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2 Minutes To Midnight - Iron Maiden: the Quintessence of a Heavy Metal riff 🤘🎸 - Guitar Tab

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2 Minutes To Midnight - Iron Maiden: the Quintessence of a Heavy Metal riff 🤘🎸 guitar tab video
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2 Minutes To Midnight Heavy Metal 1991 E Standard Tune up 123 BPM E minor
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Iron Maiden: the Quintessence of a Heavy Metal riff 🤘🎸

This arrangement of Iron Maiden's 2 Minutes to Midnight focuses on the quintessential heavy metal riff that opens the song. Adrian Smith crafted a riff that captures everything about the NWOBHM sound in a few bars of galloping rhythm and melodic hooks.

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