Another Mile Zero Riff

Hi guys. Today's post will involve another riff from the song Mile Zero by Periphery. It is a very fun and flowy riff.

I played it at slower pace than the original version, but I will work on it over the next few days, and hopefully have a faster play through for you on Saturday.

This riff, similarly to one of the riffs in my previous post, has a fair amount of string skipping, and is very scaly. This makes it a little tricky to play, but when you get it right it is very satisfying and fun.

I did make a few rhythmic mistakes, so I will also try and improve upon that in Saturday's clip.

On a side note, since this has been a metal-centric blog, I thought I would pay some homage to one of the most influential metal bands out there. Metallica has just recently released their new album Hardwired... to Self-Destruct, so I figured it would be a fitting time to play one of their riffs for you guys.

I'll have that uploaded for you tomorrow night.

Thanks for checking in.
Nick

Time for Something Fast

Hi readers. It's been a while but I do have some clips to go over in today's post.

While I still haven't been able to practice a whole lot, I am definitely starting to make some progress. The scale exercises I wrote about last week have definitely been helping my right and left hand dexterity.

Although the exercises and general playing have helped my stamina, it is still hard to play well for more than a half hour or so.

Anyways, let's move on to the first clip. This one is a retry of the first riffs I showed you guys. I think it's definitely an improvement rhythmically, although it isn't perfect. There is also a mistake on the very last part.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFe312PmmE

The next clip was a tough one. It's a fast riff, from a song called Make Total Destroy by Periphery, that utilizes fret tapping as well as regular picking. There is a part that requires some fast string skipping, which is when you skip over strings rather than progress through them linearly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic-gSvERP0Y

In this clip, I played through the riff twice. Both were far from perfect, but the second one was a bit more accurate with the exception of the lick at about 0:34. I played it almost perfectly the first time at about 0:17.

The string skipping I was referring to was at about 0:04 and 0:24. Its definitely a fun part to play, but it's easy to pick the wrong string or miss altogether if you're not focused/well-practiced. With that said, I have had quite a bit of practice on this riff. It's just been a long time since I've played it.

As for the tapping parts, I definitely need to work on cleaning those up and being more consistent with my speed. Once I do that, I will just have to work on speeding up the rest of the parts a bit.

I will probably have another go at this riff in a week or two, so we can see if I'm able to make the improvements I mentioned above.

Thanks for checking in. See you next time.