A Major Guitar Heavy Metal Riffs

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    Part of the video series: Basic Guitar Riffs

    Summary: Heavy metal guitar uses a lot more palm mutes and down strokes. Learn a great heavy metal guitar riff in A major in this free video clip on music theory.

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    "In this example I'm going to do another like, kind of heavy rock riff in A and some more reminiscent of the eighties type rock, but as I mentioned before there has been kind of a resurgence of the influence in today?s rock and what I'm going to do here is a riff in A and so with the drums it will sound like this. What I did there was just simply did an A 5. Yeah, just going one, two, three, four, one, two, three, four it's an eighth note so. And you know what that gives us is kind of a nice solid foundation you know riding the A and, often times the bass player would simply just be riding an A. It's good to set up for either like a solo section, you know where the guitar player can rip or either that or just a nice ballsy sounding rock sound for a verse."

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