In this lesson focus is on shifting accents, and playing odd time metal rhythm with lots of palm muting and pull offs, while maintaining fast 4/4 time tempo.
Improve your use of octaves, fast tremolo rhythm patterns, and pedal note rhythms. You will also learn how to harmonize riffs in thirds. This can really give the song new dimensions.
This is what many people might call a "breakdown" as there is heavy groove riffage accompanied with "silence" in between the notes. There's a lot of intense picking in this one, so practice slowly.
A technique that is very used in music styles such as Grindcore and Death metal, bands like Cannibal Corpse are fond users of this kind of playing. Tremolo picking is when you play one note rapidly. It's basically alternate picking but faster!