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Daniel Realpe22nd April 2010Nice hard rock lesson!
Alexiaden9311th May 2009Nice riffs ! Very helpful for some variation in my rhythm playing (but a bit later in my guitar-career)...
Tryton2nd June 2008This is the stuff I've always wanted to play!!!
Very nice
and
Thank you!!!
Carlos Carrillo9th May 2008hey Pavel!!!!
great lesson
Lian Gerbino2nd May 2008great,,,, man!
Outlaw211219th January 2008Thats straight up NASTY, bro... I like your style..
Pavel7th January 2008Thanks man! Enjoy learning it
Jenkinson7th January 2008WHOA! That is some serious riffing! Very Heavy, Very Catchy!
Smikey200630th December 2007Love it! Complex but something i can play!
Pablo Vazquez19th December 2007Well done Pavel!! I like it so much!
shredmandan18th December 2007Great lesson Pavel
- lefthandman18th December 2007
great job man heavy and in ur face plus the sextuplet part towards the end is just awesome
Bedlam18th December 2007really really nice riffs!
Gabriel Leopardi17th December 2007Very cool riffs Pavel! Good job.
- Jenkinson17th December 2007
nice
Nick32517th December 2007cool pavel
at lights end17th December 2007wowza! me like!
- stratman3317th December 2007
Great stuff!!im really liking the harmonics.
Jerry Arcidiacono17th December 2007Well done Pavel! I like very much the artificial harmonics at the beginning.
preownedguitar17th December 2007Great Stuff Pavel, Also, I like the black background much better than the blue one. Much easier on the eyes and to see your hands.
Dejan Farkas17th December 2007Great riffs
The Uncreator17th December 2007As always Pavel, your riffs are outstanding!!
Marcus Lavendell17th December 2007Very nice legato licks, Pavel! Works great with these riffs!
Iluha17th December 2007Awesome lesson, defintly gonna learn this one.
Muris Varajic17th December 2007Nicely done Pavel
- Pavel17th December 2007
Thanks everyone!
JVM: Yeah, the legato is pretty tough on this one 
JVM17th December 2007Sick! Very cool pavel. My legato has been picking up lately, I'll take a shot at getting this one up to speed.
nickmarx1234567817th December 2007nice! I enjoyed the ending a lot
Toni Suominen17th December 2007very nice lesson Pavel!
SLASH9117th December 2007Wow, these are some sweet riffs!
Bogdan Radovic17th December 2007Great lesson Pavel , keep them coming !
DeepRoots17th December 2007wow. just wow.
Davide17th December 2007Hey Pavel, exactly my style thanks for this one:)
krudtaa17th December 2007Great riffing!!
Kristofer Dahl17th December 2007That's some neat use of legato in the riffs Pavel!
- Lesson
- My notes
Time for some more advanced riffs! In our Heavy Metal For Beginners series we worked on some basic riffing tricks and approaches so now we'll apply somewhat similar stuff to a bit more difficult riffing. In this lesson we'll work mostly on legato and downstrokes, and a tempo of 100 BPM will make it fun and tricky to play ;)
I included 5 backing tracks, the riff is in E minor, have a good warm-up and get to it! :)
Have fun and shoot any questions you may have!
/Pavel
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