Hi guys. I'm back with a riff from one of Metallica's new songs.
Before we get into the clip, I just wanted to talk about some of the metal bands that shaped my musical preferences.
The first band I ever listened to on my own accord was Linkin Park. Although they are not quite a metal band, at the time they were pretty hard. I listened to them almost exclusively for quite sometime before I expanded my horizons.
Eventually in high school, after being exposed to Guitar Hero the video game, my interest in music began to truly take shape. That was when I discovered Avenged Sevenfold's album City of Evil, which I still hold in very high regards. It showed me a whole new level of technicality and progression that I wasn't previously aware could exist in music.
After that, I started to explore a great many of metal bands. I soon decided that I should put Metallica's discography on my iPod. When I became familiar with their work, and realized that they were writing quality metal as early as the '80s, I was amazed. I'm sure some of you are familiar with their song Fade To Black. It was released in 1984 with their critically acclaimed, genre redefining album Ride the Lightning.
So with the release of their new album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, I thought I would show them some respect by covering a riff from their new song Moth Into Flame.
This was a fairly easy riff to learn. It only took me about 15 minutes. Although its not played perfectly, I think it's pretty close.
My picking hand still needs a little more exercise to be able to play something like this more smoothly. Another part that caused me some trouble, believe it or not, was the two power chords at the top of the neck. Switching between the two-finger chord and one-finger chord was somewhat uncomfortable because of the position on the neck. Fortunately, the discomfort mostly went away after the 15 minutes of practice I put into it.
That's all for tonight. I hope you guys enjoyed.
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