Play Slayer’s Raining Blood Riff
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Classic Rock Riffs, Greatest Guitar Riffs on October 17th, 2010
While I have to admit that I was never a huge Slayer fan, their music was always around me in my youth and the main riff from Raining Blood just takes me back and gets my head banging in seconds! Here’s the video, enjoy!
Tags: classic rock riffs, greatest guitar riffs, metal guitar riffs, slayer
Black Sabbath’s Paranoid Riff
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Classic Rock Riffs, Greatest Guitar Riffs on October 8th, 2010
You just can’t get enough Black Sabbath so here is Paranoid. It’s a quick and dirty lesson really but it will give you a decent idea and you should be able to clean it up and play it better then the video with a little practice.
Tags: black sabbath, classic rock riffs, greatest guitar riffs, paranoid
Run to the Hills Guitar Lesson Part 2
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Greatest Guitar Riffs on July 12th, 2010
As promised, here is the second part to the Run to the Hills lesson. I imagine you are still working on the first parts, but if not then here you go!
Tags: classic rock riffs, cool guitar riffs, Iron Maiden, metal guitar riffs, run to the hills
Learn Iron Maidens Run to the Hills Guitar Riffs
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Greatest Guitar Riffs on July 11th, 2010
This is part one of a 2 part lesson which covers all the guitar riffs in Run to the Hills. I was brought up on Maiden and when I bought my first guitar (aged just 11) I desperately tried to learn all their tracks. If only the internet had been round in those days to help.
These videos are high quality and providing you are at the right level they should really help you learn the main parts to this song. Next part of this lesson to follow tomorrow.
Tags: classic rock riffs, greatest guitar riffs, Iron Maiden, metal guitar riffs
The Black Sabbath fast riff
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Cool Guitar Riffs on July 7th, 2010
Not for the faint hearted, this fast and furious metal guitar riff requires nimble fingers but is surely one of the most impressive pieces of heavy guitar both visually and aurally. If you find the other stuff easy then this is one to add to your arsenal.
Tags: black sabbath, cool guitar riffs, metal guitar riffs
Master of Puppets by Metallica riff
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Cool Guitar Riffs on July 5th, 2010
Finally someone who has managed to get a decent distortion sound. This is one of the areas which I see people fail at all the time. Many bedroom guitarists create a horrible raspy, messy sound. Distortion isn’t about making a horrible noise, it’s about a well sculpted, compressed and powerful tone.
Anyway, I digress, here is the opening riff to Metallica’s Master of Puppets. One of my personal favourite metal songs of all time. It’s quite fast and involves heavy palm muting as many Metallica tracks do. Learn it slowly and cleanly and increase speed only when you have done so.
Tags: cool guitar riffs, master of puppets, metal gui, metallica
Learn the riff to Black Sabbath’s Iron Man
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Greatest Guitar Riffs on July 3rd, 2010
This has been called the greatest metal riff of all time and therefore is a must for your repertoire. It’s a simple riff based on power chords so shouldn’t take you long to pick up. Just concentrate on making it sound clean as these big distorted power chords can sound messy if not played cleanly and neatly.
Tags: black sabbath, classic rock riffs, Easy Metal Riffs, greatest guitar riffs, iron man, metal guitar riffs
Black Sabbath’s Black Sabbath – The opening riff
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Easy Metal Riffs on July 2nd, 2010
This is the opening riff from the metal song Black Sabbath off one of “the original” metal albums, Black Sabbath, by the metal band Black Sabbath! Everyone knows it so it’s one to make friends and influence people with! It’s a nice simple riff for you novices. Plenty of distortion is a must to get the truly heavy metal sound!
Tags: black sabbath, Easy Metal Riffs, greatest guitar riffs, metal guitar riffs
“The Metal” Riff
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Cool Guitar Riffs on July 1st, 2010
This is the main riff from Tenacious D’s “The Metal”. It’s a little more difficult that the previous beginner stuff we have posted as the tempo is increased and there are several hammer ons and pull offs. However this is a great metal riff and the song repeats it over and over so once you have mastered it you can pretty much play half the song!
Tags: cool guitar riffs, Tenacious D, the metal
Enter Sandman Intro Riff
Posted by Metal Guitar Riffs in Easy Metal Riffs, Greatest Guitar Riffs on May 24th, 2010
When I was as old as this kid I was probably learning the exact same guitar riff (was the Black Album out 20 years ago?), so in my book that makes him the best person to teach you. He actually teaches it really well, doesn’t mess about and make it too long but keeps everything clear.
This Metallica intro riff is a classic as should be one of the first riffs for any self respecting metal guitarist to learn!
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