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GUITARISTS: I need some help writing metal songs?
I have no problem coming up with riffs and ideas but its throwing it all together into a complete song that I find hard. The kind of metal I write is thrash/groove in the vein of Pantera and Exodus (if that helps) For example I ll have a riff idea I really like or maybe 2 but then I won t be able to think of a chorus or bridge etc. I also suck at writing intros. I can tell if a riff I come up would make a good verse or chorus but whenever I try to write the riff before or after it sounds too generic or doesn t have the same energy.I know metal doesn t require as rigid a song structure as in blues or rock but I think i should focus on more basic structures first. Cheers for your help!
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- ?Lv 75 years agoFavorite Answer
Your last bit is where to go, Hooch. As in chord progressions = "basic structures". If you don't have the basic I-IV-V thing down, get it down, as it's essential, and extremely common. As one old guitar player to a new one, become a good rhythm player first, as that's most of what we do, most of the time anyway. Riffs are what you add once you earn it, not to start with. Here's a snarly, simple example.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5rfaqxN-yc
Same pattern, different tempo (a fast "shuffle").
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltFdS0SJ41s
A guitar Master, in his own thing. (and nobody can keep up with the guy). Likely you'll never try this, but catch the pattern, still the I IV V.
