Help with Metal/Rock song

[heknowsnothing]

Could somebody start me off on a metal or rock song.
I have tried so many things but can't put together a good chord progression.
If somebody could help me that would be great. Can you tell me the key it is in so I can see how it's made and continue with it.
It can have any amount of guitars in.
This is the first time I have tried to put together a metal song and I think it is really hard.
I am a beginner but it doesn't matter how hard it is to play.
Thanks in advance.

[CW14]

I just came up with this really bad riff (sorry, my ideas are a bit dry this afternoon) so here:

http://s9.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1VFTZOE3OP2EZ3DK7R6MNY8FJW

The key is E minor or diminished or something. I don't know my theory all that well
The tempo is 150bpm.

[CW14]

It's not necessarily the beginning of the song, just a riff for you to expand on

[heknowsnothing]

How do you play it. Have you got tabs or something.

[CW14]

|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-2--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-0--0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0--|-0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0-|

|---------------1------------|---------------------------------|
|---------------1------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-3--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-3--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-1--------------------------|--0--0--1--0--3--1--0--1--------| x3

I put a wrong note in the third rep

|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|----------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-2--------------------------|---------------------------------|
|-0--0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0--|-0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0---0-0-0-|

|---------------1------------|-----------------------------------------|
|---------------1------------|-----------------------------------------|
|----------------------------|------------------------------------4----|
|-3--------------------------|-------10-9------7-5-------5-3-----4----|
|-3--------------------------|----7----------5---------3----------2----|
|-1--------------------------|--0----------0---------0-----------------|

[heknowsnothing]

thanks. I'll mess around with it a bit and if i have something good i'll post it on here.

[Hamberg]

try this...

play each chord for 4-16 beats

Em X Em X (intro) (the x means not to play for a bar) - 2 times

Em G Em G (verse) - 2 times


Em Em Em Em (prechorus) - 2 times

T--------
A--------
B-0-3-0-3

G G Em G (chorus) - 4 times

T--------
A--------
B-0-3-0-3

repeat verse prechorus and chorus

G Em C D (bridge) (change the drums here) - 2 times

repeat verse prechorus and chorus

repeat chorus

repeat intro

Song would most likely be in the key of G major/E minor (Major and minor keys are pretty much the same thing.)

for example
key of C major = A minor
key of F major = D minor

The progression isn't going to sound very rocking because it uses the first note of the scale often. Also the fifth note of the scale is in the bridge (again taking away the hard rock sound.) It is however a basic example of one type of song using chord progressions.

G is the first note of the scale in the Key of G major so it is called I

Em is the sixth note of the scale in the key of G major so it is called vi

C is the fourth note of the scale in the key of G major so it is called IV

and D is the fifth note so it is called V

When talking about the Key of G major the sixth note (vi) or Em can also be refered to as the relative minor of G major.

For any Major key the vi of the scale is always the relative minor.

For a lot of songs the verse is written using the minor scale and the chorus is writting using its major scale counter part. For the above chord progression the verse is in Em and the chorus in G major.

[rockonn91]

--------------------------
--------------------------
--------------------------
-9-----9-8-7---7-6-5-----
-7-10--7-6-5-8-5-4-3-6-- etc. keep going down the neck like that
----8---------6-------4--

hmm, doin that off the top of my head. its a pretty cool metal riff.