Knights Of Cydonia Guitar Lesson - Muse - Famous Riffs

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The main riff we are going to learn in this Knights Of Cydonia guitar lesson uses a cool combination a hammer-ons, pulls-offs and picked notes to a create highly energetic and inventive guitar riff.

Guitarist/vocalist Matthew Bellamy takes his time building the tension of the song until around the 4 minute mark when this huge sounding riff comes in.

Try to follow the lesson closely enough that you can start to see the pattern that repeats throughout the riff. If you understand that pattern the whole thing becomes a lot easier to understand.

Pay special attention to the part where you have to shift from the 5th position to the 7th rather quickly. That is probably the most difficult part of the entire riff and may need to be practiced a bit more that the other parts.

Ok that's about it! Enjoy! :)

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[Corneliusoco]

whole song pls your are our only hope of learning this song completely

[Tamanuimusic]

Obviously you should do a lesson for the whole song :P

[ethancrawford]

I would love to have the whole song but that right there was what i was looking for.

[CornDoggggg]

Nice, though here's a suggestion I'm offering. Rather than going through the D string for the first part of the riff, you can also jump on the A string without having the left hand moving so far. It goes like this

A 5h7 7/10p7
E                    10p7 7 7 etc.

Just a suggestion. Thanks. Good video though. :D

[saaggo]

Thanks for all the tutorials, you rock!!!

[standingkeith]

Man, thank you for all the great guitar lessons, really!

[Kapybaraaa]

Please whenever you are able, full song tutorial please master

[firebird]

My problem is getting it up to speed iv been practicing for so so long on this riff and I can play it slow but as soon as I play to the music at its tempo I fumble so much and mess it up bad

[devinomateus]

That would be an interesting song to learn. Too bad it didn't get the views.

[Raptorialand]

came for that fast muted picking part... :/ i just can't get it. First the speed is incredible and the b string wont stay muted.

[HARLIFChannel]

Terima kasih sangat membantu bagi gitaris pemula

[drcola]

What tuning is this in? Great lesson tho!!

[seek_and_destroy_ttt-ttt-]

Can you please do a hole lesson of knights of cydonia???