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Looking at some classical pieces to possibly learn, I ran across a minuet. For some reason, I had a metal riff stick in my head, so this hybrid came about.

A minuet is usually in 3/4 time, so you'd count 3's instead of 4's. It's often part A for 8 bars, part B for 8 bars, then it ends or repeats part A or does something else. Trying to go over basics here.

Here's a a metal riff based on basic minuet structure.

Part A

E  mute the X 

|: []     x | []     x | []     x | []     x |

                        A string  E string

| []     x | []     x | 3  2  1 |  3  2  1  :|



Part B

F# muted                                    A G# G 

|: /// /// /// | /// /// /// | /// /// /// | /   /   / |

F# muted                                   G F# F

| /// /// /// | /// /// /// | /// /// /// | /   /   / :|



Metal Minuet: Part A, Part B, Part A

Updated on: 2008 09 14