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Feedback
Cosmin Lupu11th April 2012Thank you man!
Clare10th April 2012Wow Cosmin..that was brutal bro..i love your sound and tone..Excellent work on this.!!!
- Cosmin Lupu8th April 2012
Thank you Piotr! You honor me with your nice thoughts!
Piotr Kaczor7th April 2012Just love this series! Very useful for everyone! I always envy you the quality of sound and video, Cosmin
newguyatgmc7th April 2012woooooow
- Cosmin Lupu6th April 2012
thanks Ben!
Ben Higgins5th April 2012Beautiful heaviness !!!
- Cosmin Lupu5th April 2012
@DWR - finish that one, play it like a storm and then we can get to this one!
DarkWaveRiffer5th April 2012This is awesome!, I wouldn't mind trying it, but I think i have my hands full for a while with the one you having me working on already. Very cool!
- Cosmin Lupu4th April 2012
thanks mates!
Scorpiotic3rd April 2012Lessons like these is make this site great !
Keep it going mate, this is cool as
Gabriel Leopardi3rd April 2012Great riffing Cosmin! Tight and agressive!
- Cosmin Lupu3rd April 2012
thank you kind sirs!
Dinaga3rd April 2012Great stuff here! The chord switch in the middle gives a real melodic feel after the first heavy part - I really dig that
Tight riffing mate!
JD_3rd April 2012Great! Nice chord progression and feel mate..
zoom3rd April 2012love the texture with both guitars. Your got this style sussed! Good work cosmin
thefireball3rd April 2012I got an email that said you had a new lesson up.
This is really cool. You played one of my favorite picking patterns. It sounds similar to what I hear from the band "I, The Breather." I gave this a Like. This doesn't appear to be too difficult, and the leads will prove very beneficial to expanding my compositions. Yay for that! 
- Cosmin Lupu3rd April 2012
thanks man!
- benetom3rd April 2012
Cool riffing m8 !
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Hey GMC!
Welcome to the 6th episode of Metal Metrics! Today we shall be dealing with the idea of different ways of developing a given rhythmic formula – in other words, drawing different faces to a mean riff.
As benefits:
- you shall develop your right hand technique – alternate picking in the context of a riff
- you shall broaden your horizons regarding orchestration ideas
- development of your rhythmic sense, by working with an interesting rhythmic formula.
As listening and inspiration, I would recommend the song ‘Whitewashed’ from August Burns Red, so grab your axes, tune to drop C and let’s ROCK!
Cosmin
Tuning: Drop C (C G C F A D)
Tempo: 120 BPM
Meter: 4/4
Scales: C blues/ C Aeolian
Tone settings: Bass – 10 o’clock, Mids – scooped, Highs – 1 o’clock, Gain – 2 o’clock, using the lead channel of my AMT ss20 Pre-amp, boosted with a Suhr Shiba Drive overdrive pedal.
Have a look at my Metal Metrics series for an expedition into the world of modern metal, by checking the link below: Metal Metrics Series
From this course:
- Metal Metrics 1LEVEL 5Building modern metal breakdowns, riffs, and phrasing.
- Metal Metrics 2LEVEL 5Heavy riffing in drop A
- Metal Metrics 3LEVEL 4Heavy riffing in drop A
- Metal Metrics 4LEVEL 3Heavy drop C riff containing the key elements for an outstanding riff.
- Metal Metrics 5LEVEL 4Short riff built up on downstrokes.
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