Rhythmic Displacement in Metal

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Metal

Excerpt: Hi all!  Welcome back to another tutorial. This time around we'll be discussing rhythmic displacement within metal guitar riffs. The first thing I need to point out is that we will be using a dropped D tuning.  Now, as you may know, the concept of rhythmic displacement can be used in various styles either within rhythm guitar or lead guitar...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Metal

Excerpt: First, we will take a look at the original rhythm in which our example stems from. This rhythm fits perfectly within one measure in 4/4 but soon we will throw it all off with our displacement.  If we talk about this rhythm with numbers we will see 4 specific groupings that are being played and then repeated.  4 - 1 - 4 - 3 (repeated) Now, at fir...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Metal

Excerpt: Moving onto the breakdown of the example riff.  As I mentioned in the previous videos and verbally within this video, we will add a 16th note rest to the original rhythm creating the displacement. Is this necessary? Not exactly, but it gives us a more creative approach when composing and helps with our rhythm, timing, and pocket playing in the process...

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Instructor: Mike Salow Level: Advanced Topic: Rhythm Style: Metal

Excerpt: Use this backing track to aid in your practice.

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