A couple weeks back I challenged all my guitar playing friends on facebook to write a new riff each day for one week, and then post daily videos or audio clips. I started the challenge yesterday, two riffs down, five to go. I'm going to post links to them here in case anyone might be interested.
If anyone wants to pick up the glove, feel free! Rules are simple: one new riff every day, any genre you like, no fancy video or sound quality required. I chose to use drums and bass but you don't have to.
Banged this 2 part riff out on a cheap strat copy, sounds pretty rough but I was using it to warm up and write the riff, wound up hitting the record button while it was under the fingers...
Other people have commented the same but I felt that I needed to come up with stuff I can stand for. If I were to just bang out a few random power chords over a 4/4 the challenge wouldn't be very... challenging you know?
It's entirely up to you how elaborate (or not) you want to make your submissions. The only requirements are 1 new riff per day, everything else is completely up to your discretion.
Banged this 2 part riff out on a cheap strat copy, sounds pretty rough but I was using it to warm up and write the riff, wound up hitting the record button while it was under the fingers...
I reeeeally like your stuff! Unfortunately I'm really busy this week and the next, I'd really like to participate... Is this valid only for this week or we can do it whenever we want and refer to this thread?
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started this a couple weeks ago when this thread was active, but then got derailed on another project. decided today it needed to be finished, so here it tis! went a little crazy in the video editor... ha.
love this idea. Cerendir, thanks for starting and love all the riffs to date. i know there are many guitarists floating through here, so let's hear em' boys!!!
This is entirely subjective and just on my going off my own musical taste. I really feel this riff has great potential. I love the notes at the beginning of it, the first two(dah, dah, dah dah dahs) but I don't ilke the way each cycle ends. It starts off melodic and interesting but the way it sticks with the same note speed to complete the riff made it less destinctive and more like a dream theater, math rock clone. But judging by the the sound that's probably what you are into anyway!
This is entirely subjective and just on my going off my own musical taste. I really feel this riff has great potential. I love the notes at the beginning of it, the first two(dah, dah, dah dah dahs) but I don't ilke the way each cycle ends. It starts off melodic and interesting but the way it sticks with the same note speed to complete the riff made it less destinctive and more like a dream theater, math rock clone. But judging by the the sound that's probably what you are into anyway!
Haha, definitely see what you mean. The thing to keep in mind here is that I'm restricting myself to just a few hours for 1) coming up with, 2) refining and 3) recording each riff. The day 3 riff was just a simple 7/8 pattern transformed into a longer part through transposition, reptetition and variation. But yeah, it's still just a string of 8th notes.
Haha, definitely see what you mean. The thing to keep in mind here is that I'm restricting myself to just a few hours for 1) coming up with, 2) refining and 3) recording each riff. The day 3 riff was just a simple 7/8 pattern transformed into a longer part through transposition, reptetition and variation. But yeah, it's still just a string of 8th notes.
I'll have to come up with something more laid back and simplistic tomorrow because these prog metal riffs eat up too much of my time...
Don't worry, I'd definitely kept that in mind, but I thought if people point out bits that jump out at them, you could use that as a guide to which riffs to revisit and make full songs out of.
Don't worry, I'd definitely kept that in mind, but I thought if people point out bits that jump out at them, you could use that as a guide to which riffs to revisit and make full songs out of.
Cheers, I guess the Riff a Day concept suffers a bit from: that bunch of days maybe isn't convenient for everyone in amongst whatever else is happening, musically or otherwise. It's a good concept though, a positive motivational thing. Your latest are +1 also. That Arabian sounding riff, #4 I think, that's a great metal treatment of that sound/style.
I could post lots of riffs that were done on one day and consecutive days, but I've already got so much stuff to fix mixwise + tracking that I need to consolidate a bit. Then there's those boxes of old 4 track! Aargh!
The following is an example of that, done quite recently, the lot written/recorded, done in a couple of hours but still has the original rough mix -