Metal for Life with Metal Mike - Three Part Guitar Harmonies
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One of the essential elements of great metal is the execution of razor-sharp harmony lead guitar lines.
Just listen to any of the most celebrated songs by Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth and many other metal bands of all stripes, and you will hear the types of guitar harmonies I am referring to.
Many students have asked me how to go about constructing multilayered guitar harmonies and which notes will sound the best. To answer these questions for everyone, in this month's column I'll show you a simple and effective way to build a classic metal-style three-part harmonized guitar line.
O hai Mark
metal mike is one of the only guys keeping me subbed to this channel. the first riff alone sounded badass but the harmonies were the cherry on top of the cake.
If you've got the patience, go through all intervals above and below the beginning note. Write down which ones you like the most.
Try different intervals together, a minor 7th above and a tritone below.
Then add another one against any note you want out of a those. Mix and match.
You'll be surprised at some of the outcomes.
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This sounds so cool! Figure 2 sounds like it would be from an actual song
This is so damn cool like when you get the light bulb over uour head it just clicked. I wondered why i would chase tone all around. Well harmonization is sweet. So cool thank you
reminds me a lot of the music on the old doom games lol
You are a great fool😂
There are pedals and effects that do this kind of stuff but it's really nice to know how to build it from scratch! Very instructive Mike! Thanks!
This is more for playing in a band setting so when your other guitar player writes a riff you can throw harmonies in there
Which really sounds nice in a mix going the pedal route is easier and good for jamming to make ideas but nothing beats the real way
I can make up riffs , but I swear I would nver thought of doing this on my own in a 1000 years
Metal mike 4 life!! Thanks for the riffs brother!!
Thank You so much for the lessons , nothing more intelligent and interesting I have not yet found
The 1st riff kinda sounds like War Of The Gods-Amon Amarth.
Awesome, if you by a line 6 amp you can loop up to 5 times which is primo for riffs like this, cheers mike!
Dont buy line 6 ever
+she succ me why?
they suck unless you are just bedroom jamming, which is where they are great amps, but live they really do suck. watch some line 6 amp reviews
+she succ me I have a 75watt spider,I play it with a Jackson Rhoads Rrxmg and it kicks ass on "amir lead",but that's just my opinion and all the people who tell me it's great
Yeah ok im a classic lover guy i love my gibson les paul going through a marshall JCM 2000. line 6 when turned up sounds awful live.
Thank you very much !
Now I can make my all dreamed metal song !
Great lesson
Awesome video. So just checking that I understood. Harmonies do not necessarily share the same shape as the original riff right? You use the same shape unless it leads you to a note that doesn't fall within the originals key?
6:10 Iron Maiden Intensifies!
Yup riffs sound bigger with harmonies, sounds huuuuge :)
@mauricio lopez I think he's using seymour duncan invaders
thanks a lot!
Now THAT'S a helpful video that you wanna see by GW and cool riff btw!!
so i understand how to construct the harmony riff but the problem im having is knowing whether to use 3rds 5ths or 7ths. is there a trick to knowing which one to use or am i possibly looking to do a 3 part harmony instead of two? i know i should probably just keep trying til it sounds good but if there is some trick to knowing which harmony to use i would really appreciate it
which ever sounds best i guess
if I understand he's playing a 3rd and a 6th (second 3rd) on top of the root
That is in fact what he is doing
Ultimately, if you write out a diatonic chart for the key you choose, you'll be granted a wonderful chart on where the respective notes are even which notes are major or minor
Can someone just tell me one thing.
You have a riff, and the "only" thing you have to do is to play the same pattern just 3 frets higher than the original? That's it?
No. A third above. 3 intervals above the starting note, according to the scale.
You Could do that... Yngwie does that, and i do it that way too ... It will be a bit dissonant, but you may like it that way
@@falseprophecy666 by intervals U mean as in like f,g,a or something different
@@MetalliDay This is a really old comment (4 years old to be exact) but based on the context, I was saying you'd play a 3rd above where you began. So if you started on a root of F you would then go to A as a 3rd is 4 semitones from the root.
Really cool sounding, but I doubt many people here will be able to use this to its full extent. It's hard enough to form a band with 2 guitar players!
Helpful video!
what's the intro song?
« Oh Hi mark »
What is that into riffing???
Wicked
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kool...
What type of harmony does metallica , avenged sevenfold , and all the "harmonied" bands use ?? I try to programme my boss me 25 harmonist but i dont know in what tone.
You you know your major and minor scale? You could easily figure it out by playing different degrees of the scale along with the root note.
i set a ME pedal with different harmonies then stomp them in when improvising you soon train your ear to hear how each harmony sounds. most used *3rds* 4ths 5ths *6ths* above (*stacked 3rds*). make sure your tuning and intonation are perfect (tune the wire wound strings a cent or 2 flat) and if your playing for example Dminor you set the key to F because the pedal uses the relative major as the key. ex. Ephrygian would be C
A7x uses a lot of 3rds and 5ths but idk what Metallica uses
thanks toller !!!!
Hmm. Dont really know why, but i tried several times to apply the same principles on melodic stuff, and it seems always to sound off or odd. Even though keeping inside the same scale. Tried to keep strict to either 3rds, or 5ths. I've heard many great harmonized solos, but really struggling to come up with anything, any tips? :)
+R Elm I think, that you must pick the right 3rd (major or minor) for each note of the Riff so that the notes in the new riff stay the same distance from one another. You could try that and let me know, cause i have kind of a related question on the matter of whether to choose the thirds so that they resemble the figure on the original riff or to fall into scale.
Fall into scale homie, do up a diatonic chart and look for the respective majors and minor 3rds. Even if you do harmonies of 5ths, you'll find that there'll be a diminished 5th that'll need to be changed compared to the other nothes that fit with the scale
Which pickups are you using?
Very possibly Seymour Duncan TB-4(bridge) and SH-1/2(neck)
TheIansen
yes, straight up Jazz in neck and JB in bridge. Mike doesn't mod his guitars too much , just a few upgrade parts for the Floyd, Maxon OD pedal and Marshall amps.
Seymour duncan hot rod set are usually in rr v's
Which is the sh4 jb in the bridge and the sh2 jazz in the neck
Yes .. that's what's in there (Mike answered this for me on his FB some time ago.)
Sick! :)
This is huh... wow
METAL MIKE /../
So this is basically an augmented harmony
fecal mike
Warmonger YT lol