This riff was given to a guitar student to help him work on palm-mute accents while bouncing back and forth between two strings.
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This Bathory guitar riff from the song Foreverdark Woods uses the open B string throughout the riff. To my ear this gives a droning effect, and helps lend to the dark sound of the riff.
This song is tuned down 2 whole steps.
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This Bathory guitar riff from the song Dragon's breath utilizes bends, and starts with single notes. Then, to give the riff some oomph, all the single notes are turned into power chords (aka: 5th chords).
This song is tuned down two whole steps.
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This Bathory guitar riff, from the song Dragon's Breath, is mostly 8th notes, and is in the aeolian mode. The 2nd to last note shown in this riff changes the mode to phrygian, giving a darker sounding finish to the riff.
​This song is tuned down two whole steps.
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This Bathory guitar riff from the song Vinterblot is a guitar lead that uses the melodic minor scale in the first half, and harmonic minor in the second.
This song is tuned down two whole steps.
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This riff has some palm-mutes to really bring out the power chords and an arpeggiated power chord to build on some tension.
This song is tuned down two whole steps.
Here is the Guitar Pro 6 tab for this riff:
A 12/8 time signature riff (which is basically a triplet feel the whole time). This a great example of riffing in the Aeolian mode.
​This song is tuned down two whole steps.
Here is the Guitar Pro 6 tab for this riff:
The following videos were live streams that discuss those 5 riff examples in great detail.
Here is the tablature for all 5 examples.
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The 5 exercises using the half-whole diminished scale shown in this blog entry were covered in this live stream: Here are the exercises all together in a much shorter video: These are the scale shapes used in those 5 exercises: Here are all of the exercises individually: If you have any questions or suggestions for new live stream lessons, please share them in the comments section!
This blog entry contains the resources used in putting together the live stream that covered the scales Hirojoshi (sometimes spelled Hirajoshi) and Kumoi. Video Demonstrations of Ten Japanese RiffsHirojoshi (aka: Hirajoshi) Scale Guitar RiffsKumoi Guitar Scale RiffsThe Difference Between Kumoi and HirojoshiThe Kumoi Scale has the following intervals = 1, 2, b3, 5 and 6 The Hirojoshi Scale has the following intervals = 1, 2, b3, 5 and b6 The only difference between these two scales is that the Kumoi has a natural 6, and the Hirojoshi has a flat 6. People Naming the Scales IncorrectlyIf you go by what the Guitar Grimmoire says, and a few websites, the intervals I listed above are correct. In this video, the Hirojoshi scale is demonstrated, but the teacher calls it the Kumoi scale instead: www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDXOCNq9UH4 Here's that lesson on Guitar World's website: www.guitarworld.com/what-world-kumoi-japanese-scale-tab-and-video If you look at the comment left at the bottom of the lesson, someone states that the Hirojoshi scale is indeed being used, and not the Kumoi. Even wikipedia has the Hirajoshi scale listing notes/intervals that are actually the Kumoi scale, according to the Grimmoire. Oli Herbert of All That Remains does a lesson for Guitar World on the Hirajoshi scale, and uses the same intervals that the Grimmoire does. www.guitarworld.com/lessons/investigating-hirajoshi-scale Here's another site that has the intervals for Hirojoshi the same as the Grimmoire (although it begins on the 2nd instead of the first): www.pianoscales.org/hirajoshi.html Scale Name SourcesThe following links are websites I used in gathering information for the live stream this blog entry is based on.
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