&96bpm on 1 mp3 and likewise for 106&116bpm!

86bpm is from 00.00-03.26

96bpm on the same mp3 is from 03.29-06.32

106&116bpm on the same mp3 =

106bpm starts at 00.00-02.46

116bpm start  at 02.49-05.20



Thatllbeallfolks!

Mats.