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My advice is play alot of stuff like you wanna play.. learn a ton of old megadeth and then use riffs similar to create your own peices. Learn your scales and incorporate it into writing riffs that kick it along side of other thrash bands.
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Aug 30 2008, 12:05 PM
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Inventing a good groovy riff is what is very important there. Also try to analyze drums, they have a major influence on the groove as well. Open up a drum software, pick a nice trash groove, and jamm some trash riffs. When you find something you like, you can than check out the key of the song, and insert some powerchord progression for the chorus. When you find out the intro-verse-chorus-solo parts, it will be easier.
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Aug 31 2008, 01:16 PM
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Try to analyze what you like in old Megadeth. What makes the riffs so special for you, what about drums, bass, vocals? Then try to use this information for your own stuff. And when you say that after some minutes it doesnÄt sound good anymore, try to analyze why you don't like it. What is so bad, how can you change it? Compare your stuff to the Megadeth stuff and try to find the differences.
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Aug 31 2008, 05:29 PM
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well, that would be my approach
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Aug 31 2008, 07:32 PM
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Nice approach too
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Sep 1 2008, 01:47 PM
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Well, i guess many people use many different approaches to this, but in BG for example we ALWAYS write the music first. During songwriting Hansi sings whatever comes to his mind, the only thing that matters is the melodie lines and the rhythm of the words, but the words themselves don't even have to make any sense. Only when the full song is done concerning the music he starts writing the final lyrics, based on the melodies and word rhythms he used during the writing process.
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