

It’s a great riff to learn to help you work on your timing.

The riff I want to highlight here is the iconic opening guitar riff. Supermassive Black Hole is a great song for a beginner to learn due to the simple rhythm and riffs used throughout the song. Supermassive Black Hole was the lead single from Muse’s 2006 album, Black Holes and Revelations. If you don’t get this feeling that I’m talking about when you play this riff, take it as a sign that you need to keep practicing. If you play along with the song, you’ll start to understand why it’s such a great guitar riff. Once you memorize the order of the notes and you feel comfortable with the rhythm, you will start to get into a groove. It’s unlike any of the other riffs in this lesson. What makes this one of the best Muse riffs is the feeling you get when you play it properly.

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You can either play along with the actual song or download the Guitar Pro file for the song from a Guitar TAB website. While you should use a metronome in the beginning to help learn the rhythm and feel comfortable with the riff, you should move on to playing along with the drums and bass.

This is a type of riff that you need to practice along with the backing instruments to learn properly. Play the notes and power chords that don’t use palm muting harder to emphasize those notes. Pay attention to the points where you add or remove your palm from the strings. If you play the riff without any palm muting, you’re not going to get that chunky and percussive tone you hear in the song. The use of palm muting helps add character to this riff. If you’re able to play every note consistently, the riff will sound and feel much better.Ĭontrol your palm muting. Make sure the pull-offs are also consistent with the picked notes. This means they all ring out for the same length of time.īecause you’ll be jumping back and forth between two strings, you need to be careful that you don’t play some notes faster than others. All of the notes in this riff apart from the power chords are sixteenth notes. If it feels easy at this tempo, gradually increase the tempo.Īim for consistency. Then use a metronome set at half speed (48 bpm) and practice playing along with it with perfect timing. Start out slow and memorize all of the notes. Your timing needs to be spot on or it won’t feel right. This type of riff only works if you learn to play it perfectly. There are a few things to keep in mind when learning this riff: While I highly recommend checking out the tapping section, the riff I want to highlight is the groovy stop-and-start riff used before the chorus.
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If you want to learn this full song, you’ll need a Whammy pedal such as the DigiTech Whammy DT (link to review), which is used throughout the song and during the tapping sections. If you’re an intermediate guitarist, you’ll have a lot of fun learning this song. The song is filled with some fun riffs and techniques such as tapping, funky chord strumming, string skipping, and tremolo picking. Some MIDI events such as pitch wheel, Channel Volume Control, Pan, Modulation Wheel are used, to enhance the quality.Reapers is a song from Muse’s 2015 album, Drones. The total duration of this midi music is 5 minutes and 4 seconds, with a total of 9,192 notes, divided into 14 tracks, and a single tempo of 127bpm. "01 muse 2009 uprising " is a MIDI music piece in Pop Music style, played by an ensemble of 21 instruments including Lead 2 (sawtooth), Electric Bass (finger), Distortion Guitar, Overdriven Guitar, French Horn, Flute, and Tenor Sax.
