Someone explain 0-3-5 to me.

[HomespunEffects]

What is 0-3-5? It’s a joke that I don’t get. Thanks in advance.

 

[TubeStack]

It seems like a smoke on the water reference, maybe representing easy classic rock riffs.

 

[PLX]

see: r/guitarcirclejerk

 

[Frodebro]

It's a I IV V after too much Tequila.

 

[la szum]

Drop D 1-finger chording that has spawned a million songs and Nu Metal riffs.

Not this finger, either.

 

[Chocol8]

What is 0-3-5? It’s a joke that I don’t get. Thanks in advance.

Open, hammer 3rd fret, hammer 5th, pull to open, repeat over. Pretend you are rocking out?

 

[HomespunEffects]

Open, hammer 3rd fret, hammer 5th, pull to open, repeat over. Pretend you are rocking out?

I see. So, why is it a joke these days?

 

[PLX]

I see. So, why is it a joke these days?

Because r/guitarcirclejerk are a bunch of retards.

 

[Chocol8]

I see. So, why is it a joke these days?

I don’t know. I think people like to make fun of YouTubers and their playing no matter what.

 

[DrewJD82]

I see. So, why is it a joke these days?

The 0-3-5 thing is pretty much the first stop for the people who got into guitar around the time drop tunings and/or nu-metal was getting popular. If you got every guitarist who started playing in that era together and had them play the first riff they ever wrote, I'd bet 95% of them will start with 0-3-5 in one way or another. I think the first riff I even wrote was an 0-3-5 riff.

So, so, so many nu-metal riffs either start with or have a variation of 0-3-5 that it's deserving of it's meme status.

 

[spawnofthesith]

Open, hammer 3rd fret, hammer 5th, pull to open, repeat over. Pretend you are rocking out?

stop exposing my secrets

 

[MirrorProfiles]

Is Metalcore 0-8-5?

 

[Chocol8]

Is Metalcore 0-8-5?

Only if tuned to drop C flat.

 

[PLX]

Anybody tried 5-7-3-0 ?

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Translates to "Basic AF"



My first riff was 3-5-0

 

[la szum]

The 0-3-5 thing is pretty much the first stop for the people who got into guitar around the time drop tunings and/or nu-metal was getting popular. If you got every guitarist who started playing in that era together and had them play the first riff they ever wrote, I'd bet 95% of them will start with 0-3-5 in one way or another. I think the first riff I even wrote was an 0-3-5 riff.

So, so, so many nu-metal riffs either start with or have a variation of 0-3-5 that it's deserving of it's meme status.

Cool how the little embellishments on that 0-3-5 thing can result in such a great variety
of songs. Thinking of We Die Young. Just a little bend takes boring and predictable into WTF??!!


But yeah..... I think every genre has it's cliches. That's probably what qualifies them for
being a genre.

 

[spawnofthesith]

My bands two biggest “crowd pleasers” have power chord “choruses” that go 5-1 and 5-3-1

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

But the 0-1 is where the real terror lives:

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/inside-jaws-theme-song-creation-123321300.html

‘You know, everyone’s scared of those two notes, but for composers, we’re scared of everything after those two notes, because the whole thing is so impressive,’ - Hans Zimmer

 

[la szum]

My bands two biggest “crowd pleasers” have power chord “choruses” that go 5-1 and 5-3-1

 

[DrewJD82]

0-3-5 on Lvl 10-