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Christophe30th May 2010So cool !
As soon I resuscribe I learn that one first (but in slow tempo) ! I find all your stuff very melodic and with a cool beat, keep in this way 
Daniel Realpe4th May 2010this is great!
Laszlo Boross22nd March 2010Very skilled riff lesson! Great job Chowy!
Marcus Siepen21st March 2010great riffing, very cool stuff
Emir Hot20th March 2010Awesome riff patterns. Great lesson
Aleksander Sukovic19th March 2010Heavy stuff man! I should try this one out
Vasilije Vukmirovic19th March 2010Very powerful!
Lian Gerbino18th March 2010awesome playing man, love it!!!
del-4fr53e318th March 2010This was really awesome!
zoom18th March 2010Great! very tight chowy loving your work!
thefireball18th March 2010great one Chowy! nice chatting with you yesterday too!
Wilska17th March 2010that's some really nice riffing Chowy! Thanks for lesson!
Bogdan Radovic17th March 2010Amazing riffing lesson!
Very good work man! 
NoSkill17th March 2010Chowy! Wicked man! This just tight and fantastic riffing man! Great lesson bro!
kaznie_NL17th March 2010Wow, very tight and cool riffs man!! You might want to raise the difficulty of this lesson, it's easily a 7
Nice!!
Adrian Figallo17th March 2010uhhh, this might be a little more complex than a level 6, tight tight playing my bro!
Gerardo Siere17th March 2010Great riffing there Chowy!
Crazy_Diamond17th March 2010These are some heavy riffs Chowy ...
Jonathan Burgos17th March 2010Woowww! Awesome.
Jensen17th March 2010sounds awesome!
nice lesson dude!
Mandos17th March 2010Wow, great lesson. Really tight and nice riffing!
Stephane Lucarelli17th March 2010Cool lesson man! Well done.
Zsolt Galambos17th March 2010Wow, this lesson rocks big time! Great riffs man
Mr T17th March 2010Very nice lesson! I'm gonna bookmark it and try to learn it later on.
zen17th March 2010WooooHooo ..... LOVE IT !! .. It's brilliant ... Thanks
Chowy Fernandez17th March 2010Really cool riffs! This lesson is a bit too difficult for me (yet ;-) ) but it could be useful to practice it at a slower tempo, couldn't it?
yes man, thats right, at a slow tempo works pretty good, the pick hand will improove in the muted riffs a lot!! and i´m shure it will be a piece of cake for you after a lot of practice and you will enjoi playing it very much!I get lost while playing anything in different setting than 4/4 or slow 3/4, so this is melting my brain:P But it would be great to learn it and work on my "tight-riffing". m/
practice at a very slow tempo marek, you will notice that the changes became a natural thing after playing it a lot>! //M//
Marek Rojewski17th March 2010I get lost while playing anything in different setting than 4/4 or slow 3/4, so this is melting my brain:P But it would be great to learn it and work on my "tight-riffing". m/
Gitarrero17th March 2010Really cool riffs! This lesson is a bit too difficult for me (yet ;-) ) but it could be useful to practice it at a slower tempo, couldn't it?
- Chowy Fernandez17th March 2010Tight riffing Chowy - very cool!
thanks kristofer! thanks for this oportunity, i´m really happy to be here!! 
Kristofer Dahl17th March 2010Tight riffing Chowy - very cool!
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Hey Guitarists!!
It’s me again, this time I brought an exercise for metal fans in its progressive form, it’s about a composition that I did with a friend for a band some time ago and it’s based on the B Minor scale. I’m using the same scale during the whole exercise because not only the approach isn’t lost this way, but it’s also useful to review the positions of this scale.
It basically consists of three parts, the first one is a riff where I use the 6th and 7th degree to resolve to B. This first part has string skipping licks, that's the idea we based upon to do all the riffs. In fact I think that is what we have to do when it comes to compose a song: Make a riff and from that point every other riff that comes along will have something to do with the first one, so when they come around to that first part they'll have more definition!!Parts two and three are for testing your Palm Muting techniques, these final parts are pretty effective to work String Skipping and Picking. My advise to fans of this style is to practice this riff daily.
I use a whole bunch of distortion for this one!! without it may not sound metal at all!! and doesn't deserve to sound without breaking distortion!! rock it out and good luck!! yeahh!!
tuning:
guitar tune down one step
from 6th string to 1st these are the notes:
D G C F A D
It´s a lower tuning, for heavier sounds, specially for this kind of music with a lot
of palm mute, and heavy riffs, you can make a lot of noise!!
Chords:
B minor G5 A5 D5 E5
techniques:
palm mute
string skiping
picking
scales:
B minor scale
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