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- Metalcore Chops #2LEVEL 8Second part of the Metalcore series. Combine famous licks & riffs with the backing guitars and master some alternate picking solo shapes. Also let's have some fun with tricky harmonics usage.
- Chops BuilderLEVEL 5Neoclassic etude covering pinky independence, 6 string arpeggios & string skipping.
- 90's Metal ChopsLEVEL 5Practise Your palm muting, rhythm precission and pinch harmonics with some good old chops from the 90's. Influenced with bands like Metallica, Megadeath, Pantera and similar.
- Country ChopsLEVEL 6In this lesson we will look at many double stops and triplet style licks important to get a chicken picking sound.
- Metalcore + Atmospheric ChordsLEVEL 4In this lesson we work with a main riff with some variations on it and then we come up with chords with ninth.
- Chowy's Metalcore TuneLEVEL 7This lesson is more in the style of AS I LAY DYING, a band I definitely recommend, especially their first albums, with all those fast, aggressive riffs and great compositions to head-bang big time!!
- Lydian Metalcore RiffingLEVEL 4This time we will look at a metal riff using the E Lydian mode.
- Aeolian Metalcore RiffingLEVEL 5Progressive metal riff that gives the allusion of change.
- Progressive MetalcoreLEVEL 6Riffing in the style of bands like Periphery and Cloudkicker
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Kristofer Dahl24th February 2025Hey Songlin, it's a Linked Note, and it means note should be sustained or tied into the next one. Just let the previous note ring!
SongLin20th February 2025What does L mean on second string?
Gabriel Leopardi10th September 2020at the moment downpicking at 210 bpm is faster than i can go, i know this cause im struggling on gabes bullet for my valentine lesson at 190bpm. but i have memorized this lesson slowly, and i really like how you have recorded each lick slowly, fretboard and picking. i am tryi g to mimick this lesson cleanly, slower. your a kick ass guitarist
Hi mate! Let me know if you need help with BFMV lesson!
MrVegas10th September 2020at the moment downpicking at 210 bpm is faster than i can go, i know this cause im struggling on gabes bullet for my valentine lesson at 190bpm. but i have memorized this lesson slowly, and i really like how you have recorded each lick slowly, fretboard and picking. i am tryi g to mimick this lesson cleanly, slower. your a kick ass guitarist
Darius Wave26th July 2015There's a huge worldwide missunderstanding around the "drop" tuning meaning. Going from E to C# is a dropped tuning already, but some people refer to a word "drop" only when 6th string is detuned one more whole step down comparing to other strings. I've seen a lot guys saying drop-C# in both cases - while the guitar is tuned to D# and 6th string to C# and also in second case - whole guitar tuned from C# to C#. To be honest it's hard to have one proper description for this
Bogdan Radovic26th July 2015Tag says drop C# but it's actually c# standard...
Thanks TJ, we have updated the lesson tags section now.
The tuning info can be found in the text section under the main video.- tjh926th July 2015
Tag says drop C# but it's actually c# standard...
Fayeed Tan7th December 2013Yeah man! Great tune!
- Darius Wave4th July 2013Can't wait for Metalcore Chops #2
deWell - show me Your chops # take first
deWeLL3rd July 2013Can't wait for Metalcore Chops #2
- Darius Wave22nd May 2013
Great! I promise You'll get some support on it
Patrik Berg22nd May 2013love it Darius, I will find the time to do a take of this lesson.
- Darius Wave15th May 2013
Thank You Peter!
Piotr Kaczor15th May 2013What a perfect, accurate riffing, Darius! Sounds really powerful!
- Darius Wave14th May 2013
JTaylor- You could try it anyway
We can see what You need to work on to master this lesson 
thefireball14th May 2013Very awesome!!!!
JTaylor14th May 2013Man, just brilliant! Way above my level but awesome to listen to and watch!
Awesome!!- Darius Wave13th May 2013
TreyDeschamp....great I hit Your taste mate! It's gonna be a series!
Honor me with Your take my friend! 
TreyDeschamp13th May 2013This is the metalcore lesson I've always hoped GMC would get. Awesome job Darius!
- Darius Wave12th May 2013
Thank You all guys! I tried to do something heavy but still modern and melodic. This guitar is in half made by myself. It was my "guitar from my dreams" guitar project when I was a teenager
Nava12th May 2013You played this style so well!!
I put this in future lesson project:)
Cosmin Lupu12th May 2013Great going man! I really enjoyed this one!
St Anger12th May 2013Darius is in the place !
Hajduk12th May 2013Thats killer.
wollace0312th May 2013great lesson! awesome riffing and a very, very strange but cool guitar...
Javier Aviles12th May 2013Great sound, great atmosphere. curious guitar!
Jouve12th May 2013Perfection
The sound, riffs, attitude. That's great Darius!
You know this guitar looks like something between B.C.Rich Mockingbird and some weird Soviet made guitars with lots of switches and knobs. It's very sexy
Ulrik12th May 2013I really like this one
VilleFIN12th May 2013Wow kick ass song ! Can't wait for more of these. And you have a really interesting guitar man
Headbanger12th May 2013Awesome...nice Guitarius too!
CrisJB12th May 2013Great composition Darius
Mudbone12th May 2013That was so bad ass m/
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Hi there folks!
Welcome at metalcore riffin' lesson!
This lesson will help You to work especially on Your right hand. There are tons of fast, palm muted licks with only down strokes at 220 bpm. All is based on some very popular, metalcore concepts. Every note belongs to the C# minor scale but being honest... You will rather think of E-minor while only the guitar is tuned to C#. This is the reason for further scale and chords names reference to standard E tuning.
Learn how to organize strength of You right hand. Having too much tension might hinder your ability to handle the tempo.
Gear used:
* Bloody Mary custom made electric guitar with EMG 81, H, 89
* Presonus Inspire 1394 audio interface
* Poulin LeCto vst plug-in with catharsis 1on-pres5 cab impulse
* Ernie Ball 13-56 strings with tuned to C#
Tuning: E6-E1 = C#-F#-B-E-G#-C#
Backing track progression:
4/4 Em | Em | G | D | Em | Em | C | D | Em | Em | G | D | Em | Em | C | D | D | D | Em | Em | Em | Em |
4/4 Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em | C | C | D | D | Em | Em | Em | Em |
4/4 C | C | D | D | Em | Em | Em | Em |
4/4 Em | Em | Em | Em | C | C | C | C | D | D | D | D | Em | Em | Em | Em | Em ||
Tempo: Main song tempo is 220 bpm. There are also backing tracks available in 80, 130, 180 and 220 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
Scale used in this lesson (according to standard E-tuning):
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