Epic Progressive Riffing Lesson

- kaznie_NL8th May 2009
  First comment ^^ Nice on Ramir! Cool intro;)
- kaznie_NL8th May 2009
  Addition: you have nice texts under the lessons! It really explaines why you composed your song this way!
- AlexLion8th May 2009
  Epic Where do you get synth sounds? What you use for that?
- Jesse8th May 2009
  Epic intro. Love it when it's so majestic!
- AlexLion8th May 2009
  These things I always wanted to do on synthesizer!.. I know where to ask help when I buy one
- Marek Rojewski8th May 2009
  This is really a great sounding lesson Ramiro \m/\m/!
- Gerardo Siere8th May 2009
  Nice lesson Ramiro.
- playaxeman8th May 2009
  Yes really cool.
  
  Lots of study material in this on: changing rhythms, riffing, fast runs. Very nice
- Emir Hot8th May 2009
  very epic sound. I really like it. Well done
- David Wallimann8th May 2009
  You never seize to amazing em Ramiro, this is an awesome composition and very educational!
- Vasilije Vukmirovic8th May 2009
  Sound awesome
- berko8th May 2009
  Once again a fantastic lesson! You certainly are bringing us lessons from every corner of the realm of music. Thanks for that
- Sinisa Cekic9th May 2009
  Excellent one Ramiro !
- Ramiro Delforte9th May 2009
  QUOTE (kaznie @ May 8 2009, 04:35 PM)
  First comment ^^ Nice on Ramir! Cool intro;)
  
  Thanx mate!
  
  QUOTE (kaznie @ May 8 2009, 04:36 PM)
  Addition: you have nice texts under the lessons! It really explaines why you composed your song this way!
  
  I always try to explain how I do what I do on the lessons and how you can think it so it can be recreated (besides the theory and other stuff)
  
  QUOTE (AlexLion @ May 8 2009, 05:00 PM)
  Epic Where do you get synth sounds? What you use for that?
  
  Oh, this sounds are not the best ones, I have a synth, a Korg N364 (there's a pic in my board with that keyboard). And in this lesson the sounds comes from the Reason 3, but if I get lucky soon I'll be doing this stuff with the Omnisphere Spectrasonics.
  
  QUOTE (Jesse @ May 8 2009, 05:01 PM)
  Epic intro. Love it when it's so majestic!
  
  Haha, it's a cool intro, really epic
  
  QUOTE (AlexLion @ May 8 2009, 05:03 PM)
  These things I always wanted to do on synthesizer!.. I know where to ask help when I buy one
  
  Oh, sure, if you have any questions about that post them on my board or send me a PM and we'll discuss about
  
  QUOTE (Gerardo Siere @ May 8 2009, 06:03 PM)
  Nice lesson Ramiro.
  
  Gracias Gera!
  
  QUOTE (Emir Hot @ May 8 2009, 08:24 PM)
  very epic sound. I really like it. Well done
  
  Thanx Emir!
  
  QUOTE (David Wallimann @ May 8 2009, 08:27 PM)
  You never seize to amazing em Ramiro, this is an awesome composition and very educational!
  
  Wow, thank you David, haha, I do my best to keep things fresh and explore different styles
  
  QUOTE (Vasilije Vukmirovic @ May 8 2009, 08:41 PM)
  Sound awesome
  
  Thank you Vasilije!
  
  QUOTE (berko @ May 8 2009, 10:06 PM)
  Once again a fantastic lesson! You certainly are bringing us lessons from every corner of the realm of music. Thanks for that
  
  Thank you for that great comment mate!
  I try to bring each time something that I'd like to hear not depending on the style but only trying to make some music.
  
  QUOTE (Sinisa Cekic @ May 9 2009, 12:15 AM)
  Excellent one Ramiro !
  
  Thanx mate!
- Ivan Milenkovic9th May 2009
  Hehe, love those intro pads! Very cool lesson man
- Sentenced9th May 2009
  I love how the intro develops into the actual song. Real EPIC.
- Stephane Lucarelli9th May 2009
  Really great lesson!
- Zsolt Galambos11th May 2009
  Wow, now this is a killer lesson
- Jose Lassaga11th May 2009
  Wow awesome dude!!!
- Silver Stratocaster12th May 2009
  The final run is just mind-boggling.

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- Tags: Kamelot, Symphony X, Dream Theater
Hi GMC'ers! This lesson has a very special surprise, it's a style that I used to play a long time ago. Actually the intro of this lesson was from a song that I composed when I was in a band called Staccato. I used to play the keyboard in that band and I came up with that epic riffing. Now I've developed the idea (I just got the intro back in that time) to some epic-progressive song.
The point of this lesson is to analyze a little about these riffs and what makes a more epic or progressive riffing into this kind of style.

The techniques used in this lesson are:

* Legato
* Alternate picking
* Sliding
* Palm muting

I hope you enjoy the lesson! :)

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