berko22nd May 2009Man I was waiting for the harmonic squeel
Great riffing, very useful!
playaxeman22nd May 2009Good for my chops.
Red22nd May 2009Very nice!
Canis22nd May 2009Great one! I really gotta learn how to make solid riffs ^^
AlexLion22nd May 2009Haha, great riffs Zsolt! Keep rocking man! One of the longest main videos on GMC
Zsolt Galambos22nd May 2009Thank you guys!
Alexiaden9322nd May 2009Awesome riffs, Zsolt ! It wouldn't be hard to expand the song and put in a wicked solo !
Lian Gerbino22nd May 2009awesome man! so powerful riffing! and the pinch harmonic was great!
- Zsolt Galambos22nd May 2009Awesome riffs, Zsolt ! It wouldn't be hard to expand the song and put in a wicked solo !
You're absolutely right
Try to expand it yourself and add a solo if you'd like while practicing it:D
awesome man! so powerful riffing! and the pinch harmonic was great!
Thank you Lian 
Emir Hot22nd May 2009Nice, clean, clever and educational. Well done Zsolt
Pedja Simovic22nd May 2009Really great riffing Zsolt!
Pinched harmonic was spot on man
Bogdan Radovic22nd May 2009Sounds very cool Zsolt!!
Good lesson! 
Piotr Kaczor22nd May 2009Great as always, Zsolt!
- Zsolt Galambos22nd May 2009
Thank you my friends
Sergio Dorado22nd May 2009Excellent aproach. Like a lot!!!
kaznie_NL22nd May 2009Very cool!! Thanks a lot!
Carlos Carrillo22nd May 2009Great job mate,Modern Power Metal Riffs!! very very useful!!
sigma722nd May 2009that was sick man, i like the chord slides, they added power to it
- Zsolt Galambos22nd May 2009
Thanx people!
Sinisa Cekic22nd May 2009Rock on, this is great !
Ramiro Delforte23rd May 2009Neat!
Amazing chopps Zsolt!
Stephane Lucarelli23rd May 2009Really great lesson, well done Zsolt!
Muris Varajic23rd May 2009Great riffing Zsolt!
Wilska23rd May 2009very helpfull, thanks a lot Zsolt
Ivan Milenkovic23rd May 2009Very cool lesson Zsolt and interesting sound man. Great!
- Zsolt Galambos23rd May 2009
Thank you!
Gerardo Siere24th May 2009Great playing and very well explained lesson.
- herrb25th May 2009
great riffs i really like them. at the beginning when you palm mute the low e string, i think maybe you mute it a little bit too far away from the bridge, making it sound more like F. i'm not really the one o criticise you for your playing but i niticed this in my own playing
- AlexLion25th May 2009
It`s not low E. It`s 1 step down tuning. And I think Zsolt realize what is he doing, tho I prefer riff playing as close as possible to the bridge, more heavy sound
- herrb26th May 2009
right, it's 1 step down, so to me sounds like d#. the vid says E though.
- Zsolt Galambos27th May 2009great riffs i really like them. at the beginning when you palm mute the low e string, i think maybe you mute it a little bit too far away from the bridge, making it sound more like F. i'm not really the one o criticise you for your playing but i niticed this in my own playing
Hi Herrb,
You might be right about what you say, but it's not about muting far from the bridge, it's more like making a stronger pressure. Sometimes I do this becouse I'm still used to 0.11 strings. But you should also check out Pantera's By demons be driven, Dimebag does the same thing there, and I've seen people playing it from F...
Cheers 
Marcus Siepen27th May 2009great riffs, awesome lesson
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Hi everyone!
This time I'll try to explain the basic concept of song making in power metal. These concepts are being used by my band Wisdom as well.
A lot of power metal fans don't realise how much impact had Pantera and Dimebag Darrel on the modern way of constructing riffs and songs. To build up a modern power metal riff, all you need to do is to invent a Pantera style face-smashing riff and combine it with some harmonies and boom, here we go, modern style power metal riffs are born. This is what I did here.
The basic concept of building up a power metal song is as follows:
1. Main, or intro riff
2. Verse
3. Bridge
4. Chorus
5. Main Riff
6. Verse
7. Bridge
8. Chorus
9. Lead part
10. Chorus
11. Ending or outro riff
There are various means to expand this concept. In this lesson I wanted to make a stronger impact on the listener by playing the bridge part after the main riff, and also I changed the main riff a bit after the chorus part to buld up a tension and a release to the verse.
Don't forget, I tune to D ( D, G, C, F, A, D ).
For further questions please feel free to wisit my personal board.
Have fun practicing
-Zsolt