Chords for Guitare Xtreme Magazine # 77 - Björn Gelotte (In Flames)

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Hi guys, Björn from In Flames here.
I'm here today to try and show you a couple of our riffs.
I'm gonna try _ three different ideas from our upcoming album, Battles. _ _ _
And I haven't played some of those riffs since we recorded, so please bear with me.
_ Yeah, so the first riff I'm gonna show you guys is a part of the verse in a song called Underneath My Skin. _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ It's fairly straightforward, but since I never practiced or learned how to play the guitar properly, I take it_
My picking is probably a bit backwards and awkward, but of course you guys are really good, so you will do this [Gb] right.
But I'll do it really slow.
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_ _ [B] _ _ Simple, right? _
_ Yeah, that was fun.
_ [E] I'm gonna _ play _ a part from the first single we released from Battles, a song called The End.
And I think it's a pretty cool little exercise in a way.
It's not complex at all, but it's a little bit of string skipping.
It's harmonized as well.
I'm just gonna show you the basic, the first _ pattern.
_ And it starts off with palm muting, I think it's called.
And then you open up the second round.
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_ _ [D] _ _ _ Simple in itself, but it's pretty _ _ fun to play it, and especially if you're standing up, your hands are way further down.
It's a good stretching exercise in a way.
So I'll do it really slowly, _ [Bbm] _
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and since you are so good, you'll probably do it clean as well.
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[D] _ lastly I'm gonna play _ parts of the _ intro song from the album.
It's called Drained.
The album is called Battles, out November 11th.
Check it out. _ _ _
[E] So it's more of a riff than perhaps _ stretching and warming up and stuff like that.
But I'll try to play it for you now, and we'll see how it goes.
I haven't played it for [Bb] a long time. _ _
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Something to keep in mind is that we tune in C, maybe because we're lazy.
Not sure.
But it's an interesting way of writing riffs.
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_ _ _ _ _ there you have it.
Three riffs.
Not very well played, but then again, they're good.
_ Thank you very much guys, it's been a pleasure being here at Guitar Extreme.
I hope to see all of you guys on tour. _