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Muris Varajic22nd December 2008Thanks.
chri.banez22nd December 2008really cool riffings, muris
- Muris Varajic24th September 2008
Appreciate it Kris!
Kristofer Dahl24th September 2008Great composition - also the way you have done it makes it very easy to "borrow" these figures for our own chord progressions - thanks Muris!
- Muris Varajic23rd September 2008
Cheers guys.
- fatb0t23rd September 2008
This is way harder to play than it looks!
Gerardo Siere23rd September 2008Great as always, reminds me Van Halen.
- Adel Alsayed23rd September 2008
wow, awesome, it has definitely a Buckethead vibe in it !!
- Muris Varajic23rd September 2008
Thanks Jose,appreciate it!
Jose Mena23rd September 2008Great Muris as always
- Muris Varajic22nd September 2008
Glad you like it fellows,many thanks!
Carlos Carrillo22nd September 2008Muris...Muris..Muris...Great lesson!! This technique is very difficult for my!! But thanks to this lesson .. I am going to achieve it!!
Sergio Dorado22nd September 2008Great rythmics! It sounds awesome.
Hisham Al-Sanea22nd September 2008sounds great Muris.nice lesson
- Muris Varajic22nd September 2008
Cheers guys,appreciate it!
Harris Sopovic22nd September 2008Sweet lesson and cool technique, havent tried that one yet =)
sigma722nd September 2008wow, reminds me of a cross between Van Halen and Queensryche
JVM22nd September 2008Bookmarked! I need to work on this stuff, thanks Muris
- Alex8722nd September 2008
Yeah this is a bit like VH. I believe im the first to mention that
Lovely lesson Muris 
Bedlam22nd September 2008Sounds kinda Van Halenish. It's always a good day when you put out another lesson! Great job!
Nemanja Filipovic22nd September 2008Amazing lesson Muris.Thanks.
- Muris Varajic22nd September 2008
Thanks everyone!!
Marcus Siepen22nd September 2008great lesson Muris, and a very interesting approach
kaznie_NL22nd September 2008Nice Muris! Always good to learn a new technique!
Aleksander Sukovic22nd September 2008Great stuff! The last part reminds me of Michael Lee Firkins style a little.
Capt.Z22nd September 2008Awsome Riffs!!
Kuba Szafran22nd September 2008Great ideas Muris
!
seagull22nd September 2008I think the reason why people (including me) associate this with Van Halen is that the strumming pattern in the begging is kindda similar to the one in your "In the Style of" lesson on EVH.
Terrific lesson once again, great music, you should make a song of it!
SensE22nd September 2008Awesome rhythm rifting. Can I request more rhythm lesson from you, please, Muris?
Fran22nd September 2008Sounds really good Muris, great lesson!
Ivan Milenkovic22nd September 2008Definitely getting EVH vibes from this one, great stuff Muris, very good job. The sound is also very good as well.
- Muris Varajic22nd September 2008
Oh,I had no idea it's gonna remmind you
of EVH this much LOL
Thanks tho! 
Bogdan Radovic22nd September 2008Amazing lesson Muris and awesome backing too!
Gabriel Leopardi22nd September 2008Cool stuff! It also reminds me to VH rhythms!
Pedja Simovic22nd September 2008EVH style sounds awesome !
Great job Muris
kyldeee22nd September 2008Awesome lesson Muris
It has some EVH kind of thing going on there, which is totally awesome ... Gonna learn this one, thanks 
Eat-Sleep-andJam22nd September 2008Very Nice Muris
I agree with Jerry, gave me a Van Halen vibe for sure
Toni Suominen22nd September 2008Loving this lesson Muris, great job!
chmilew22nd September 2008Excellent lesson Muris !
Love it, especially the fastest part
Marcus Lavendell22nd September 2008Great one Muris!
Nazgul22nd September 2008Rocking! And I have a song idea right now because of this lesson.
You rock!
Bondy22nd September 2008thats great nice riffing
Jerry Arcidiacono22nd September 2008Awesome lesson Muris
Kind of VH vibe??
Emir Hot22nd September 2008GREAT!!!
- Lesson
- My notes
Hello GMCers! In this lesson we'll study use of pick and fingers together when playing some riffs. A lot of players out there use this technique, specially on high gain settings in order to avoid attacking sound of the pick and get more smoothly tone from fingertips. However you can consider this technique as hybrid picking as well cause it is hybrid picking in certain way.
We will use left hand thumb here also to fret few notes. So, it's in key of Dm,we'll be playing power chords mostly but some regular chords as well, all taken from these scales, D Natural Minor, D Phrygian and D Harmonic Minor.
Tempo is 120 bpm, 4/4 bar.
Settings for Korg Pandora PX4D:
SLG > HUM 10.0
US HI-G Gain 6.3 Bass 2.0 Middle 0.7 Treble 5.0
JAZ 1x15 8.0
No Mod Effx
PPDLy3 5.3
PLATE 1 1.7
Rock hard! :)
Muris Varajic
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