Using fifth-root (playing Drop D style riffs without the drop) and having my 5 string bass double the roots is my go to for super heavy riffs that are very clear especially if they need to have some speed to them.
This was SO fkn great, Steve !!! I must have written 12 riffs o'er the weekend using a veritable host of dissonant dyads & mixing them with power chords. It has opened up a whole new world of sound for me. Thank you so much !!! 🥰
Great lesson, Steve! I’ve known about this from grunge era stuff where it was also all over. Intervals and inversions of any of these dyads sound dope on that Baghdad too! That harmonic layer it adds is so great.
You've gotten me back into playing bass again- even these awesome kind of lesson/tutorial videos are appreciated! I know its kinda a peculiar question but I was wondering if there could be a potential future video of "Doom"ing riffs from DimeBag Darrels' catalog?
Glad you're digging the lessons, man! I'll have to think on the DimeBag thing. I don't really consider most of his riffs to be very doomy, but it's been a long time since I listed to a lot of Pantera.
Saw ya with the hm2 cult shirt. I love the crowbar riff, always have. Through the ashes has always always been a big deal for me. Love your channel. Thank you
Not quite doom (although definitely doom-adjacent) but "Water Is Not Enough" by Neurosis has a killer riff that seems like it's totally composed of these dyad ideas.
Main root to hammer octave 3rd triad, I called it fancy doom😂 that was my sprinkling. My homies never agreed but I always reminded them I do tech death😂 Great video bro!
Great video. This is very much in my style after being a huge fan of bands like High on Fire, Crowbar, and Fear Factory. Dino Cazares uses this technique a lot also (check out songs like Replica, and Descent). I just didn't know what these shapes were all called. Thanks for the content!
So awesome, and so much versatility! Thou has to be my favourite band ever and they use so many diads but especially on the breakdown on fucking chained to the bottom of the ocean they are absolutely earth-rending.
Yep Uncle Acid is full of them. Usually played as harmonies with 2 guitars (not always) but they can all usually be played as dyads on one guitar. Eg. Mt Abraxas, 13 Candles, Slow Death and many more. The band is awesome
Hey Steve, this is a great lesson, thank you for taking the time to do this. The Baghdad and the Matamp, is a great pairing. If you have the time, I would really appreciate if you posted the settings used on the Baghdad. Cheers
Sure! Baghdad settings were treble, bass, pres, vol, gain, and drive all around 1 o'clock, mid set max, depth set around 11 o'clock. Drive on the Matamp was set around 9 o'clock, so about as clean as you can run it.
@DoesItDoom hey just wanted to say thanks Steve. your channel is awesome. I appreciate all you do for the Stoner Doom Metal community. Hope you have a great Friday, brother.
Awesome lesson. Thanks! I use a lot of these concepts in my own playing. Toward the end though, when you're talking about the major 6th dyads, it looks like your fretboard is actually showing a minor 7th interval rather than the intended major 6th. This is also true in the PDF link.
If it were rooted on the 5th or 6th strings it would indeed be a b7 interval, but because of the tuning interval between the G and B strings (a Major 3rd rather than the perfect fourth between the other strings), it ends up a Major 6th.
Oh cool I was just on autopilot and thinking about all the relationships being the same for a second there, I wasn't really paying attention to the starting string. This makes so much more sense now haha. Thanks again for the fun lesson. Love your channel!@@DoesItDoom
I think using a mix of the sixth, third, fourth, and fifth dyads, and moving the two notes differently from each other, would probably create a really convincing illusion of two different but dependent melodies played simultaneously in a doom metal context
the body shape on that guitar is basically perfection. Any thoughts on a 24 fret version? Also curious about the Woodrite logo - so much of the Does It Doom brand is metal AF, and the Woodrite logo just seems kind of... like Flanders from the Simpsons? Anyhow, I love your videos! They always make me think about playing guitar a little differently.
An interval is the musical distance between two notes. You might find this video helpful: Doom Metal Guitar - Interval Theory Basics ua-cam.com/video/a-pXzwRMKMQ/v-deo.html
Im not familiar with modern bands but I was into Paradise Lost and I Listen to Deftones a lot as well They both use some odd drop tunings and use different diad chords . You can hear them a lot
Have you ever listened to A Better Tomorrow’s 2021 debut album “Spiritual Crossing?” Probably my favorite experimental doom album of that year. It is very unique for a variety of reasons. I think the first track has a good chance of blowing you away, at least.
all hail to Goth Doom & Funeral Doom and to your sexy guitar despite not been black color hey look for MESMUR you may thank me for it some day.. the riff you did at the intro made me think of their tone ultra underrated band... tragically and don't even make me mention TEMPESTUOUS FALL and MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
Nevermind i see the sexy black version of that guitar in the background ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh a complete Night moonlight love with lots of Castlevanian bats and Vamps 🖤
you cool my brother very glad to find DoomMetalheads kindred souls out there and thank you for letting me know that you been reading my comments yeah those are great underrated modern Doom Metal/ Ambient Black bands trust me the more you listen to them the more addicting the they i also love doing my own Doom music in the works to do a full instrumental Metal band with lots of Doom/Funeral aspects in it
@@GothicXlightningsame here bro i absolutely love when he responds to comments of mine too. he’s taught me so much and continues to do so, so i’m glad he’s cultivated a bunch of doom lords
@@nephilimritual-band May you all stay Blessed by the Night my Doomer Lords & Sis out there and never lose the dreams and the hopes no matter how many shitty soulless Normies around us tries to brainwash us with their mainstream GARBAGE Keep Resisting and existing my clan
Dyads especially 5ths (power chords) and 4ths. And even minor 3tds or major thirds os the reason NOT to drop tune. It micjs the whole fungering patterns and chords so you have to compensate for the change(s) Down runing it all remains the aame interval wise and is just that many steps duffetence in tone and relation to the other instruments Im all for diwn tuning (personal D2 standard on 6 string os usually the best tuning fir a 6 string). But now 7rs better just to suwn tune 2 semi tines TOPS and more atrings vause each string you add 8s loke tuning diwn 5 more semi tones E2 (6 string standard) to B1 (7 string standard,) to F#1 (8 string standard which matchs a TRUE 6 string bass with the F#0 string vs yhe unnecessary extra higher strings....its a BASS so if anything i perfer the warwick vapmyre dark lotd style were its a 4 string but MADE for F#0 B0 E1 A1/) to C#1 (9 string stabsard) to G#0 (10 string standard) can even tine to 10 string down 2 steps to F#0 then it would MATCH the tunomg of a 6 string bass
Thanks Steve, always been a big fan of the technique videos, looking forward to trying this out later 🙂
Awesome! Looking to do some more technique videos. If you have any ideas for topics that you’d like to see, let me know!
Matt Pike is such an awesome guitarist who doesn't get talked about much, glad you mentioned him
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats is a great example of a band that uses all these various dyads in their riffs. Melody Lane is a good example.
Nice.
Please Steve do a tutorial of melody lane!
Exactly! They made it their thing totally!
Pro tip: A fourth is an inverted fifth. If you play it on the lowest strings it can sound like a power chord that's impossibly low for your guitar.
Absolutely!
Using fifth-root (playing Drop D style riffs without the drop) and having my 5 string bass double the roots is my go to for super heavy riffs that are very clear especially if they need to have some speed to them.
I just tried it and it's sooo thiccc! Thank you, brother (or sister)🙏🤘
Pro tip. That was a beginner tip
So any note with any other note. Got it
This was SO fkn great, Steve !!! I must have written 12 riffs o'er the weekend using a veritable host of dissonant dyads & mixing them with power chords. It has opened up a whole new world of sound for me. Thank you so much !!! 🥰
That’s incredible. Glad to hear it!
My fingers can hold some pretty fancy "jazz" chords but I get the most enjoyment playing just two notes and some heavy distortion... Great lesson.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it. I need to learn more fancy jazz chords I think lol.
It's incredible how 2 notes can create the unimaginable ❤
Man the timing of this is great, I'm bummed about the riffs I'm coming up with. It's been pretty demoralizing. Thanks for making this 🤘
Try it out! Will add some unique character to your riffs for sure.
@@DoesItDoom I will! Watching this right now and it's already giving me ideas to try out.
@@AcidFink666 awesome!
Great lesson, Steve! I’ve known about this from grunge era stuff where it was also all over. Intervals and inversions of any of these dyads sound dope on that Baghdad too! That harmonic layer it adds is so great.
Thanks dude! I haven’t stopped playing the Baghdad since we finished the circuit tbh. It rules.
I got that Jawn on the Patreon preorder and have zero regrets. I love it on my big amps. Just instant doom. 🎉
You've gotten me back into playing bass again- even these awesome kind of lesson/tutorial videos are appreciated!
I know its kinda a peculiar question but I was wondering if there could be a potential future video of "Doom"ing riffs from DimeBag Darrels' catalog?
Glad you're digging the lessons, man! I'll have to think on the DimeBag thing. I don't really consider most of his riffs to be very doomy, but it's been a long time since I listed to a lot of Pantera.
I can totally imagine how sick Walk and Godamn Electric would sound doomed out , I'd love to hear some Pantera songs made into a doom version 🤘
You gotta get out behold to the riff. It's a great doom bass channel
Saw ya with the hm2 cult shirt. I love the crowbar riff, always have. Through the ashes has always always been a big deal for me. Love your channel. Thank you
Not quite doom (although definitely doom-adjacent) but "Water Is Not Enough" by Neurosis has a killer riff that seems like it's totally composed of these dyad ideas.
Main root to hammer octave 3rd triad, I called it fancy doom😂 that was my sprinkling. My homies never agreed but I always reminded them I do tech death😂 Great video bro!
A diad is the Rosetta Stone interpreter for proper communication between your brain and your fingers. Thanks Steve!
Omg you’re fuct
There are 20+ minute videos explaining intervals on UA-cam yet you did it in like 2 minutes, good job
These chord videos are always very helpful, thank you!
Great! Have some ideas for more.
Great video. This is very much in my style after being a huge fan of bands like High on Fire, Crowbar, and Fear Factory. Dino Cazares uses this technique a lot also (check out songs like Replica, and Descent). I just didn't know what these shapes were all called. Thanks for the content!
Great lesson as always. As newcomer to playing doom/sludge I can’t tell you how helpful your channel has been. Any more trucker hats coming out?
Thanks dude. Glad you enjoyed it. Haven’t done a run of hats in a long time. Maybe we need to!
So awesome, and so much versatility! Thou has to be my favourite band ever and they use so many diads but especially on the breakdown on fucking chained to the bottom of the ocean they are absolutely earth-rending.
🤘🏻🤘🏻
Thanks man, you're pure talent musician and teacher, with your genre I have pro tip - firstly be an absolute beast of tone 😊
Thanks for watching. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I’d come across these two string chords before but didn’t know what they were called. The PDF is really handy for seeing the full set.
Awesome!
Great channel man, very illustrative, perfect for a beginner such as myself! Tons of cool riffs
Awesome! Thanks for watching. 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Yep Uncle Acid is full of them. Usually played as harmonies with 2 guitars (not always) but they can all usually be played as dyads on one guitar. Eg. Mt Abraxas, 13 Candles, Slow Death and many more. The band is awesome
Indeed!
Hey Steve, this is a great lesson, thank you for taking the time to do this. The Baghdad and the Matamp, is a great pairing. If you have the time, I would really appreciate if you posted the settings used on the Baghdad. Cheers
Sure! Baghdad settings were treble, bass, pres, vol, gain, and drive all around 1 o'clock, mid set max, depth set around 11 o'clock. Drive on the Matamp was set around 9 o'clock, so about as clean as you can run it.
@DoesItDoom thanks Steve, that's great 👍🏻, I appreciate you sending me this.
@DoesItDoom hey just wanted to say thanks Steve. your channel is awesome. I appreciate all you do for the Stoner Doom Metal community. Hope you have a great Friday, brother.
Much appreciated, brother.
thank you for this video. helped shed some light on my questions as I transition from playing bass to guitar.
Thank you, i loved the Octave!! Been composing some things these days and i was kinda lost on how to move 😅 thank you thank you!! ❤
Glad to hear that! Happy riffing.
The way you explained that, it actually made sense to me for once. Deff subbing and checking more shit out
Glad to hear that! Thanks for the sub.
This is one of my favorite techniques.
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That Bagdad sounds damn good!!!
It’s a beast! ⚔️
You are the source my brother!!! Great lesson!!!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
I’m somewhere below the source. More like a medium. 🛐
@@DoesItDoom Ahh man, you’re selling yourself short brother!!! I love these little informative lessons, they’re very helpful!!!🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼
Amazing video, thank you!
You’re welcome. Thanks for watching!
Awesome lesson. Thanks! I use a lot of these concepts in my own playing. Toward the end though, when you're talking about the major 6th dyads, it looks like your fretboard is actually showing a minor 7th interval rather than the intended major 6th. This is also true in the PDF link.
If it were rooted on the 5th or 6th strings it would indeed be a b7 interval, but because of the tuning interval between the G and B strings (a Major 3rd rather than the perfect fourth between the other strings), it ends up a Major 6th.
Oh cool I was just on autopilot and thinking about all the relationships being the same for a second there, I wasn't really paying attention to the starting string. This makes so much more sense now haha. Thanks again for the fun lesson. Love your channel!@@DoesItDoom
@@justingoersthanks for watching, man. Glad you enjoyed it.
Music theory really is amazing. Nice work.
Worth learning to some degree for sure. Glad you enjoyed the video.
My favorite teacher lately
Thanks so much. Glad you’re enjoying the content.
Hey, thanks for the straight up lesson! It was a useful refresher, and nice not to feel like I'm being sold something along the way. Have resubbed.
The verse riff from To Cross The Bridge uses dyads too, 5-7 and 5-8
They are all over the place in his riffs for sure.
This ripppps 🤘👽🤘 feel free to keep these type lessons coming
Will do it.
That gitfiddle done stole my heart 🤘🤘
Glad you dig it man. Just a few left now at doesitdoom.com/product/warlord
Great stuff as always man!
Thanks Brother! 🙏🏻🤘🏻
I learned about these from the first two October Tide albums (which are masterpieces).
Awesome!
Thanks for this lesson, this stuff is super helpful. Could you maybe make a (similar) video on how to spice up your chords in drop tuning?
Cool idea. All of the concepts discussed here apply, the intervals just shift. Give it a try.
Great video, genuinely appreciate your content, and your pedals are great too. Gods work!
unisons are incredibly underrated in metal. varg made excellent use of them in keliohesten
That quitar is so neat
Thanks, Luke. Glad you dig it!
Ihave wanted a Green to play my death metals through for years. Hopefully one day ill snag one
So good!
We love a good walk down.
Thanks for another great lesson Steve. It's a good resource for a bad guitar player like me. Greetings from Mendoza, Argentina! 🙏🙏🙏
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Matt pike: plays slightly slower metallica riffs
everyone: omg genius
I think using a mix of the sixth, third, fourth, and fifth dyads, and moving the two notes differently from each other, would probably create a really convincing illusion of two different but dependent melodies played simultaneously in a doom metal context
When will we see a Warlord in this color again? I need another one!
No plans at the moment.
the body shape on that guitar is basically perfection. Any thoughts on a 24 fret version? Also curious about the Woodrite logo - so much of the Does It Doom brand is metal AF, and the Woodrite logo just seems kind of... like Flanders from the Simpsons?
Anyhow, I love your videos! They always make me think about playing guitar a little differently.
Can some one explain what he means by 2 note interval?
An interval is the musical distance between two notes. You might find this video helpful: Doom Metal Guitar - Interval Theory Basics
ua-cam.com/video/a-pXzwRMKMQ/v-deo.html
Thanks Steve .
Sure thing! Thanks for watching.
Im not familiar with modern bands but I was into Paradise Lost and I Listen to Deftones a lot as well
They both use some odd drop tunings and use different diad chords . You can hear them a lot
Definitely.
Have you ever listened to A Better Tomorrow’s 2021 debut album “Spiritual Crossing?” Probably my favorite experimental doom album of that year. It is very unique for a variety of reasons. I think the first track has a good chance of blowing you away, at least.
No. Will check it out.
@@DoesItDoom Let me know what you think of it if you do get a chance to listen to it! Virtually no one knows about this album it is a shame!
Your videos are the shit. Thank you.
Thanks so much for watching. 🙏🏻🤘🏻
Steve Reis is your friend!!!
🙌🏻🙌🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
This is super useful, but do you, or in general, use these shapes harmonically? Like built them off of a scale or just added to build tension?
all hail to Goth Doom & Funeral Doom
and to your sexy guitar despite not been black color
hey look for MESMUR you may thank me for it some day..
the riff you did at the intro made me think of their tone
ultra underrated band... tragically
and don't even make me mention TEMPESTUOUS FALL and MIDNIGHT ODYSSEY
Nevermind i see the sexy black version of that guitar in the background
ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh a complete Night moonlight love with lots of Castlevanian bats and Vamps 🖤
Haha! Will check ‘em out. Thanks for watching.
you cool my brother
very glad to find DoomMetalheads kindred souls out there
and thank you for letting me know that you been reading my comments
yeah those are great underrated modern Doom Metal/ Ambient Black bands
trust me the more you listen to them the more addicting the they
i also love doing my own Doom music
in the works to do a full instrumental Metal band with lots of Doom/Funeral aspects in it
@@GothicXlightningsame here bro i absolutely love when he responds to comments of mine too. he’s taught me so much and continues to do so, so i’m glad he’s cultivated a bunch of doom lords
@@nephilimritual-band
May you all stay Blessed by the Night my Doomer Lords & Sis out there
and never lose the dreams and the hopes no matter how many shitty soulless Normies around us tries to brainwash us with their mainstream GARBAGE
Keep Resisting and existing my clan
My man is just flexing with that octave finger stretch haha
I love the white Warlord!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Thanks, Troy. One of my favorite finishes that we’ve done! ❄️⚔️
@@DoesItDoom Absolutely! It looks awesome!! Keep up the great work, I love your content!!
Never heard a CrowBar song i Didnt like!!!🤘
Same.
Fact
Maybe shell voicings, like a root,3rd and 7th shape?
What is the purple amp you have on the top there? Obviously custom but i cant tell exactly from the controls. Just curious thank you!
Talking of dyads... Maybe you could do a tutorial of High on Fire's Ethereal one of these days? Ive always wanted to play that song
I understand sometimes
And I thank you for sharing
* droptunes and promptly morphs into young Saruman.
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I always felt that the band down was on spot with the power cords
1:36 did you just play Kashmir?
Ha! Kinda sounded like it.
Could you teach some tips to get the salems pot sound
Cool lesson
Thanks man.
Great video
Thanks for watching!
Nothing to do with this lesson, although it's been helpful.. 10/10 Isaiahs would love to see a lesson on Junkie by BuzzOv•en
Drop it on the official request list for me at doesitdoom.com/requests
THANK YOU, i was just playing the famous diad 5th aka powerchord with the root and 5th 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Dude, are you aware of a band from Italy named Haunted? they are my favorite doom metal band.
Are the gold burst Warlords coming back anytime soon?
Next year sometime.
Tool's Pneuma has some good dyad work as well.
Thats a nice guitar
Thanks, Steve!
your hair look great today, my dear sir!
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Just tried black dahlia murders tuning it aint doom but its pretty cool
Good to know 👍
Thanks for watching.
What’s the purple amp on top of the matamp
A Randall RG80 combo cut down and retolexed as a head.
Thanks appreciated
so sick
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Can we get a "Brother In The Wind" lesson?
Such a great song.
Gracias 👐👐
Thanks for watching. 🧙🏻♂️✨
For some reason these chords makes me remember mastodon
Makes sense.
Awesome video :-) Iommi forever
Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for watching.
Whoa I found Gandalf, but he's a doom Metalist!!!
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@@DoesItDoom 😲 HE REPLIED! Thank you, good sir! 🙏
Actually... more like Saruman! No offense, that's just great 😅
Ataraxie use the root minor 6 very effectively
can you do a guitar lesson her sisters they were weak by witchcraft?
Maybe! Drop it on the official request list at doesitdoom.com/requests
When I want to make some doom, I tune my 7 string to drop A then selet the Drop Tune setting in my Whammy pedal then turn on my Digitech Death Metal.
I just stopped by because I saw Saruman. Never knew he had an axe.
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🤘👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹👹🤘co za fantastyczny zajebisty dźwięk bro przyjacielu to jest to super
Thanks, brother!
Matt Pike uses Dyad Chords all his life (I wrote it before you said that on 3rd minute 😀)
Nailed it. This entire video could have been based on Pike riffs. Lol.
@@DoesItDoom Matt Pike for President!
What kind of guitar is that? 👌
Dyads especially 5ths (power chords) and 4ths. And even minor 3tds or major thirds os the reason NOT to drop tune.
It micjs the whole fungering patterns and chords so you have to compensate for the change(s)
Down runing it all remains the aame interval wise and is just that many steps duffetence in tone and relation to the other instruments
Im all for diwn tuning (personal D2 standard on 6 string os usually the best tuning fir a 6 string). But now 7rs better just to suwn tune 2 semi tines TOPS and more atrings vause each string you add 8s loke tuning diwn 5 more semi tones E2 (6
string standard) to B1 (7 string standard,) to F#1 (8 string standard which matchs a TRUE 6 string bass with the F#0 string vs yhe unnecessary extra higher strings....its a BASS so if anything i perfer the warwick vapmyre dark lotd style were its a 4 string but MADE for F#0 B0 E1 A1/) to C#1 (9 string stabsard) to G#0 (10 string standard) can even tine to 10 string down 2 steps to F#0 then it would MATCH the tunomg of a 6 string bass
Dyad = two note chord
Triad = three note chord
Quadad = what Elmer Fudd ate on his trip to New Orleans
I use them alot
I used to call those 'reverse' power chords :0
Makes sense.