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#64: Why Your Riffs Sound Boring & How To Change That! | Metal Music Theory #1 (Patreon)

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2020-03-08 14:01:00

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2021-06-09 13:38:40

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Time for metal music theory - episode one! This is one of the topics the Gold and Platinum members voted for and I'm happy to hear about the interest in music theory :) That's something that is very often neglected in rock and metal music.

For the first episode we will check out how to work with cadences in metal riffs. I'm borrowing and changing some notes to come up with a cool riff in E minor - hopefully my thought process here will inspire you to come up with interesting riffs yourself!

Not all riffs have to be written that way but sometimes it's very helpful to have that harmonic structure to rely on. Know the feeling of searching for that one chord you have in your mind for that nice chorus riff? You will probably find it on a certain scale degree.

I will feature metal music theory in the monthly votings from now on, let me know if you want episode 2 next month :)

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Why Your Riffs Sound Boring & How To Change That! | Metal Music Theory #1

Today we check out the biggest reasons why your riffs might sound boring - and how to change that! In the first episode of Metal Music Theory, we check out how to compose riffs in a key. We also change some notes to get a more unique and interesting result. As always the tabs, guitar pro files, and practice backing tracks are online on my Patreon page: http://www.patreon.com/bernth Subscribe and stay updated for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/bernthguitar In-depth guitar lessons, workout sheets, guitar pro files, and Skype lessons are available as a member of the Shred Guitar Community here: http://www.patreon.com/bernth My 10 week online guitar course '10 Steps to Modern Shredding' can be purchased here: http://www.bernth.at/10-steps-click Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/bernthofficial Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/bernthofficial Thanks to my Patrons: Platinum Member (Skype Lesson) ($79.00+) Asad Sheikh Cyrill Durrer Jim McCall Gold Member ($15.00+) Andrew Ortega Arvid Richter Brian Fox Gaël Husson Hector Jimenez karlo petigny Macedonio Cervantes Nick Everson Full Member ($5.00+) Adinda Backrie Akshay Dixit Albert Manabat Alex Kalik alex pa Anas Azkoul Andreas Baumert Andreas Henke Andres Cerdas andres salazar lopez Andrew Gibson antonino lo nardo Arjan van den Berg Arthur Indiola Attila Kecskes Audio Extraordinaire Axel Mora Beck Ben Doodshamer Birat Singh Blaine Brimhall Bradford L Romans Brandon Brayden Ralph Brent Eckert Brice Louet Bruce Casazza Chen Atlas Christian Walker Christopher Drews Chronis I. Clark Christensen Craig Merriman Craig OGorman Daniel Roberts Daniel Trippe Danijel Brkic Danny Batchelor David David Bailey David Brown david Williams David Wilson Dennis Wooten Deviilsmaycry Dieter Peiker Doug Godinez Dylan Adwell Elvis Almenar erik schunk Fii Flo Gaillard Frank Tank Franz Gabriel Ferreira Gerald Seiberling gimpster2426 . Giulio Govoni Gordon Thorburn Grant Gochnauer Greg Heller Gregory May Guerro Gustavo Olaiz Guy Sloane Gökay Sina Öztürk Harry Gandler Heiko Sauer Henry HongYu Wang Hoon-hee, Kim Imran Ahsan iSig Satriyo jacob torres Jan Buß jay williams Jed Marsillo Jet Thompson JF Jim B Joaquim Araujo Joe andrews Joe Hocking Joe Limeri Joe Rascoe Joey Gabra JOHN . John Collins John Womack Jon Price Jonathan Blubaugh Joseph Fabbo Joseph Hernandez Joseph Houlihan Judy Letostak Juha Kallinkoski jung gi hwan Kami Karim Sokar Keith Cahoon Kenji Simmons KookyKooka Kristaps Krastins Kurt P Hammes larse jame Lasse Larsen LHP Linda E louis horvath Love Vashisht Luis Pereira Sánchez lzj maconSTUFF Marcel Rockel Marco Iconoclast mario curay Mark LaQue Mark Son Markus Kloda Matthias Teichert Maverick Maxime Berget mediaman Melvin Schmidt Michael Lehmann Michael McNeill Michael Scharf Miguel Castillo Miguel Esquivias Mikael Samuelsson Mo Almuhtaseb Mohamed Madkour Mr. Kartez Nathan Hollie Neil Werner Nicholas Verdon nikola O. Whax Ossi Nyman P Lundin paolo parente Patrick Brunton Paul Baglio Paul Ribka peTe Phillip N Rani Ray Reed Ramirez Riccardo Pilloni Richard Dunstan Richard Lilly Robbie Fasano robert Robert Kadlick Robert S Laher Ross Gabay Ruben Figueroa Jr. Ry Sal Santeri Salminen sau1itud3 Scott Broadwater Scott Walden sean m Sebastian Johansson Sebastian Morlang Sergio Coello robles Sergio Enrique Ochoa Guimarães Sergio Garcia Serhan Yanar Seth ruiz Shane Phillips Stefan Pschenitza Steve Shaw Terry Maich Thomas Anderson Tony Baker Trevor Molloy Ulises Godoy Peralta Val Vic Thomé Victor Otranto Vigg Vince Sanchez Vincent Vomitron voodoochild Wanildo Rodrigues Wayne Thomson Willie T Wolfgang Niestroj XylyXylyX Yentze . Zach ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣo ΣΤΑΜΑΤΑΣ Дмитрий Полищук Сергей Мигай Supporter ($1.00+) Adam Wallace E G Kenya A. No Reward Ray Babula