Hi! This is Andy James from LickLibrary.com. In this tutorial, we are going to be looking at metal riffing techniques and how to practice them. Okay, what we are going to be doing is just holding an E power chord of a left hand so really I am not going to be doing much with the left hand in the session. So, we just open E and the second fret on the A. But mine, you are going to be looking at the right hand. Now, what I am going to be doing is just doing down picking first of all. So, using a bit palm muting and just only using down strokes, I am going to do eight a time. So once eight and then back to one again. And that is what I am doing. This is going to be a count of one, two, three, four over the top of that. So, let me just kind of play that so you can hear the guitar and then I will be counting along so that you can hear and then we go from there.
Okay, so what I did next on four is doing the down picking with my right hand with a little bit palm muting. Now, what you can do at home is maybe get a much more start of, erase the whole ten palm doing down picking and then see how far you can push it, pull up before it stops to play a little bit of struggle. And normally, that point is a good place to kind of keep practicing until you feel comfortable with that and then you can carry on with that. Okay, the benefit of doing this tutorial though is going to play the trick for this well playing and down picking.
Now, I am going to demonstrate doing it on the first B of every barre and so you can kind of hear how that sound. I am going to be doing it up down. Love that at the beginning and then just going back into down picking. So, I am going to do what I did before but I am going to do that trick starting on the one and then place from the rest of it. Now, what you can do is kind of add one in each time so I did it on one so maybe on one and two and then leave for three and four just down pick though so you can have this. And you can keep going to the third B as well. And then, you can do it on all of them. Okay, so you can see what I mean, we just actually add trick for this on the bass in each barre.
Now, what you can do is kind of have a bit more palm with this is to swap around. To say you can have it on one and three and leave two and four down pick. So you can have this or you can swap it around and have two and four and leave one and three down pick. Or you can have some close together, or have two and three together or you can just go back to using one but then ultimate between bass one, two, three and four so you can go back to one again and have or have it on two or have it on three or you can have it on four.
Okay, you can have any number of different combinations and it just kind makes a bit different. Hopefully, you have noticed plain through some of those riff how some of the trick plays where if you play some of different plays can make it sound different. You can almost whether it is going to be lot a half time full or an up ten full fill kind of move ten full and you are not really changing any of the ten full that you are actually playing but it kind of play different styles of rhythms behind.
You can purely write a song, I mean it would be very musical but you can actually just use that one chord and then you can program some drums in and have something playing differently behind each rhythm. You can just kind of swap it around so you have dropping triplets here and there. And then, you can try playing in between the bass as well as you have one and two and three and four and try doing triplets on the end. It is a bit more difficult to try and count while doing that. I want like a full of myself demonstrating that barre. Actually, this is just a basis in which you can type this technique and use it into metal playing. It is just a basis for practice with the metal. If you got drummer then play with the drummer. And then, you can start adding maybe some single note riffs in there as well or some different chords so you can mix it up so you can jam something like this. So, as you are playing, you can throw in different triplet here and you can throw in different chords but you have got the basis. That is the kind of figure out whatever you want to do.
Okay, well that is the end of the tutorial. Hopefully, you have enjoyed learning some of those metal riffing techniques. Until next time, I will speak to you later.
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