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[@HighZ]

Great tips! Definitely going to use these next writing session

[@devyriffs]

Glad to hear it!

[@wesleytrott6397]

Great advice! A term I learned from a David Bennet Piano video is "interpolating" which is a fancy word for "stealing" or "lifting" musical ideas. A riff that inspired me and that I interpolated was from the 2:30 mark of Opeth's song "Heir Apparent". That song is masterpiece! But that riff was such a cool change-up and such a great riff.

[@devyriffs]

Thank you! Everything is built from what came before… No matter how much originality is brought, there’s always some fragment of inspiration. I think Opeth is a generational talent, they have an unfair amount of incredible songs, and that riff you speak of… I hadn’t listened to it in a while. Forgot how good that song is.

[@garrettthackoorie6904]

Awesome tips man. I just started playing around with the Master Of Puppets riff backwards and came up with something cool. Thanks for these tips, and love your channel!

[@devyriffs]

@@garrettthackoorie6904 I’m stoked! That’s awesome!!! 🤘

[@devyriffs]

@@garrettthackoorie6904 thank you!

[@ChameleonHulk]

Never thought about doing this but makes sense. All the greats have copied something one way or another. As long as it sounds different, why not?

[@devyriffs]

My thought process exactly!

[@Durkhead]

I got plenty of heavy riffs i just not good at putting drums to them

[@devyriffs]

What part do you struggle with? It took me quite a while to figure out, and I still learn new stuff almost everyday.

[@Durkhead]

@devyriffs i guess basically making it flow i have some midi drums and they sound so robotic seems like everyones drums i hear on discord have so much more groove and movement

[@devyriffs]

@ ahh yes, I did a basics video on it, but the way to get out of being robotic is making the velocitiy and time a little bit off. Real drummers are imperfect, dominant hand/leg will hit harder, and be faster at times. It’s just a matter of moving things ever so slightly when editing them. Your DAW may even have a “humanize” function, which will do that for you!