Chords for Power Chord Mechanics - Melodic Metal Riffing - Etude #03

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Riff 3 is one of the heavier etudes in melodic editions and this is a good technique focus
for on and off technique as I like to call it whereby we're striking the chord or the
string and then we're palm muting _ and then we're taking off again.
So for [A] example when we play the A5 _ _ you'll notice [F] then we're coming down for palm [Eb] muting
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_ [Bb] _ [A] _ _ [Bb] by that pull off technique at the end there from the first fret to the open string.
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_ So you might want to practice this very slowly just this first bar _ _ _ and _ _ _ [Abm] you can turn that
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_ _ _ _ _ [Bb] Other things to note are the picked and pulled off sequence towards the end of the first line.
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[A] _ It's a good exercise for pull off technique on the fifth [Bb] string picking [A] and pulling the [Bb] open [Am] string.
_ [Bb] _ _ _ Also to note there is just to make sure when you're doing the pull off, [A] _ [Ab] when I do it anyway,
[Bb] after I've pulled off the first thing is wrapped across strings 1 to 4 _ [A] just to prevent unwanted noises.
In the latter half of the etude there's a nice idea on the sixth [E] string _ _ and _ _ _ _ _
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importance there is the bend, the half step bend from the third fret _ which works and then releases [Ab] itself.
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[G] Be careful not to release too early _ _ because then you'll lose the rhythm.
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_ _ [Ab] _ [G] _ _ But I like to do a bit of a bend there, kind of reminds me of Alice in Chains.
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And that's the way the etude ends, _ _ [G] _
_ [Ab] _ just with a half step bend and then you should [G] kill
that by using right hand to dampen down.
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