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pikman30th March 2014Awesome brother!!! Great lesson for rhythm playing...you captured Jeff Water's style so well...inspiring
Gabriel Leopardi21st March 2014Gab my man...wow...this is very awesome lesson! This is must to learn for me, when I'm ready for it
It's long time since I last time heard something from Annihilator...sounds like the real thing!
heheh thanks mate! I hope to see you playing this one soon.
SlowFingaX21st March 2014Gab my man...wow...this is very awesome lesson! This is must to learn for me, when I'm ready for it
It's long time since I last time heard something from Annihilator...sounds like the real thing!- Gabriel Leopardi21st March 2014Dude, that was awesome.
thanks Spacebran! Are you going to learn it? 
spacebran21st March 2014Dude, that was awesome.
- Gabriel Leopardi19th March 2014highly addictive !!!!
hehehe 
Bossie19th March 2014highly addictive !!!!
- Gabriel Leopardi19th March 2014nice! Really reminds me of Alison Hell. 1989 was such a good year to be listening to metal. Thanks gabe!
I was too young in those years, but based on the albums released I definitely agree. 
waynedcoville19th March 2014nice! Really reminds me of Alison Hell. 1989 was such a good year to be listening to metal. Thanks gabe!
- Gabriel Leopardi18th March 2014
Hey guys! Thanks for the comments!
Wow this was the coolest thing I have heard in a while..
hehehe thanks mate, you should check Annihilator's albums! 
Hajduk18th March 2014Thats awesome, love it Gab
Guido Bungenstock18th March 2014Just awesome, Gabriel. Fantastic Lesson!!!!!
Opetholic18th March 2014Wow this was the coolest thing I have heard in a while..
Peter VP18th March 2014Nice one Gabriel, thank you!!
Jouve18th March 2014Wow. Thanks Gab! Worth learning
Hexabuzz18th March 2014Nice! Something new to work on that I havent't seen before! Thanks,Gab!
Ben Higgins18th March 2014Sounds great - very authentic and tight riffing !!
- Lesson
- My notes
Welcome to a lesson covering the style of Jeff Water’s band Annihilator, one of the most unique Thrash Metal band ever, very respected by metal fans.
"Annihilator is a Canadian thrash metal band founded in 1984 by vocalist, guitarist and bassist Jeff Waters. They are the highest selling heavy metal group in Canadian history, having sold 2 million albums worldwide,[1] although most of their sales have been generated outside of the band's home country. Their first two studio albums, Alice in Hell and Never, Neverland, are considered masterpieces of Canadian heavy metal." - Wikipedia.
Music Style:
Annihilator is a Thrash Metal band with influences by Classic Metal and also Progressive rock. Their style has been defined by tight riffs and very catchy songs that has given fresh air to the Thrash Metal scene in the 80/90’s. In this lesson I took the style of their most powerful and popular songs like Alice in hell, Set the world on fire and others…
Tonalities & Scales:
As we have talked in my other Thrash Metal lessons (for example the Teutonic Thrash Metal series), the most used scales and tonalities are minor Aeolian, Phrygian, Phrygian Major, and sometimes Harmonic minor. That’s how they get the dark, sad and aggressive feeling. This lesson starts in A minor and has some parts in E minor. Check out the different parts where I detail where the tune modulates and the scales used for each riff.
Techniques:
This lesson requires a good control of metal rhythm. We will use only down strokes, alternate picking, palm muting, hammering and vibrato. Jeff Water is very known because of his killer right hand so be sure that this lesson will be very useful to train your rhythmic abilities.
Sound:
The sound of this tune is once again pure metal! I used my Pod HD500 to build a guitar sound that sounds 100% modern Thrash Metal. I used the ENGL Fireball emulation with a 4x12 ENGL cabinet.
Click HERE to download the Pod HD500 Patch.
Tuning: Standard 440
Tempo: 105 BPM
Ok friends, let's start headbanging and rocking our guitars!
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Jump to start: Home or `s` , you can also click/tap the lesson part again (the numbers above player)
Go to next part: PageUP or End.
Volume: ArrowUp / ArrowDown keys
Go to any part: Number keys (combinations also possible)
Pause or play: `k` or space key
Fullscreen: `f`, esc to close
Increase / decrease speed : `+` or `-`
