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Sinisa Cekic14th April 2009Great one Ramiro !
Marcus Siepen14th April 2009very cool stuff
Ivan Milenkovic11th April 2009Very interesting voicings man! Sounds great!
Sensible Jones11th April 2009Very melodic!! Loved the chord voicings!! Great lesson Ramiro!!!
Bogdan Radovic11th April 2009Sounds great Ramiro!
Toni Suominen11th April 2009Great mood in this one
Gerardo Siere10th April 2009Great ballad Ramiro!
Carlos Carrillo10th April 2009An excellent combination between sounds and harmony! Brilliant!
Piotr Kaczor10th April 2009Cool lesson, Ramiro!
playaxeman10th April 2009Nice chord progression.
At end that goes to the harder part is is that the intro for a second part of a lesson for this ballad?
Is leading to some climax very nice
David Wallimann10th April 2009Very nice and melodic lesson Ramiro!
- David Wallimann10th April 2009
Very nice and melodic lesson Ramiro!
Kuba Szafran10th April 2009Cool ballad Ramiro!
TreyDeschamp10th April 2009Sounds great man! Growing a beard I see
Pedja Simovic10th April 2009Great harmony parts Ramiro.
Emir Hot10th April 2009I really like the chords here.
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Hi GMC! Welcome to the lesson about the Symphony X ballad. I've made this lesson to explore some elements of the composition that this great band uses when they have to make an intro or some nice ballad. Symphony X is well known for their hard riffs but they have also nice clean guitars on songs like The Accolade, Lady of the Snow or The Divine Wings of Tragedy.
So the lesson has three major parts:
1- First part (where the bass do a kind of solo)
2- Second part (where the key makes a little solo)
3- Third part (where the guitar stays all by itself)
Most of the lesson has the Dsus4 chord as the harmony but the bass note changes to give the altered bass the lead of the harmonic changes. That's a typical resource that Michael Romeo uses when doing this kind of rhythm guitar.
The lesson is in the key of Gm.
I hope you enjoy the lesson!
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