Is this a cool "riff?" Help me out here...

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Yeah, I'm going with keeper. I still dont have shit else for it though.
 
If you're not sure where it's going yet, put it in an archive. I have a file with a shit load of ideas like this that I revisit time to time and cannibalize an idea or two into something. It's a decent little riff for sure and could be made into something for sure.
 
Trust me, I have a considerable archive. :)
I could probably go through and find something I already have for this piece, but it would take forever, and lots of it is on tape and I hate tape.
Good call though.
 
i'm thinking this could be a strong element of a verse, but maybe not the part that rocks the most...........this w/ a very strong chorus could make a pretty driving song.........it's got a good forward movement quality that should lead up to something
 
i like it, i think Chris nailed it on the Nickelback sound. Sounds cool to me...But hey, I'm just a drummer!! LOL
Jason
 
Are we still talking about this, why aren't you rockin' out yet Tubedude? ;) :D
 
Heh, I'm a slow one...

SO you think that should be the VERSE? Hmm, never even hit me as a possibility. I think it would take a lot to keep that drive and then intensify it for the prechorus or chorus... maybe the prechprus could actually wind down and then slam into the chorus. I dunno...

I'll post what I come up with if I ever come up with anything...
 
If tube stops replying he might finnish ths fine rocker. :D I certainly would like to hear more!
 
Are you able to play it in octaves? Index and pinky. That with a little more slinkiness (slides and bends) to the note changes mixed up with some chugga strumming and you got yourself a killer. Close your eyes and listen to it, and try to picture a tortured beast of a man singing from the other side of the guitar, like the guitar was a one way mirror. (No I'm not on crack, it really does make sense if you think about it. :) )

Next section is double time drums with at least 4 layered guitars spread out appropriately. Descending chord progression with a nasty twitching, staggared break at the end of it.

2.5 minute song. Kick my ass and get the hell outa here. (I should practice what I preach! :eek: )
 
tubedude said:
SO you think that should be the VERSE? Hmm, never even hit me as a possibility. I think it would take a lot to keep that drive and then intensify it for the prechorus or chorus...
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I heard it no other way.

Layers will make the chorus, not single note riffs in this situation. But I kinda said that already.
 
SLuiCe said:
Are you able to play it in octaves? Index and pinky.
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Thats how I'm playing it already... kinda like a power chord without the middle note? Thats what I'm doing.
I was thinking hard on it at work tonight, and I do have some ideas, that is, if they come back to me.
As for the ret of your suggestions, ummm, I dont understand at all, lol.... feel free to write it for me... I'll cut you in 5% of all profit :)
 
hahha. Ya made more sense to me at the time. :)

Still kinda does actually. I guess it needs to be meaner and more impatient. A pissed off lion in a cage being forced to listen to The Back Street Boys.

Or Cher.

I thought it might be octaves, but I just couldn't be sure for some reason. Kick yourself in the balls and then double- or triple-track that riff. Take off the phones, put ice on your balls, have a cold beer, then go listen back on monitors really loud. If you forget about the pain in your balls because the riff is just kicking your ass, then you've done the right thing.


Works for me sometimes.
 
sounds like it would make a good front end for a tune, and then use it again with some enhancement as a bridge with a supermacho solo on top of it.
 
SLuiCe said:
Kick yourself in the balls
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[lame joke]

I've tried.....how big are your balls? Because I'm having some serious trouble hitting them....:D

[/lame joke]
 
Pedullist said:
[lame joke]

I've tried.....how big are your balls? Because I'm having some serious trouble hitting them....:D

[/lame joke]
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This is one of the surest ways I know of to achieve that evil tone you are looking for.

Though I have yet to try this one myself.
 
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