Kristofer Dahl31st October 2007Awesome Jerry - you have some very interesting rhythm chops. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Bedlam31st October 2007Nice, we could use some more lessons like this!
Muris Varajic31st October 2007Great riffing Jerry,love odd timings!!
jonasrolf31st October 2007that's just awesome!!
Maximus31st October 2007Nice!
exorcyze31st October 2007This is very cool, and you did a great job with the drums as well! I always have a ton of trouble trying to do drums for odd time signatures and maintain a good groove for it.
Did you use addictive drums for this? Any chance you'd share the drum score ( or midi if you used addictive )? =)
mattacuk31st October 2007yes this will add to my skills for sure! Always great to play in odd timeings!
Good work Jerry !!
David Wallimann31st October 2007Perfect! Great rythm ideas!
jammer9131st October 2007Really metal man. Gonna get to this when i get have time to practice.
SLASH9131st October 2007Real cool, man. Good job.
The Uncreator1st November 2007Very cool, i love the progressive feel to it.
Ryan1st November 2007Yeah know, I never really have seen the point of different time signatures. It all sounds like the same to me!
Pavel31st October 2007I smell Dream Theater influence
Some really interesting stuff! 
shredmandan1st November 2007Really good stuff
- Rawk on1st November 2007
Awesome! I would love for you to build us a solo over this!!! Something really angular and spastic.
steve251st November 2007Hmm, i don't get this :/
krudtaa1st November 2007great riffing. thanks.
- Kristofer Dahl1st November 2007
To those of you who aren't quite sure what time-signatures are all about. I suggest going through these two of Andrew's theory lessons real carefully:
time signature
odd time signatures
Basically it means that if a riff doesn't loop evenly (meaning you can count to 2, 4 or 8) - it's an odd time signature. This is quite unusual so it gives a different, unexpected vibe! 
Juan M. Valero1st November 2007Oh MY GOD !!! I love this one !!!! I don't mention I'm a DREAM THEATER FAN !!!! hehehehee ... and tomorrow I'm going to a concert of them !!!
Bulletproof1st November 2007This is not the real Jerry...this dude has a beard!!
J/k- steve251st November 2007
Sounds good, and i went through andrews lessons but i don't get time signatures at all. This is why i never touch theory
Jerry Arcidiacono2nd November 2007Thank you guys!
exorcyze: I used Native Battery, be patient for the midi track.
Pavel: you're right!
Juan: you're lucky. This year I don't see DT here in Italy.
Rawk on: spastic?!?
Bulletproof: Yeah! It's my new look!
MickeM2nd November 2007Very good! I definiaeiteley gain from these odd time signature lessons!
- Jerry Arcidiacono2nd November 2007
MickeM: you're my spelling competitor!
Basic Assumption9th December 2007Great, thanks a lot! I was looking 4 smth like that after Gabriel's Modern Metal 3!!!
Love it, thank U!
Carlos Carrillo21st February 2008thanks jerry!!!!!!!!
Great lesson i want more!
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Hello GMC and welcome to the odd-time signature world! Odd-time signatures are used in various musical styles. Many guitarists met this signatures for the first time listening progressive rock songs or progressive metal songs.
In this lesson I will show you some riffs using the 7/4 time signature. I wanted a guitar sound as raw as possible. I used my Zoom G2.1u with a Mesa Dual Rectifier simulation. No reverb, delay or other effects. The funniest thing was to write the drum track!
Time signature: 7/4
Tempo: 170 bpm
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