Creating Riffs

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Creating Riffs

Unread post by carter29 » Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:08 pm

Hey I figured I'd make a thread about creating new riffs, just wondering what everyone has to say about composing new tunes.

A question I have is, sometimes I mess around and construct a riff and I'm not sure if it sounds similiar to something already out there or if im actually something new. Any thoughts?
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Unread post by taparoo » Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:14 pm

I do the same thing. I'll come up with something that I think sounds really cool. Then I'll hear it on the radio or something. :lol: Don't worry about it, though. Odds are whatever you come up with has been done before.
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Unread post by Hydro120 » Sun Apr 08, 2007 4:24 pm

There is literally no chord progression you could use that hasn't been used before, unless you're doing something that makes 0 musical sense.

Yeah I wouldn't worry. I'm sure the progressions in Dave's songs have been used a lot before.
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Unread post by Easy E » Sun Apr 08, 2007 9:57 pm

when im learning new songs I try to take a chord that i see in the piece that ive never used before and try to build something around it

other times i try just moving my pinky around to see if i can create a new sound. I have a few decent ones if you want some examples
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