What Is Your Trademark?

[texasfury]

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[horns666]

writing killer metal riffs and tunes.

[Nazgul]

writing killer metal riffs and tunes.

So they kill other people?

[Special-K]

writing killer metal riffs and tunes.

So they kill other people?

Good one Nazgul

[horns666]

So they kill other people?

EXACTLY!!

I have a dream..I want to stand in court because a moron offed himself because my lyrics told him to.

or

Make retards kill each other in the pit..

Bill Z Bub

[stevoc]

I can pop harmonics just about anywhere on the fretboard at about any time....just about the only thing I can do well.

[adoxtater]

Doing tapping solos with my dick.

So much for having a unique talent. Back to the drawing board for me! :ROTF:

[patricef]

Double stops and playing too fast.

[Dan]

Since I am into Thrash/Death Metal(And some Rockabilly,but this has nothing to do with that)I guess I have "doubled"up Power Chords for a Different Attack.I have done it since 1989.IDK the technical term,but something like this:


D---5------------7-----
A---3------------5-----
E---1------------3-----

And also My "Palm Mute" Picking.Very Good. I still to this day have problems with Arpeggios.My picking "sweep" is way faster than my Fret hand. I need to sit down with a Metranome and practice that.
Or another one is (At Standard Tuning)
G--------5----------
D--------3-------5---
A--------3-------3---
E----------------3---

[JetFixxxer]

Playing for 20 years and I still suck.

[Allu]

Arpeggios

[jacksoncsplayer]

Hammer ons and Pull offs, Very quickly

[KMud]

My trademark is accenting certain bends by hitting the strings hard with a solid pick.

Since I am into Thrash/Death Metal(And some Rockabilly,but this has nothing to do with that)I guess I have "doubled"up Power Chords for a Different Attack.I have done it since 1989.IDK the technical term,but something like this:


D---5------------7-----
A---3------------5-----
E---1------------3-----

And also My "Palm Mute" Picking.Very Good. I still to this day have problems with Arpeggios.My picking "sweep" is way faster than my Fret hand. I need to sit down with a Metranome and practice that.
Or another one is (At Standard Tuning)
G--------5----------
D--------3-------5---
A--------3-------3---
E----------------3---

I'm self-taught, so my knowledge is sketchy, so correct me if I'm wrong...those're simple sus2's and sus4's (respectively). Usually chords take the 1st, 3rd and 5th notes of a scale. Here, the 3rd note in the scale is missing in each (the note that makes it sound major or minor), and the 2nd (one tone [2 frets] up) or 4th (2.5 tones [5 frets] up) is added. The 2nd and 4th are the same in both major and minor, so it's tonally quite neutral (although a bit more interesting than a powerchord). Your sus4's lack the 5th, so I suppose technically they're diads...you could add the 5th back in without altering the sound of the chord very significantly like this:

G-7-
D-5-
A-3-
E-3-

or

G-5-
D-5-
A-5-
E-3-

Perhaps not very death metal sounding

Those're both the same notes, just in a different order. I'm not being very strict here, I suppose that first chord I gave is really a 12th (5th up an octave), but I don't really care that much, I just use a mixture of maths and ears.

sus2's and sus4's are common, although interestingly it's only of recent that sus2's stopped sounding dissonent and starting fitting fluidly into music. I suppose (yet again!) that that makes them more dissonant than flat 5ths!

[Endrik]

sus2 and sus4 are the ultimate progressive rock chords

[Dan]

When downtuned they sound sweet and add alittle variance on the riff.