12-19-2012, 03:00 PM
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Why do people use the same chug riff?
The 0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0 riff you hear in almost every "heavy metal" song? When did this riff become so popular where did it originate from?
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12-19-2012, 03:38 PM
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Somebody must not listen to very much heavy metal.
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12-19-2012, 03:41 PM
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12-19-2012, 03:52 PM
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It seems your ears are incapable of hearing different rhythms, please fix them.
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12-19-2012, 03:57 PM
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12-19-2012, 03:58 PM
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It originated from Blues players playing in open tunings and using the bass strings on the guitar as a pedal
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12-19-2012, 03:58 PM
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Cuz they're poo.
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12-19-2012, 04:00 PM
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These are different rhythms?
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12-19-2012, 04:09 PM
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It's easy and it can be a fail-safe riff to use in -core genres, in the sense that you mean.
Then again, it can also be done tastefully and not to always be the focal point of the song. Many Protest The Hero songs have an open riff, as I'm sure you know.
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12-19-2012, 04:15 PM
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12-19-2012, 04:16 PM
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Either you're a troll or you have a limited knowledge of heavy metal.
That song you posted is also not considered metal by most metalheads.
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12-19-2012, 04:23 PM
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Is this a recent trend? I've never heard it before
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Ummm, yeah. Go listen to something from the 80s that isn't thrash metal. You'd be surprised. Granted, speed/power metal has clichés of its own, but...I hardly listen to anything with chugging in it and 80% of what I listen to is metal! (I'm closed-minded, I know...)
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12-19-2012, 04:29 PM
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12-19-2012, 06:08 PM
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12-19-2012, 06:43 PM
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Because metal calls for heaviness and that's the lowest note?
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12-19-2012, 07:36 PM
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Why do people use the same I-IV-V?
As a matter of fact, why do people use the same 12 notes? They have all been used before. As you can see, the answer to your question is; because people like it.
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12-20-2012, 12:57 AM
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It's called a pedal tone, and they have been used for thousands of years.
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