Turbulence

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: Welcome! In this tutorial, we'll be learning a metal piece entitled "Turbulence". Please note that this song is in Drop D tuning. If you aren't exactly sure what that is, click here. Once you've viewed the video above, head on over to the next page for Exercise 1!

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: We will be starting out the song in a 5/8 time signature. In other words, there will be a span of 5 eighth notes in each measure. The first riff is a bit Meshuggah-esque. Meshuggah often uses heavy palm muting riffs synced with drum patterns. You'll notice that we'll be repeating the first 2 bars a total of 4 times. While you play that section, make sure yo...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: This part is a bit tricky as far as rhythm goes. As much as you can, really try to pay attention to what the different instruments are playing during this part in the Full Video. Basically, there are two time signatures occurring at the same time, which means we have what's called polymeter. The guitar is repeating a 5/8 riff, while the drums are keeping a c...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: In the previous lesson, we were playing a 5/8 riff while the drums played a 4/4 groove underneath. In this lesson however, we'll begin playing the guitar in 4/4. We'll be playing the same rhythmic pattern in this entire lesson, but we'll also be adding a couple variations. To start out, we'll be going back to our heavy palm muting across the bottom 3 string...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: This riff has a really nice groove with the drums. As far as your picking, it will pretty much stay the same throughout this section. When you look at the tab, you'll see that most of the notes are in groupings of 2. For each grouping, you'll simply do a downstroke followed by an upstroke. When we get to bar 27, we'll basically be playing the same thing we ...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: Have fun with the backing track! As always, if you ever record yourself playing along, be sure to post it in the forum so we can all hear your skills!

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