Grab your 8 string guitars and let’s look at some extended chord voicings ranging all 8 strings. We’ll be looking at two chord progressions, one in standard tuning and another in Drop E tuning.
In this lesson we’ll look into some creative ways to incorporate the Diminished Scale into your riffs. Specifically we’ll be using the Ab Half-Whole Diminished Scale, and the example riffs contain no notes outside of that scale.
Fun little riff or composition experiment you can easily try yourselves where you can take a “modal” progression and turn it into a Kurt Cobain, Nirvana, style riff and vice versa.
This is an example of how I like to take a (bland) chord progression, spice it up with some new voicings and extensions, then use that progression as the foundation for a guitar riff. Outlining the chords as the riff moves forwards gives the riff some harmonic moveme
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