Kristofer Dahl5th March 2008Cool arrangement, topic and...T-shirt!
Thanks Toni!
The Uncreator5th March 2008Excellent Stuff!!
I love the Opeth like feel you have here, very progressive, Awesome lesson Toni!
Tuubsu5th March 2008Wow that sounded cool! Great lesson. I need improving on octaves anyway. thanks!
Toni Suominen5th March 2008So cool that you guys like it!
Kris: yeah, the T-shirt really improved my playing!
Marcus Lavendell5th March 2008Sounds evil!! hehe...
Great lesson Toni
ZakkWylde5th March 2008Always a good way to make riffs interesting
FieryFoX5th March 2008NICE dONE man this will come handy
botoxfox5th March 2008Cool stuff.
steve255th March 2008this is sexy
Ivan Milenkovic5th March 2008Nice octaves and riffing man! Me like it!
- Toni Suominen5th March 2008
Thanks for the great comments guys once again!
Danilo Capezzuto5th March 2008Your rhythms are my personal favorite!
David Wallimann5th March 2008Nice T-Shirt! :-)
Great lesson too. :-)
Muris Varajic5th March 2008Awesome,just awesome!
- Toni Suominen5th March 2008
Thanks guys for the awesome comments!
Bogdan Radovic5th March 2008Great metal lesson! And t-shirt is awesome too
Nobody5th March 2008Toni you are the god of metal riffing!!
I'll put this one too in my Lesson Plan and can't wait for tomorrow to start practicing these great lessons again!!! (Tomorrow I get money from the work :])
Henkka5th March 2008Whoa ... I just love the way this sounds... Just like Opeth
kyldeee5th March 2008Yeah!!!!!
This is awesome mate It sounds a lot like Opeth, which is a great thing 'cause Opeth rulzzz!!! But not as hard as you keep on rocking and keep these awesome lessons coming 
Carlos Carrillo5th March 2008wow!!!!!great lesson!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks toni!!!
Juan M. Valero5th March 2008Oh, I want my T-shirt !!!! hehehe, great tune and great lesson
Dejan Farkas5th March 2008Cool
Jerry Arcidiacono5th March 2008Great riffing again
Pablo Vazquez5th March 2008Amazing!! Great work!
- Toni Suominen5th March 2008
I really appreciate your comments, thanks guys!
- Martin la guitarra5th March 2008
ha! Every lesson of yours is just pure high class - you are one of the main influense for my guitar playing!
- Toni Suominen5th March 2008
Thanks so much for the compliment Martin!
Hisham Al-Sanea5th March 2008cool riff Toni and nice T-shirt.
Nemanja Filipovic5th March 2008great lesson Toni
Owen5th March 2008Awesome lesson!
Sexy t-shirt
Nick3255th March 2008nice lesson and shirt
SLASH915th March 2008Thans, very helpful lesson.
- Maximus6th March 2008
Love it!
- Toni Suominen6th March 2008
Great that you all like it!!
uberIbanez6th March 2008wow! AWESONE LESSON! SOUNDS A LOT LIKE OPETH
- Toni Suominen6th March 2008
Thanks uberIbanez!
JukeboxHero7th March 2008These riffs are beast.
Marcus Siepen7th March 2008Killer lesson Toni, you perfectly capture the Opeth vibes
- Toni Suominen7th March 2008
Thanks a lot Marcus!
Gabriel Leopardi8th March 2008Cool song Toni! It sounds great.
- Toni Suominen8th March 2008
Thanks Gabriel!
Ben N9th March 2008sounds great love those heavy licks
good lesson- Toni Suominen9th March 2008
Thanks Ben!
- jaguilar25th March 2008
- Martin la guitarra24th April 2008
OMG!!!! LOOOOOOOOVVVEEE ITTTT!!!!!!
PassionPlay8th May 2008Recommed listening : Deftones - The Chauffeur (not a typical way to use Octaves but sounds pretty cool.. check it out
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And nice lesson btw. Octaves add a really cool effect to your songs and very good for death metal composion.
Bucket862nd June 2008Im confused about something... do you mute the string between the two you are playing?
Alexiaden9328th July 2009Awesome lesson, Toni ! You should make more lessons, I'm sure everybody misses them !
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Hello folks! In this lesson we will take a look at using octaves in a metal context. We will be using octaves as a songwriting tool, so this lesson is supposed to give you ideas about how to add textures and soundscapes to your songs using octaves so this lesson isn't really about technique.
I have created a little soundtrack that consists of 3 segments: "Intro", "Verse", "Chorus". In each I created a very easy riff and the purpose is to show you ideas how you can add a cool element to a musical part with octaves.
Keep in mind though, don't take these ideas as rules, they are just there to give you some guide on how to create your own octave-runs. If you want more ideas as how to use octaves creatively, I suggest you listen to some Opeth, they are the masters of using octaves in a cool way.
So, I hope you like it and get a lot of ideas! :)
Tempo: 143 bpm
Key: Dm
Tuning: E standard
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