Being comfortable with the frame work/harmony of a scale, in this case the pentatonic scale (Em), is an excellent place to craft your riffs.
The folks at Orange Amplification were kind enough to let me spent some quality time with their new flagship amp, the Dual Dark. This amp is extremely versatile, maybe more so then some of their other amps. You can dial in nice cleans (not fender clean), good rock tones and raging metal tones. Signal Chain […]
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.