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Kevin Recommends: Spawn Of Possession | Eve Of Contempt | Guitar Cover
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2022
- First things first, the tabs. These should be from the Rivers Of Gore forum from back in the day. Back when bands uploaded their tabs without, you know, charging money. So this is the official tab from Bryssling. I do believe however that these are pre-production tabs. They probably contain some errors, but I didn't even check. Didn't care.
GP5: drive.google.com/file/d/15fpC...
PDF: drive.google.com/file/d/17zuH...
This was a pretty spontaneous video for me. I don't listen to Spawn Of Possession too much, actually never have, but they still have a sentimal value, and I did practice the sh*t out of those Noctambulant songs. So if you're interested where Kevin got his Kevin chops, this band is one of the reasons.
This song was one of my favourites from the album and I think it was one of the first songs I ever learned from SoP. Swarm Of The Formless was probably the first one. So, that's why Kevin recommends this song! It's on the slower side for a Spawn Of Possession song and apart from the sweeps in the intro, the full song should be learnable for a beginner tech death guitarist. I repeat, beginner TECH DEATH guitarist. Not general beginner, not metal beginner, not death metal beginner. Tech death beginner comes after that.
Here's the issue with todays guitar players, and those from the extreme metal camp. They don't build their basic metal chops. They think because they can play some easy Archspire riff that they are now tech death guitarists. But to be totally honest, for the most part, those are regular metal songs, just with a few flashy parts. Don't get me wrong, Archspire are pretty f*cking great at what they do. But they still have a lot of riffs that are "just" regular metal riffs. (Involuntary Doppelgänger starts with a pretty basic metal tremolo picking part, that's not even fast for metal standards. It's just that one bar of hammer-on string skip octaves that adds "tech" to it).
Whereas if you take this song and even other slow Spawn Of Possession songs. Every riff is sort of techy. The slow single note passages still involve a lot of movement, both musically and physically. For me personally that's what makes tech death, well, tech death. It's not just some fast or techy death metal riffs. It's its own kind of thing. The biggest element in tech death would be the single note "baroque-like" riffs, but have a look at some of the tremolo picking riffs of Spawn Of Possession. Those are also a step above regular death metal tremolo picking. (Take the song "In My Own Greed" as an example).
Please don't get me wrong. These are just two different approaches to songwriting and like I wrote, Archspire are pretty great at what they do! Instead of techy rhythms they lean more into the techy lead playing kind of thing, mixed into the rhythms. Not every song needs to be an odd time signature wank fest to be great either.
So this brings me to the whole subject of the lack of metal chops in todays guitarists. I'm still baffled by the amount of guitarists having trouble with Necrophagists riffs. I'm not saying that they are easy to play. But they are also not as difficult as people pretend. Certainly not impossible. The issue is that those people don't have good enough metal chops and jump into tech death at the wrong stage of their guitar journey. Way too soon and/or without experiences in all the other and easier metal subgenres. Like I wrote before, it's regular metal, then death metal, then tech death metal. You have to be proficient at each of these stages before you can progress into the harder subgenre. If you tackle tech death at the right stage, then it's actually pretty doable.
What are fundamental techniques of metal rhythm? So the metal chops I'm talking about. They are downpicking, tremolo picking and some alternate picking. (Alternate picking gets more important in tech death). Up to 210bpm. That's what I'd call basic in a metal setting. Of course, this goes faster. Lot's of regular metal goes up to 220bpm and further.
Do you see where I'm going with this? Yeah, metal without the tech can already be pretty f*cking fast and difficult. So spend some time with it. I highly doubt that someone with those chops at 220bpm will have trouble with Necrophagists rhythm parts for example.
And that's why this song is my SoP recommendation. It's a perfect introduction. It has all the techniques that are the substance of tech death, just not as over the top as the other songs. If you are at the right stage, then you can do this song!
Btw the only reason I brought up Archspire is because I've seen this fallacy a lot with younger guitarists. For me Archspire is still a bit of an anomaly, because they are a lot more accessible than those tech death bands I grew up with, which is why I think they are not the best band for learning to play this genre, even though they currently are the kings of it.
Another thing I forgot to add! RHYTHMS! Today's tech death lacks the rhythmic variety it once had. With that I mean good complex song structures, that also incorporate odd time signatures in a high quality kind of way, as well as other tuplets, not just triplets. The quintuplet and septuplet don't get enough love nowadays. Blotted Science and Defeated Sanity play heavily with those elements and they do that with a high level of musicianship and quality. Those are also important staples of tech death (in my opinion).
People tend to shy away from great rhythmic interplay in that genre these days, so those aspiring guitarists don't even get to know these elements. And that also shows in their lack of ability for memorizing parts and structures. I see a lot of people that are always suprised how fast I can learn songs, but that itself is also just a skill you can learn. People, learn more songs! Learn more songs even if you think you don't need to. Learn full songs, not just parts! Memorizing is a a valuable skill. And memorizing lots of regular metal songs is the foundation for memorizing the more difficult structures you'll encounter in technical or progressive music. So do it!
Ay-yi, captain... I've been straying away from learning and have hit a dry spell of original ideas, which I found to come naturally while learning or taking a break from learning a song.
I don't know, Kevin. 😂 Like, I agree with what you're saying but a part of me also thinks that you are a level beyond the average GOOD guitarist. I think you just have the sauce. In the same way that Lewis Hamilton or Max Verstapen are just at a level above today's best F1 drivers. And there's just a limit to some guitarists abilities no matter how much they practice.
Anyways, I like what you're saying about just learn more songs. and the more songs I learn, the more I encounter and learn funny things that my fingers have never done before. And the more I can recognise patterns that happen in these songs.
But memorising tracks is still somewhat of an Achilles heel for me. Maybe I'm just attempting things that are a little beyond my ability and I find that I often will take a while to learn a track and then I'll have to learn the beginning again once I've learnt the end. And then by the time I have the whole track down, I've forgotten the last song I learnt. 🙈
This is a superb cover, by the way. You always inspire me.
@@DmanDaks Haha you know, I would agree with you. If this would be a new song I wrote or something like that. But it isn't. It's a song that's over 15 years old and was written and recorded by someone else. I'm just some dude playing this old song. So if someone is special then it's that person, Jonas Bryssling. I'm going for a point here. It's what I do here is nothing special. Hell, I can't be special because I'm just doing something here someone else has already done half my lifetime ago. If I got to this point, that basically is just trying to play what other play, then surely other people should be able to this as well, right? I just copied other players. It's not like I have this secret sauce or some hidden and forbidden wisdom and knowledge. I just copied my favourite players and music. So by that I can't be special, because I'm just a copycat.
I also always remember where I came from. I don't have a musical background or any formal music education. I started later in life compared to other guitarists (when I was 15/16 years old). I sucked immensely the first year of the instrument. Like way below average. There are two things where I think I might have a natural talent, and that's my memory and my cognitive abilites, so yeah, those are a huge help. But do you know what also improves them a lot? Well, just playing and learning f*cking music! I think the only reason I'm still fit in my head is because of all the music I was learning and playing all these years. Discipline and determination are also very important. But those two can also be learned to a high degree through learning an instrument.
And here's the point that I'm trying to get across in basically all of my descriptions: it's all just work. It's a lot of it but it's basically just that. It's not about information, secrets or knowing something. It's not about talent. It's about putting in the time. In my first 10 years I maybe had 5 days off in total. Never went on a vacation. Played the guitar every day. That's why I can tell you all this. I'm not beyond anyone.
Forgetting one song after you learned another one is actually pretty common, even for me. When I'm through my first session of learning a Spawn Of Possession song I usually already forgot at least a riff or two. So I have to go back and get a refresher. It's normal. That's why when I learn a set from a band for a live performance for example, then I learn a song a day, but also rehash all the previous songs from the previous days. Always. So 2 weeks of learning and then another 2 weeks of just rehearsing and trying to solidify all that information in my head even more.
This is what it would look like:
Day 1: Learning Song 1
Day 2: Learning Song 2, then replaying Song 1 or even relearn if necessary
Day 3: Learning Song 3, then replaying Song 2 and Song 1
Day 4: Learning Song 4, then replaying Song 3, Song 2, and Song 1
And so on. Week 3 and 4 is then playing a full set of all songs twice a day.
You get the idea. What's important is that it's normal to forget some parts across this process. Then you just get a refresher and play through it a few times. Also, yes I'm aware, for some people a song a day or more seems unrealistic, but I've been doing this for a long time now, so of course I can do this a bit faster than someone who doesn't have the same amount of experience. A song a day is peanuts for a full-time musician. But we are not full-time musicians here. So it's okay if we take longer. You just have to be aware that this is a skill you can practice and improve. That's the important lesson here.
Also if you notice this >"Maybe I'm just attempting things that are a little beyond my ability..." then why are you stubbornly continuing like that? Have you thought that maybe this is exactly your issue? Don't worry, you're not alone. This thought you had was actually the reason for the description. Because people still attempt to learn tech death when it's way above their abilities. Learn songs that are "just" challenging, not impossible at your current skill-level. Learning something 5 levels or whatever above ones own skill-level will always be impossible, even for me!
@@chopholtz4950 while it’s true that some people have unique properties that help them be better at something or make it easier for them to get good at something, falling back to the argument of you have natural talent and I don’t (or statements to a similar effect) is generally an excuse for not putting in the time. Whether that’s because you’re not as motivated, not as passionate about that thing, have less time due to other life factors, etc. is not really relevant.
The fact is, if you are dedicated to it and put in the time you can get good at it. That’s not to say you can definitely be the best, but you can be extremely competent with practice over time.
One issue is that people’s idea of what a lot of practice time is is different.
Kevin says he was practicing many hours a day, 7 days a week, for years.
That is way above what most people think of when they think of putting lots of time into a hobby. For example, if I play 10 hours a week I think that’s a huge amount of practice, but relatively speaking it is not.
I consider myself an expert, and very competent at my job, but to get there I spent 50-100 hours a week either working or doing tasks related to work or learning, for 15 years. Now I don’t do as much (to some extent I can’t, because I over did it back then), but since I’ve put all that learning time in previously, it’s easier for me to pick up new things I have to learn in my work space now, so I don’t need to put those kind of hours in anymore.
When people at work ask me how I got good at a certain thing, I don’t really have any shortcut solutions for them because the truth is I just put in tons of time doing that thing and learning what worked or not through trial and error and repetition. I can give them tips on what I think it would be useful for them to focus on but that won’t help them unless they put in the time. A lot of time.
Just put in the time seems like nonsense advice until you’ve actually experienced it. When I started putting in the time it wasn’t a conscious effort to put in the time because I knew it would pay off, I was just doing something I enjoyed doing and wanted to have a better understanding of and do better at. I think that explains your question of how does Kevin know that’s the way and other people don’t. Other people as good as Kevin also know it because they have done it. People who haven’t done it don’t see it until they do it.
In my situation I had the benefit of the incentive of my salary, which also gave me paid time to put towards the learning. Having said that, I could have done the bare minimum and still got paid and been average at my job, but I put in a lot of extra time outside of work.
It really does come down to time you put in, it’s just that the time you need to put in is what most people would consider to be extreme. You need to be passionate and obsessive about it to get to Kevin’s level.
I can assure you I will likely never get to Kevin’s level, because even though I enjoy playing guitar, I know I’m not willing or able to put in enough time (due to other commitments, or the fact I waste time playing PlayStation when I could be practicing). I do plan to try to be more consistent with my practice but I know if I’m putting in 10 hours or less a week I’m only going to get so far, and I’m ok with that. I’ll still be able to competently play songs that I find entertaining to play and write some music that I like. If I stick with the practice.
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This is, as always, impeccable. I really like that you've added a lot of subtle dynamics\accents all over the place, making it far less machine-like and something that IMO flows better than the original.
The original, even with its flaws, has its own charme. It's weird. I prefer the production of Noctambulant over Incurso. One big issue of this song was the tuning/intonation. It's really off in a few parts in the original. The octaves in the intro for example. At first I thought it was me but then noticed it's actually the original recording haha.
Btw, you're not really active on social media right now, right? I was thinking about hitting you up the other day. If you're interested playing bass on some of my original stuff (when it's finished haha), and the other thing, I still had no luck getting in touch with Gautier hahaha
@@KevinHeiderich I always thought those were major 7ths while bending the top note slightly xD Like with a lot of the material on this album sounding off(in a good way), I think you can attribute a lot of it to Bryssling having used the same guitar since pre-cabinet(if I'm not mistaking) and never really had the know how to maintain it properly. It all adds up to studio magic that can't be replicated a 100%.
My only social media account that's halfway active is instagram, so hit me up there. I have a couple of projects going on so I don't know when I'd have the time, but If the material you've been showcasing here is any indicator I'd love to help out.
I , and I'm sure to not be alone, would love to see your spice and approach to this song.
Incredibly clean. I hope this becomes a reoccurring series of you introducing viewers to songs to help them on the right path to tech death, instead of jumping into the deep end and getting frustrated by songs we naively think we can play without the right chops to succeed
Haha well my opinion is that the right path to tech death is to not play tech death lol. Basically what I wrote in my description. Build your metal chops. If you have those then tech death will be a piece of cake. I'm not kidding. Metallica, Slayer, Kreator, Emperor, Decapitated, The Black Dahlia Murder, Death. Just to name a few. If you can play these bands, and not just the easy songs, then you're good to go. There are actually a few Kreator songs that a harder to play than some of the tech death stuff due to the fast tremolo and downpicking.
Something like a compilation video would be probably be better than full song covers. Lots of metalcore, then lots of thrash and death metal was my journey back then. But I never really just played one genre. Even in my tech death phase I played plenty of other metal stuff, which is also important. The only thing that regular metal will not prepare you for is the lead/solo techniques that you need in tech death rhythm parts. Sweeping is a big thing in tech death, so you need to learn this. So some solo practice is necessary before tech death. But you don't need too much either. I did learn and practice those a lot with Necrophagist. Take Diminshed To B for example. That sweep in those rhythm parts is not that fast, so even with little sweeping experience this is doable. I still have to thank Christian Münzner, because his solos were the foundation of my lead technique.
Of all the tech death bands, spawn is the most interesting. They have genuine incorporations of counterpoint in their riffage (and by genuine I just mean they know what they're doing). It's so dense and creative, they honestly ruined other tech death bands for me.
Edit: Amazing playing, obviously. I feel like that goes without saying at this point!
There are a lot of bands which hold up. Its really a matter of taste.
@@fuckingfuck6405 like who? I can think of very few
Necrophagist is the best
The zenith passage has some amazing counterpoint riffs all over datalysium
@@Creature1009 Man I just couldn't get into datalysium. Not sure why. It might have to do with the insane production quality and quantizing but I just couldn't dig it. Algorithmic Salvation is a great track though
The advice in the video description is really good advice. Extremely real and grounding - what a good and well-intentioned teacher would say to their students.
The cover is clean as fuck, as always!
Hehe thanks, yeah I'm not a teacher but what I noticed with the few people that come to me for advice is, that they need a big f*cking reality check and that you need to ground them in that reality first before you can start working with them. After that it's really easy actually. One person I help is currently making huge improvements just by going through that metal school of metal fundamentals. But getting him there was the hard part, due to the kind of brainwashing he got from the internet and how you are "supposed" to learn.
Noctambulant and Cabinet will always be in my rotation.. great cover sir.
0:51 that pinch is perfect 🤍
I like the description. A "tech death beginner" is an important distinguishment. Seeing as how being a beginner to this niche of music still puts you in the advanced player category.
Really appreciate the description of this video, as someone in that younger demographic you were mentioning hearing this kind of advice is super helpful
YES YES YES Kevin, thank you for doing a Spawn cover🥴❤️❤️❤️
There aren't enough good covers of them on internet, this is absolutely amazing!
Dude, amazing, as always.
I was surprised you mentioned that many guitarist nowadays seem to lack the skills to play tech death whereas I see an over-saturation of God-like players who seem to appear almost out of nowhere.
Specially now with the advent of the "guitar playthrough video" that makes it look almost cinematographic. It's quite demotivating for a young tech death guitarist like me, I feel like the ladder keeps getting taller and it's impossible to keep up.
Puh that's a whole debate there. Well, we have the internet nowadays, and youtube is huge. So of course you'll see a lot more great players. I don't want to go into this "did the internet make musicians better?" kind of thing, because on one hand, yeah we have a lot more information at our hands now, but on the other hand I see plenty of people getting confused by this information, and that information overflow also prevents them from practicing, because they are always second-guessing themselves, whenever they sit down for more than 30 minutes. I highly believe the internet is the best and worst invention of the last few decades. Also, youtube has become a platform to sell bullshit (or to make money in nice words) which is hard to recognize because all those channels have great video production values these days, and what they are saying and showing sounds great most of the time. Doesn't necessarily mean that it really is. So think twice if some information on youtube is really the holy grail, or if someone is just trying to make money.
I actually think you just notice these great players more, because you might think your playing is inadequate. I see way too many people in the tech death scene that can't even play proper death metal. A good Stabwound cover is still a rarity. After recording Frantic Disembowelment I looked on youtube for regular speed covers, to see how other people played some of the parts where I wasn't sure how I should play them and I was suprised that there are hardly any good covers out there. Maybe one or two. There's not many good Spawn Of Possession covers either.
And about the ladder getting taller and taller. Is that true? Let's not focus on players, but on the music. Did the genre really make any great leaps in the last decade? First Fragment is the only band I can think of, that still pushes the genre. This Spawn Of Possession album is over 15 years old. Necrophagists Epitaph will soon be 20 years old. Frantic Disembowelment is also almost 20 years ago. The first Blotted Science album is over 10 years old. Origins Antithesis is soon going to be 15 years old. Same with Brain Drills Apocalyptic Feasting. Do you notice something? All these bands and albums are easily on par with the current music. What has changed are the production methods (half-speed recording), but that didn't really make better players. Nor did it make the music better. What I see is plenty of good players that can't properly play their own music.
If you have trouble with tech death, maybe check your "roadmap". What you can play at the moment, and what you want to play, and figure out the steps in between. If you have trouble with tech death, stick with death metal for a while, if you have trouble with that go to some classic metalcore. I played a lot of metalcore in my early days. Great genre for those fundamental metal chops too! Or hit me up if you really need help.
@@KevinHeiderich your point is well taken, and I agree that it's very much a matter of perception. TH-cam allows you to broaden your perspective so you get the very best showcase of skill and also the very worst and I admit that it is hard to remind myself not to compare myself to others too much.
I guess things feel needlessly competitive at the moment and I don't know why (this actually reminds me of... I think it was your Archspire cover before you took a break from covers, where you said you were not having fun anymore and it felt like the community focused too much "look how fast I can play, blablabla").
And yes, I am aware of the modern production techniques that, honestly, sound more like cheating to me than anything else, and I'm not deluded by the unrealistic idea that I should be as good and clean at 100% speed as some other guitar player might be at half the speed, that would be ludicrous; I guess I just have this general doom and gloom feeling that in, give or take 50 years, there's not going to be the need for an actual player, like, at all. Most of the heavy work will be done inside the DAW, the performance won't be an accurate representation of the player's skills because sound manipulation techniques will be so advanced... I don't know man, playing guitar is the most fun thing that I do but the more time goes on and the more ridiculously technical things get (real or not, doesn't matter) the more I tell myself I should become an audio engineer rather than a musician.
Anyway, I'm just ranting at this point, I think you understand my general sentiment. By the way, I thought Demiurgus and the new Aronious (as well as their debut) are 2 great leaps as far as technical death metal goes in the last decade. Can't get enough of them! I'm also a big fan of all new Inferi releases, I think those guys are pushing the genre in the right direction :)
@@KevinHeiderich Epitaph...ooof, thanks for reminding me of being old already. I still remember hearing that album for the first time back in the day. This was even before TH-cam when people were sending around small video files and mp3 snippets.
@@martinjaramillo5205 there is already no need for actual players. You don't have to wait 50 years for that haha. Editing is super easy these days and metal guitar sample libraries are also becoming surprisingly good. Tech death has an artificial asthethic anyway, so those fit in pretty well.
I did checkout a playthrough from those aronious guys once but it sounded so edited that I immediately lost interest. Not saying these guys are fake or anything, it's just the impression I had.
Even though I don't really listen to them, First Fragment is still my favourite band in that regard. They sound real. But they also still push the songwriting and technicality while still maintaning this real take on music. You can hear that those are guitar parts that are still playable and are also meant to be played.
The few other bands that do try to push the genre do it at the cost of, well, being real. Being playable and performable. For me personally this is a big deal. Music written with the performance and playability in mind is often way more enjoyable than the music of those metal "composers" that just put some numbers into guitar pro. Learning the new haarp machine songs was a real nightmare exactly because of that. So whats the point of pushing a genre at the cost of playability, when real playing is still a big part and highly valued in that genre?
We are not DJs, where playability doesn't matter.
Phil Tougas can't get enough love and respect from me for his accomplishments and keeping it real.
And the archspire guys as well. They do sound very real.
@@KevinHeiderich hope you're right about real playing being highly valued, because I do not feel it is the case, I do not feel that real playing as better value than computerized from the fans perspective of the technical-X genres.
I hope I'm wrong, I hope it is not the case for the majority of the fans, but even here on this channel, where real playing is displayed, I still see some covers request mentionning bands with full half-speed recorded production.
YES! I have waited so so long for you to do more Spawn. Just incredible! Solemn They Await would be amazing too…..but I’m happy with this :)
Spawn of Possession is legendary. The greatest example of technical death metal imo. I like what you said about basic metal chops and how it's crazy people are struggling with Necrophagist riffs still. Great video and awesome song. Render my Prey is a tough one to play
They are all tough to play haha
the chord work it's insane.
Yeah it always suprises me how intricate it actually is
Always stoked when you upload! Solid work!
I am overjoyed! Worth the wait! Danke Kevin!
🤘🤘🤘. I still feel very few bands in the genre come close to the brilliant complexity of SOP. Still one of the tightest bands I ever saw live.
You always do them justice!!!! 🍻
I keep coming back to re-read the description along with the advice you’ve given me on IG. This helps a lot.
Thanks for this recomendation Kevin!!! Excellent channel
This is awesome!
I've been waiting for a SoP cover from you for some time, and it is no surprise that you played it with such ease.. Congrats Kevin, you are an extremely virtuous guitarrist and an inspiration to many.
I hope you have a great sunday/monday or whatever it is over there!
PD: cannot believe how you still have less than 10k suscriptors... You deserve much more recognition!
Another amazing video. So talented
Excellent demonstration and example of right hand technique. Learned a lot from watching, thanks!
Playing the solo on the Les Paul is a real king move
Great cover and great description. I've definitely been guilty of jumping into techier stuff too soon - I had a really sloppy cover of Scorched from the same album up on here ages ago, and looking back at it in later years I realized just how many corners I was cutting. Re-learning some of the Epitaph tunes has been a great way to get some of the fundamentals down, and I've also got a lot of mileage out of Gorod tunes, who otherwise remain criminally underrated.
That looked effortless as usual. Rivers Of Gore is where I discovered SoP through the videos section and so much other stuff through the tabs.
Well played as always , Kevin.
You're a very underrated player here on TH-cam! 🤟
Thanks man :)
People ALWAYS say underrated in the comments of some video they like. Seeing the comments, nobody dislikes this AWESOME playing 🙈. Unknown is the right word! It’s like saying trivium is underrated because they aren’t as successful as Metallica! 😂
Don’t take this too srsly pls. 👍
I like what your doing @kevinheiderich.
I hate tabs but, watching you play ,I can figure it out really good.
This is my favorite band for a long time now and I really like Rafael Trujillo too.
He's so dope on guitar,love your channel, technical death metal is my favorite and I love classic Baroque period as well,seems related in many ways.
Spawn of possession was always the band that gave me the hardest time with their songs. There's something so unconventional about them, like i cant use any developed muscle memory from other bands with their stuff
More SoP please! Greatest Tech Death band ever
Fucking awesome as always dude. Cool that you used RoG back in the day too, I didn't know.
As you said, I'm pretty sure most (if not all) of the official spawn tabs out there are pre-prod tabs, certainly the ones from Incurso are.
Dude!!!! RoG is the only reason for my existence as a guitar player!!!! I was also an active member in the forum. I lived RoG!!! lol. Sorry I got a nostalgia moment here. I've always been a big fan of yours and watched your videos a lot back in the day. I still have to thank you for those, and the tabs and all the stuff you did back then. So thanks Tim :)
I played through all the tabs there, still remember all the Hate Eternal and Cryptopsy stuff vividly haha.
Do you still remember Robert Nowak? He was also one of the few guys that had videos of all the sick songs. I finally met him last year and had a little fanboy moment. We had a nice chat about the old RoG days. I really looked up to you guys when I was in my late teens :)
They had Incurso tabs???? I think I remember something, like Bodiless Sleeper, but all the tabs I encountered were fan-made. One of the reasons I don't do stuff from Incurso. SoP is one of the few bands that I don't really want to transcribe for accuracy reasons and where I'd prefer official tabs.
@@KevinHeiderich ah that's awesome mate, really cool to see a player of your (ridiculous) calibre got some benefit from RoG. Of course I remember the one and only rifflord Bob Nowak, I'm pretty sure he even did an Eve cover back in the day.
Yes, there are Incurso tabs out there, but not for every song and some of them are incomplete. However, there are at least a few complete ones, including The Evangelist and No Light Spared if I'm not mistaken...
Very impressive guitar cover!
I love this. everything about what you said. I could not agree more.
That part at 2:46 hits me every time I listened to the album.
Great information and wisdom here in the description and comments.
We should make a compilation of those somewhere because it would resonate a lot with what guitar player want to hear/read, and give some motivation back.
Unless you want your written opinions to be unexposed and kept on the TH-cam videos solely ?
Haha unexposed. No I actually wouln't mind more exposure as long as people credit me. I already had a few instances where people sold information as their own and made videos from what I told them in private over social media when they asked me for advice on how to do certain things, like downpicking up to 300bpm. Never got credit. That's like fucked up. So as long you credit me I'm fine.
To be honest, you'll probably remember that I had this idea of a guitar blog. So it's not like I don't want to do this. I still like the idea. But here's the thing about opinions and guitars and guitar advice: I often have to take a step away from it. I can't do it all the time. It's mentally draining for me. I often just want to have my f*cking peace and quiet and not be bothered by the topic of guitars or guitar playing, or giving advice. I don't watch guitar videos on youtube for example. Never. I actively try to stay away from it.
Another reason: the way social media and success these days work is that you constantly have to put out stuff. It's not healthy. Not for the consumer and not for the creator.
Last reason: I do think the target group for my advice is not that big. Yes, there's lots of people wanting good advice. But the majority of those people only want to hear about shortcuts, secrets and 5 little exercises, not about "You're not ready for tech death, you have to play Metallica for another two years" lol.
I get the unhealthiness of running such a "blog" via social media with constant stream of stuff and notifications to unpack.
Maybe the way you do TH-cam and responses in comments for interaction every videos is a good equilibrium.
About the target group : there is a deep deep lack of true guitar talk in technical metal, I'm convinced many are feeling this lack, and many players with already established names feel it too, but are unable to take part in such exchanges without tarnishing the image or bringing debate.
Those are beyond Metallica level, and would benefit greatly from such knowledge, for instance your video on learning a (Cognizance) song effectively.
Well, we already had a voice reveal, maybe one day a once a trimester stream / Q&A ? :P.
@@SylverANGL A regular blog would actually kind of work with irregular posts I guess.
Well, that's why I currently do what I do, the occasional upload with lots of text and comments. Regular uploads are just too much.
Actually, Metallica in that comment was just an example. The advice in there is universal and also applies for people above that level, just with different and more difficult music. (Still, people underestimate the difficulty of playing Metallica very tightly, which is why I used that example in the first place). So that advice is to play music that is challenging but still within reach. And that requires a constanst reality-check of your own abilites, which is another great lesson. I'm less about knowledge, more about that practical application, that's why that kind of advice has such an importance for me.
The guitarists these days already "know" too much. There's an imbalance between their knowledge and their practical abilites, especially in that Troy Grady audience. They have all those fancy words but don't how to put them to use.
Amazing cover! I love your videos. Spawn of possession is one of my favorite bands of all time. Too bad they splitted up
I play guitar as a hobby, just for fun. I've never played in a band and it's not my intention to become the next Steve Vai, but I always want to improve. I would love to play as good as you
For these years I have made the mistakes you tell in the description. I got obssessed to learn tech death metal, and so my improvement was extremely slow. At first I've learned a lot of songs from TBMD, Necrophagist... never perfect and at the same speed, but then I got stuck trying to learn Obscura and Born of Osiris solos. I wasted a lot of time and playing guitar was not fun anymore
Now I'm trying to get back at it
When you uploaded this video, I was inspired again. My goal always was to learn Spawn of possession songs, but I don't have a 7 strings guitar yet to play the songs from Incurso (I know you dislike that album, but it's my favorite one). I really don't like to tune my guitar so low, unless I will be sure to play a lot of songs with that tuning, I only have one guitar. So I will follow your advise and go back to learn classic and easier metal songs, in E or D standard (I'm in D standard right now)
I'm thinking of learning again Master of puppets, I've never endure the entire song nor achieve the speed. It's difficult for me, but I'm sure I'm capable if I practice
I'm really bad at down picking, tremolo and endurance with my right arm, but I'm really good at alternate and sweep picking
Do you have an advise for a guitarist of my level? Like songs to learn before finally trying Eve of Contempt (and technical death metal in general) without hurting my strings so much changing a lot the tunning
I hope you do more of these recommendation videos, and Spawn of possession covers!
Well, Master Of Puppets would be a perfect start ;-)
Don't avoid your weaknesses! If you avoid certain things for too long or always try to play around them, then sooner or later this will show. As soon as you attempt tech death for example. I personally always hated the guitar players that "cheat" their way through songs by changing a lot of things (like fingerings and techniques) just to make it easier. This works until that one song that just requires good fundamentals, where cheating your way through it is not possible
For example, a big reason why a lot of people have trouble with Necrophagist is that they avoid that strict alternate picking in the rhythm parts. At around 220bpm it starts to break down when you haven't practiced it that much and instead of sticking to it and practicing more, a lot of people try to take the economic picking approach or some other "excuse" technique. What they don't see is that the key to Necrophagist is that strict alternate picking, even up to 300bpm.
So if you're bad at down picking, tremolo picking and endurance, practice those first. Endurance is the one you can neglect the most but down and tremolo picking are fundamental techniques that you'll always need.
Like I said in another comment. Master Of Puppets, Battery and Creeping Death are great Metallica songs that I always enjoyed playing, which also build great chops. Entrance Of The Conflagration by Trivium is also a great song on E standard. Rain is a great Drop D song for those chops. Slayers Angel Of Death is a great tremolo picking song, even though it's actually quite hard to maintain the speed and tightness. All of the old As I Lay Dying songs are great too for general metal picking.
@@KevinHeiderich I understand what you said. I value a lot your answer and I will learn the songs you suggested!
You don't know how grateful am I for an advise from a pro guitarrist like you. Thank you so much!!!
Well done
Congrats, again a perfect cover and thx for tab. I hope someday you will cover dualis flamel by Equipoise :)
After reading the, as always, amazingly well written video description I got really intrigued to practice SoP. But since I don't feel comfortable enough in the death metal genre yet I'd love to hear some song/band recommendations I should tackle before diving into tech death! I was thinking about learning stuff from Gojira for alternate picking and rhythm and maybe Death for lead playing? In any case this playthrough got me really hyped to practice more again since I have the concrete goal of learning SoP as a motivation, so thank's a lot for that Kevin! :)
yeah, it would be amazing if he'd make a mini series of playthroughs of song with different difficulties explaining why he chose the song and on what to take care of when practicing!
Well, Death for death metal obviously :)
But I do not recommend Death for lead playing. Chuck has his own lead style, as well as all the lead players he had over the years and they are all very unique. Those are not your average solos in terms of style, phrasing and shredding. On the other hand I think Necrophagist are the perfect band for learning solo playing, because the solos have a somewhat conventional feeling. The way they are structured. They are easier to understand and learn. Not that easy to play, but still easier to learn than those super feely shreddy things with note values that are in between whatever. Whereas Necrophagist are very on the grid and usually use either straight 16th notes or 8th triplets. Perfect solos for mechanical technique practice for that reason. (Same with Obscura by the way).
I also don't recommend Gojira. They are too modern in a weird sense. They are also not that technical, compared to other technical music. I don't know, Gojira always sounds like what a boomer would think is technical, but it's not really that technical. That's what they sound like to me. And no, I actually like Gojira. But they are nothing like tech death. Decapitated, they are very close to tech death for example.
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you so much for your detailed answer! :) I'll start with some Death to get my alternate picking consistent and then I'll dare to download some Necro, any particular solo I should start with which comes off spontaneously?
To practice I'd play along to the slowed down GP-files with a metronome, getting faster only after having mastered the previous speed in terms of clarity and intonation?
I wish Ibanez still made that guitar, I want one so bad. Killer playing as always. Also I wonder if we'll ever see Bryssling's Retromorphosis project released.
Same here its supposed to be released soon according to Dennis
There's definitely a distinction in the sound from bands like SoP, Brain Drill and Necrophagist when compared to most "modern" tech death who mainly focus on speed, it's just really fast death metal. How would you "technically" describe the sound for technical death metal bands like SoP?
Also, thanks so much for the tab! I'll be using this to build some chops a step up in C standard hahaha!
You articulate some thoughts I've had about tech for a long time very well, even though I am not really good at guitar at all I can see what you mean about the difference between Archspire and SoP. Archspire is a kind of sped up death metal band with some extra notes thrown in (not talking shit just making comparison) and SoP includes elements that make the music difficult to play no matter the tempo context... it's weird music
Awesome!
Do more covers like this at the song's recorded tempo. It's mind blowing to see you play them faster but this is more enjoyable. Like with the frantic disembowelment cover it would have been nice if you had also covered it at normal speed
Rip SOP 💔💔💔
Incredible 😳🤤
Oh wow, after two days of an hour practice on each one I can finally play to bar 12 more or less good. Feeling kind of slow here, but I am getting there, I hope :D
It is a lot of stuff to memorize...and I always think that these "slow" tempos are so ugly to alternate pick.
Thank you for sharing your insight Kevin, as always.
This is cleaner than the record, very good! Can you and Erlend do Noctambulant remastered? Lash by lash or render my prey.
impressive
Fucking nailed that solo. I mean, of course, how could you not, but still :)
Just want to say I keep coming back to your videos not just for the phenomenal playing, but also the in-depth write ups. Your philosophy and reflection around technique is right on the money and I always recommend this channel to friends whenever talking about metal guitar. Tech-death is a niche but I'm sure so many out there appreciate the top-notch content you put out - whenever you release a video it always inspires, without fail, to pick up my guitar for a couple of hours and really drill down into where I'm at with my playing. Keep doing what you do!
We want to play the music we listen to! So when our taste "evolves" from core to death to tech death, our playing evolves with it.
And when you're listening to bands like Necrophagist and Defeated Sanity, it's kinda hard to pick up your guitar and practice Black Sabbath songs.
But unfortunately playing a genre on guitar isn't quite as easy as listening to it lol
We definitely make those jumps forward on guitar too early, and our playing suffers for it.
Music is a hobby and I'm not gonna stop people from trying to play songs by their favourite bands, but sometimes you really need to be honest with yourself and spend more time learning songs that match your skill level, even if it means learning a couple of Deathcore/Metalcore songs.
Great video and a great message! And I'll definitely give this song a go :)
Do you always record one single take or do you record different parts and then put them together ? You are so fucking clean it insane !!
You a fuckin legend, keeping the spawn rolling
Hope I don’t get crucified for this but, your tone here is much better than the original and fits the song much better. Not to mention your nearly perfect playing (as usual!)
Haha I think it's a widespread opinion, that the production of that album is not that great. But I have to admit that it grew on me and I prefer it to Incurso.
For my tone here I tried to have one that is not too tight or clean, more like semi-flubby. Something that works both on its own and with the original song in the background :)
They should call you Mr. Clean, because that was spotless. btw can you please play some Anata? Nobody plays them it seems.
Haha yeah I practiced Anata back in the day. You should check out Oleg Zalman, the guitarist of Artificial Brain. He was also part of that old-school tech death internet scene and he has a few covers on his channel if I remember correctly :)
After looking at your Solaris cover, and the fact that i finished learning the whole Akroasis song in quite a short time, i was motivated to buy the Valediction Tab book ; and i did…. But couldn’t even seem to get a proper start at any point and am on a break right now… The timing for this video couldn’t be more right ….I think i actually needed this ground reality check considering i was a few songs away from finishing learning Archspire Discography (yes all the 4 albums)…. But was that all for nothing? 💔….
I’m having a crisis here
Well if you can learn every archspire solo off all albums you should be able to play most of valediction lol, and did you learn the akroasis solo? that is quite a bit more difficult than most of valediction
yeah...well now that this is a 10 month old video, things changed drastically for me ... I bought the official Valediction Tab Book ... but it's a long way to go....i got a chance to meet Tom Fountainhead and watched him play live - i was awestruck by everything about him...truly a humble Master... Had a talk about mental health, and We also talked about Kevin lol. And btw, i have a year old Akroasis Full guitar cover on TH-cam on my Band channel - Lemniscatus Metal.
hey man great playing! im suprised you don't have a larger following. just found you a couple of days ago and I am blown away by your GENUINE playing.
I want to ask- is there economy picking involved in this cover or is it all alternate picked?
Also- In your opinion is there anything you can do with economy picking that you can't do with alternate picking?
I have been alternate picking for years now and have thaught about switching to economy picking but i'm not sure if it would be worth it.
Thaughts?
Sorry for the rambling wall of text. very interested in your opinion regarding this.
Great playing dude. I'm jelous AF.
Sorry for the late answer, wanted to answer this days ago. So, there's no economy picking involved here. I have a general rule for me, and that is "no economy picking in rhythm parts". Same with sweeping. I'd only use economic picking (or sweeping) in a rhythm when it makes sense. For example, that I like the sound more, or it's a lead part hidden in the rhythm, like a short sweep, or it's a part where economic picking really does make sense. But for the most part I stick to alternate. There are actually good reasons for that.
First, alternate picking is a very consistent movement. It's down, up, down, up and so on. There are no sudden stops, or something like one relaxed movement, then five fast and stressful movements, like you'd get in some economic picking patterns. Because of that consistency in that technique, it's also easier to maintain consistency in your playing. (Well, only if your alternate picking skill is solid, not when you're struggling) It will be easier to keep up the timing. Of course it's also a matter of proficiency. You can get your economic picking pretty even and conistent with enough practice. But it's still a mix of different movements, which is a working against you in keeping up that consistency. And last reason, which is actually the biggest reason: tone. Economic and sweep picking have a different tone which is softer. In a genre with an artificial mechanical aesthetic I'd say that is also a downside. Good alternate picking will sound tighter and more mechanical in those cases. And well, another reason for you and why you shouldn't change to economic for those parts: you've probably seen some sloppy necrophagist covers, right? Yeah biggest culprit is people trying to cheat their way through the songs with some weird economic picking approach instead of just getting their alternate picking up to the level.
Muhammed is a very strict alternate picking player, and that was my role-model in my early days. Those songs, and Spawn Of Possession are perfectly playable with alternate picking!
@@KevinHeiderich thanks for the reply! makes sense man. was trying to switch over to economy after watching some of Dean Lambs videos. Personally it just feels awful, so I'll just stick to alternate.
Actually been learning Stabwound from the official tab book and it's a bitch i gotta say.
thaught he was downpicking the rythms and using upstrokes on the string skips.
So thats all alternate picked aswell.
inside picking is a bitch man!
I read in one of your vids the 1 bpm gradual climb for speed is not relly effective. can you elaborate on this?
Again, thanks for the reply. you inspired me to just keep practicing my downpicking and alternate picking and see where i go.
Much love man!
Incredible. Have you ever considered learning/covering Transcendence by Gorod? Such an incredible song!
Actually yes, and I agree, it's an incredible song. But they have their own official playthrough of it, so there's no point for me doing it ;-)
The true meaning of excellence
Danke 😘
Bitte :D
oh man, always incredible! can you please talk about the equipment you use to record this videos in detail?: cameras, VST plugins, distortions, edition programs, audio interface, pc, etc.
Sees and sounds great! Greetings from Argentina!
You're interested in my equipment? Okay :D
Camera: Panasonic Lumix G7/G70 - great beginner camera for around 400€
VST Plugins: none apart from the native eq in my DAW
Amp: Axe Fx II - well, that's not so cheap, my most expensive gear, but still got it for 800€ (hehe yeah I'm a cheap bastard)
Audio Interface: none because the Axe Fx is my interface
Video Editing: Davinci Resolve - great FREE program for video editing - they do have a pro version but I don't use that
Picture Editing: GIMP - yep more free stuff, I'm a big fan of open source stuff, well apart from the user interface, that sucks
Guitars: Ibanez RG350 - got it used for 200€ and a Harley Benton SC450Plus which was also pretty cheap
Strings: D'addario 13-62 on the Ibanez tuned to B standard, and D'addario 10-52 on the Harley Benton tuned to E standard
Picks: Dunlop Jazz III White 0.88 - perfect thickness for my playing style
Headphones: Beyerdynamic DT 770 Pro - not the biggest fan of the way they sound but they f*cking comfortable to wear
Monitors: some cheap Mackies - only use them to check for the bass and how the music sounds in the room - I'm usually a headphone person
@@KevinHeiderich I love your answers, it's great that you take the time to answer with that level of detail! I appreciate it! Thank you!
@@KevinHeiderich and i was blown away by your sound in the cpe bachs solfegietto video
Awesome as always…one question, do you have like a small list of songs you would suggest learning for the different levels of metal guitarrist? Like a good one for the basic metal and so on?
I was recently thinking about creating a list. But it's a bit of work, so I haven't done it yet. The other issue is that this list would not be small, but rather big, due to all the different styles and tempo ranges.
THE basic metal songs for me right now as a sort of skill check are three Metallica songs.
1. Master Of Puppets for general downpicking AND stamina. It's not the fastest downpicking but it's fast enough and the combination of speed and song length are quite challenging.
2.Creeping Death for fast downpicking.
3.Battery for the gallops and a different kind of picking.
Of course those songs are not enough to build fundamental metal skills. Tremolo picking is missing for example. (But translating downpicking speed to tremolo picking speed is a rather easy process. Improving in one of those will always improve the other one, if you use the same posture and picking mechanics).
When people come to me for advice or are interested in technical guitar playing then I always ask for these three songs. If you have any issues in one of those then you are not ready and we need to build more metal chops.
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you!
@kevinheiderich Hi Kevin, I have been picking this apart,exceptional cover.
Could you consider covering The Evangelist? And preferably on a six string as I believe that's what Jonas probably played anyway. Thanks for all you do on here.
@kevinheiderich Hi Kevin,I was amazed that you said you could learn SOP in a couple hours.
I was thinking that it would be cool if you recorded yourself learning something ,that it might be educational or reveal technical aspects of transcribing a song.
I've been asking if you could learn The Evangelist but really, anything by Rafael Trujillo would be cool.
Is it possible for you to distill this songs into exercise tabs that you did with the other SoP track? I'd love to learn more tech death and this is the perfect gateway
@Kevinheiderich Hi Kevin, do you need a bigger string for the tuning? What's the minimum? What I have is a little too loose.
Do you have more of Bryssling's GP 5's ?
Hey Kevin, big fan of the channel. Been working on this song on your recommendation for the past week or so and have it to place where I'm getting pretty happy with it (except for the two bars at :23 lol) and want to try out the solo. Is there a good tab version of it available somewhere?
Great to hear! Keep working on it :)
For that section 0:23 I have a tip. Basically you have to work on getting that transition from the short 3 note triplet to the octave right. I personally do that by starting the triplet with an upstroke, so I can land on the octave in a natural way with the downstroke and regular alternate picking. No weird sweepings or economic picking involved here. So it's basically up-down-up for the triplet and then just down for octave. I hope that helps :)
(Alternatives are down-up-down for the triplet and then semi sweep to the octave with a bit of force, or down-up-down for the triplet and up for the octave, though the octave will sound weaker due to the upstroke, unless you really work for the accent)
I'm sorry, I didn't tab the solo. At first I didn't want to do the solo at all. Just did it to make it a sort of complete cover :/
@@KevinHeiderich Thanks for the response! Bummer on the solo, but no worries there's a lot of other bananas solos for me to work on! I just wanted to try it for completion's sake even though it's probably beyond my abilities currently.
Thanks for the tip, I'll try the upstroke first method tonight! I've been trying the down-up-down semi-sweep and when I do it it makes the octave sound muddy and because of its place in the riff it's really noticeable when it does. Never tried an upstroke on the octave, I'm not sure my control is good enough to consistently avoid accidentally raking a string at full speed.
By the way, great recommendation for a song to learn! It's a lot of fun to play, keeps you on your toes rhythmically, and makes you think a lot more about finger placement than most songs I've learned which has been fun to work out. Goddamn its hard to remember the whole thing though lol.
Can you make a video going over a few songs in each category (basic metal, basic dm, etc). I practice for an hour or so every day but I feel stuck in a loop where I am not improving
This song is also tabbed out on songsterr
Hey Kevin! Do you have any similar recommendations but in E or D standard?
Yo Kevin, awesome as Always !! Can I Ask you how do you practice tremolo picking ?? I'm struggling with this technique. Hi from France !
What do you struggle with? The technique itself or practicing and getting speed?
@@KevinHeiderich idk what to do to practice, like exercises. It's for "programmers of decline" the rythmic guitar during the solo. I try to just play it over a metronome and going faster but it's not realy an exercise. Ty for the answer, I like ur mindset and ur guitar playing. Big fan !
@@aurelienguardiola7136 Well, the Programmers of Decline rhythm part has a weird tempo. It's not super super fast, but it's also in a tempo that's not that comfortable. That 220bpm range.
I'm not the person you should go to for exercises. I won't give you exercises. I think songs ARE the exercises and practicing songs that feature tremolo picking is the perfect way to practice that technique.
What other bands do you listen to? More traditional stuff. Something like regular thrash or death metal. I don't know how good you are at tremolo picking, so my recommendation would be to play some songs in the 180 BPM range. If that works well then play songs in the 200 BPM range. Metal has plenty of songs in those ranges. 200 BPM is basically THE metal tempo.
@@KevinHeiderich okkk ty man ! I have to say that i'm listening only gorod 🤣. I'm usually not a metal guy like it's not the music I listen the most but my guitar teacher showed me gorod and since, I love this group. So I don't listen other groups but I like watch metal or death or tech death, I totally like this music. If I have to practice metal songs, i'll do it :)
@@KevinHeiderich so if you have songs around 180-200bpm with some tremolo, i'll take that ;)
Will you cover Anata?
Perfect cover and I completely agree with your description. I was one of those guitar players when I was first started learning tech death. I learned a couple Necrophagist songs (their easiest ones) but then the ego got inflated and I tried learning songs like Render My Prey, The Evangelist, and Where Angels Go Demons Follow, to name a few by Spawn, and those songs totally bent me over and got a massive reality check lol it’s super important for your own sanity (and your overall long term skill set) to take a slower more methodical approach towards working to the harder songs of the genre
👌👌👌👌
What string gauge do you use for this scenario?
I started to practice the song but just set the guitar pro file to D standard instead of B standard so I can use one of my guitars, don't have anything tuned that low.
But this song got me interested in writing own songs which are in such a low tuning and was wondering what gauge I should use.
Also, the speed of that solo...kind of insane. I don't like most solos in SoP songs unfortunately, but this one sounds really cool.
I currently have D'addario 13-62 on this guitar and also used them for the video :)
Actually the solo here is more of an interpretation than a strict note for note thing. Transcribing Spawn Of Possession solos is always a pain in the ass and at first I didn't even think about including the solo. But since I always try to make somewhat complete videos I added it in the end. Although I took the lazy approach and only sort of played the more prominent and recognizable parts of the solo as they are. The inbetweens are just me shredding along in a more or less improvised manner :)
I wanted to explain that in the description too but I didn't really have enough space for that part haha
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you. 13 gauge sounds really heavy...I think I will go for drop B on a Fender scale, maybe a 12 or even an 11 set will fit here.
Actually I tried to check the original solo and I guess your "interpretation" is very similar, although way more pronounced in this mix here. What bothers me most with the SoP solos is that you don't hear that much, the biggest impression you get is just that they are fast. Which is quite funny, I think most of their music is rather complex and one would think that they would pronounce this even more within their solos. Although I have to admit, as much as I enjoy their composition in general, I think the guitar sounds could have been better on the records...but maybe that is just me.
solo album pls
Hey, in the description you mention that before jumping into techdeath, one should already be efficient at advanced death metal song. Do you have song or bands recommendation ? Early Decapitated came in my mind when I read that and I am currently learning some songs ?
Hey man, sorry for the late answer. Actually Decapitated is a splendid choice for this, and in my opinion even too hard.
For me personally, Decapitated is a tech death band. There are always discussions on tech death forums what bands are tech death and what not. And Decapitated always get treated like this standard death metal. And while death metal has always been hard to play, Decapitated still have a lot more techy parts, and the standard death metal stuff they have, is still faster than your average death metal. So while Decapitated might not be a tech death band, for me they are.
And for anyone trying to discuss this, I have an easy question: Have you ever tried playing Decapitated properly? Not just Spheres Of Madness. That usually shuts down any discussion haha. I still remember that stupid Reddit post where someone said that Vogg had a "standard" right hand in terms of skill. lol. Vogg has one of THE best right hands in the whole world. It's an almost ideal role-model, not just an average right hand. Man, I hate the internet.
Sorry to be a bit too off-topic. Yes, Decapitated is an awesome choice, but they are on the harder side in terms of difficulty, depending on the songs. Even so difficult that I already count them towards tech death.
The Black Dahlia Murder is still my favourite choice for pre-tech death music. And in general for a well developed right hand technique. I can't recommend them enough. So much that I'm thinking about doing a video like "Why TBDM are the perfect band for your picking hand".
@@KevinHeiderich Hey, no worries, thanks for the answer !
I only learned sphere of madness for now, but I was planning to learn some other "easy" songs (at least how they feel when watching covers on YT^^) songs like Names or the First Named.
I don't really know much about TBDM but I will definitely check them out :) and i'm also waiting for your video haha
Great info, just quick question what tuning is this?
Standard B. One guitarist uses a 6 string and the other one a 7 string :)
Ah I see no wonder thanks a bunch.
PLEASE COVER deus aparted SPAWN OF POSSESION🙏
Жёстко!
Do spawn of possession - the evangelist next!
@Kevinheiderich Would you say Vortex Omnivium is Tech Death?
Sure :)
Hey Kevin, I try to ignore tabs, by ear is better for me but, is real slow 🐌, I still prefer it.
sick as always. If i remember that riversofgore tab also had karlsson's parts ( 7 string guitarist). what made you play bryssling's parts over karlsson? Do you think its a bit easier since he plays on a 6 string?
I just prefer to play 6 strings. Also, apart from a few exceptions I like Brysslings parts more haha
@kevinheiderich I wanted to ask what string guage are you using for B standard? Sounds pretty crisp.
If I remember correctly it was D'addario 13-62. These strings: www.thomann.de/de/daddario_exl158.htm
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you for replying, the G is wound? Your g is a wound string? Does Jonas use a wound g?
@@KevinHeiderich Do you have a wound g on that set?
@@KevinHeiderichThat's pretty manly,your playing 13's on these playthroughs? That's amazing!
@@KevinHeiderichHi Kevin, do you know what strings Bryssling uses?
What Ibanez is this?
It is an RG550, I would say one from the early 2000s....
Junge….👌
i got the young guitarist disease is there a cure?
I like an idea. Maybe something easier? this is waaaay out of my league
To be honest, if this song is out of your league, then all of Spawn Of Possession will probably too hard. "Sour Flow" is one of the slowest songs, but not really my favourite. The other two songs that you could check out are "Swarm Of The Formless" and "Dead & Grotesque". These also good beginner SoP songs :)
Man, that description really hurt.
I want to like spawn of possession but the production sounds so bad I can’t deal. Need a remaster bad
I have a question about the description.
I've been learning guitar over 2+ years, playing daily and I've achieved lot of stuff for that time, I mainly play math rock, japanese pop/rock music and metal. In the section of metal is the most interesting because I feel a difference in the structure of songs compared to the other ones due the overdose of notes(even if some of them are the same but repeated in other placements of progression and rhythm), I want to learn tech death someday but I see It's a long journey that I must go slowly. I eventually learn metal even if it's not my main genre at all and I've seen the phase of 'metal' is kinda easy to surpass once you really listen to that music, study the structure and learn songs(specially heavy metal is a big help imo), once you jump to death metal, it's probably the one you must stay there for a really long time and I think I'll be there for a couple of years because the technicality increases a lot and specially the rhythm part, the structure suffer a change and guitar skills are more demanding and precise. I'd like to ask you between the subgenres of death metal which ones would be easy and hard to you(deathcore,melodic death, death doom, etc) and how to properly learn and practice the death metal phase, thanks for giving such ideal content to the community!