Lesson: Aggressive Riffs

Here are two riffs that are not hard to play but sound very aggressive. I like to jam on these after drinking a latte grande!

The first uses an E pedal on the bottom and outlines the E blues scale (which here sounds more metal than blues!) using power chords. Note the quarter note triplets in the next to last bar.

MP3 Example

The second riff is taken from the E phrygian dominant scale, emphasizing the flatted second degree and natural third.

MP3 Example

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