Slayer & Exodus Inspired Thrash Riffs Lesson

- Red16th June 2009
  Nice one
- Nighthawk116th June 2009
  Thick N Juciy Riffs
- Sergio Dorado16th June 2009
  Killer riffs and sound!
- ZakkWylde16th June 2009
  *Headbanging*
- Sensible Jones16th June 2009
  \m/ Rock on Zsolt!!! Great stuff!!! ;D
- Skalde16th June 2009
  cool lesson Zsolt, can you tell me which scales are typical for Thrash Metal(exspa. Bay Area)?
- Evil_Invader16th June 2009
  Great! Sounds a lot like modern Exodus stuff.
  
  We need more lessons in this style! Really fast ones with difficult rythm varations would be great!
  
  What about german, canadian or brazilian old school thrash!? Would be great too!
- Bogdan Radovic16th June 2009
  Killer sounding lesson Zsolt!
- AlexLion16th June 2009
  Sixteen notes on 125 bmp with downpicking is difficulty 3? OMG You are a monster! Can You play on 150 with downpicking? You know how to play metal
- Jose Lassaga16th June 2009
  Good lesson man!!!!
- Fran16th June 2009
  Wow! That was powerful!
- Stephane Lucarelli16th June 2009
  Awesome job Zsolt !
- Ivan Milenkovic16th June 2009
  Great riffing and the sound is very tight as well
- Ramiro Delforte16th June 2009
  Your sound is amazing Zsolt!!!
- Lian Gerbino17th June 2009
  awesome!
- Emir Hot17th June 2009
  stunning stuff
- Zsolt Galambos17th June 2009
  Thanx guys and gals!
  
  QUOTE (Skalde @ Jun 16 2009, 06:47 PM)
  cool lesson Zsolt, can you tell me which scales are typical for Thrash Metal(exspa. Bay Area)?
  
  The most typical are the Blues Pentatonic, the Phrygian, Phrygian Dominant, the Diminished, and a lot of Chromatic scales.
  
  QUOTE (AlexLion @ Jun 16 2009, 07:47 PM)
  Sixteen notes on 125 bmp with downpicking is difficulty 3? OMG You are a monster! Can You play on 150 with downpicking? You know how to play metal
  
  I just tryed it, and I needed to relax my right hand a bit to be able to do it on 150. In a 5-10 minutes I was able to do it.
  One of my earliest inspirations was Metallica, and my favorite album was Master of Puppets. I used to play that all day long, even had a Metallica tribute band. We used to play Master of Puppets all by downstrokes as it was played by Hetfield
  
  QUOTE (Evil_Invader @ Jun 16 2009, 07:18 PM)
  Great! Sounds a lot like modern Exodus stuff.
  
  We need more lessons in this style! Really fast ones with difficult rythm varations would be great!
  
  What about german, canadian or brazilian old school thrash!? Would be great too!
  
  Kreator, Annihilator and old Sepultura? Definitely
- AlexLion17th June 2009
  Lesson on Sepultura would be awesome!
  
  And 150 with downstrokes is... Almost unbelievable!! You should post a video on youtube, and You will get bunch of fans And of course some haters I bet Hetfield will be jealous if saw Your playing
- Zsolt Galambos17th June 2009
  QUOTE (AlexLion @ Jun 17 2009, 09:20 AM)
  Lesson on Sepultura would be awesome!
  
  And 150 with downstrokes is... Almost unbelievable!! You should post a video on youtube, and You will get bunch of fans And of course some haters I bet Hetfield will be jealous if saw Your playing
  
  I don't think Hetfield would be jealous, he could do it anytime I think I will do another rhythms/riffs lesson on 150 bmp soon...
- AlexLion17th June 2009
  He got nothing on Your solo skills, I`m pretty sure
  Btw what amp are You using? Sounds really crazy!! (In a good way )
- Zsolt Galambos17th June 2009
  QUOTE (AlexLion @ Jun 17 2009, 10:15 AM)
  He got nothing on Your solo skills, I`m pretty sure
  Btw what amp are You using? Sounds really crazy!! (In a good way )
  
  It's a Line6 Toneport UX1 external sound card and effects:
  Head: Line6 Spinal Puppet: Drive 6, Bass5, Middle 6, Treble 5, Presence 5
  Cab : 4x12 2001 Treadplate with 57 Sure off axis
- AlexLion17th June 2009
  Thanks a lot Zsolt! I`ll check these equipment Or mostly that tone comes from guitar?
- Zsolt Galambos17th June 2009
  QUOTE (AlexLion @ Jun 17 2009, 10:25 AM)
  Thanks a lot Zsolt! I`ll check these equipment Or mostly that tone comes from guitar?
  
  No problem
  The guitar has it's own sound as well, but in my oppinion you can achieve the sound with almost every Line6 POD or similar effect like the Toneport.
- Gerardo Siere17th June 2009
  Great lesson!
- Jose Mena18th June 2009
  Pure Metal, excellent riffing
- edguy18th June 2009
  Definitely the style i like the most One of the best Thrash Lessons here at GMC!
  Even the guys from Exodus said in an Interview that they cheat sometimes and don't play downstrokes because it's too fast But not a problem for our Zsolt:O Very nice.
- Zsolt Galambos18th June 2009
  Thank you, you are all very kind
- Karl-ss18th June 2009
  DUde i just learnt it! THis would be a awesome track... I could even see lyrics and a more advanced bass track O_O
- Karl-ss18th June 2009
  DUde i just learnt it! THis would be a awesome track... I could even see lyrics and a more advanced bass track O_O
- Zsolt Galambos18th June 2009
  QUOTE (Karl-ss @ Jun 18 2009, 03:40 PM)
  DUde i just learnt it! THis would be a awesome track... I could even see lyrics and a more advanced bass track O_O
  
  Wow! Good to hear that
- Piotr Kaczor18th June 2009
  Powerfull! Great as always!
- ItsMe19th June 2009
  just great
- ItsMe19th June 2009
  great riffing.
- Moonchild20th June 2009
  Wow sounds really great!
  And just at the right time for me! ...I´m listening the Kill Em All Album (Metallica) a lot this time:-)
- Zsolt Galambos20th June 2009
  Thank you!
- skennington29th June 2009
  Awesome Man!
- Janos Kallai27th July 2009
  Great!
- thefireball2nd February 2011
  Brilliant!

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- Tags: Thrash, Slayer, Exodus, Rhythm, Riffs,
Hi GMC-ers,

And welcome to another riffs/rhythm lesson. This time we will focus on the Bay Area Thrash riffing, in the style of Slayer and Exodus.

The San Francisco Bay Area, California is considered as the starting location of the Thrash scene. It all began in the mid 80's, when bands like Exodus, Metallica, Athrax and Slayer wanted to create a heavyer and faster style of music in the metal genre. Although rooted in the New Wave of Brithish Heavy Metal style, these bands developed their own distinct sound. The most influential records are Metallica's "Kill 'em All", Exodus's "Bonded by Blood" and Slayer's "Reign in Blood".

This lesson tries to display the very sound and style of the Thrash scene. When playing the rhythm parts, try to pick downwards only.

The song consist of the main riff, the verse, the bridge and the chorus. For the whole song, play the whole lesson twice, and if you feel, you can add a solo section to it.

Although this lesson is played in D tuning ( D, G, C, F, A, D ), the early Thrash records were tuned to E and E-flat.

Happy practicing & headbanging :)

-Zsolt

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