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"Wake of Souls" - Exercise 1

Instructor: Sean Conklin Level: Advanced Topic: Cool Riffs Style: Metal

Tutorial: Wake of Souls

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Lesson Excerpt: In this exercise, we're going to use a lot of palm muting on the 5th and 6th strings mixed between some higher notes. The higher notes are all on the D and G strings, so we're naturally going to be using some string skipping as well. Since the palm mutes are pretty fast with the thirty-second notes, it's imperative that you practice this slowly at first. Get those palm mutes sounding as tight as possible. Also, as you transition from the palm m...
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