St Anger29th January 2013Excellent Cosmin ! Take a whisky & gonna work this new one.
Javier Aviles29th January 2013Reminds me of my days as a bluesman ... I mean in the cleanest part of the sound. Good idea.
Cosmin Lupu29th January 2013Yeeehaw! Thank you gentlemen!
PosterBoy29th January 2013Awesome going to have to bookmark this one and work on my hybrid picking.
borewik50529th January 2013Where is my harley god dammit... ;D
Bogdan Radovic29th January 2013Love the riff at 0:30!
zoom29th January 2013Very cool Cosmin. I like! I like that banjo sound. Just saw Keith Urban last week and he plays alot of rock stuff with country which is really cool.
waynedcoville29th January 2013what! no trademark Cosmin stare?
Florian29th January 2013Let's Metal \m//
- Cosmin Lupu29th January 2013
No stare mate
Thank you Bogdan - it's got the spirit of South, doesn't it? @Zoom - I like Keith's music too man ! 
Dieterle29th January 2013Cosmin , very GOOD and great idea -
perfect interpretation :-)
Sensible Jones29th January 2013That's some proper Swamp Boogie right there!!!
I'm-a pour me a Bourbon and get down!!
- Cosmin Lupu29th January 2013
Thanks Dieter! swamp boogie?
I like that name!! And I will keep it if you don't mind, Neil 
Fayeed Tan30th January 2013wow! This is great stuff! Very catchy! Congrats Cosmin!
- Sensible Jones30th January 2013swamp boogie? I like that name!! And I will keep it if you don't mind, Neil
Be my guest!
Mudbone30th January 2013This is awesome Cosmin. Reminds me of some of the stuff thats played down here
- Cosmin Lupu30th January 2013
Thank you Neil and Fayeed and Mudbone - man, if you say it reminds you of the genuine stuff, it means I'm on a good roll
) 
thefireball30th January 2013It's cool how diverse you are with your talent, Cosmin.
Gabriel Leopardi30th January 2013This is fantastic Cosmin. The composition, the guitar arrangements! I love the part that starts at 01:21. It's a very inspiring lesson. Great job!
- Cosmin Lupu30th January 2013
Thank you Bran and Gabe! Well, Gabe I am very much into this sort of music
Ben Higgins31st January 2013That sounds brilliant C-Maestro !
Flatliner1st February 2013Really love the groove! Very nice exercice!
- Cosmin Lupu1st February 2013
Thank you Ben and Flatliner!
Andre Nieri12th February 2013Hi Cosmin. Loved this lesson and your tone too. Congrats, man!
- Cosmin Lupu12th February 2013
Thank you Andre!
Alvin Sears16th February 2013Awsome!..how did you get the tone?
- Cosmin Lupu16th February 2013
Hello Alvin! I used the AMT SS20 Tube Preamp
I am shooting a little review video on it and I will post it here in the Gear thread - will also send you a PM to let you know it's on. On short - I only used the crunch channel of this preamp and the mid position of my PRS Paul Allender - nothing fancy at all! - Alvin Sears16th February 2013
cool, thanks for the info!
- Cosmin Lupu16th February 2013
Anytime mate - please do ask, if I can help further
- Alvin Sears17th February 2013
how many bpm is the backing track?
- Cosmin Lupu17th February 2013
Hey mate - it's 120 BPM - check out the text description of the lesson for every detail
- Cosmin Lupu19th February 2013
Hey guys! Check this out: https://www.guitarmasterclass.net/guitar_fo...showtopic=47954 If you want to see how the AMT is working
Darius Wave9th March 2013Southern Rock & Metal rules! So full of flavour
Great lesson for people who like this genre - Cosmin Lupu9th March 2013
Thank you Darius!
Headbanger16th March 2013That sounds Awesome Cosmin! Came here late cos I saw your southern metal collab..
- Cosmin Lupu16th March 2013
Thanks man!
better a little late than not at all 
- cleiter23rd January 2014
Very cool composition.Imi place la nebunie.
- Cosmin Lupu23rd January 2014
Saluuut! Multumesc mult
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Hi GMC:ers!
Time to head down south to learn a thing or two about Southern Metal! We'll learn how to mix country and rock to obtain a fiery and straight forward type of music which emerged in the late 60s and has developed into a notable trend in the following years!
Wikipedia tells us that 'southern rock is a subgenre of rock music, and genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals. Although it is unknown from where the term southern rock came, "many people feel that these important contributors to the development of rock and roll have been minimized in rock's history."'
Notable exponents in my opinion?
Lynyrd Skynyrd
The Alman Brothers
ZZ Top
Maylene and the sons of disaster
Down
Kid Rock
The Cancer bats
Hell Yeah!
What will you learn?
- Developing your rhythm skills
- Riffing
- Hybrid/ chicken picking
- Alternate picking
- Mixing country elements and hard rock/ metal elements to obtain the Southern Metal flavor
Homework included - check video part 7
Tempo: 120 BPM
Scales you can use: Em pentatonic/ E blues
Tuning: Standard - E A D G B E
Time signature: 4/4
Tone settings: AMT SS20 having the Bass at 10 O'clock, the Mids at 9 and the Highs at 1 O'clock, while the gain is somewhere around 8 O'clock for the crunchy/ picking parts on the Crunch channel and the same settings on the lead channel, having the gain at 1 o'clock for the riffs.
Guitar: PRS Paul Allender
For a wider modern rock / metal learning experience based on riffing, I invite you to check out my modern metal lessons here.
...and for some more country you can check out some interesting lessons in GMC country lessons category.
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