Chords for Do You Djent?

_ _ _ _ _ Do you gent is something I literally get asked every time I do a live stream
The question is usually comes in three different forms.
Do you gent does Rick gent or yeah, but does he gent?
I know some of you have seen this come up in the comments section and wonder what in the world does that mean?
_ Well, if you're not a connoisseur of metal and all its sub genres and you would not have heard of this term
_ Gent is a style of progressive metal named for an _ onomatopoeia for a distinctive type of high gain
Distorted palm muted low pitch guitar sound first employed by Meshuggah Swedish band and skiff
bands like periphery
Animals as leaders polyphia and Tesseract are just a few of the bands that are part of this movement today
If you thought the EDM has a lot of sub genres with ambient ambient dub dark ambient
_ _ Breakbeat big beat down tempo acid jazz chill out drum and bass dub ambient dub dancehall blah blah blah
Well metal is divided into even more sub genres with alternative metal avant-garde metal black metal Christian metal
Death metal doom metal extreme metal full metal black metal glum metal dark goth metal grind core industrial latin metal
Neoclassical post metal progressive metal speed metal symphonic metal stoner metal thrash metal just to name a few
Okay getting back to Gent this is a type of progressive metal
It's been around really since the 90s with the Swedish band Meshuggah really cool band and it's become one of the most popular
Subgenres of metal today.
Not only does it have some really interesting
mixing of odd meters riffs
but many of these bands make incredibly cool videos like periphery songs make total destroy or alpha or
Meshuggah's clockwork.
There's also some hilarious videos on the topic with some big youtubers
But I want to focus on some of the theory behind Gent
I want to take a song from periphery's last record called marigold and talk about what they're doing in it
The riff was written by the main songwriter Misha Mansoor and is played in a drop C tuning
So it's it's a drop D but down a whole step this tune begins with strings playing what eventually becomes the riff
Let's take a listen to [Cm] it _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [C] _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ _ _ Okay, let's slow the string tempo down to half speed so we can see it again
_ Okay, _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ _ let's check out the riff
[C] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ _
_ [D] _ Okay, so right there you can see that the riff is exactly the same note for note as the string parts [C] check it out again
_ _ _ So _
_ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ _ _ [Ab] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G] _ _ _ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ _ the riff is really fast, but I'm gonna break it down for you.
So we're in a drop [C] C
_ _ Tuning here.
This is my Gent guitar happens to be a Tele, but the Tele's can Gent too.
Okay, so the tuning is
_ _ _ And _ _ those the only strings that we need
_ So I'm gonna play slowly for you
You can see Misha Mansoor playing the track on their video and he's just playing along
But it's so fast.
Most people can't figure out what he's playing.
So I'm gonna break it down slowly
So it starts here with the low C and it goes _ _ [G] so _ [C] it's _ _ open _
[Eb] _ [C] _ _ Fifth fret of the a [G] string _ and [Cm] then seventh fret of the low string
_ So remember this is a 7-4 riff, okay, so it's _
_ That's _ _ [Eb] _ _ [C]
the first part of it.
So open [Eb] [C] third fifth on the next second string [G] down
Then [Eb] seventh on the low string and then going to the D string
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ So the three adjacent strings is D string a string E string.
So
_ [Cm] _ _
_ _ _ And that's where you jump up to the D string up to the high note
_ Okay _
[G] _ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
[C] _ one
So [Cm] _ _ you're
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [G] _ _ _ going
[Cm] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ And you have to palm mute it _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ _
That's the first riff so remember it's one two, three, four five six seven one two, three, four five six seven _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
So _ it does the first pattern over C minor twice _ _ _ _
Then _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [Gm] you go up to the fifth fret and you go to the second pattern so [Fm] it goes fifth [D] eighth
seven [Ab] on the second string
_ _ [Fm] back to the eighth _ _ _
Then _ _ _ back down to the low string
_ _ _ So every time it goes up to that high note you do a low note the beginning of the pattern note first, okay, so
_ _ _ _ So I would break it into sections like that
_ _ Just _
_ _ [Ab] _ look at the tab that I [Fm] provided
_ _ Then _ _
_ [Ab] _ _ it moves up to the seventh fret, but this is a little [G] tricky
_ _ _ _ That's _ [C] kind of a big stretch [G] _ _ then _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Ab]
you move to the eighth fret and does this pattern twice
_ [F] _
_ [Cm] _ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Then _
_ _ _ _ [Cm] _ _ you go down [G] to the seventh fret _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [Fm] You _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _ [F] _
[D] _ [Cm] _ _ [G] _ _ Is the only tricky [D] part here _ so _ _ _
_ [F] _ _ [D] _ _ there's a position [Fm] shift
_ [D] _ [C] And [D] _ [Cm] _
_ [B] _ [G] _ _ [C] it goes the open G string open a string open G [Fm] actually
So _ _
_ [D] _ [Eb] _ [G] _ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ [G] _ _ [C] that's the ending lick.
All right.
Let me play the riff slowly all the way through
_ three four five six seven
[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _
_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ [G] _
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_ [Fm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [G] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [F] _ [Eb] _
[G] _ _ _ _ You
I'm including the notation for the string part and the tablature for the guitar part in a PDF in the description below
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