I watched this video like 6 months ago and it brought me to Troy Grady and I wanted to legit say thank you because finding Cracking the Code seriously changed everything for me lol.
This band....I Grew up on metal, learning All CoB, and so much more. Started focusing more on recording & other instruments. So guitar took a back seat as "I thought I was pretty good". Don't even listen to much modern metal anymore besides few acts. I know this band has already taken my favorite metal band spot & I've only listened to the album Relentless Mutation. I wanna savor it and know every line before I move on to any others. Learning this opening riff is brutal, and is getting me back into my guitar and metal in general so hard. Absolute phenomenal work from all members. A album worthy of cutting on and just listening with no distractions. I could rant for so long, ordering the anthology tab books and a f ton of merch asap. Please keep it up!
There are two consecutive minor chords a half step away from each other in the symmetric diminished scale. That is the sound he is implying in the first part of that riff
For my ears it's simply tonic (b) - dominant (F#) that's implied, and then going up a wholetone, that could either be the II chord (c# half-diminished) or dominant yet again (F# but only fifth and seventh) But when the chords are thinned out like this, with not all the notes of the triad there, ofc it often sounds a bit more ambiguous. But most importantly: It sounds fucking awesome :D
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all jokes aside and shreddage aside, you are one hell of a teacher. just the way you break things down and answer questions before they can be asked is amazing! love the lesson content!
I love how pretty much all guys that play violent, extreme, non-PC deathgrind/death metal/grindcore seem to be so nice and down to earth... It's like the music is an outlet for all that aggression, and what is left is just... well... A kind, gentle and harmless lamb (pun intented).
You know what's better? Playing it in drop A, so that your lowest B note is actually fretted. So the string skipping part from 7-7-5-3 turns into 7-5-3-1 if we are talking about the picked strings
I watched that video where he was talking about swapping pick slant positions when he was talking about how Michael Angelo Batio did that to move from one string to the other flawlessly, it absolutely blew my mind.
Just for a fun fact. The tri-tone was named the "Diabolus in Musica", the devil in music. However, this was not actually to say it was evil or wrong, but that it was a very difficult interval to sing, such as for a choir singing in church. So it wasn't that people couldn't perform it because weren't allowed to, but more that they often avoided it because it was hard. Adam Neeley has a good video on the history.
Listening to archspire I real talk thought you were gonna eat a baby while shooting up a high school during this video. I was wrong. You are the chillest nicest human ever. Great video man.
4:00 - Hi Dean! The tritone was never banned in middle ages and any other ages as well. But at this point I suppose you might be trolling so I don't know. Anyways, check your local Adam Neely for diagnosis.
hey, dean, I love your stuff but I just thought I'd go ahead and let you know that the whole "you can not play the flat 5 interval" thing is a myth, it was rare, but still practiced in Gregorian Chanting, an example of this is the medieval composer perotin, his song dum sigillum summi patris uses the tritone several times :P a popular treatise of the time from jacobus of liege wrote "its no wonder that the use of tritones is rare in practice, but never the less its theory is subtle and beautiful" the actual first use of the term diablos in musica actually comes many hundreds of years after the medieval period and can be found in the gradus ad parnassum by johann fux and it actually goes something like this "mi contra fa est diabolos en musica" its a reference to the mi the 3rd note of a scale agast fa the 4th is the devil in music referring to common practice of the time which was the division notes into the formation of hexa chords referring to mi in group one sounding dissonant against fa in the grouping following the first one and so on, "mi contra fa est diabolos en musica" is more along the lines of "oh be careful when composing because doing this absentmindedly can make your music incredibly dissonant" source - Adam Neely
when you chugga chugga, or meedleymeddedeededdley, do you hold the pick lightly or tightly? I notice the strings move all over the place which makes me suspect you really choke it, but yeah i dunno. Personally i've found thin picks produce a lot of attack and no scrape but makes it harder to accurately (in time) let go of the string. I have to push until it's done. Fuck it i don't know what i'm on about...
this is so damn frustrating. it sounds so easy, when dean plays it it looks so easy, but god dammit that string skip from the 7th string to the third string absolutely kills me!
Edit: the tritone wasn't ever really banned. It is just hard to sing, so they didn't use it in church music, which was almost all published music for most of European history
Involuntary Doppelganger & Remote Tumour Seeker are great running songs as I've found this week. Not, however, if you line up the album for the end of a 13k run. 🥵
It's taken me months to get this string skipping/ pickslanting technique halfway down lol and I have to do it with upwards pickslantong for whatever reason I just cant get the downward smooth
Can you make a video when you guys come up with those riffs? (i mean when you abducted an alien and he showed you the riffs). Still impressive playing man!
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's a harmonic minor pattern, with the two minor chords. Starts off on the root, goes back to the major 7th, then goes from the root to the 2nd. Think I figured it out?
![Archspire - Remote Tumour Seeker [Live in Montreal]](/img/n.gif)
"I'm gonna show you how to play this"
"I dunno, you figure it out. . ."
What a lad!
Hahahahah
Dean Lamb joking aside, it’s good to see some of the minutia of your techniques. The riff seems a tiny bit less daunting to try now 😂
It was April fools when this came out so.......
Did he even take a music class?
"So its all in the key of.. well ,this really low string here."
love it.
I teach good
@@DeanLamb agreed
I'm watching this as if I'll ever be able to play this...
yeah im basically just making sure my dick will never grow any bigger
Cedric Truchon ..
Haha same here
The tab book makes it really accessible!
i'm a bass player so
“Whatever the hell chord this is”
How I explain my riffs to my guitarist lol
Sorry for my lack of professionalism! Hahaha
@@DeanLamb your a god so you're permitted to be unprofessional
Necrophagist : advanced corpse tumor
Archspire: nah its remote tumour seeker
it's all in the key of BRUTAL
Wtf i read this exactly as he said it lmao
@@skeletalsounds_ drop satan why havent i heard this before ur a genius
Love the shoutout to Troy Grady. Every guitarist should check out his stuff!
The fact that even you don’t know ALL your majors and minors makes me feel so much better about my playing. You are awesome!!!
I watched this video like 6 months ago and it brought me to Troy Grady and I wanted to legit say thank you because finding Cracking the Code seriously changed everything for me lol.
You and me both dude
I’m obsessed with this song. I think I’ve listened to it like 5 times already today. So good 🤘
Thanks!
So technical, yet so humble at explaining. Love your vids duder.. you and your band are amazing 🤘
This band....I Grew up on metal, learning All CoB, and so much more. Started focusing more on recording & other instruments. So guitar took a back seat as "I thought I was pretty good". Don't even listen to much modern metal anymore besides few acts. I know this band has already taken my favorite metal band spot & I've only listened to the album Relentless Mutation.
I wanna savor it and know every line before I move on to any others. Learning this opening riff is brutal, and is getting me back into my guitar and metal in general so hard. Absolute phenomenal work from all members. A album worthy of cutting on and just listening with no distractions. I could rant for so long, ordering the anthology tab books and a f ton of merch asap. Please keep it up!
The little tips he gives are making me so much better, this guy is a tremendously awesome personality
He's such a beast jfc, Soo much theory and technique crammed into that 15 second part
Hahahahah, yeah I don't do a great job explaining it here, however.
I can only imagine how much growth someone could attain by learning a song like this.
There are two consecutive minor chords a half step away from each other in the symmetric diminished scale. That is the sound he is implying in the first part of that riff
Yeah, obviously. I know what that means.
Nice
For my ears it's simply tonic (b) - dominant (F#) that's implied, and then going up a wholetone, that could either be the II chord (c# half-diminished) or dominant yet again (F# but only fifth and seventh)
But when the chords are thinned out like this, with not all the notes of the triad there, ofc it often sounds a bit more ambiguous. But most importantly: It sounds fucking awesome :D
"I'm gonna play it kinda slow". LIES.
😎
TECH TREK IV STARTS ON THURSDAY! GET YOUR TICKETS AT
smarturl.it/TECH-TREK-TICKETS
ARCHSPIRE
INFERI
VIRVUM
WORMHOLE
05/09 Seattle, WA - El Corazon
05/10 Portland, OR - Twilight Cafe & Bar
05/11 Oakland, CA - Metro Opera House
05/12 West Hollywood, CA - Whiskey-A-Go-Go
05/13 San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick
05/14 Mesa, AZ - Club Red
05/15 El Paso, TX - Rockhouse Bar & Grill
05/16 Dallas, TX - Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
05/17 Austin, TX - Come And Take It Live!
05/18 Corpus Christi, TX - Boozers Rock Bar
05/19 New Orleans, LA - Santos
05/20 Orlando, FL - The Haven
05/21 Atlanta, GA - The Masquerade (Purgatory)
05/22 Spartanburg, SC - Ground Zero
05/23 Philadelphia, PA - Voltage Lounge
05/24 Brooklyn, NY - The Kingsland
05/25 Boston, MA - Once Ballroom
05/26 Erie, PA - Basement Transmissions
05/27 Detroit, MI - Sanctuary
05/28 Louisville, KY - The Tiger Room
05/29 Chicago, IL - Reggie’s
05/30 St. Louis, MO - Firebird
05/31 Kansas City, MO - The Riot Room
06/01 Denver, CO - Roxy Theater
06/03 Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court
06/04 Boise, ID - The Shredder
"We're gonna sequence it like this..."
"...no we're not"
Hahahahaha whoops.
Downward and upward pick slanting changed my playing overnight! Found out about it through you and then Troy Grady. Cheers \m/
Love your work, see you in May. Thanks for keeping the fire of metal burning bright and hot af
Just learned smoke on the water. I’m gonna give this a go.
😂😂😂
all jokes aside and shreddage aside, you are one hell of a teacher. just the way you break things down and answer questions before they can be asked is amazing! love the lesson content!
Heck yeah man, cool to see you upload again! Stoked to see you guys in Denver.
By far my favourite guitarist on here, been my favourite riff since release but just couldnt get the hang of actually playing it
I love how pretty much all guys that play violent, extreme, non-PC deathgrind/death metal/grindcore seem to be so nice and down to earth... It's like the music is an outlet for all that aggression, and what is left is just... well... A kind, gentle and harmless lamb (pun intented).
This riff is absolutely insane and so fucking archspire sounding.
Fully expected to be Rick Roll'd on this April 1st video
Hes really teaching us an Archspire song in 6 minutes
I did a terrible job
Request
Fool’s Gold by Berried Alive
You got this homie!
I believe he plays in straight E tuning
Shout out to Spheres Of Madness by Decapitated for defining the diminished attonal line that Dean recycled in here.
For real tho LUL
@@ToxicTerrance ayyye prawn squaddd
this song is fuckin nutty man! your whole album is crazy! good shit
Thanks!
why are u the best modern metal guitarist?
"I'm gona play this slow" still 26 times faster than I can play 🤣
Dope tone on the high notes
Dude thank you so much for showing me to troy Grady's tutorials
Oh man... My pleasure!
You know what's better? Playing it in drop A, so that your lowest B note is actually fretted. So the string skipping part from 7-7-5-3 turns into 7-5-3-1 if we are talking about the picked strings
Dean: whatever di hell chord this is... octave with di thing.... and he inspired me to practice harder lol. I love this guy
Such a brilliant track.
I watched that video where he was talking about swapping pick slant positions when he was talking about how Michael Angelo Batio did that to move from one string to the other flawlessly, it absolutely blew my mind.
New knocked loose 🤙
s o n o f a m a c h i n e g u n i had to change pants from how heavy the new stuff is 😍
What an awesome riff!!
Hey thanks!
Just for a fun fact.
The tri-tone was named the "Diabolus in Musica", the devil in music.
However, this was not actually to say it was evil or wrong, but that it was a very difficult interval to sing, such as for a choir singing in church.
So it wasn't that people couldn't perform it because weren't allowed to, but more that they often avoided it because it was hard.
Adam Neeley has a good video on the history.
Is there a new album in progress ?
there's always a new album in progress :P :D
Wow spoiling us with that double upload!
Carpal Tunnel has entered the chat
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Dude thank you for posting this I’ve been obsessed with trying to learn your crazy riffs 🔥🤘🤘🤘
Death metal song names are something else
Best one on the album 👌🏻
Thanks!
2nd best my guy. human murmuration
Listening to archspire I real talk thought you were gonna eat a baby while shooting up a high school during this video. I was wrong. You are the chillest nicest human ever. Great video man.
Wow! Uh, no hahaha. I'm just a regular person I guess...
I woke up hating myself and thought I’d try to learn this, now I’m hanging from the ceiling thinking about diads 💀
Troy Grady is a guitar messiah! I just subscribed and every vid i watch of yours is dope! Thanks 🙏
wow insane sounds killer
🙏
Such a cool riff!
Dude it would be awesome if you did more videos like this for other songs
Damn this man is a legend .
Dean you rock!!!!
Thanks!
That sounds awesome!
Heck yeah!
Oh shit it's daddy!
Wish tobi would do this since I only have a 7 string
Still waiting on the full tab book Dean 😏
In progress, coming sooner than you think...
@@DeanLamb HYPE
Holy shit, I spy a Peavey XXX on the bookshelf on the left of the screen. I loved those amps!
lololololol "I'll play it slow for you" and I'm dying over here
1. Go back in time
2. Start learning guitar at the age of 6
3. Practice 4h a day, each day, for the next 20 years
Now you can play it. EZ
Seems legit
Ah yes, I'm going to try this as soon as I buy a guitar.
I can just about use a knife and fork - watching musicians play is borderline witchcraft.
*casts spell*
this is one chaotic video
I love you brother. Good stuff as always !!!!!!!
"Ill play it kind of slow"
WIDDLY WIDDLY WIDDLY!!!!
ME: "..........."
trying to learn this song and holy shit is this hard.
Thanks for the free tab too 👍
Thanks, Dean. I need to practise. I got it.
Incredible......🤯
🙏
4:00 - Hi Dean! The tritone was never banned in middle ages and any other ages as well. But at this point I suppose you might be trolling so I don't know.
Anyways, check your local Adam Neely for diagnosis.
That guitar is sick remind me of some 80s car paint job
I can't think this fast.
Nailed it.
hey, dean, I love your stuff but I just thought I'd go ahead and let you know that the whole "you can not play the flat 5 interval" thing is a myth, it was rare, but still practiced in Gregorian Chanting, an example of this is the medieval composer perotin, his song dum sigillum summi patris uses the tritone several times :P
a popular treatise of the time from jacobus of liege wrote "its no wonder that the use of tritones is rare in practice, but never the less its theory is subtle and beautiful"
the actual first use of the term diablos in musica actually comes many hundreds of years after the medieval period and can be found in the gradus ad parnassum by johann fux and it actually goes something like this "mi contra fa est diabolos en musica" its a reference to the mi the 3rd note of a scale agast fa the 4th is the devil in music referring to common practice of the time which was the division notes into the formation of hexa chords referring to mi in group one sounding dissonant against fa in the grouping following the first one and so on, "mi contra fa est diabolos en musica" is more along the lines of "oh be careful when composing because doing this absentmindedly can make your music incredibly dissonant"
source - Adam Neely
*learns something new*
Thanks!
when you chugga chugga, or meedleymeddedeededdley, do you hold the pick lightly or tightly? I notice the strings move all over the place which makes me suspect you really choke it, but yeah i dunno. Personally i've found thin picks produce a lot of attack and no scrape but makes it harder to accurately (in time) let go of the string. I have to push until it's done. Fuck it i don't know what i'm on about...
Yes... What ARE you on about? :)
Plz dont choke ur strings bro
@@DeanLamb do you grip the pick tightly, or loose?
this is so damn frustrating. it sounds so easy, when dean plays it it looks so easy, but god dammit that string skip from the 7th string to the third string absolutely kills me!
your diad if its root and a 3rd still can give the implication of a chord due to the 5th ringing out as an overtone.
Great riff there
Great music song playing guitar 🎸👍
3:45 the definition of atonal just means lacking a key center, you can have perfect fifths
Edit: the tritone wasn't ever really banned. It is just hard to sing, so they didn't use it in church music, which was almost all published music for most of European history
Great picking practice this very hard to play cleanly at speed
this riff is sick as fuck
Hey thanks!
do more this was fun!
-Says he doesn't know what two minor thirds stacked is
-Later plays a diminished run that is a series of minor thirds
I was referring to two minor chords stacked a semi tone apart was, but yeah plenty of symmetrical diminished stuff in our music for sure.
Oh damn thought I was being clever. Excited you responded, you rock!
"I'm going to play this kinda slow." Proceeds to melt your face. lol
😂
Perfect. I now know how to play this flawlessly. =)
joking aside, this may help me get over my little plateau I am having with coming up with unique riffs. I am a noob but still playing daily.
Involuntary Doppelganger & Remote Tumour Seeker are great running songs as I've found this week. Not, however, if you line up the album for the end of a 13k run. 🥵
Closed captioning is awesome, bands called Irish bar. Nice typo
It's taken me months to get this string skipping/ pickslanting technique halfway down lol and I have to do it with upwards pickslantong for whatever reason I just cant get the downward smooth
The key is that ba diga diga diga diga diga part you know
Where can I find out more about this guitar? That flake in the finish is gorgeous
You can see the Kiesel K8 gallery on their website, or call the Kiesel sales team ;)
What does he say to check out to change your guitar playing at 5:40? Troy Grating?
Troy Grady
Dean Lamb thanks for replying. You are an amazing guitarist!
Can you make a video when you guys come up with those riffs? (i mean when you abducted an alien and he showed you the riffs). Still impressive playing man!
And this is why I love legato ...😆
The close captions said "Hi I'm Dean Lamb from Irish bar" lol.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think it's a harmonic minor pattern, with the two minor chords. Starts off on the root, goes back to the major 7th, then goes from the root to the 2nd. Think I figured it out?
The 7 mode of harmonic minor is altered bb7. I suppose it could be just that, considering its only a diad not a full triad. You're probably right!