Chords for Black Metal Lesson - Voicings for Sinister Sounds

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So first let's look at the ingredients on how to achieve these sorts of sounds. _
_ Basically what I'm using are minor chords and I'm using them in ways so that they stay
close [Em] together, thereby producing the darker sort of sound.
So for example if we start on the E minor chord in the 7th position. _ _ _ _
_ [Ab] _ Let's take a look at the shape before we begin and the shape never changes, it's just
the way I'm arpeggiating that does.
So we have in this case 7th on the 5th, 9th on the 4th, 9th on the 3rd and the 8th on the 2nd.
We're also going to be using open string [E] 6 _ and sometimes string [Em] 1. _ _ _
Now the way the progression works is from E minor in the 7th where we're at at the moment. _
_ _ We move [Cm] that back a fret or a [Ebm] semitone _ _ _ _ [Em] back to E minor, _ _ then _ _ up to the 8th [Fm] position. _ _ _
_ On the second time round we start a bit the [Em] same _ but _ [Ebm] _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ _ _ at the end we replace the last chord
with a G minor in the 10th [Gm] position. _
_ _ _ _ So our progression is [Em] this.
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_ _ [Em] _ _ _ [Fm] _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ [Gm] _ _
_ _ _ And [Em] on the second time round that again changes a little bit at the end.
So what I do is, _
_ _ [Ebm] _ _ _ [Em] _
_ [Dbm] _ _ _ _ _
_ so in this case we're going from [Em] the 7th position. _ _ _
[Ebm] _ _ _ To [Em] the 7th position.
_ _ Then to the [F] 4th [Ab] position which is a C sharp [Dbm] minor chord.
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And the very last time through it [E] just ends the same as we did before, back to [Gm] the G minor
chord in the 10th position.
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After that it's just a matter of getting to grips with the arpeggiation of these and what
I'm going to show you here is a similar idea to what I was doing in the intro.
As I'm playing this I'll be probably using my hybrid picking technique which is where
I use my middle and my third finger.
And if you're not accustomed to that you can just use standard picking technique.
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_ [Dbm] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _
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_ [Ebm] _ [E] _ _ _ [Em] _
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_ _ So let's have a listen to that a little faster.
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[Em] _ _ _ _ [Fm] _ [E] _
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_ [E] _ [Em] _ _ _ _
[Gm] _ _ [E] _ [Em] _ _ _
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[E] _ [Em] _ _ _ _ [Eb] _
_ [Dbm] _ _ [N] _ Okay, so the other idea I was utilizing in the video was a tight jagged sort of riff
with some flat of 5th power chords.
So I'll just show you a bit of background on that and we'll look at a similar idea.
Now basically the shapes that I'm using occur mostly on the 6th and 5th string at least
in this demonstration.
So we start with a Bb root note, the 6th fret on string 6 with it's flat of 5th, in this
case the E note fret 7 [Bb] on the 5th. _ _
_ And between that we've got [E] this rhythm.
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_ _ _ _ And you'll notice that I'm moving the shape back into the 5th position.
So we'll do that again. _ _
_ _ _ _ [A] _ [Bb] _
Now all I'm doing is moving that idea or that type of idea up 4 frets.
So for example I do the riff again or the jagged [E] riff. _ _
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Now let's [G] move up into the [Gb] 9th position so we have the C sharp [G] and it's [Abm] flat of 5th in
this case [Db] G. _ _ _
Move that back a fret. _ _
And go back.
[N] And we just continue to do that up the neck.
So then you can go to the 12th position back to the [E]
11th.
_ _ _ [Gb] And then the [G] 15th back to [A] the 14th.
_ _ I think I ended _ somewhere around here in the intro.
You could do this anyway, it sounds pretty cool.
So we're at fret 19 on the 5th and then we've got 20 on the 4th and fret 21 on the [Bb] 3rd string.
_ _ [E] _ [G] Which is basically just an Eb5 power [Gb] chord. _
So we've got the notes [E] E, _ _ _
[A] [B] Bb and it's [Em] root E.
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_ _ _ And the tritone is one of the easiest ways to get a dark and sinister type of sound.
So let's have a listen to this.
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[N] _ _ _ So that sounds pretty cool and you can try those on different sets of strings as well
because you do get a slight _ tonal variation. _
So for example instead of the 9th position _ on string 6 with a C sharp.
_ _ You could then try that on the 5th string at the 4th position.
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_ Which will tend to give a bit more of a biting sound.
_ We could probably go [E] from the initial one. _ _
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_ [N] And then onto the 5th string for the next one and move that up like I said.
Just in _ basically like 4 frets up each time. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [E] And in this case that's actually advantageous because we're on the 5th string.
We can actually do more of those so we don't run out of room too quick. _
1, 2, 3, 4. _
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_ _ [N] So that's it for today's lesson.
Hope you've enjoyed it.
Be sure to check out the website.
www.geminiguitar.com.au
Plenty more lessons there with transcriptions as well.
And you can have a lot of fun with that stuff.
Until the next lesson.
Bye for now.
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