The Seeker

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Welcome folks! In this song tutorial, we'll be learning an intermediate rock piece called "The Seeker". As you learn this piece, keep in mind that there's a tempo change about half way through, where the bpm (beats per minute) increases from 127 to 148. Once you've checked out the video above, head on over to the next page to start learning!

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: In Exercise 1, we'll be learning the main riff of the song. This riff will be primarily played in the 2nd position. There's going to be a good amount of palm muting in this song, so be mindful of all the "P.M." markings throughout the tablature. Make sure the distinction is perfectly clear with which notes you're palm muting and which notes you're playing n...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: With the exception of a few notes in bar 4, Exercise 2 will mainly be played using eighth notes. For now, go ahead and observe the note grouping on the fourth beat of bar 12. See how there are 5 notes joined together over the duration of a single quarter note? This is a 5-note grouping, or also known as a quintuplet grouping. It may feel like you're playing...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: In Exercise 3, we'll be playing a brief chord progression before the song transitions to a tempo increase in Exercise 4. We'll start off strumming the D power chord, then in bar 18 we'll play the A and G# chords along with the drums as we descend to the F# chord in bar 19. Also, in bar 20, make sure you apply some seriously chunky palm muting as you accent...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: In Exercise 4, we have the section of the song where the tempo increases from 127bpm to 148bpm. In the context of the song, once Exercise 4 is finished, you'll then proceed to play Exercise 1 and Exercise 2 at the new speed of 148bpm. With the exception of a few brief upstrokes, we'll mainly be using downstrokes in this exercise. When you come to any pair o...

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Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Intermediate Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Rock

Excerpt: Now it's time to rock out to the backing track! Keep in mind the tempo increase at about 48 seconds in. If you ever make a recording of yourself playing along with the backing track, be sure to share it with us in the forum so we can all hear your skills! See you next time! Sean

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