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  • Metallica and Riff Variation
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    • The Thing That Should Not Be
    • Enter Sandman
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  • Riff Writing Techniques
    • Megadeth’s “Holy Wars…The Punishment Due”
    • Mastodon’s “Blood and Thunder”
    • Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast”
    • Proto-metal in Captain Beyond

Riff Writing Techniques

Metal is a rich, varied, and sophisticated genre of music with its core values including ambition, virtuosity, complexity, and intellectual and emotional expression.

The analyses below strive illuminate these qualities:

  • Parallel Dyads in Megadeth’s Holy Wars
  • Tonality in Mastodon’s “Blood and Thunder”
  • Proto-metal in Captain Beyond
  • Iron Maiden’s “The Number of the Beast”
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