I DID AN RIFF!

mezzio13 · Post by **mezzio13** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:49 pm

endsjustifymeans wrote:
mezzio13 wrote:I thought you said you were having a rough time.... sounds pretty good to me.
I learned something interesting in the process of writing this song.

The main riff didn't happen when I was trying to write a riff, while my friend Mark was setting up I was randomly just strumming a couple of chords. Mark pointed out that I had just written a riff and I looked at him dumbfounded, that random strumming became the verse and everything else from there was pretty easy.

I may have actually written 100's of riffs at this point and wrote them off as random noodling, I've never thought about them in the context of a song. IT's just what I do when there's a guitar in my hands.

You have seen the light. I'm not joking, it's really how it's done.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 5:52 pm

It was the biggest AH HA moment I've had since learning guitar. It made me realize I really can do this.

Now to sing and play at the same time, that is the holy grail.

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Fri Jun 17, 2011 10:23 pm

ends, i try and record any "riff" or chord sequence I find interesting now while I'm just sat pissing about with the guitar in my hands. It might be an intro one day, a verse, chorus, etc but it will find its mates one day. Songs don't just flow out at once, they are the accumulation of many ideas. In fact sometimes its best to revisit some of these ideas and change the key, tempo or voicings and then you might find it all clicking in to place. Even if you have a little pentatonic riff going try the same notes but in a different position of the pentatonic scale and it might sounds amazing.

good luck with this, you have the vocals and the melodies mate and the rest will fall in to place in no time