American - Musician | August 20, 1966 - December 8, 2004
You can write every song on an album in E and not hurt a thing.
Dimebag Darrell
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To me, blues is more of a feel and a vibe, rather than sitting there and saying, 'Well, I'm gonna play bluesy now.'
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I'm not a super blues player, but I was exposed to the Texas blues sound while I was growing up, and that definitely rubbed off on me.
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Man, that first Leppard album really jams, and their original guitarist, Pete Willis, was a great player.
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Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing are the gods of double-guitar axemanship.
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The most common power chord in metal is the root/fifth, but root/third diads are also worth checking out.
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Sometimes it's cool to play major third and minor third diads back-to-back, or a minor third followed by a root/fifth diad - whatever combo sounds good.
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Each track has to be precise, and that is a problem on a rhythmically complex track like 'Slaughtered.'
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I got food poisoning in Venezuela, and it sucked!
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I try to do things in one take, but doubling rhythm parts is always difficult, especially if you want things to cut the way I want them to cut.
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On our early demos, I was really frustrated with my recorded sound. I'd tell my dad, 'Dude, I want more 'cut' on my guitar - I want more treble.' And he'd say, 'Now, son, you don't want that. It'll hurt your ears.' But my dad just didn't understand.
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My first killer amp was a Sunn Beta Lead. It was solid-state, but that Sunn was incredibly loud. I used to say to my friends, 'Hey, check it out. It's only on two.'
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