im new to guitar

Originally Posted by spherenine

The best brand of elitism is when people criticize others for being selective in what they appreciate. But the cherry on top is when they call those people dense.

Please, though, just try to maintain some level of congeniality. While I criticized the OP's music, you are taking direct shots at me, and for no reason. Take it somewhere else, pal.

yawn, feel free to troll some more. Your first post was needlessly aggressive and over all purposeless. Instead of saying Om gawdsz this is lyk so badzzz

Try to write something constructive.

I'm trolling? My post was needlessly aggressive?

I'm not going to say Om gawdsz, I'm gonna say LAWLZ!!!!!

It's lovely what a little metal can do to a classical music community.

Quit bickering.

Originally Posted by spherenine

I mean, it's just retardedly dissonant. If you're into that, that's cool, but to me, it sounds like a cat walking on a MIDI controller.

There's that cat that plays piano and it's alot less dissonant than this riff. This sounds like a cat being put through a blender. Alright. The secret to riffs is minor chords and a minor penatonic scale. Most riffs use those two things. Chromatic notes are used but only on the less important beats. Otherwise it ends up sounding like Brazlian Death Metal (or just Death Metal in general but with the exception of serialism Brazilian Death Metal is the worst sounding thing I can think off; I'm refering to all ther serialism after the Second Viennese School)

Erm, chromatic notes are often used on strong beats. And not all riffs need to be in the minor pentatonic scale.

And while I'm not hugely into Brazilian death metal, after listening to all of Krisiun's albums, I can say that Brazilian DM is not at all what you think it is.

I would listen to it, but I am listening to an African Groove CD by Putumayo. And not all riffs need to be in the minor pentatonic scale. As spherenine said. If all riffs were in the minor pentatonic scale, there wouldn't be any songs with riffs in major pentatonic scales.