Chords for Triplets, Gallop & Reverse Gallop Rhythms

_ Hello everybody, it is Corey from Gemini Guitar and it's a sunny day here in Sydney, Australia, Friday _
Which is always a good thing because I love the Sun _ _
today's lesson is basically a
compilation of sorts
Previously when I first started the channel, I did do videos on the triplet gallop and reverse gallop rhythm, but they're
Very very old by now.
And this is a bit of a refresher course and it's good for
_ Beginner to intermediate players just to be able to see and hear
What these rhythms sound like because these do come up quite a lot in the metal genre
So we're gonna break them up
I'm going to explain exactly what they do and how they sound and then we're gonna look at me performing them and
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Now the first rhythm we're going to look at will be the triplet rhythm and specifically an eighth note triplet rhythm
So basically what an eighth note triplet is is where we play three eighth notes within the space of two of them
_ You could look at it as playing three notes within the space of one beat because two eighth notes equal one beat
So let's have a bit of a look at that if we played say eight eighth notes
Which is just eight notes in one bar of music or a four four bar music.
It'll sound like this
[E] _ _ So _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ the triplet rhythms gonna sound faster because we have to fit more within the space of the beat
So it's gonna sound like this _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ what we'll do now is we'll take a look at me doing the performance and this will feature a click track
So you can play along yourself and actually hear the notes being played within the space of the beat
And it's going to help a lot for your listening skills when learning this rhythm _
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[Ab] _ _ _ _ _ _ [E] So _ _ we've come to the second type of rhythm that's the gallop rhythm
Some of the most famous thrash metal riffs feature the gallop rhythm
Also in the rock domain heart barracuda.
So if you check out that track barracuda, that's actually the same starting note
I think which is the low E
_ _ _ _ [N] Okay, so the gallop rhythm we'll be looking at features an eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes
If you put those together they add up to one beat
So in fact two sixteenth notes do equal half a beat and then you've got the other eighth note
So those two halves make up the whole beat
So that's the rhythm we're basically doing so in that sense
It's the same as a triplet rhythm because we're fitting three [G] notes within the space of the beat, but the rhythm is completely different
So we have to play straight for a start the triplets more of a bouncy sort of rhythm.
This one's more
_ _ In line if you like, so we start off with an eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes, and then we repeat [A] that rhythm _
Now the picking pattern that I recommend here is a down down up approach.
[E] So it should look like this _ _ _ _
If _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] you're looking at my [N] first finger there and wondering why it's there
It's just to mute the strings and get rid of the noise as much as possible
And if you play it a bit quicker you get the more of the feel of the [E] gallop rhythm _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ So [N] it's a really cool rhythm to master actually and it makes a great picking exercise
And then once you combine it with different notes, it can sound very interesting
And of course then you can start coming up with musical ideas to use it for
_ So right now we're going to check out the performance example to the click track and then you can play along with that
So [E] let's do that now
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Okay, so to finish with we're going to look at the reverse gallop rhythm
The most famous example that comes to mind for me is Slayers Reign in Blood.
You've got that section where it's just doing
_ The reverse gallop on the low E string.
It'll sound like this _ _ _ _ _
And _ [N] _ of course we know what comes next is that cool little
It's kind of melodic I guess that sequence that they do there with those notes and it sounds really really sinister, which is nice
okay, so basically the reason it's called a reverse gallop is because
_ Whereas before in the gallop rhythm we had the eighth followed by two sixteenths in this case.
The reverse is
What's going to happen?
So it's gonna be two sixteenths followed by the eighth note and so it turns that rhythm around
I actually prefer this to the gallop rhythm, but it does
Have very specific uses and of course the gallop has its own specific uses as well
So and you can actually combine the two as well
_ Which we may look at in another lesson for another time _
So let's break that down a bit now the picking technique will work down up down and then just repeat that rhythm
So what you should do is start on a down stroke and then proceed with an up and then another down
Just check out the right hand
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if we speed that up a bit and I'll do a couple more speed ups after that
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Okay, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ so [Eb] let's check out the performance example for that and then you can practice along go and grab the transcription print it out and
Have some fun
_ Okay. _ _ _
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[E] _ _ _ _ _ So thanks for stopping by and checking out the lesson.
I hope you've enjoyed it and until the next lesson.