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Gabriel Leopardi1st February 2010Great lesson! I've been practicing it for quite some time now. At the moment that 16th note string skipping lick at the end is killing me at this speed... I'm almost there though! Would love to see more of this style in the future.
Thank you Mr T! I'll do new lessons in this style in the near future!
Mr T28th January 2010Great lesson! I've been practicing it for quite some time now. At the moment that 16th note string skipping lick at the end is killing me at this speed... I'm almost there though! Would love to see more of this style in the future.
Marcus Siepen26th September 2009this lesson absolutely rocks, great job
- Gabriel Leopardi24th August 2009Thats amazing, probably my personal favorite of all lessons on GMC, please come up with more in that style!
wou! That's really great to hear! Thank you! 
Kasperkbn24th August 2009Thats amazing, probably my personal favorite of all lessons on GMC, please come up with more in that style!
- Gabriel Leopardi24th August 2009
Thanks Marek and Kahall!
kahall24th August 2009Sweet Holy Batman. Very nice. Love the solo you composed here so simple but it just sounds great.
Marek Rojewski23rd August 2009What, I haven't commented this before? Gabriel this lesson is as awesome as other lessons by You in this style, so they basicaly RULE!
- Gabriel Leopardi22nd August 2009
Thank you Vasilije!
Vasilije Vukmirovic22nd August 2009Great, really interesting!
- Gabriel Leopardi19th August 2009
Thanks Stephane and Toni!
Toni Suominen19th August 2009Rocking lesson Gabriel!
Stephane Lucarelli18th August 2009Great job Gabe!
- Gabriel Leopardi18th August 2009
Thanks for the comments!
Laszlo Boross17th August 2009Cool riff with a tasty solo! Perfect lesson.
Zsolt Galambos17th August 2009Killer stuff,Gabriel
Alexiaden9317th August 2009Awesome solo/riffs, Gabriel ! You rock =D
Gerardo Siere17th August 2009Great song Gabriel!
rokchik16th August 2009Amazing lesson Gabriel... certainly one of my favourite styles and you've nailed it as usual
Bookmarked!!!!- Gabriel Leopardi16th August 2009
Thank you guys!WOW The Riff and Solo sounds exactly like Down Very good lesson
thank you! It's really nice to read this! Down has some of the most amazing southern/stoner metal riffs! 
Cuttingedge16th August 2009Very cool lesson!
edguy16th August 2009WOW The Riff and Solo sounds exactly like Down
Very good lesson
Janos Kallai16th August 2009Cool lesson!
Sergio Dorado16th August 2009Sounds great!
- Gabriel Leopardi16th August 2009
Thanks for the comments! This is one of my favourite styles!
mariogl9116th August 2009Very cool lesson
Ivan Milenkovic16th August 2009Great solo, very tasty man!
Bogdan Radovic16th August 2009Great lesson Gabriel!
Sensible Jones16th August 2009Great stuff Gabe! Bookmarked!!!
kaznie_NL16th August 2009That... rocks
Great one Gab!
Danespride16th August 2009Very nice lesson! Sounds very cool, which inspires me to practice it a lot, even though it's very challenging for me at my current "technical level"
Thanks !
Emir Hot16th August 2009Great stuff Gabriel
ZakkWylde16th August 2009Just myfavourite style of music!
Kristofer Dahl16th August 2009Very nice Gabriel - I sure got southern vibes from this one!
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Hi GMC! In this lesson we will continue working on the Southern Metal style of bands like Black Stone Cherry, Black Label Society and Pride &Glory but this time we combine it with other rocker bands with a Stoner Influence like Corrosion of Conformity, Spiritual Beggars and Down.
I noted that many of you really enjoyed my Black Stone Cherry style lesson but I haven’t found the lesson in the REC program! I decided to do an easier lesson because I’m interested in seeing how you learn and incorporate my lessons.
The lesson starts with a rocker riff composed with D Pentatonic minor scale and then a solo played over the riff where I combine D pentatonic minor with D blues scale.
Techniques:
Alternate Picking
Legato
Bending
Chicken picking
Vibrato
Pinched harmonics
Scales:
D Pentatonic minor
D blues scale
Tuning:
Dropped D (D-A-D-G-B-E)
Ok guys! Let’s start working!Gabriel.
PS: If you liked this lesson I suggest you to check Spiritual Beggars “Ad Astra” album and C.O.C’s “Deliverance”.
D Pentatonic minor:
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