HOW TO PLAY ARCTIC MONKEYS-STYLE CHORDS

any Arctic Monkeys songs are riffbased, and one way to add power to a riff is to slide around a five chord instead of using single notes. In figure 1, for example, the first three chords are played in one bar – try it with a triplet-style three-against-two rhythm. Play this twice and then answer it with C5, E5 and F5, also played twice, in the same rhythm. chord seems very intense in this situation because it is built on the augmented fourth above the keynote C, which is one of the most dissonant intervals. It sounds intense and, as we mentioned, unpredictable, too.