Progressive Metal: Riff Building

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This video walks viewers through a typical sounding Progressive Metal style Rhythm Riff that incorporates notes selected from the Phrygian Dominant mode of Harmonic Minor.

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[guitgrinder]

Isn't Progressive Metal supposed to step out of the bounds of metal, somehow incorporating "non-metal" ideas into metal, thereby making it "progress" into unplayed territory? Progressive is less a genre, more a mentality. You can't make a "progressive sttyle riff" because You can't confine "progressive" into a category, otherwise it's not progressive. Eg; Opeth bringing in the Nick Drake influence. A metal band influence heavily by non-metal music. The sythesis of the two make it progressive

[Shawnium101]

Hot about just listening to Dream Theater....

[RichardIsAlive]

@guitgrinder no. the point is to progress. change, alternate, progress. plus it also stemmed from jazz which typically strays from 4/4. its supposed to be complicated and new and always progressing. adding different genres isn't necessary to be new as fucking pop culture wants us to believe, and sometimes it ruins a good thing

[muntificator]

@guitgrinder Technically what you've defined is closer to Avant garde , but Progressive music generally does try to be different and experiment a bit. However , although you are correct , there is another definition of progressive music which defines it as involving strange timings , time signatures and accenting notes that sound 'out of place' , etc. Theres a few definitons i suppose ; you are correct , but this video is regarding the other definition.

[JEKAZOL]

@guitgrinder Yup, but there's another way of looking at prog metal. It's lots of spacious (usually long) riffs coming one after another, with many wierd and unusual time signatures, taking the listener on an epic journey in mind of a landscape. It doesn't have to be anything new.

[CurtisScofield]

@metalfreak4677 Or just Tool instead DT =P

[ShredTheSolo]

Your guitar is soooo nice! :D

[MiasmaClouds]

@guitgrinder Exactly , like Symphony X and Kansas

[CrackedStyle]

@arkee71 so your calling metallica progressive? theres a difference between bands who are considered prog., and bands who helped progress a genre.

[nationalgord]

@VinniePaah You'd get a lot of palm muting on the clean channel, which typically doesn't sound very good. The key to progress is to make advancements. How much progress is made during the course of "Iron Man"? If the song never changes, does it ever really progress?

[BruceNorris2112]

@guitgrinder No, that's only part of what "Progressive" means. The other part is common usage of odd time signiatures, highly technical playing on all instruments, etc. Usually, progressive players are sound in Music Theory.

[VinniePaah]

@arkee71 I have a counter-question that will perhaps answer your question: what you'll get if you remove the distortion from the sabbath, metallica, etc.? Then dress those guys up in office suits and get them the auditory with icecream and "Hello Kitty".