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Strong Songs

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The Riff Is the Heart of the Song

This riff is really the heart of the song in a lot of different ways. There's a lot of nice double bass drum stuff going on here too. The rift is really the thing that feels to me like a giant leviathan rearing up out of the depths of the ocean. They are using the diminished scale for theire using a diminished seventh cord in order to build this entire rift.

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