TECH DEATH CLASSIC: Spawn Of Possession | Dead & Grotesque | Guitar Cover
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2024
- Here's another tech death classic that I wholeheartedly recommend as a practice song! Even though the song is a bit faster than the golden standard of 240bpm (the song is 140/280bpm), it has a lot of beginner friendly riffs. Beginner as in tech death beginner, not some random person just picking up a guitar for the first time. It's Spawn Of Possession after all. Keep that in mind!
Here are two links for tabs. One is the official tab with an additional solo by someone else and the other one is the riffs arranged as a picking exercise tab, with all the fingerings and right hand patterns I use. Since you guys LOVE exercises, höhö. The official tab does have a few mistakes, that I didn't change, so be aware of that. I also didn't use the solo part of it. I just transcribed it myself for the video and added a few improvisations where it was impossible to tell what's being played.
Official Tab as a GP file:
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Exercise Tab - GP:
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Exercise Tab - PDF:
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The exercise tab contains all the riffs that make tech death what it is. Alternate picked single note riffing at around 240bpm. That's what I'd call a distinctive feature of that genre. Here it's just a bit faster, but with easier patterns for the most part (compared to Necrophagist for example). The only exception is the Grotesque part that comes later in the song (Exercise 7 in my tab). You probably already know which part I mean, without checking the tab.
Depending on the way you play it, and what your goal is in terms of playing quality, so ranging from 90s death metal that sounds like it was played by humans, to 2000s tech death that sounds like guitar pro, the difficulty of that part also ranges from intermediate to almost impossible. If you play it with sound of the band in mind, and some small changes to the fingering, that part is quite doable, even for someone who is not that experienced in the genre. If your goal is Necrophagist tightness, well, you're basically f*cked. Then it's just git gud. Spawn Of Possession are the Dark Souls of Tech Death after all.
I have three versions of that part. Difficulty-wise, the easy version is on par with the rest of the song, since I changed the three string arpeggios to two string ones. You can even add a pull-of, if that kind of picking is too much for your current level and then it's definitely a managable part. The official fingering is the hardest one, because it only uses three string arpeggios, that also sound like there were alternate picked, and not sweeped. I personally play a mix of both versions for two reasons.
1.To show you that you can play those three string areggios with alternate picking and because the official fingering also contains those
2.To save stamina and make it a bit easier for myself. The part comes pretty late into the song, and stamina management is crucial for that. While those parts don't eat up that much stamina, your precision and accuracy will suffer, if you have some form of fatigue from the parts that come before that. The song features a bit of tremolo picking, and that technique loves to eat up stamina, even if it's only used briefly here
And I'm truly sorry, but there's only one secret to that part, and that is: practice. Yeah, there's no real shortcut or trick in that part. It's just regular alternate picking at a high tempo and difficulty. You just have to put in the work. Sure, you could use sweeping, hybrid picking or other techniques that make this easier, but in the end, it's still an alternate picking part. If you want that sound, you have to play it accordingly. I'm a very strict player when it comes to covers and I already consider different fingerings a form of cheating haha
But I do have a tip for the other part you're probably curious about. You know, those legatos on the fifth fret. Bryssling plays those by jumping to each position with the tip of his index finger, like you would fret a regular note on each string. I find this very awkward without a sideways motion, like going from one fret to a higher fret. So I've always played this as a barre chord kind of thing. Even when I learned the song the first time, like ten years ago.
There's two tricks to that:
1.When going from bottom to top, your right hand blocks all the previous strings from ringing, similar to a sweep motion. Not exactly the same motion, but it has the same purpose
2.When going from top to bottom, you have to lift the lowest part of your index finger just a tiny bit, so it blocks the B string from ringing, and then the same thing for the D string.
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General question: who is interested in a regular Stabwound cover on the original tempo? The reason I've been thinking about it is because a lot of people approach that song with way too much emphasis on efficiency. Like they see my 125% version and think that's how you play the song. But that's how you play the song at 125%, not at 100%. You have to view it as a completely different song. At the original tempo you can and have to put in a lot more force.
Here's some food for thought: if you play the song at original tempo with the same efficiency and force I use at 125%, where are those 25% extra supposed to come from? The right amount of efficiency is a sort of skill that people have to learn. You can't get faster through efficiency if you're already "too" efficient. I know it sound wrong, but that's how it actually is. (At least in my opinion)
Oh yes, please!
It'll be awesome if you covered seven by necrophagist specially the verse riff
Sure
Would love to see that, that makes a lot of sense. I have been using your 125% version as a guide for a while.
@@saschamarr495 That's a pretty shitty guide for the regular version haha
The world needs more high quality SoP playthroughs.
Agreed
I'm already working on it !!! Not sure when the next one is due, but it's probably either Swarm Of The Formless, because it's another great "beginner" SoP song or it's going to be In My Own Greed, because that one has been on my list for a long time
@@KevinHeiderich great picks ! Hidden in flesh in one of my favourites you should give it a go as well
@@KevinHeiderich In my own greed is a banger. One of the few I managed to learn on bass.
@@KevinHeiderich in my own greed würde ich feiern😊
“I’ve never even listened to Cannibal Corpse.”
-Spawn of Possession
Nothing can beat spawn’s pure raw tech deathness
Nope, nothing beats that. I think my next hoodie will have a print with something like "Spawn Of Possession already did it better 20 years ago" lol or something more edgy like "SoP is better than *insert random tech death band*"
@@KevinHeiderich If you're still taking hoodie suggestions, you could do "Spawn of Possession is better than ____" and just have a long vertical list of other bands like Necrophagist, Obscura, Archspire, Rings of Saturn, Origin, etc. But also include and *cross out* Gorguts, since that's Jonas' favorite band that he said he still listens to and is one of the main inspirations for his writing style (at least the metal parts).
@@OkyDooky Hahahaha yeah one of my ideas was actually "Spawn Of Possession did it better than A***spire" but I do think that one is too edgy and will draw even more bad attention to me lol
Can't describe how meaningful these Spawn Of Possession videos are for me! They are by far my favorit band ever and they are the reason I started taking guitar playing seriously. I even bought a 7-string just to learn Apparition. I took me over two years to learn that, but my technical skills improved massively. Thank you for doing the exercise tab!!
how does one even go about writing a song like this, let alone playing it.
Always loved how SoP chuck in those sharp harmonics into their technical mastery. You emulate them so well.
I've been listening to Spawn a lot recently and I think it's slowly becoming my all time favorite. Sure, I love me some Pantera, Meshuggah, Necrophagist etc., but SoP are in a league of their own. They also got me into Erlend Caspersen (bassist on Incurso), whose style is perfect for that kind of music. Check out his channel if you haven't already.
This is what I live for! Incredible. Hope to see Render My Prey or By a Thousand Deaths Fulfilled!
By A Thousand Deaths Fulfilled would definitely be a great choice!
Beast mode 🔥
The best!!
We await a "right hand technique" video from you! Your text descriptions are nice but I'm a lazy American so I'd prefer to watch you talk about it and demonstrate! And then you can talk about Mr. Grady's findings
Love this TECH DEATH CLASSIC series, keep it up Kev you sick duck 🤘
Einfach zu krass! Danke Kevin! Es tut immer gut wieder mal SoP zu hören das so gut gespielt ist!
Gerne doch ;-)
Keeping the torch lit! I started learning Lash by Lash myself (not the easiest one, I'm just attached to it) but I'm just not good enough to get through it yet. SoPs music must never die. I can only hope that one day a band of crazy fans learn it all bit by bit and bring it back to the stage too. I'd do it myself but whether I'll even scratch your level in my lifetime is anyone's guess. Cheers and stay sharp!
you're a smart dude, can't believe i havent watched all your vids yet
Great seeing you killing it again! Dropped you words of support on IG and will repeat myself here: stay healthy and thanks for the inspiration and motivation, Kevin!
Thanks again, and don't worry, a CD with my playing should be out later this year ;-)
@@KevinHeiderich i just hope it's not a compilation of "125% faster covers". I guess we will hear some crazy hybrid picking along with a slide! Cant wait to hear it
Smooth af, brilliant playing!
Legend band tech metal very good
this is my jam. Part of my daily warm up routine :)
Great choice ;-)
@@KevinHeiderich ya dude. I'll copy your fingerings for a 6 string version. I always play it on my 7 string carvin
Hell yes, absolute killer playthrough 🤘 who needs Instagram & doom scrolling when you can rip leads like that 🔥 bigs up Kevin, keep slaying!
Haha yeah Spawn Of Posssession are not exactly a good fit for Instagram, because it's always super hard to pick a section from a song. It's one of those bands where it's all about the whole song
Thanks Kevin. Was feeling like shit. This got me to get out of bed and grab the axe. Love all your covers
Oh that sucks! But I'm glad I could be of some help. Did you go through the exercises?
@@KevinHeiderich yes! The exercises and most of the song. Some of the transitions were hard for me, but it was really fun. Nice to have stuff with straightforward patterns
Amazing playing, as always. We need a The Apparition cover tho :)
Probably not going to happen :/
Where Angels Go Demons Follow and Bodiless Sleeper, these were my favourite songs off that album, but I don't have official tabs for those, and SoP is one of the few bands that I'd rather not transcribe for accuracys sake
@@KevinHeiderich I love your channel Kevin.
Where do official tabs come from? Is Jonas sending them to you? If so that's really awesome.
@@scot483 Back in the day there was this tech death tab website called "Rivers Of Gore". It's still online but most of the tabs aren't and I think the forum is also not online anymore. Jonas uploaded a few tabs there and that's where I got them. They are probably all on ultimate-guitar as well!
I was thinking The Evangelist, I bet Jonas has the music for it, the tab that is.
Damn, dude. I fell off from your channel for a long while there. Glad to see you're still making videos.
Man, I missed you so much 😞🤘🏾
Supreme!
One from the classic Rivers Of Gore days. Nostalgia man!!!
beautiful!
You are insane Kevin !! Always on top of quality and precision!! If I can make a note, I would not recommend Spawn of Possession fore tech death beginner. There are bands that are a lot better for novice of this genere, like Archspire, Origin, Psycroptic and Anata. Those bands are much more easier to comprehend, play and memorize compared to Spawn of Possession.
Anyway keep it up! I love your work
yeah but even just taking one riff and nailing it will do wonders for a beginners technique.
INSANE!!!
Fucking amazing as always Kevin.
Freakin’ epic! Awesome cover and you just gained a new sub 🤘
The classic! This song was a huge rite of passage for me. Picking every note at 1:08 is kind of a flex, I always played that with pulloffs.
A flex would be picking every note of the lick that comes before that riff
@@MooseWilliamsI think it would actually sound worse as it won’t be legato anymore lol
How would that be a flex? It's a bit hard to hear, but it does sound it's regular alternate picking on the album, though the second note of each two note grouping is very weak in terms of attack. But I could be wrong, I'm just listening to it and it definitely could be both. Also, both ways have their advantage and I'd argue regular alternate picking is easier.
Here's why: the song is already very hard on your pinky. A pull-off costs a lot more energy, so to prevent more fatigue than is necessary, I'd rather just not do a pull-off. Sure, picking introduces another potential noise source, but to be honest, it's not that fast. If you treat it like a scale run, you'd probably laugh at the difficulty. Similar scale runs at 140bpm with 16th notes would be considered easy I'd say. So I'm not saying this to put anyone down or anything like that, on the contrary. The way you think about certain parts and how you approach them has a huge impact on your playing. Sometimes adjusting your frame of thinking goes a long way!
The difficulty in that part has always been the involvement of the pinky for me, and not the picking. That's why I'd say using pull-offs would be harder
Great cover, thank you.
You're welcome ;-)
That was so sick thank you!! Would be awesome to see another cover from that album like render my prey or lash by lash!
A true classic
Fantastic cover. Would be really cool to see you cover Render my Prey
Currently trying to learn it, you make it seem easy 🤘🔥
Schnasty as always, Kevin. One of my favorite SoP songs! :D
I could never find exercises for alt single notes cause I didnt know how that was called lol thank you
Haha I think it's actually just alternate picking but people usually have lead playing in mind when you mention that technique. I have no idea if there's a term for the way it's used here. Rhythm alternate picking or single note riffing or single note alternate picking is what I've always called it when I had to explain it in any context
@@KevinHeiderich I called it tech riffing , spider riffs, or techcore cause it kinda reminded me or metalcore/melodeath riffs but harder idk lol 🤪. Anyways thanks for some exercises cause I really like that to play it and its actually a good warmup/stretcher for me, but ITS SO HARD to find exercises or examples for it and searching up on yt I find nothing on the technique 😢
You are a killer bro. Love the SoP covers.
This is so tight man, nice work!
so clean
Lo más complejo que hay
outstanding
so much classic \m/ thanks bro!
YES.
HOLY SHIT KEVIN IS BACK:D
Отличная работа !
Sick cover!
🤘🏻🔥
You know how to call a death metal band that play right on time and follow the tempo ? Spawn of Possession.
Eyy new vid
Brutal 🔥
Amazing
How’d you manage to achieve that tight tone? I’m pretty bad at that stuff.
the best
Spawn of possession rules! Great job on the cover. Is there any plan on covering some rings of Saturn?
Thanks!
Sorry, no plans for Rings Of Saturn or any other "newer" tech bands. I grew up with the tech death from 1990 to 2010 and I still find that stuff more intruiging than what came after that. (Except First Fragment, they have been pushing the genre).
@@KevinHeiderich that’s a shame, but understandable. I just started listening to “first fragment” after seeing your comment. They’re amazing! I’m about to do a deep dive into their material. Cheers!
@@KevinHeiderich Have you heard the newest release from Deviant Process? That album has some of the craziest examples of polyphony in the genre, and some very atypical riffing.
Ring of saturn is beginner tech death lol
Nice one, 140 bpm is pretty hard but their pattern seem doable colpared to Obscura or Necro
Like I said in another comment, it really depends on how you look at it. The second and third riff have more in common with a scale run or lead playing, than that single note picking you know from Obscura and Necrophagist. And a scale run at 140bpm with 16th notes is not that hard comparatively. But yeah that one riff, you know, that grotesque riff, that is definitely a challenge. But I'd still treat this more like a lead kind of riff, so I use less attack and play it more smoothly. Makes it easier to play in my opinion
Any beginner teach death to recommend in E standard?
Cool🤘🏻🖤🤘🏻, I recorded this song too. But there were unofficial tabs.
Sometimes those "xy is the Dark Souls of xy" are a bit overused but here it definitely fits!
Haha yeah I'm tired of that too, but it definitely fits for Spawn Of Possession. They are still the kings of the genre in some way, with Necrophagist being a bit more accessible and easier to play
Hii, can you Lash by lash.
What does you shirt say about pickslanting?
Pickslanting is not a technique ... maybe?
@@saschamarr495 That's exactly what it says. Kevin has said in the past that he doesn't agree with the hype around Troy Grady's pickslanting concept.
@@gisibah To be fair I'd say the TH-cam Guitar community is to blame and not Troy. It's been ages since Troy and Cracking the Code changed their approach when they realized that pickslanting it NOT the key to string changes and so on but rather the technique of the hand movement that dictates in which direction pick strokes escape and pickslanting is just a sideeffect but not the deciding factor. They have corrected their teaching a really long time ago but still the TH-cam Guitar scene just rides the Pickslanting train while completely ignoring all other (way more important) insights. It's really frustrating to watch.
@@lukasgraesslin Such is life when something you say goes viral. I remember getting caught up in the hype myself when the CtC series came out and it was a great help in giving me an idea of how to play fast across the strings. I have, however, spent way too much time on the pickslanting concepts and neglected other important areas of technique. At this point i really should consult a real guitar teacher.
@@lukasgraesslin I've always found this whole pick slanting thing to be awkward for me personally and just could never get it down glad to see other people talking about how it's not necessary. Do you guys have any tips for practicing string skipping and string changes?
What tuning is this B standard?
Yes, but the intonation of the original song is a mess. Some of the notes on the lowest string are very sharp, like almost a half-step higher. I did tune my DI signal afterwards to fit in better with the recording because it was so off in a few places.
If you only listen to the original song you can really tell in the intro section with the low power chords. Like the left and right guitar don't really match
@@KevinHeiderich LOL! Thanks dude! Awesome cover!Thanks for the GP file too.
Hey Kevin! What does your hoody say?
Karlson version pls
Lash by lash pls
oh this is nasty!
KevinHeiderich is my dad
discription awesome
I want to hit the like but damn its at 666!