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Odd Couplings: More Approaches to Soloing in Odd Meters

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There’s something very cool about a sudden shift in the music that throws the listener for a moment, followed by a return to the groove.

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Using Syncopation to Disguise the Meter

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Learn how unexpected rhythmic shifts and syncopations can obscure the meter.

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Incorporating Jazz Chords Into Metal

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Try introducing some jazz-type chord voicings and harmonies into your metal riffs.

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Dave Davidson lesson: using your whammy bar within a riff

By Dave Davidson published

Use your whammy bar to “color” chord patterns and give single-note lines different and unusual textures.

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Soloing in Odd Meters

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How to incorporate shifting meters into your solos.

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Using Fast Down-Picking to Execute Powerful Riffs and Signature Parts

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Once you have this technique down, your thrash-metal rhythm-guitar chops should be up for just about anything.

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How to Build Heavy Riffs and Unusual Chords From the Modes

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Use the fundamental modes to discover new chord shapes and melodic ideas.

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How to Play Revocation's “Theater of Horror,” Part 2

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Last month, I introduced the intro and primary riffs to the song “Theater of Horror,” featured the latest Revocation album, Great Is Our Sin.

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Moving Freely Throughout Different Tonal Centers

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Exploiting Odd-Time Meters, and How I Play “Madness Opus” and “Witch Trials”

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Using Mixed Meters, and How to Play “Labyrinth of Eyes,” Part 2 — Video

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: How I Employ Dissonance in "Labyrinth of Eyes" — Video

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This month, I’d like to demonstrate the primary riffs in the Revocation song “Labyrinth of Eyes,” from our 2014 album, Deathless.

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: More Melodic Options for Combining Sweeping and Tapping Techniques — Video

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Combining Two Popular Arpeggio-Playing Techniques to Create Fluid Phrases

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Applying the Diminished Scale to the Pre-Chorus and Chorus of “Deathless”

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Investigating Two Forms of the Diminished Scale

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The Record That Changed My Life: Dave Davidson of Revocation Discusses Martyr's 'Warp Zone'

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Using Minor-Seven Flat-Five Chords in Metal, Part 2

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Using Minor-Seven Flat-Five Chords in Metal

By Dave Davidson published

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Varying and Applying a Common Guitar Scale in Interesting, Unusual Ways —Video

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Thrash Course with Revocation's Dave Davidson: The Advantages of Alternate Picking, and How I Play “The Hive,” Part 2

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Thrash Course with Revocation's Dave Davidson: Building Heavy Riffs and Unusual Chords from the Modes

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Thrash Course with Dave Davidson: Utilizing Different Picking Techniques, and How to Play "Invidious"

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Thrash Course with Revocation's Dave Davidson: Comparing the Fundamental Minor Modes

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This video is bonus content related to the April 2014 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now or at our online store.

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