Drop-D Workout Lesson

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- Capt.Z19th September 2008
  Nice!! Heavy!
- Nemanja Filipovic19th September 2008
  Wow,amazing lesson,and well played.
- Emir Hot19th September 2008
  Very nice
- Bogdan Radovic19th September 2008
  Great lesson Kuba ! I really liked the second part
- Pedja Simovic19th September 2008
  Love the Drop D sound , cool.
- kaznie_NL19th September 2008
  New metalhead I see Thnx Kuba! The run in the middle is realy nice!
- Kuba Szafran19th September 2008
  Thank you guys for kind words .
- Alex8719th September 2008
  Nice lesson Kuba
- Kristofer Dahl19th September 2008
  Very cool lesson Kuba - the last pattern was especially inspiring!
- Nazgul19th September 2008
  Yes, the ending was the best! Great lesson! Just wonder if the second riff would sound more aggressive with only downpicking. But since it's about AP, it's good like it is.
- Muris Varajic19th September 2008
  Nicely done Kuba!
- Ian Bushell19th September 2008
  Yeah!!! Rock on bro!
- Gabriel Leopardi19th September 2008
  rocker lesson! I like it. Very well played.
- sigma719th September 2008
  wow, how long have you being playing man?
- Tolek19th September 2008
  Fajna lekcja! Ja zatko gram w drop D bo ja raczej gram solówy... Moze zaczne tez z riffingiem.
  Pozdrowienia.
- Kuba Szafran19th September 2008
  Dzieki za komentarz Tolek .
  
  Thanks for your comments mates. Sigma7, I've been playing electric guitar for about 5 years.
- kyldeee19th September 2008
  Awesome lesson mate
- Sergio Dorado19th September 2008
  Sounds great!
- Ivan Milenkovic20th September 2008
  Nice riffing, well done mate.
- Hisham Al-Sanea20th September 2008
  welldone Kuba .nice one
- Gerardo Siere20th September 2008
  Nicely done Kuba.
- inertia20th September 2008
  awesome lesson
- Piotr Kaczor18th October 2008
  Very nice and very heavy! :-)
  Naprawde dobry riff Kuba!
- Nick32515th November 2008
  awesome
- Kuba Szafran16th November 2008
  Thank you all .
- Marabou25th September 2009
  Wow, the ending was SICK! i love drop D!

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- Tags: Drop-d, Drop, D, Riffing, Pinky, Workout
  Drop-d riffing + pinky challenge.
Hello GMCrs and welcome to my second lesson "Drop-d workout". Today we are going to use drop-d tuning, so you should tune your guitar like this (starting from high e) - E B G D A D. As you can see, low e is tuned 2 semitones down (from e to d). This kind of tuning is nice for riffing, as it allows you to play powerchord only with one-finger barre (we won't do that in this lesson though).

This lesson should imorove your alternate picking, palm muting, pull-offs and pinky strenght. In first part of lesson we are going to mix 16th notes with 16th notes triples played with alternate picking. In second part we will play mostly 16th note triplets using alterante picking combined with pull-offs. In second part you're going to use your pinky a lot and some pain may appear. If that happens, you should make a break and then start again with lower tempo.

In this lesson I provided close shots to both of my hands. If you have any questions about this lesson, post it in lesson's feedback and I'll do my best to help you.

Take care,
Kuba

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