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Iron Chug

Write a 4-bar riff in E natural minor (Aeolian) at 120 BPM.

Choose the brief, open its practice tools, and write in your own style.

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Browse the authored catalog by difficulty, tempo, key, scale or time signature. Develop a variation and keep your versions together.

Practice

Take the same brief into a metronome, tuner and tempo trainer. Work at your pace, then return to the riff you’re writing.