Kristofer Dahl23rd March 2008Just awesome riffing Trond - so many cool ideas!
Pitch_Black23rd March 2008Very cool lesson! Good job Trond!
Muris Varajic23rd March 2008Killer sound!!
Tuubsu23rd March 2008Now, thats some cool playing like always with you Trond! couple of great and even surprising tricks there.
SamJ23rd March 2008Great lesson Trond!
Thanks!
edguy23rd March 2008Wow what a nice sounding lesson.
I have to tune my guitar to DROP D
Nice lesson
Matt2323rd March 2008Great lesson.
Must learn this one. Thanks:)
Pablo Vazquez23rd March 2008Great lesson, Trond!!
BodomESP23rd March 2008Yes!!! You can never have enough metal!!
I want more!!!!!!!
Iluha23rd March 2008Wow man.. Im no metal head, but I gotta learn this one!
Bogdan Radovic23rd March 2008Great lesson Trond! Awesome riffs and powerful sound!
Nick Kellie23rd March 2008brilliant Trond!
Marcus Siepen23rd March 2008this lesson rocks :-)
preownedguitar23rd March 2008Great lesson trond.
Trond Vold23rd March 2008Thanks all
Gen23rd March 2008Exellent lesson and amazing playing !!
The Uncreator23rd March 2008Awesome lesson, the riffs are just phenomneal!!
Ivan Milenkovic23rd March 2008Great riffing Trond, lots of great stuff here! Excellent job!
Siggum23rd March 2008Are you still friends with your neighboors after this?
great lesson Trond !- Trond Vold23rd March 2008
Nope.. I'm not exactly the most popular guy in the neighborhood
Hisham Al-Sanea23rd March 2008nice riff trond .
Joe Kataldo23rd March 2008Sooooo METAL
Nick32523rd March 2008nice
D-loader23rd March 2008Lol, when I saw this on the frontpage I instantly though: "Yes! Another Trond Vold lesson!". Cause I know what to expect by now xD!
Great lesson as always. You make up some really cool, heavy riffs, with a melodic touch as well. So awesome! keep it coming
Toni Suominen24th March 2008Brutal lesson as always, my fellow metalhead!!
skennington24th March 2008Had me grittin my teeth! Bookmarked for sure!
- USAMAN24th March 2008
AWSOME Trond......Thanks.
- summers-old24th March 2008
Slick, Precise, Melodic, Hardcore & Awesome
audiopaal24th March 2008Awesome Trond!
Cool riffs and perfect playing as always
Smikey200624th March 2008can anyone say Inflames?
love it.. more metal please !
Fran24th March 2008Amazing!
I love your lessons Trond!
jammer9124th March 2008This lesson is amazing (my favourite). Love these riffs here. Great BFMV and AILD influence.
Gabriel Leopardi24th March 2008Awesome lesson Trond! Great riffing!
at lights end24th March 2008awesome!
love the riffs.- NoPayneNoGain24th March 2008
Hey Trond, I'm having trouble with holding my pick facing towards the ground and getting the quick alternative picking. My downstrokes are working but my upstrokes are getting caught up on the string. For playing the bass notes is it a bad idea for me to make a habit out of just using the flat pick technique where it's not at an angle cause that is seems to work right now.. And also what thickness pick do you use? I'm switching between two picks, a medium and a .46mm. Do you think those are too light for this type of music?
Danilo Capezzuto24th March 2008I really love your lessons!
- NoPayneNoGain24th March 2008
and one more question. Sorry for all the text..
how do you count the
[----------------3-]
[----------------5-]
[0-0-0--0--0--0----]
at the intro for example. Is it right to count "tri-p-let, 1, and, 2, and"? - Trond Vold24th March 2008
NoPayneNoGain: Picking angles are very individual i think. I prefer an angle, but i know many that use flat picking.
Go for what works best.
I think .46 is a bit too light for metal. Especially when your trying faster alternate picking.
I usually use Jazz II picks (1.18mm i think), just right for me.
And yes, you can count it like that. But they arent technially triplet notes. The 3 first are 32 notes and the rest of the open string notes are 16th notes. 
BIGD225th March 2008cool lesson.....love it Trond
Dejan Farkas25th March 2008Great riffs :
- CHEP25th March 2008
That sounds great
What amp or modeling do you use? Are those active EMGs on you guitar? 
Juan M. Valero25th March 2008Love your lessons man !!! awesome
Nemanja Filipovic25th March 2008wow...Trond this is great
Alejandro Pinero25th March 2008cool man!!!
Good reef!!
JVM25th March 2008Awesome riffing trond! There's about a million awesome little riffs in this you could expand upon to make a song, which I think was your intention
- Trond Vold25th March 2008
Chep: I use the Marshall JMP-1. And yes, it's active EMG 81/85
Antipolitik1st April 2008Oh ****. This is insane. Love it.
(edited for language - Tony)
Lester14th April 2008You have such a great style!!
What guitar do you use?- Trond Vold14th April 2008
Lester: Thanks
It's a Jackson SLSMG 
Carlos Carrillo8th May 2008hey Trond!!!excellent lesson!!!
erik31st May 2008that riff starting at about 00:45 was awesome!
- Tryton20th September 2008
I love the fact that my right hand is tired after I get done practicing this... Great Lesson..
Thank Trond. - chri.banez9th January 2009
great job, trond!
i like that aggressive song 
Alexiaden9316th May 2009Wow ! Insane riffs ! Rock on, Trond !
NoSkill14th July 2009I really enjoyed this, Trond. It's bookmarked! Really great sound, but I've come to expect that from you!
- Karl-ss5th November 2009
Okay... if that song was on a CD... Id buy that cd.. Then ripp the song off after headbanging like crazy!!
- Karl-ss5th November 2009
Okay... if that song was on a CD... Id buy that cd.. Then ripp the song off after headbanging like crazy!!
thefireball12th March 2010i love drop d stuff! this is cool! by the way, you oughta do some lessons with your guitar that has a whammy bar - the one that doesn't give you trouble. that would be cool adding some squealies and dive bombs for us! keep rocking!
- thefireball12th March 2010
whew! on #9 that's a big stretch on the second bar. I'm substituting it for a split chord that's right next to it and sounds the same. you got big hands to do that stretch!
Todd Simpson16th July 2010Wow. Killer song man. Love the setup, love the payoff, love the combo of melody/harmony and crunch. Wicked.
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Hi all :) With this lesson we will be looking at usages of the always cool Dropped-D tuning, working on downstroke stability, alternate- and downstroke-picking switching and practicing a bit more speedy rhythm-playing.
The lesson itself consists of a fairly fast-paced piece with alot of variation, some progressive elements, and a bit trickier run at the end.
I have tried to construct the lesson from a full-song perspective using the various parts (minus a solo and lenghty verses) you might encounter in a metal-song of this type (Progressive/melodeath), and it's mostly centered around the D Aeolian scale.
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Tempo: 172 BPM
Tuning: Dropped D
Scale: D Aeolian
Time Sig: 4/4
As usual, i have included 4 backingtracks and a Guitar-Pro file.
Enjoy :) And dont hesistate to send me a message if you have any questions.
--Trond
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