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Metal For Life: Building Crushing Riffs From Complex Single-Note Patterns

Posted 03/30/2012 at 10:24am | by Metal Mike

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As much as I love guitar parts built from fast and hyper-syncopated power-chord figures, some of the heaviest riffs I’ve ever heard are built from single-note patterns alone. Legendary metal bands such as Metallica and Megadeth, as well as relatively newer groups like Children of Bodom, At the Gates and In Flames, have used crushing single-note riffs as the centerpieces of their most powerful songs. In this month’s column, I’d like to focus on how to construct interesting, heavy and deceptively complex single-note riffs.

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Metal For Life: Crafting a Rhythmically and Harmonically Challenging Single-Note Riff

Posted 03/05/2012 at 1:06pm | by Metal Mike

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In this month's "Metal For Life," Metal Mike dissects the challenge of crafting a rhythmically and harmonically challenging, heavy single-note riff.

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Metal For Life: Mega-Metal Licks in the Style of Metallica, Testament and Pantera

Posted 02/17/2012 at 10:39am | by Metal Mike

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In the March edition of "Metal For Life," Metal Mike Chlasciak shows you a smattering of metal riffs in the style of thrash titans Metallica, Testament and Pantera.

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Metal For Life: Using a Metal Approach with Classical-Style Themes

Posted 01/13/2012 at 5:31pm | by Metal Mike

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This month's "Metal For Life" shows you how to utilize a metal approach when playing classical-style themes. Classical music -- being used as an umbrella term to cover the Classical, Romantic and Baroque periods -- has been a major influence on heavy metal, particularly after the arrival of the "neoclassical shred" movement in the '80s.

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Metal For Life: High-Pitched Natural Harmonics

Posted 10/16/2011 at 10:32am | by Metal Mike

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In this month's edition of "Metal For Life," Metal Mike Chlasciak shows you how to get the most out of high-pitched natural harmonics.

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Metal Mike: Metal for Life (November 2011) Video

Posted 09/14/2011 at 12:21pm | by Metal Mike

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In the November edition of Metal For Life, "Metal" Mike Chlasciak shows you the finer points of incorporating minor scales into riffs and rhythm parts.

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Metal Mike: Metal for Life (August 2011) Video Lesson

Posted 06/21/2011 at 11:25pm | by Metal Mike

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In the latest installment of his Guitar World column, "Metal For Life," Metal Mike Chlasciak shows you how to traverse the fretboard using the minor pentatonic scale.

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