Chords for Black Metal Lesson - How to Create Dark, Melodic Atmospheres

_ Welcome to another video everybody, it's Corey at Gemini Guitar and today of course we're exploring some black metal voicings
_ This is the second black metal style lesson and basically what I'm going to be showing you here is some alterations we can use on
the E and F5 power chords both in the open or first position and then again in the seventh position so
_ Once you've had a look at these alterations
I'm sure your mind is going to be opened up a little bit and then you can get creative and
_ Start coming up with your own ideas.
So let's see how we go
_ Now the basic progression we're going to use [Ab] is from E5 low [E] E5 in the open position
_ [Abm] to F5 in the [F] first position
_ _ _ [Ab] The strumming pattern that I like to use for this style [Eb] is something akin to this
_ [E] _
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[F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
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percussively
[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ What we're going to do to E5 is we're going to add in the F sharp note and this gives it a bit more of an airy
Darker sort of sound sounds like this [E] then _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] So just to give you some more insight into that I replace the octave E note on the fourth string with the F sharp
So instead of [E] it sounding like this _ _
[Gm] Sounds [E] like this
_ _ So _ _ _ _ _ _ it gives it a noisier quality and what we can do now is strum that in the same way _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
Now it doesn't sound like much at the moment, but once we get into the next bit you'll understand why this works nicely
_ So if we get back to our F5 [F] here _ _
_ _ [B] What we can do with that is flatten the fifth
So the C note becomes the B keep the F octave on string four and the the low F root note there sounds like this
_ _ So _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
[E] with both alterations arpeggiated
_ [B] _
[Gb] So _ [E] _ _ [B] _ [Gb] _ _
[F] _ _ [B] _ [F] _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ [F] _ _ [E] _ _ [B] _ [Gb] _ _
[E] _ _ [B] _ [Gb] _ _ _ [F] _ [B] _
[F] _ _ _ _ _ [B] _ [F] _ _
_ [G] _ I'm going to strum this this time.
I'm going to do a little bit faster because I like it a little bit quicker
[B] There we go _
[E] Of _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [G] _ _ course, we don't have to stop there so we can do extra things to each of those chords
For example replace the F sharp [E] again at some point with the G note so we can get a bit more of a melody type
Thing happening it'll sound like this _ _
so _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
really at the
_ Melodic level it's sounding it sounds a bit [Gb] like this
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Now _ [Gb] _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [G] _ _ if we go to the back to the F again, we had the the F with the or the F power chord [B] with a flat fifth _ _ _
[Ab] Tritone [F] that lovely tritone and what we can do to this one is
[G] Replace the F note perhaps with the open D string.
Let's have a [B] listen
So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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we get some extra dissonance there from this
_ [F] _
_ _ [B] _ _ _ _ [F] this
[B] _ [D] Put [F] _ [B] _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ those two together sounds like [E] this
_ _ Okay, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [B] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ [E] next if we venture up to the seventh [A] position we can invert the [Ab] E5 here
so you would bar the first finger at 7 on the 6th and 5th string with the
B note on string 4 [B] fret [E] 9 third finger
_ _ _ [G] _ This becomes an inverted E5 now what's cool about this and as we can _
[Ab] We can add then in this
[G] This minor 6 here, which is the C note and we get something like [E] this
_ _ But [C] _ _ _
_ _ [G] we can also flatten the fifth the B note here on the fourth string as well
So this is a similar principle to before as we're kind of changing one note to get a melodic
Sort of characteristic going but it's a little bit different.
So the notes are different [E] sounds like this _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [G] _ _ And if you speed that up sounds really cool
[E] _ _ _ So _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ then what we can do is venture up into the F5 invert that [F] as well
_ _ And [Gm] _ we can actually use the B note here.
So once we've flattened the fifth in this case, [N] it's a C note
fret 10 on the fourth string we can flatten [F] that into a B note.
So it sounds like this
_ _ And _ _ _
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[G] _ _ of course we can [Ab] also add in like take away either of those notes.
We can add in the D note on [F] string 4 _ _ _ _ _
_ _ So basically what I'm doing [A] is starting with that basic F or the [F] inverted F5
_ flatten [G] the [F] fifth
_ [G] Go to the [F] D
_ _ [Ab] And you can either [Db] go back to the fifth or the flat [F] fifth
_ _ _ [Abm] Just keep going up and down or wherever [F] you'd like _ _ _
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_ [E] _ _ _ _ [G] _ And you put those two together now, it'll [Am] sound like [E] this _ _ _
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_ _ _ [F] _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ [F] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ So if you study these principles a bit
Experiment with different scale tones around where your power chords are you'll find you'll start to get those
Melodies and atmospheres happening within your own riffs.
Have fun playing with it, and I'll see you in the next lesson.
Bye [N] for now