3 Metal Guitar Riffs in A Minor - Practice Lesson with Tabs

This is an awesome lesson for you to practice playing metal riffs. And all 3 are in the key of Am (minor).
There's a reason for that and I cover that at the end of the video. I also give you some more tips on writing your own riffs at the end.
Here are the time stamps for each lesson so that you can easily go there and pause it to see study the guitar tabs:
1:10 Riff 1
3:03 Riff 2
4:47 Riff 3
I really hope this lesson helps you! And don't forget to download my free practice guide below...
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[@darrenwoolley51]

Woooaah dude... Dokken!! Bro', I had completely forgotten about that band, must be at least 30 yrs since that name graced my ears... Right on Jason...

[@jasonstallworth]

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[@Aloysious0013]

Damn you! Been watching your vids and now at 47 I just bought a new guitar due Monday! Gave up years ago but I am inspired to give guitar one more shot.

[@jasonstallworth]

Dude, now you know to NEVER lay it down again!!! Glad to see you’re back in it…there’s nothing like it! Oh, and if you need a refresher on the basics of metal, take a look at my latest course for beginners: metalmastermind.com/metal-guitar-apprentice/

[@randyanderson5090]

Love the Aminor,,great lesson Teacher Dude!

[@jasonstallworth]

Just posted another Aminor lesson today!

[@HGCNBeauty]

It's inspiring to me, I'm fully adapted to 7-string guitar, and I wanna write songs like you someday . help me a lot here great video

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Thank you Jason, very cool 😎

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[@ElvisPereira-ex9dy]

Great lesson Jason!! These riffs are sick as hell man!! 🔥🔥👊🏻🤘🏻

[@jasonstallworth]

Thank you dude!

[@redeyejedi2866]

Nice riffage dude love that 80's metal vibe 🤘🤘

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I'm an 80s metal fanatic!!

[@murraygoldberg2357]

That first riff reminded me of ratt and warren demartini

[@jasonstallworth]

Love some Ratt!

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Thanks jason ♥️

[@jasonstallworth]

You're welcome, dude!

[@back4onemore]

Very cool riffs 🤘🏻🤘🏻

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Thanks dude!

[@billbenoit3150]

Awesome videos man! I haven’t played much on the past few years and the breaks really got pumped when we I had my daughter a year and a half ago only playing around on my acoustic (she loves to strum) but your videos have really inspired me to get back at it man. Time for her to get acquainted with my old Marshall \m/

[@jasonstallworth]

So awesome to hear that and yeah, pick it back up man!

[@Francob78]

Nice riffage sir.........Love to play all over the neck and have diversity in playing. However to listeners it may just ‘sound the same ‘

[@jasonstallworth]

Yeah it's a challenge to put that differentiation in your music. And to me, it's all about that balance between what I feel sounds good and how the listener interprets that.

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[@singaporebusines]

Hi Jason, thanks for this. BTW, on the first riff - the tab shows that you playing 3 strings E,A,D, but in fact the second part of the riff is played on D and G strings. Is it just a typo error ?

[@jasonstallworth]

Dude, there's a good chance I screwed up on the tabs (and it's not the first time...lol!)

[@WesNye96]

Great lessons Jason! Thanks for this! you must've been playing for many years?

[@jasonstallworth]

Over 30 years...I’m old! 😂

[@WesNye96]

@@jasonstallworth Oh man do you mind just throwing ur experience to me lol That'll save me some time ahaha

[@sahamal_savu]

Been trying to load this for like 10 minutes haha, KZbin is acting weird for everyone I guess. Anyhow, great lesson man, thanks again \m/

[@HoldMyBeerFam]

Yea that happened to me after i got to watch the video though

[@jasonstallworth]

Yeah I think there was an issue with KZbin last night! Pretty crazy!

[@dariorox1]

I have no problem playing around with A instead of E, as long as it's A2 😎

[@jasonstallworth]

NIce, yeah, it's just good to play in different areas! Spices things up!

[@garethc3448]

Jason ! Give me writing song 'song structure' please. Ultimately, (and i know this is asking you to address my own personal problem) but coming up with riffs, is pretty fine, but then structuring and arranging that into something vaguely coherent is a massive problem for me. It's supposedly simple, but not really. A lot of the other songwriting videos you've done (including this type of riff stuff) is great but I just am missing the last kind of piece. We all need our own masterpie(a)ce (sic) right? - Riffage is great, that's awesome some of the stuff here really is great - The process of just recording, sure - Vocals, you've covered this too to some ! Unless i miss something, it's all about structuring now but in an applied sense. For example if Verse goes like X, bridge can go like ???. etc. great riffs btw - get a discord! Keep it metal, and pray to the iron gods! Archy

[@jasonstallworth]

Dude, you're right, I haven't covered that in depth but I do have this video that may help: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fYOUoqGgrap_gpY But I'll be honest, there's really no wrong or right way. I really think you just have to spend a lot of time with your instrument and playing around with different riff, and then expanding on those riffs. And if possible, play along with a drum program...that really helps for inspiring riffs and progressions.

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