HOW TO WRITE KILLER METAL RIFFS
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
- How I go about writing riffs.
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I like to start off with 000000000000000000000000000000000000000
And see what happens
So Static X - Skinnyman?
But first... Make sure you're in drop B
So.....Slayer
Djent be like
It's the drums that makes it good
6:49
Me: woah what a groovy riff.
Ola: ok that was stupid.
Me: terrible. It sounded like garbage.
itwas good tho
Your username is what I call Kirk in real life. I told my dad and he laughed.
hahahah I was thinking exactly same thing
Should have been ashamed to play it lmao
ya i was like, wow what a great riff and off the top so fast.. then ok ya it must suck then...
Your comedic talent has better timing than most drummers I've played with.
Lmao, good one
Hahahaha... you sir, just won the comment section! :D :D
well, that's... setting the bar way too low.
Person: How can I write riffs?
Ola: Write riffs
100% effective
tbh, that´d be my answer, too...
I want to like this but its already on 666
Thanks David Guetta.
riyad amor lol😂😂😂😂
Hahahahahaha. I thought the same.
When did Daniel Bryan become a guitarist? Shouldn't he be feuding with AJ Styles right now?
Hahahaha
HAAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHA
A. Simplicity
B. Groovy
C. Unique
Gavin Wilbur Nailed it.
Triplet fan
The hard part is being unique yet simple
0 3 5
Always gotta remind myself of "simplicity. " Tend to try write and play above my skill level
I’m always thinking in beats and riffs throughout the day, driving around, at work, etc. It’s only when I sit down with a guitar that my mind draws a blank.
beats, riffs, melodies... always, all day :)
I have that issue too, my brain is always thinking what I will play when I get home on the guitar lmao
Yeah i can make some insane riffs in my head then pick up the guitar and have no clue how to play it
My brain: CHUGGACHUGGA BOWOW CHUGGACHUGGA
Me: Huh, that sounds pretty cool, let's try and write it
My fingers: I'm going to ruin this man's whole career
This made me laugh because I think of a lot of my riffs while I'm at work. I'll come home and try to figure it out, and it sometimes takes me weeks to figure out how to play the song that I've written in my head. By then the song has totally changed. 😂
11:39 almost played Black Sabbath's Black Sabbath main riff with a nerf gun. You're such a talented guitar player Ola
Lol true huh?
lol i hear it too, wtf.
except the riff in G, he played in C
Shit... yeah😅 just noticed lol
I don't think Dimebag has tried that, but then again he probably has 😅
*ola plays to drums*
Me: ah pretty sick riff
Ola: ok. very stupid
egregion omfg same
same lol hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
Agreed
HAHAAHAH exactly
i need more of this "stupid" Riff I NEED IT
Step 1: Add another string
Step 2: Repeat step 1
After stap 2 : go back to step 1 and repeat
Step 3: commence to rifflin'
How to djent
some djent shit
I'm currently at string number 69, and I have run into a problem.
You see, I've run out of space. My guitar's neck is literally touching the ceiling right now.
Can I stop or should I move to a bigger house? And is it possible to do this outside so I don't have a limit?
Thanks for your time.
0:29 7 year old me when mom brings home the Dino nuggets from Costco
Hahahaha
Lmao
Indeed
@Aiden Jones bro
I'm 18 next month and I still act Like that when my Mom brings Dino nuggets 😭😂
💀💀
6:00 Excuse me, wtf?
Some PTSD symptoms from Swedish viking war no big deal
He is a normal sweeeeeeeeeeeeed what's the problem?
He hungers
That is how you intimidate a computer to load faster.. i do it all the time... xddd
😂
That curtain in the back looks like a low res Skyrim mountain texture. It's really tripping me out 😂
A man of culture I see
Wow I really can't unsee that now
Why did you have to point that out
Dingleberry Tech omg wow
It hasn't loaded in yet. Give it a minute.
"...You have family life, you have work, you have... video games..."
Truer words have never been spoken.
6:43 This sounds kinda good actually!
Niin kuulostaakin
yeah but it's very basic and generic
Absolutely genius. I've been playing for over 25 years. I delete more riffs than I play it seems like. It's like you turned the page and the next chapter is here. Thank you my brother. Keep on doing the greatness you do .
3:11 "Allow yourself to be bored". One of the wisest sentences to have ever been said.
6:49 *plays a killer riff I can’t even think of*
“Okay that’s very stupid” 😂
The ending was a bit from Bloodline by Slayer :P
PrzemyslaW yeah it was like the verse riff
You can't think of chugging?
man, I’m like “yo son that shits hot”
How to write killer metal riffs:
Be Chuck Shuldiner
Be mikael akerfeldt
Be Rob Barret
Be James Hetfield
be good at guitar
Be the guitar
Brother I’m an ancient rock dude and always played Les Pauls etc, I just got one of your Solar guitars and I’m playing shit I never played before. Thanks for that. Love this video. I’ve been doing riffs all my life (I’m 57) and I needed this.
I have a good tip... listen to a completely different genre of music and use those scales/patterns for a metal riff. Obviously, put a twist on it to introduce the heavy aspect of it. Experimentation is key!
Ryan Maynes I could not agree more !
Aye! I kind of like trying a metal bend on 80s pop... Several of those pieces have underlying rock/metal traits, even if no guitar is used.
Thats how prog works
I did this with a Handel concerto once
@@Astromatter is it out anywhere, that sounds badass!
The problem for most guitarists is not writing riffs but how to join them up. In other words, how to make coherent musical pieces out of them with tension, hooks, bridges etc. Can you do a video on that?
Enjoy every moment of your shows Ola!
I subscribed due to the technique passed down through the ages you demonstrate at the end. I've already written 5 songs this way... and I've been subscribed for 2 minutes.
The riff in the end is from the song Your Black is My White and you can listen to it here - czcams.com/video/IV0aNzwxC84/video.html
tremendous!!!!
Ola you're so awesome, and Dime would be proud of that last riff. It's got his spirit infused in it 🤘
Ola Englund I can't find the "Fumb" lol.
Ola,what tuning are you using? Standard , dropped or .. ??
You almost wrote the riff to Black Sabbath there.
"And then I just... wait for it to load"
Damnit, even when they're programs on computers, still gotta wait for them pesky drummers. Feels like being ready on time is more than just a human condition.
Ben of the north most underrated comment ever
You know the wrong drummers my friend
thank you, rock and roll jesus
This is gold Ola. I've been doing this for over 40 years. I hope the youngsters use these techniques. Cheers.
6:31 I almost started moshing with my dog
Hahahaha! My man!
Wtf? 😅
Sounds like breakdown in Despised Icon-Day of Mourning
I'd also recommend that if you're struggling to write good riffs, plug into an amp and cab and jam. Sometimes hearing and feeling the guitar blast out of a 4x12 behind you can often make a huge difference (as opposed to using using your studio monitors).
Also very good tip
100% agree. I just bought half stack a couple months ago. It’s been 10 years since i had one . I havent been in a band since then. Instantly inspired. 5 songs written already. Just from the feeling and tone of the amp. 👍🏼
Lol, I was waiting for you to say "Buy my masterclass" in the end and didn't expect that. 😂 You are so right, fooling around and developing the parts that sound cool is a great approach. Thanks for making my day, Ola!
0:28.. Gets me everytime!
... categorise your riffs. That is fucking genius.
I have spent so many hours and days thinking about that ever elusive 'next section' that ties everything together, and I realise I've spent frickin' ages thinking about stuff I've jammed before and jesus.
I think on top of that, I might spend some time just tabbing up the riff too, so if it ends up that I've came up with something and can't remember how to play, I have that reference too!
I feel this is gonna make a huge difference for me! Cheers, Ola. It's the weekend soon, and I finish making pretty websites soon, so bring on cranking the amp up and smashing out some riffs!
3:43 just record yourself playing..."goes on and writes a metal masterpiece"
your last technique is absolutely GENIUS OLA !
i have learned a lot from ola since I've been playing guitar very good advice and good teacher just pay attention his words are worth listening to
That Riff at the end really spicy
Instructions unclear, I impregnated my guitar
At least nothing got caught in a ceiling fan. That's a win.
@@jackrose6996 or toaster
My metal boy
Ola! I find your videos humorous as well as educational. Love it!
6:02 me when I have a sick tune in my head but can't actually figure out how to play it.
Easy guide here
Step 1: Be Iommi
Step 2: Profit
Stonks 🤟
Not wrong.
I swear as soon as he said "One riff that I knew was a good riff when I heard it" I knew he was gonna say Walk by Pantera.
Really fabulous advice Ola! Been getting myself back into playing with a band; all these approaches are organic and satisfying, thanks for sharing!
Thank you. I've been stuck in a rut for a little while and you're giving me some fresh ideas that I could work with. I'm a self taught guitarist that's been playing for many years.
0:28 made me laugh way to hard...
Cellar Studio Productions fr😂😂🙌
Hahahaha i didnt catch that. Lmao
Made me laugh long and hard
Cellar Studio Productions oh yeah
Zach R Wassup Tekonix. Nice to see you here
Your hilarious Ola. I just stumbled across your channel not too long ago. I’ve been a huge metal fan my entire life and was beginning to wonder if any truly amazing original guitarists were still out there making music. Love your stuff brother. Keep the videos coming!
You seen keith Merrow?
I have indeed. I wish he would hurry up and release another album. I've listened the first one about 100 million times so far.
Metal Mennonite omg yes pls ffs
You ever hear of me?
Your the best guitar teacher I've ever had the pleasure to have sir. Dude you help us out so much. Thank you.
Thank you Ola - appreciate your teachings and look forward to all your videos in the future...
Ola, this is the best lesson I've seen in this topic. Have played for ages and does something similar myself. The one thing I've not done...I have not taken the time to make a video for free and shared it with the rest of the world. Hopes it comes back to you in one way or another. Love the ending. Cheers!
For all those who take the time to tab their riffs, spend $60 and get guitarpro it will change your life. It changed mine and I’m a drummer.....
lucyferina true. It helps
Try tuxguitar, it's free and works just like guitarpro
lucyferina I’m a drummer who plays guitar too.
"It changed mine and I’m a drummer.....". That IS a classy line!
Powertab is free and it works for tabbing extremely well. All that $60 gets you is a better guitar sound for playback and a clunkier interface. Don't waste your money. I'm a guitarist and a drummer and a bassist and a vocalist and ect.. guitarpro is crap...
Still watching this great video. Thank you Ola 👏🏼
I absolutely love your channel very entertaining and a lot to learn. I've played guitar for 16 years, but I lost interest and haven't played for 8 years. I finally got inspired to play again and finally picked up some new gear. I was never really good at leads but rythm was my thing. I want to take it to the next level I would love to be really good at leads and I would love to sweep. Thanks a lot for all the new gear info and everything else you do. I did buy some used gear but I had to have the new version of the Boss MT 2w
wtf a metalhead youtuber that's actually charismatic and funny and not cringy at all??????
1:19 - no the reason you're writing good riffs is because you're swedish........😲
Sascha Rissling Nice generalizing 🙄🙄🙄🙄
But seriously tho, swedish metal guitarists are monsters in riffing
Pradipto Gitokusumo no, swedish people are just artists and extremly talented people in all ways.... just really... idk why, its a bit scary. For example: Pewdiepie, Anomaly,
Adam Björk, Avatar (the Band), this dude, Amon Amarth, Ghost, Meshuggah and much more. Fuck.... swedens are amazing people....
Opeth?!
Arch Enemy ?
stay safe ola... best of wishes for you and your family..... i'm salivating over your solar guitar.... 😘
We have very similar writing methods. Good to know I'm doing it the right way. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work and great sense of humor, man.
I categorize my riffs too!
Riff 001Riff 002Riff 003
Riff 001, test
Riff 001, demo
Riff 001, final
etc.
I need help.
Quick riff tip... Use lots of 0's, 02's, and PM's
That's very useful. For the most part, it validates what I was already doing, but there are some great tricks here that I now intend to use. Thanks Ola!
Great honest ideas and techniques for writing, I use these myself, very cool Ola!
0:29
can't stop seeing it
EHEHEHE EHEHEHE
6:03
Mr Bla sometimes the troll comes ball to life.
That has to become a viral meme.
00:28
You can thank me later.
My Problem is, that i always "Write" existing Riffs.
You have Gothic guitars names that we can buy for my band? We already going to guy the violin Bass by beatles in black gloss
Idea for future video: how about getting a shitty guitar, shitty interface, barebones setup and teach us what the results would be, a lot of prospective artists quit before they get far because all the tutorials always show people recording awesome sounding material that has massive post processing, of course they always fail to disclose that part. I think you are honest and it would be interesting to see the results..,,,
lucyferina hell yeah!
When you're using programs like bias, guitar rig, amplitube or vsts and similar you can think like you're using real stuff but all digital. A virtual pedal is like a real pedal, so are cabs, mics, fxs, etc. They try to emulate the sound but of course it will never sound 100% equal (nor good).. something can be fixed, a bit eq here a bit eq there, but for example harmonics don't resonate well and i hate that digital feel, especially cause i like tube distortion. Anyway i find most of the virtual fxs are ok, but distortion and hi gain are the worst. I upgraded my ai to an ur22 with the hi-z switch for matching impedance (= no need for di box), I solved the plastic sound problem by getting a mesa tube preamp and a maxon od808 boosted by a ge10, all going straight into the ai, to the program with all the effects. since i play mostly metal i don't need lots of fx, just a bit of compression, cab simulation, eq and rev/dl for leads.. and i NEVER use ai gain, cause number 1 of plastic sound. This works for me.. my pc is i5 16gb, daw studio one 3 pro, hs80m monitors, good cables.. and i'm planning on getting an axe fx when i save some money (can't wait)! Can your shit tone depend from your guitar? Maybe, but lots of people don't know (or are scared) how to set it up and/or adjust pickup height correctly, sometimes that solves some issues, try it before spending 200$ on nazguls. You have to spend time dialing the tone and trying different combinations, don't go gain 10 treble 10 no mids and 10 volume please, it's easier to get a shit tone than a good one.. also check noise gates, eventual compressors, limiters on the master, be sure your levels aren't clipping..
Massimiliano Fiorini I guess cheap but effective....orange mini dark, 4x12 cab, 808 pedal, sm57, focusrite interface, reaper....top if the line solar guitar.....
Make sure your guitar, no matter what it looks like or how cheap it is, has a good pair of pickups like Duncan Seymour or EMG 81. Standard entry-level humbuckers won't do and will be like trying to get water out of a rock which is what I'm doing because I got everything else, except the damn pickups. Good pickups are one of the most important things none of these guys mention, but makes all the difference as distorted guitars are the worst to record and work with if you don't know what what a clear and crackle-free distorted tone should sound like. Make sure you have a decent bass guitar with new strings replaced regularly and a drum machine or vst plugin like Toontrack, a Focusrite 2i2 interface, Amplitube 4(has the best sounding virtual amps and cabinets), Reaper or Studio One DAW and you are pretty much set to record mind-blowing metal tracks.
watch his line 6 spider metal video
Good tips man. I pretty much do the exact same thing too except I am a drummer, I just started playing guitar pretty recently. So the good thing about being a drummer is I always have an idea in my mind of what the drums are going to do in the song. I also always record riffs I like on my phone on a camera so I can say what the notes are to the camera then play the riff properly and put it in a folder. Always works great
Also listening to new music inspires me immensely and helps me discover interesting chord progressions and styles that I had never of thought of before. Music is truly a beautiful thing
That last riff creation secret was epic!!! Cheers.
Love that fresh string sound
Amazing. A friend once told me in order to write music you have to listen to music. I get it. It's not about ripping somebody off, it's about getting inspired by the music you love and making music you would listen to. Thanks Ola great video. Cheers
Another approach in a rut is try to find an a riff or song unknown to your fingers and try to find it with your ear, i tend to build off the basement of other peoples riffs for inspiration
Great tip!
I thought I was the only person that did this! I always feel as though I'm ripping off the original song though
Geniales Video
Haben auch immer einfach stundenlang zusammen gesessen und gejammt.
Nice guy !
"Thought long and hard" *idiotic dancing* God I loved that. Good chuckle from that. This is why you're so awesome Ola
You talented crazy Viking 😂🤘🏻👍🏻 as usual, great video and lot of fun watching it. Thanks Ola. Have a nice weekend!
"Green, means okay"
I took guitar lessons from murderface (of Dethklok). He taught me to literally make love to my guitar. It has improved my playing quite a bit.
literally? 🤨
Amazing video Ola!!!
Thanks for that, for real.
thanks man i have over 300 recordings on my phone's recorder and never thought to sort them out. also when you played over the rhythm, i love that gallop after the 4th bar to turn it back around!!
Same here. Shitload of ideas to categorize. I need to get to it sometime.
I love how the desk, the room, and the recording quality are pristine and how the t-shirt is an absolute mess.
the last one is what i was looking for, thanks ola!
I'm a random guy from Canada who stumbled upon your channel. Subscribed! I love it.
You have an excellent way of teaching. 💞
Love this channel bro!
How to write killer riffs: Get your heart broken
no that's how you write good lyrics
Ola thank you so much this has help me write riffs you are awsome at guitar and keep up the good work thank you again man
Ola is humble as a demonstrator! Really cool!
Other youtube guitarists: Stop noodling!
Ola: So, first we bring the water to a nice boil...
The last riff was so dimebag
Dog Mattinson but how are he do da craze noise at de end?!!?
For real though, I don't understand.
I must buy
Is this riff actualy a song coz its fuckin siiikk
DENIM MAN Yeah, it's "Your Black Is My White" by Feared
Man I gotta make a folder , so sick of forgetting mad riffs that i will never remember or play again . so simple but it took Ola to think of it . keep the techniques coming my friend.
100% spot on, great recommendations and Effing hilarious at the end! 🤘
Your guitar playing is inspirational and amazing. I'll never forget when my friend first showed me The Haunted Made Me Do It Album long ago. " I put a sweet cover of trespass on my CZcams page" :) You are definitely one of my top inspirations in metal. Also I Love the washburn solar 7. It was like the planets aligning scoring that thing.
Suggested topic: writing unique bass parts. Yes, we generally tend to just have the bass follow the guitar, but think of some of your favourite songs and I guarantee you that the bass is doing something unique. Perhaps get in a guest bass player.
Great idea, but Ola tends to just have the bass following the rhythm guitar or slower, tense transitions on root notes. It'd be interesting if he got Adam Neely for that, since groove metal oriented bands tend to have bass follow rhythm guitar for extra 'chunk.' Edit: Grmph has a jazzy walking bassline, now that I think about it, so who knows...might work.
Somthing somthing _Powerslave_
Steve Harris basslines
The bass is the glue that holds the song together. Listen to the solo in Stargazer and pay attention to the bass, it'll have you grooving
Funny enough, there's an Aussie avant-garde death metal band named Stargazer with great lead bass.
I particularly like the last approach!
(So inventive Ola!!)
Thanks man for the video. Truly helpful!
Nice. The noodling-around is what I imagine, when someone says: "I gotta write some riffs. Meet me tomorrow" haha.
What I'll definitly try is noodling with the virtual drummer. Well, it's obvious a good thing, whne one considers, that you have one, while playing in a band, but for timing and precision - nice idea.
Jesus christ that end riff....
The riff folder is a great idea, have been using it for several weeks.
Ola is awesome, love the videos great stuff as always
I like metal that has sections that resolve and go to the garden for awhile.
Why i love megadeth so much. Hard rock to metal in one song. Holy wars and tornado of souls 🔥
Family, work, video games......I subbed because of this. Thank you Ola!
Also because of this 11:38 lmao
Right on! I do the same but learned some tips for sure. Thanks man!
So great !!! This video gave me many ideas. Thanks !