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{{Top-Level Crumbs|1}}{{Lesson Crumbs|5}}{{Style Lesson Crumbs|6}} '''Thrash Metal''' is a sub-genre of [[Rock|rock ]] that focused on an aggressive, "underground" sound. This meant heavily distorted guitars, screamed vocals, and up-tempo songs with non-stop drumming. Guitars typically played riffs, rarely playing sustained chords. Riffs took inspiration from both blues and classical compositions. Fast guitar solos were also prominent. Rather than use rich harmonies for chorus sections, thrash typically built tension using rhythm drops, vocal-guitar point-counterpoint, or tempo shifts. Song structures often took experimental routes, sometimes omitting choruses altogether. Popular thrash artists are Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, and Slayer.
== Riff-based Tonality ==
A '''pedal point''' is a note that is held constant or consistently reinforced over a passage of changing harmonic content. For thrash metal, this typically meant low E or A string palm mutes being used as the backbone of a riff, with other notes playing off this tone.
p p p p p p p p
p p p p p p p p
Sometimes thrash artists would change the pedal point but continue playing the same riff otherwise, altering the feel of the riff.
p p p p p p p p
p p p p p p p p
With thrash riffs often playing consecutive power chords with different root notes, some players noticed they could use alternating index/ring and middle/pinky fingers to finger the chords, achieving greater economy of motion (allowing them to play even faster) and avoiding any scratchy sounds from sliding positions up and down between chords. This is called '''spider fingering'''.
m r p r p m r m
o i m i m o i o
m2 d5 m2 m2
p p p p p p
Although thrash was often focused on speed, many prefered to downpick all palm mutes to get them more of a repetitive and percussive sound. This didn't mean that tempos were lowered, but that large amounts of practice went into getting rhythmically-consistent, fast, consecutively-downpicked notes. This requirement was often relaxed for unmuted notes or subdivisions of the normal rhythm.
== Guitar Tone ==