Artist Riff: Alex Bois of Periphery Plays ‘Frak The Gods’
November 12th, 2010[For this lesson Alex is playing an Ibanez Prestige 6-string tuned from low to high: Bb G C F A D. This masterclass includes audio samples from a demo version of 'Frak The Gods' and does not include audio from the new version featured on Periphery's upcoming Icarus EP.]
Frak The Gods Main Riff & Octave
We play with three guitar players, so sometimes we’ll take a riff and add an octave above it. For the main riff in the song I’m actually playing it an octave up for some sections. It makes it a little bit thicker when you have the lower and the higher octave, as opposed to two guitars just doing the main riff:
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Frak The Gods Breakdown Riff Technique
This riff is the closing riff, but it also happens in the middle. I think it’s really cool because of this technique that it uses where you come into a mute while picking down, and then pop off. Those mutes are there in the middle. It’s kind of percussive, it’s like slapping with a hammer-on that’s not actually being played.
Frak The Gods Breakdown Riff
The riff goes like this – it’s got a bit of slides and tapping going on, too:
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[...] Guitar Messenger has published a masterclass featuring Periphery guitarist Alex Bois giving some insight into how to play the band's song 'Frak The Gods', which will be featured on their upcoming EP 'Icarus Lives!'. The masterclass features tabs, audio fragments and comments by Alex himself, as well as a video which can also be watched below. [...]
[...] Periphery has released the song ‘Frak The Gods‘ from their upcoming Icarus EP for fans to stream! Having completed their European League Of Extraordinary Djentlemen tour, the band has now embarked on a North American journey with Scale The Summit and Fair To Midland. Also featured on the new EP are several remixes of Periphery’s ‘Icarus Lives!‘ and a terrific remix of ‘Jetpacks Was Yes!‘ – the very same version that was used for the video seen above (which is also, you guessed it, on the EP!) Check out riffs from ‘Frak The Gods’ in Guitar Messenger’s Artist Riff feature with Alex Bois! [...]
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