Dark Progressive Riffs

Let the palm mutes fly and prepare a barrage of alternate picked riffage as you descend into the darkly mysterious pools of prog. Tighten up your rhythm playing and broaden your horizons of what’s possible in the realm of the riff.

James Norbert Ivanyi doesn’t just write riffs, he crafts entire passages that span from low E chugs all the way to high up intricate shred lines. Packed with tonnes of material to help you to write your own riffs, this is a collection that treads the line between balance and chaos, while digging into the magic that sits in the middle.

Each is backed up with a full riff overview video lesson to show you the ropes. Here you will understand the nuances that go beyond any transcription, and get an insight into how James approaches each passage.

With rhythmic displacement aplenty, machine gun palm mutes, and explorations into far reaching tonalities such as harmonic minor, phrygian dominant, flattened 5ths and sprinkled dissonance, you’ll have an entire compendiums worth of new material to dig into. All laid out in fast and slow performances, with further reading within a study guide PDF.

Three creative backings then ask you to summon your own dark inspirations and create your own riffs that toe the path between genius and madness. With their own main motifs, the backings act as a springboard to cast your own playing onto.

This release includes a study guide PDF, 10 riff overviews, 10 extended riffs (played both fast and slow), 10 backings, 3 creative backings, full tab/notation, and GP files.

Control chaos and command the guitar with a new, ultra modern, future proof method of writing bangers. This is Dark Progressive Riffs.