Rythym (sp) Riffs....

[Chugga-Chugga]

Please help.

I play Metal Rhythm (yay!) guitar.

I love the Huge, Heavy Riffs that Maiden etc play...

Problem is - I'm getting stuck with coming-up with new ones.

Any one got any suggestions?

[ESP_Viper]

Listen to different music. Get exsposed to lots of styles and incorperate them into your playing. You like maiden, so listen to pantera, or a different style heavy band. Look at tabs of different bands and get an idea of what they do for a heavy sound. Try different tunings, palm muting, pinch harmonics. All of these things can make a riff sound heavy.

[Chugga-Chugga]

Yeah, thats the problem - I listen to ALL metal, ALL the time ------- Iron Maiden was just an example.

I detuned to get a thundery sound on every string - sounds real dark and heavy.

No matter what i try to do - it comes out like what i learnt before - guess my imagination and inspiration has dried up.

Darn!:mad:

Thanks though

[ESP_Viper]

Well, try listening to some blues and jazz. Try some Dream Theater if you haven't already. I recommend their song A Change of Seasons. It's a 20 minute song, but it's really good.

[Kickassicalead]

Try sittin down and playing stuff backwords or all mixed up. Me and my band have found out you can get a kewl effect from this sometimes. I play Lead so thats about all the help I could give someone like you

[GuitarGuillermo]

Ok, well, im not sure what your doing already since i dont listen to much metal, but here are some ideas.

Instead of using a standard chord progression like 1-6-4-5, use a progression with a lot of chromatic intervals. These progressions usually have a darker, more sinister sound than the standard ones.

strum or arpeggiate different ornamented minor chords.

thats really all i can think of. well, good luck.