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Alexiaden9316th May 2009Heavy stuff !
Joe Kataldo15th March 2009Marek Rojewski, simply play it on a six string, as you read the tab, and will be automatically transposed in Eminor, That's it
Dejan Farkas11th March 2009Well done
Gerardo Siere9th March 2009Nice groove there!
Zsolt Galambos9th March 2009Nice to see someone covering Petrucci's style. Excellent work, Joe!
Vasilije Vukmirovic9th March 2009Great! Has that "Awake" sound!
- Joe Kataldo9th March 2009
Thanks bro!
David Wallimann9th March 2009Awesome riffs Joe, you rock!!!
Bogdan Radovic8th March 2009Sounds great Joe! You nailed his rhythm style!
- Bogdan Radovic8th March 2009
Sounds great Joe! You nailed his rhythm style!
Sinisa Cekic8th March 2009Sounds great Joe, riffs are powerful!!
Gabriel Leopardi8th March 2009Great riffing and killer sound Joe!
Marek Rojewski8th March 2009Cool riffs, but I don't know how should I transpose it to 6-string guitar? Just play it one string lower, or find the same notes on the different place on the fretboard?
- Joe Kataldo8th March 2009
Thanks Guys
Sergio Dorado8th March 2009Sounds amazing, Joe! The tone is also brilliant
Ramiro Delforte8th March 2009Wow! You have some nice riffs there!
And great sound as always
Nice lesson Joe
Ivan Milenkovic8th March 2009Sounds very cool, nice riffs, and sound is great, very punchy.
Stephane Lucarelli8th March 2009Hi Joe !
Nice riffs man.
Muris Varajic8th March 2009Awake all the way, good job Joe.
Pedja Simovic8th March 2009Cool riffs Joe
- Joe Kataldo8th March 2009
I suppose I got inspired by awake in general, I really like that album, no any song in particular.
Kuba Szafran8th March 2009Cool stuff Joe
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Nazgul8th March 2009Great, indeed very powerful.
Emir Hot8th March 2009Very powerful. Good job
kaznie_NL8th March 2009Very cool riffs Joe, it rocks!! I love the intro fast part with the very cool harmonic
Jerry Arcidiacono8th March 2009Great riffing Joe!
Piotr Kaczor8th March 2009Sounds excellent! Great riffs, Joe!
Starry Manhattan Rain8th March 2009Nice Joe! Reminds me very much of something off the "Awake" album, his earlier seven string stuff. It sounds to me very inspired by the song "Lie"? Would I be right
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- Lesson
- My notes
Petrucci Style - Seven Strings Rhythms - B minor - 100 bpm
As you probably know I'm a big fun of Dream Theater and John Petrucci, and you can hear his influences in many metal lessons of mine, today I'm proud to present to you a lessons on his rhythm style, something reminiscent of Liquid Tension Experiment albums (Dream Theather former members side Project).
The study is quite easy, is divided in three parts, I've tried to put a typical element of his style in each of them:- Opening riff
- Main Riff
- Second Riff
everything starts on the left channel and after a couple of bars a second guitar kicks with a sixteenth note sequence played in harmony, then the full band kicks with the main riff, alternating power chords and seventh string riffing. The last part is arpeggiated with a fairy amount of distortion to obtain note clarity, specially on the extended chords like C#5/b9.
This study can be easily adapted for a six string guitar, so even if you don't own a seven strings guitars, you can still enjoy this lesson.
Keep Rocking,
Joe Kataldo
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