Bossie19th July 2011great stuff sensei!!
Ben Higgins19th July 2011WOO !! Love those riffs, Cosmin !!
Cosmin Lupu19th July 2011Thank you guys
Daniel Realpe19th July 2011amazing sound and composition! really good
Bogdan Radovic19th July 2011Great lesson Cosmin! Love the rhythms.
ZzRenato19th July 2011My face melted, great lesson Cosmim!!
Adrian Figallo19th July 2011thats some heavy riffing dude, i love it!
JaxN419th July 2011Nice Playing Mate, very tight....
Kristofer Dahl19th July 2011Very cool Cosmin, and awesome video/presentation quality!
El Fortinero20th July 2011awesome Cosmin, I really liked the part of the palm mutting, congrats!
- Cosmin Lupu20th July 2011
Thank you everyone!!
Piotr Kaczor20th July 2011Awesome as always, Cosmin!
- Cosmin Lupu20th July 2011Awesome as always, Cosmin!
Thank youuu
MonkeyDAthos20th July 2011Awesome HAIR!
well the rest is just mediocre.
nam kiddin' awesome killar riffage- Cosmin Lupu21st July 2011
Well, I'll cut the hair, so you can get to the killer riffage right away
) 
thefireball22nd July 2011THAT IS SO FRIKEN AWESOME!! I was headbanging! So gonna learn, of course! Thanks for the brutalness!!!
- thefireball22nd July 2011
Hey Cosmin, I think the backing track is clipping in a few places. :
- Cosmin Lupu23rd July 2011
Which one? I just went through them and they seem fine - let me know if I'm missing on something, so I can repair it if it's necessary
thank you mate! - thefireball23rd July 2011
I hear it in the full speed track. They are tiny clicks. I brought it into Audacity to locate the clips. 10.25 sec, 28.73 sec, 54.59 sec.
Btw, I guess it's not possible to include the bassist? It's already mixed in your song? It's okay. Once I'm ready to do a take, I plan splicing together the intro guitars with the backing track, and then I can add bass guitar. That intro is so cool! - Cosmin Lupu23rd July 2011I hear it in the full speed track. They are tiny clicks. I brought it into Audacity to locate the clips. 10.25 sec, 28.73 sec, 54.59 sec.
Btw, I guess it's not possible to include the bassist? It's already mixed in your song? It's okay. Once I'm ready to do a take, I plan splicing together the intro guitars with the backing track, and then I can add bass guitar. That intro is so cool!
The trouble was that the recorded bass was too low to sound good at low tempos, so I chose to let it out this time. I can't wait to hear your take!
hehehehe. The site will be up soon and you can hear the vocals as well 
about the track, I'll re-render it and see if the clips persist! - thefireball23rd July 2011
Thanks man! Until you get your site up, is there another place I can check out this music from Aria?
Ivan Milenkovic28th July 2011Excellent work Cosmin!
- Cosmin Lupu28th July 2011Excellent work Cosmin!
Thank you Ivan! 
Sinisa Cekic29th July 2011Cool Cosmin
- Cosmin Lupu29th July 2011
thank you Sinisa!
- thefireball30th July 2011
Thanks for reuploading the tracks!
Er, not seeing the Download button now? 
What now? hahaha - Bogdan Radovic30th July 2011Thanks for reuploading the tracks! Er, not seeing the Download button now? What now? hahaha
We are working on it...
It was either bass or download button hahaha
In the mean time - if you need the backing, PM me and I'll send you the fast one. - Cosmin Lupu30th July 2011
Hey guys, I had a super bad connection today
did I miss anything? 
Rafael Guerrero12th August 2011Awsome!!
TesttubeMammoth14th September 2011Good work! Am definitely going to have a crack at this one..
Dinaga3rd October 2011Been listening to this one for an hour straight and I just can't get enough of it.
- Pololagrattoune19th April 2012
im fucking stuck with this crazy rythms, any advice too practice it well maestro?
- Cosmin Lupu23rd April 2012
Hey mate! How are you faring with this?
Did you manage to use the ideas we spoke about, to get the piece going?
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Hello GMC'ers!
This is yet another addition to the Metal Metrics series in which I included a drop A song called 'The Seed', written with one of my bands - Aria! This song is mean and aggressive, so I'm expecting you to put a lot of attitude in it when playing it!
What you will hear in the backing tracks, are the actual recorded drum takes, which I edited a little in order to give them to you - I considered it an interesting experience as they have the real feel! Enjoy playing with my drummer!
Since a lot of you guys requested low tuned riff oriented lessons, this one will help you improve on the following:
- Strong rhythm sense
- Interesting elements used in 4/4 meter subdivision context
- Right hand palm muting and control technique
Tuning: Drop A (A E A D F# B)
Meter: 4/4
Scales used: A phrygian dominant (1 - b2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - b6 - b7)
For a listening session, I strongly recommend Meshuggah and Sevendust as these two bands influenced us a lot in writing this piece.
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