Man I was waiting for the harmonic squeel Great riffing, very useful!
Good for my chops.
Very nice!
Great one! I really gotta learn how to make solid riffs ^^
Haha, great riffs Zsolt! Keep rocking man! One of the longest main videos on GMC
Thank you guys!
Awesome riffs, Zsolt ! It wouldn't be hard to expand the song and put in a wicked solo !
awesome man! so powerful riffing! and the pinch harmonic was great!
Nice, clean, clever and educational. Well done Zsolt
Really great riffing Zsolt!
Pinched harmonic was spot on man
Sounds very cool Zsolt!! Good lesson!
Great as always, Zsolt!
Thank you my friends
Excellent aproach. Like a lot!!!
Very cool!! Thanks a lot!
Great job mate,Modern Power Metal Riffs!! very very useful!!
that was sick man, i like the chord slides, they added power to it
Thanx people!
Rock on, this is great !
Neat!
Amazing chopps Zsolt!
Really great lesson, well done Zsolt!
Great riffing Zsolt!
very helpfull, thanks a lot Zsolt
Very cool lesson Zsolt and interesting sound man. Great!
Thank you!
Great playing and very well explained lesson.
great riffs i really like them. at the beginning when you palm mute the low e string, i think maybe you mute it a little bit too far away from the bridge, making it sound more like F. i'm not really the one o criticise you for your playing but i niticed this in my own playing
It`s not low E. It`s 1 step down tuning. And I think Zsolt realize what is he doing, tho I prefer riff playing as close as possible to the bridge, more heavy sound
right, it's 1 step down, so to me sounds like d#. the vid says E though.
great riffs, awesome lesson
Hi everyone!
This time I'll try to explain the basic concept of song making in power metal. These concepts are being used by my band Wisdom as well.
A lot of power metal fans don't realise how much impact had Pantera and Dimebag Darrel on the modern way of constructing riffs and songs. To build up a modern power metal riff, all you need to do is to invent a Pantera style face-smashing riff and combine it with some harmonies and boom, here we go, modern style power metal riffs are born. This is what I did here.
The basic concept of building up a power metal song is as follows:
1. Main, or intro riff
2. Verse
3. Bridge
4. Chorus
5. Main Riff
6. Verse
7. Bridge
8. Chorus
9. Lead part
10. Chorus
11. Ending or outro riff
There are various means to expand this concept. In this lesson I wanted to make a stronger impact on the listener by playing the bridge part after the main riff, and also I changed the main riff a bit after the chorus part to buld up a tension and a release to the verse.
Don't forget, I tune to D ( D, G, C, F, A, D ).
For further questions please feel free to wisit my personal board.
Have fun practicing
-Zsolt