OK here it is, Warheart's adaptations on Mystiques riffs with written analysis for a better understanding as to what I was thinking when I looked at them and changed them to what I did. Don't get too bored.
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ZIP FILEhttp://download.yousendit.com/30B39D84532A30CFhttp://download.yousendit.com/30B39D84532A30CF there's 3 files. 1 is the origianal, 2 is a basic showing of what riff I changed and what I changed it to and 3 is full band demonstrations of each riff. 2 is the one I'll be referring to the most.
Ok as I explained to another user about 4/5 pages back, when using a different tuning, you still play as if the guitar was in E standard so you call the strings EADGBE and all the notes stay the same (for convenience!!), so I took the first melody (bar 1, GP file 2) and transposed it to Emin (bar 2, GP file 2) by moving it down 2 frets.
I then doubled each note like Janne does (bar 3) in "Living Dead Beat" and "Angel's Don't Kill" etc.
Using this same idea, I tryed to come up with a melody that sounded a bit more like Bodom (this didn't come easy) and also extended it to 2 bars long before repeating (bar 4 & 5). You can see in the 3rd GP file that I made the keyboard play it first and then got the guitar to double it when the whole band started to play. Notice that the rhythm guitar is stupidly simple because the focus is on the lead guitar/keyboard melody (GP file 3, bar 7 & 8).
Bar 7 of GP file 2 uses a very common harmonic minor progression so once again, I transposed that to Emin and used it at the end of the rhythm part for the first melody (end of bar 10, GP file 3).
As shown in bar 9 of GP fle 2, I had to change the end of the melody too so it would fit over the chords. An E harmonic minor scale was used.
In bar 10 of GP file 2, constant 16th notes are used and then notes change every beat so I stuck it in Emin again and outlined a very common progression (bar 11-12, GP file 2) that Alexi uses SOO MUCH. (Emin, Emin, C, D, Emin). As you can hear in GP file 3, bar 12, the focus is one the keyboard melody which is doubled by a diatonic 3rd harmony the 2nd time round so the guitar part can get away with being really simple.
I saw that Mystique used some sweep picked arpeggios in there so I thought I'd Alexify those too (bar 13 & 14, GP file 2). The first two shapes were played high to low so I replaced them with an descending Emin and D major.
The second set were low to high so I replaced those with an ascending Bmin and G major. The keyboard also doubles this, sometimes in unison and sometimes in harmony. Kinda reminds me of the solo to "Children of Decadence".
The last riff I looked at starts at bar 16, GP file 2 and it reminded me of songs like "Bodom After Midnight" and "Chokehold" because of the constant 16th notes. For this, I changed the key again but to Amin this time and used a syncopated rhythm for interest (bar 18, GP file 2) It sounds very much like something from a Sinergy album so I took advantage and used a lead fill from "The Bitch is Back" at the end of the riff.
At bar 29, GP file 3, I changed the feel of that riff by changing the drums to more of a thrash beat instead of punk, removed the keyboard and made the guitar more staccato.
I hope this can be helpful to you Mystique and to anyone else who cares to check it out. Hopefully I did a good enough job on making the riffs/melodies sound a little bit more like Bodom. I know they're not great and don't really sound like them but I tried.
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