Metal Composition (pareri) - death metal song structure?

For a riff, pull a riff using root notes from a power chord with a very
weak arpeggio. (ex; E string, 5-5-5-5-5-5-5-8-8-8-7-7-7-7-7-5-5-5-5 etc).
If you're into tech death, look up Origin, Decapitated, Necrophagist, Nile,
Beheaded, Abysmal Torment or Beneath the Massacre for references. A
common scale to use is the chromatic. Riffs often use tapping or sweep
picking, and often change tempos like 5/4-7/4.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Try using polyrhythmic sequences. This is done by layering one riff on
top of another (for example a 5/4 riff on a 4/4 riff; a good example listen to
Meshuggah).
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I think ts something like this
intro
verse
chorus
intro riff
verse
chorus
solo
chorus
outro
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Step 1. Listen to songs you think have good structure or "flow".
Step 2. Find out why they sound that way by analyzing them.
Step 3. Do that and report back here with your results.
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- Try to use a recurring element or theme in all of your riffs:
a few chords or notes or phrasing or rhythm. If the riffs are all
completely different it will sound random and incoherent. Try
having parts of songs (or riffs) evolve into each other instead of
completely changing direction. Having them in the same key
will help but there's a lot more that goes into making a song
cohesive than that. Actually, a lot of death and thrash is based
on chromatics. (Atunci cand notele, ritmul riffurilor difer

pentru a dinamiza si diminua monotonia, trebuie pastrata

unitatea prin inventivitate sau conservare a unor elemente).
- I think i know what you mean. ive got three riffs that all use
chromatics and they seem to work together the best, but with
those three it gets repetetive. then when i try to come up with
a new riff for something like a chorus its an abrupt change and
sounds like its too complex
----------------------------------------------------------------------What helps me with song structure in general is to think of a
vocal that would be sung on top of the guitar. It helps me to
remember to go back to the verse or chorus.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It has to do with how much "tension" a riff has. If you have a riff that is
fast with really awkward drums playing a polymeter or something crazy
and the bass is all over the place you would probably have some real
tension, if you get what I'm saying. A riff with a lot of tension is best
followed by a riff with very little tension, such as a breakdown (not
necessarily a hardcore breakdown). And after the breakdown, you might
choose to follow it with a riff with some more tension, then another riff
with more, and then more, and then the breakdown again, or something
like that. Obviously you want to get creative, but the basic rule to follow is
very similar to that of writing a plot for a story -- when you reach the
point of the most tension (the climax) your best choice is to follow it with
the point of the least or just very little tension (the resolution). Actually, if
you were to graph the rise and fall of tension in a great death metal song,
it would probably look very similar to a graph of a rise and fall of tension
in
a
great
novel.
The tension I'm referring has very little to do with tension created with
dissonance. That kind of tension is resolved within a riff or progression by
the tonic. The kind of tension I'm referring to has a lot to do with the way
all of the instruments interact rhythmically and is resolved between riffs.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------Well, theres a few kind of DM structures. Bands like MA like to do a

structure similar to a common Intro-Verse-Chorus-Verse-Chorus-SoloOutro. But alot of times they add another bridge or solo inbetween the
transition
from
chorus
to
verse.
Also, for some odd, but interesting arrangements, check out Atheist Unquestionable Presence and the king of odd, yet good DM arrangements
IMO, At The Gates - The Red in The Sky Is Ours, Ulcetate decretat ca
Through-composed (riffuri complet non-repetitive).

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