O hai Mark

metal mike is one of the only guys keeping me subbed to this channel. the first riff alone sounded badass but the harmonies were the cherry on top of the cake.

Holy shit, that strap is sick as fuck.

I love you, Metal Mike. You so metal.

Metal mike 4 life!! Thanks for the riffs brother!!

This sounds so cool! Figure 2 sounds like it would be from an actual song

Thank You so much for the lessons , nothing more intelligent and interesting I have not yet found

This is so damn cool like when you get the light bulb over uour head it just clicked. I wondered why i would chase tone all around. Well harmonization is sweet. So cool thank you

Thank you very much ! Now I can make my all dreamed metal song !

There are pedals and effects that do this kind of stuff but it's really nice to know how to build it from scratch! Very instructive Mike! Thanks!

@Diebold410

11 ай бұрын

This is more for playing in a band setting so when your other guitar player writes a riff you can throw harmonies in there Which really sounds nice in a mix going the pedal route is easier and good for jamming to make ideas but nothing beats the real way

If you've got the patience, go through all intervals above and below the beginning note. Write down which ones you like the most. Try different intervals together, a minor 7th above and a tritone below. Then add another one against any note you want out of a those. Mix and match. You'll be surprised at some of the outcomes.

I can make up riffs , but I swear I would nver thought of doing this on my own in a 1000 years

Great lesson

reminds me a lot of the music on the old doom games lol

@skatecore444

Жыл бұрын

You are a great fool😂

Helpful video!

Now THAT'S a helpful video that you wanna see by GW and cool riff btw!!

thanks a lot!

6:10 Iron Maiden Intensifies!

The 1st riff kinda sounds like War Of The Gods-Amon Amarth.

Sick! :)

Yup riffs sound bigger with harmonies, sounds huuuuge :)

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Awesome video. So just checking that I understood. Harmonies do not necessarily share the same shape as the original riff right? You use the same shape unless it leads you to a note that doesn't fall within the originals key?

@mauricio lopez I think he's using seymour duncan invaders

Awesome, if you by a line 6 amp you can loop up to 5 times which is primo for riffs like this, cheers mike!

@polpottopg

8 жыл бұрын

Dont buy line 6 ever

@TheBlzbub

8 жыл бұрын

+she succ me why?

@polpottopg

8 жыл бұрын

they suck unless you are just bedroom jamming, which is where they are great amps, but live they really do suck. watch some line 6 amp reviews

@TheBlzbub

8 жыл бұрын

+she succ me I have a 75watt spider,I play it with a Jackson Rhoads Rrxmg and it kicks ass on "amir lead",but that's just my opinion and all the people who tell me it's great

@polpottopg

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah ok im a classic lover guy i love my gibson les paul going through a marshall JCM 2000. line 6 when turned up sounds awful live.

Wicked

« Oh Hi mark »

kool...

What is that into riffing???

Jackson RR!!!!!!!!!! >_< Waaaahhh i'm jealous

what's the intro song?

so i understand how to construct the harmony riff but the problem im having is knowing whether to use 3rds 5ths or 7ths. is there a trick to knowing which one to use or am i possibly looking to do a 3 part harmony instead of two? i know i should probably just keep trying til it sounds good but if there is some trick to knowing which harmony to use i would really appreciate it

@chrisg-ll-gher

8 жыл бұрын

which ever sounds best i guess

@DaveThomson

7 жыл бұрын

if I understand he's playing a 3rd and a 6th (second 3rd) on top of the root

@sc0ut_raven294

7 жыл бұрын

That is in fact what he is doing

@gylesdoolan1116

5 жыл бұрын

Ultimately, if you write out a diatonic chart for the key you choose, you'll be granted a wonderful chart on where the respective notes are even which notes are major or minor

Really cool sounding, but I doubt many people here will be able to use this to its full extent. It's hard enough to form a band with 2 guitar players!

Hmm. Dont really know why, but i tried several times to apply the same principles on melodic stuff, and it seems always to sound off or odd. Even though keeping inside the same scale. Tried to keep strict to either 3rds, or 5ths. I've heard many great harmonized solos, but really struggling to come up with anything, any tips? :)

@Rstarfari

8 жыл бұрын

+R Elm I think, that you must pick the right 3rd (major or minor) for each note of the Riff so that the notes in the new riff stay the same distance from one another. You could try that and let me know, cause i have kind of a related question on the matter of whether to choose the thirds so that they resemble the figure on the original riff or to fall into scale.

@gylesdoolan1116

5 жыл бұрын

Fall into scale homie, do up a diatonic chart and look for the respective majors and minor 3rds. Even if you do harmonies of 5ths, you'll find that there'll be a diminished 5th that'll need to be changed compared to the other nothes that fit with the scale

What type of harmony does metallica , avenged sevenfold , and all the "harmonied" bands use ?? I try to programme my boss me 25 harmonist but i dont know in what tone.

@DragonDethKlaw

10 жыл бұрын

You you know your major and minor scale? You could easily figure it out by playing different degrees of the scale along with the root note.

@tollerest

10 жыл бұрын

i set a ME pedal with different harmonies then stomp them in when improvising you soon train your ear to hear how each harmony sounds. most used *3rds* 4ths 5ths *6ths* above (*stacked 3rds*). make sure your tuning and intonation are perfect (tune the wire wound strings a cent or 2 flat) and if your playing for example Dminor you set the key to F because the pedal uses the relative major as the key. ex. Ephrygian would be C

@Jefffafa334

9 жыл бұрын

A7x uses a lot of 3rds and 5ths but idk what Metallica uses

@nachometalyracing

9 жыл бұрын

thanks toller !!!!

Can someone just tell me one thing. You have a riff, and the "only" thing you have to do is to play the same pattern just 3 frets higher than the original? That's it?

@falseprophecy666

7 жыл бұрын

No. A third above. 3 intervals above the starting note, according to the scale.

@toacristoba

6 жыл бұрын

You Could do that... Yngwie does that, and i do it that way too ... It will be a bit dissonant, but you may like it that way

@MetalliDay

2 жыл бұрын

@@falseprophecy666 by intervals U mean as in like f,g,a or something different

@falseprophecy666

2 жыл бұрын

@@MetalliDay This is a really old comment (4 years old to be exact) but based on the context, I was saying you'd play a 3rd above where you began. So if you started on a root of F you would then go to A as a 3rd is 4 semitones from the root.

So this is basically an augmented harmony

This is huh... wow

Which pickups are you using?

@Babu646_

10 жыл бұрын

Very possibly Seymour Duncan TB-4(bridge) and SH-1/2(neck)

@jabberwocky1969

10 жыл бұрын

TheIansen yes, straight up Jazz in neck and JB in bridge. Mike doesn't mod his guitars too much , just a few upgrade parts for the Floyd, Maxon OD pedal and Marshall amps.

@Sourgiesel

10 жыл бұрын

Seymour duncan hot rod set are usually in rr v's Which is the sh4 jb in the bridge and the sh2 jazz in the neck

@jabberwocky1969

10 жыл бұрын

Yes .. that's what's in there (Mike answered this for me on his FB some time ago.)

METAL MIKE /../

fecal mike

@davidgarcia6796

6 жыл бұрын

Warmonger YT lol