Lateralus (Riff)
by Tool
🔥 Metal
Difficulty
★★★★★
Tuning
Standard
Capo
None
Adam Jones' polyrhythmic main riff from Lateralus (2001). Built on the Fibonacci sequence, the time signatures shift between 9/8, 8/8, and 7/8. A prog-metal masterpiece requiring surgical precision.
e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------|
D|--0------0------0--2--4-----0------0--2--4--5--4---|
A|-----3------3-----------3------3-------------------|
E|--0------0------0--------0------0------------------|
e|---------------------------------------------------|
B|---------------------------------------------------|
G|---------------------------------------------------|
D|--0------0------0--2--4--5--4--2--0----------------|
A|-----3------3-----------3--------------------------|
E|--0------0------0-----------------------------------|