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Is there a "chug" book?
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Originally posted by ArtieToo View Post
You are talking SO over my head. I'm a tech. Not a musician. But I want to chug.
You can also add the D string, same fret as the A. That’ll be the octave of the note on the E string.
The big advantage of drop D tuning (tuning your low E down to D, leaving the rest in standard), is it lets you make that chord shape with one finger. Those shapes I described above would be played with one finger barring the second fret on the bottom three strings, etc...
Start there, and then we can get into more cool easy chord shapes that sound good for what you’re trying to do.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Originally posted by ArtieToo View Post
Yeah. I'm watching YouTube vids of guys doing metal. It almost looks like they're only hitting the bottom two strings. I'm sure there's more to it than that.
It requires skill, anyone thinking all of this stuff is easy is fooling themselves.The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
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Originally posted by ArtieToo View Post
Yeah. I'm watching YouTube vids of guys doing metal. It almost looks like they're only hitting the bottom two strings. I'm sure there's more to it than that.“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt
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Originally posted by JB_From_Hell View Post
There are other extended versions of what I described above, but start with the root-fifth shape. If you want, give me a call sometime if you need more description of the more subtle stuff like pick angle.
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Originally posted by solspirit View Post
I think pick angle, finger & wrist technique is very important.The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.
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Originally posted by Bogner View Post
In addition to how much pick is actually hitting the string. Too much pick exposure and you get locked up and its over. Pick thickness and how much pick you are using is crucial. I see players using too much pick so they go with a thinner pick not to get hung up and they lose the crispness and aggression. The attack is lost. Pick angle on a proper thickness pick without to much pick hitting the string makes a big difference. How you mute, pick, dig into the string has a radical effect overall and shifting those things a bit can make for interesting rhythmic variances to spice a riff up.
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Helps to have the right distortion settings too. Lots of distorted sounds out there but only a few are that specific Swedish style chug.
Helps to have long, luscious locks as well.Originally posted by crusty philtrumAnyone who *sings* at me through their teeth deserves to have a bus drive through their face
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Key point for getting "chug" style tone is enough bass to let the "balls" though without extra "flab/flub".
May have to EQ sculpt a little in the 60-125Hz and 160-250Hz range.
Start by lowering 200 or 250Hz a few dBs... that's a "flab/flub" area.
Remember, standard tuning low "E" is about 80Hz.
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Originally posted by ArtieToo View Post
Sweet! But which two notes?
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