Addicted To Pain Guitar Lesson – Alter Bridge – Famous Riffs (VIDEO)
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In today’s “famous riff” lesson I will show you how to playing the main opening riff from “Addicted to Pain” by Alter Bridge.
“Addicted to Pain” was the lead single off the band’s fourth studio album Fortress. It contains driving 16th note rhythms through much of the song which makes this opening main riff a great alternate picking exercise.
In this Addicted to Pain guitar lesson I will show you how to play this driving 16th note riff note-for-note.
First off, let me reiterate what I said in the video. I am tuned to Dropped “D” in this video lesson but on the actual recording guitarist Mark Tremonti is tuned to Dropped “C#”. Dropped “C#” is a tuning identical to Dropped “D” if you refer to the distance the strings are tuned apart from one another. The only difference being that he has taken the Dropped “D” tuning and lowered the pitch of every string by one half-step.
So in the video lesson you will learn exactly how Mark Tremonti plays this killer riff, but if you want to play along with the original studio recording you will need to tune your whole guitar down an additional half step. I always try not to tune down in most of my lessons since down tuning like that would require many people to have to set their guitars up just for that tuning. So I just stick mostly with standard tuning or as close to it as possible when I can.
As for the riff itself we have some fast alternate picking in 16th notes across heavily muted strings. The combination of the high register that the fretted notes are played in with the addition of open strings can make having the notes of this riff come out clearly kind of tough.
The palm muting goes a long way in making all of those notes pop-out. It is a good idea to start slow, stick with strict alternate picking and really try to accent most of the notes that occur on the 5th string. That will help you achieve the right effect for this riff.
Of course this is just the main opening riff to “Addicted to Pain”. If you guys want me to teach the entire song please let me know that by making sure this video lesson gets 600 YouTube “likes”. After it reaches that goal I will then teach the entire song, solo included. 🙂
So I hope you guys enjoy learning this challenging riff and I look forward to coming back here and teaching the entire song note-for-note once all those “likes” are in!
Carl…
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Please upload find the real solo lesson from alter bridge
Please do a lesson for blackbird
More songs of alter bridge please. There is no lessons available for alter bridge fans
please can more people like this video. i want him to post the rest
Lesson for "Open Your Eyes" please 👍
Do metallica confusion please
I love alter Bridge
Are u sure there arent any hammer ons?
Pleas make more Alter Bridge lessons!
C'mon ppl!!!! Let's get 250 more likes!!!!
could you do the rest of this song and isolation
Better yet, do Blackbird
Complete this
Awesome vid. A tutorial of find the real would be awesome! More alter bridge
Love it
Can you please do Blackbird by Alter Bridge?
FULL SONG!!!!FULL SONG!!!!
How long have you been playing guitar? Thank you
Can you do the solo of spirit carries on by dream theatre?