TapOut

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: Welcome to this riffage tutorial based on a tune of mine called "TapOut". You guessed it, I'm a UFC fan! :) This riff is pretty much what you might label "Swedish Metal", in which I have tried to capture some of the essence of my Swedish metal heritage for you to take part of. :) Also, be mindful of the tuning as we'll be down-tuning our Low E string to a ...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: In this first breakdown, we'll be looking at the first riff. This riff is made up of a sliding 3-string chord (an augmented power chord, or "half-diminished power chord" or "b5 power chord" as I believe you call it in the US), and some heavy palm-muted rhythmical responses on the low C string. As you saw on the full transcript, the low E-string is tuned down...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: This part contains a continuous 16-note riff, with some off-beat accents occurring thanks to the placement of the un-muted notes in relation to the muted low C. This type of riffing can get really mesmerizing, so please use this riff as fuel for creating your own groovy ideas! Technically, there’s not much to say here, apart from focusing on the picki...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: In this part, I'm using a rather un-orthodox harmonic technique. The actual physics of this technique is something I will include in my upcoming tutorial on harmonics, which will cover just about every possible harmonic technique out there. For now, I think it will suffice to say that a string has several nodal points, and that the 1/2 point of the string (t...

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Instructor: Richard Lundmark Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Excerpt: Finally, here's a backing track for you to play around with. I have left one of the rhythm guitars in there (panned hard left) so you can get a sense of the harmonies when practicing to it. Get riffing, and see you in my next tutorial!

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