Hardest Riff

by **MartinC** on Tue Nov 28, 2006 12:22 pm

thrash metal maniac wrote:
MartinC wrote:King and Hanneman don't get enough credit. Some of their riffs are really hard.

True, but they somehow get loads of credit for their solos?!??!

Also, lots of the riffs aren't actually very hard to play

Pfft! Who cares? They're catchy. Hard riffs are for shit prog bands who nobody listens to.

by **thrash metal maniac** on Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:07 pm

The first verse riff (after the bass fill) in Cannibal Corpse - Hammer Smashed Face is pretty trixy!!!!

by **MartinC** on Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:12 pm

No it's not.

by **thrash metal maniac** on Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:24 pm

So you're saying its easier than, Altar of Scarifice, for example??

by **Immortalicide** on Thu Jul 26, 2007 4:29 pm

I am not a guitarist, but i remember piggy from VOIVOD laughing because some of the stuff they wrote used chords he had made up himself, and he used different tuning. what he found funny was that some guitar wizzaed guys who used to write tab books tried to map out some of their stuff and couldnt do it right so changed it to make it easier!!!! :lol:

by **MartinC** on Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:41 pm

thrash metal maniac wrote:So you're saying its easier than, Altar of Scarifice, for example??

I'm saying I'm the best guitarist on here. You're all shit.

by **thrash metal maniac** on Thu Jul 26, 2007 5:48 pm

by **Holy Crap! Lions!** on Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:17 am

Nevermore.

Slayers hardest could well be Behind the Crooked Cross for the stamina. Likewise with Through Eyes of Glass. If you play it like a man and don't pussy out by doing it with alternate picking it's an absolute bitch.

Hell even forbidden alternate pick it live.

by **Mikey** on Fri Jul 27, 2007 12:07 pm

Or you can learn how to get your up strokes to sound like down strokes :-)

thats what i did.

Upstroke pinch harmonics for the win!!

by **MartinC** on Fri Jul 27, 2007 1:51 pm

Or you could accept you'll never be as good as SRV and shut the fuck up.

by **thrash metal maniac** on Fri Jul 27, 2007 8:02 pm

MartinC wrote:Or you could accept you'll never be as good as SRV and shut the fuck up.

Why don't you? :dance:

by **MartinC** on Sun Jul 29, 2007 2:28 pm

Because I am as good as Stevie Ray Vaughan, if not better.

by **lyallthomas** on Mon Jul 30, 2007 4:15 pm

Martins crap, onstage we double up my guitar to make it sound like hes playing, when hes not.

One of the hardest riffs (sections) i know is probably the beginning minute of Serenity In Murder, before it calms into the verse riff.

Lamb Of God have some toughies.......Hourglass end..........

But id have to say Cannibal Corpse top it off.

Try learning Frantic Disembowelment

by **Resilience Records** on Tue Jul 31, 2007 4:11 am

here's a toughie.

"der-du-du-der,du-du, da-da-da-da-da-da-da, der-du-du-der, du-du, da-do-da-do-du-do-da" i.e. the Metalbrew Theme tune. yep.

how about this one,

MOSS - The Gate II

its a real stamina test...

by **poison_was_the_cure** on Mon Aug 06, 2007 9:06 pm

megadeth - poison was the cure is hard!!! ive been tryna learn the main riff to that song for ages! still cant quite get it!! it drives me insane!