Guitar Lick of The Day: Metallica Style
Today we are going to look at a typical E minor heavy metal riff in the style of Metallica, with palm muting (=right hand dampening), powerchords and the flat fifth (Bb). The flat fifth is also called tritone, and sometimes even diabolus in musica (the Devil's interval) - and it sure is the evil basis of heavy metal riffing.
Tab
e|-------------------------------|
b|-------------------------------|
g|-------------------------------|
d|-------------------------------|
a|-2-----5-5--7-7--0h1p0---2-----|
e|-0--0--3-3--5-5--------3-0--0--|
pm ........... .
Scales and Theory
Here are some tritone intervalls in the key of E, A and D.
The backing riff revolves around these notes:
If you where to take the same the same notes in the key of A, you could either move the previous notes "up" to the A string (to the thinner strings), OR move it horizontally up to the fifth fret;
The E aeolian, E minor pentatonic and even E-dorian are suitable scales over this backing riff.
Guitar Tip of The Day
Kristofer Dahl, Instructor and Founder of GuitarMasterClass
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