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tremolo3 wrote:8th-note downstroke barre chords or go home.

tremolo3 wrote:8th-note downstroke barre chords or go home.

JereFuzz wrote: 1. Do you stick to tried and true chord progressions?
2. Do you throw in 7ths, 9ths, dim5ths, major7ths, minor7ths, etc. in your songs? If so, do you stick to "proper progressions theory" or do you go with what sounds good?
3. What measure beat count do you typically use per measure? 4? 8? 16?
4. Do you use scales (single notes) as your rhythm riff/pattern?

tremolo3 wrote:mixolidian and midichlorian stuff

tremolo3 wrote:

JereFuzz wrote: 1. Do you stick to tried and true chord progressions?
2. Do you throw in 7ths, 9ths, dim5ths, major7ths, minor7ths, etc. in your songs? If so, do you stick to "proper progressions theory" or do you go with what sounds good?
3. What measure beat count do you typically use per measure? 4? 8? 16?
4. Do you use scales (single notes) as your rhythm riff/pattern?

1. I don't know what are the tried and true chord progressions, but I hardly think I'm into modal and mixolidian and midichlorian stuff, so I guess I do stick to what sounds "normal"
2. Power chords all the way. Sometimes I don't play the bass root note of the chords, sometimes I just play standard chords but move around a finger half step until it sounds weird but can still clearly hear what the chord is.
3. I'm mainly a drummer, and a huge fan of math rock and weird shit, so it's almost never 4 or 8.
4. I guess is unconscious but I always end up sticking to pentatonic scale...

So yeah, I'm drunk and will follow up this thread because I love rhythm.

Dapper Bandit wrote:Depends what sort of music you are playing. When I'm doing riff based stuff I just whack the strings with my notes hand down at the flappy end of the stick. Slightly more seriously, practise is practise and that's when I focus on what I'm actually doing (scales, patterns, technique) but if I'm writing I just kind of tune the minutiae of guitar playing out, my favourite riffs that I've written weren't thought out or closely examined, they just flowed forth.

To try and answer in a more constructed way

1) I very rarely use chord progressions, guitars is fo' riffin. This could be a pain for off-the-cuff jamming ...
2) I'm quite a big fan of spicing up any chords I do use with 6ths and shit. Piggy from Voivod is a massive on my playing. No theory, just what sounds good. Yeah, deviating from the norm/what is expected keep songs interesting. Need to check out Piggy

3) Usually in 4 I suppose, I do like to play slightly ahead/behind the beat so it doesn't sound like straight 4/4 though.
4) I do tend to single note a riff out initially and then maybe beef some up notes as I get more comfortable with it. I think single note riffs are underutilized ... in metal you can create some awesome sounds (listen below)

kbit wrote:Study this album to death. No guitar to be found but a wealth of knowledge on the subject of rhythm.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4lkK-vSco[/youtube]

kbit wrote:Study this album to death. No guitar to be found but a wealth of knowledge on the subject of rhythm.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH4lkK-vSco[/youtube]