Opeth Key's/Scales

[akasha33]

Granted he could have felt quite pressured at the time of the interview, especially considering the whole 'rushed and unprepared' setting as described by the reporter.

Despites all the piecing of 'thoughfully composed riffs', there transpires from O's music, at least to my uneducated ears, an inexplicable flow in their songs. It might not be a obvious one .

I imagine that he uses some scales. I have seen the guitar.com video and sometimes it is hard to remember all of those chords! At the time he was writing the song "the drapery falls," I am pretty sure that he had at least a faint idea of what he was doing. Anyway, I think of Opeth as the kind of band that pieces riffs and parts together in order to make a song.

Most of their songs, especially on the older albums, change drastically throughout the song. It's always one riff to another, an acoustic interlude, then another riff and so on. I guess it's whatever goes together and works.