The best The Black Dahlia Murder song ever! At least in my opinion. It has everything I like about them. But first, here are the links to the tab:
GP5: drive.google.c...
PDF: drive.google.c...
For now the tab only features the guitar track I was playing here in the video. I do have an incomplete second track, but I have to finish that first. Will update the links above when I'm ready. But as it is currently, it still has the solo and everything else I play.
The whole description starts backwards, god dammit....so let's start with why I recorded this and why in Drop C. I wanted to cover this song a while ago and already started transcribing it. Back then I decided to do it in Drop C as that meant, that I don't have to re-tune my whole guitar. Fast forward to two days ago. Was feeling in the mood for the song and I thought, well, pitch-shifting with the axe fx works great, I already have a half finished tab, why not complete the tab and transpose it to standard tuning.....as it turned out, one of the guitar tracks of the tab was already complete. So I just decided to stick to the Drop C version, as that also works great. I had to do it this weekend because I'll probably have to work the next saturday, and those are usually my recording days. Working on that day means no recording haha.
(I did record this today, on a sunday though, but that's because I wasn't ready yesterday)
Yeah, I do enjoy this song very much. Always enjoyed it actually and I always wanted to play it, but the tabs were not really good. Interestingly, The Black Dahlia Murder is one of the bands where I usually stick to strict down-picking of the 8th notes. They do down-pick almost everything too, and that music has that sort of vibe. You know, some stuff sounds like it's more suited to alternate picking where other stuff is suited more for chunky down-picking. Anyway, this song is a bit different though. And that's why I say it has everything I enjoy about them.
It starts with those short tremolo picked bursts in the intro, to a more down-picking suited riff. And after that you get those "techy" TBDM riffs that are more suited for alternate picking. It's kind of rhythm melody lines, maybe that's why it works better there in my opinion. Their newer albums have a lot more of those riffs (same with Arsis in general) I think. Still, it's all that typical riffing they have. And no TBDM would be complete without a tremolo picked epic melody line with additional harmonies (actually more like one melody line and one harmony line). That's a TBDM signature as well. And to top it off, you get a nice John Kempainen solo. I still think his solos vibed way better. I mean, their lead guitar players are all monster players but they have that technicality that sometimes is distracting from the overall style (in my opinion). Kempainens solos just fit the music.
I do have a minor mistake in the solo. With the wah-wah you barely notice. It's in the ending alternate picking run. For some reason I was a bit distracted and played it slightly different. After playing it I was like "Wait, that was wrong, wasn't it?". Well, it's those typical Necrophagist alternate picking runs. Sometimes you get confused by all the variations. I did have two good takes of the whole song but still decided to take the one with the mistake in the solo, as the whole vibe of my playing was a lot better. The first take was better in terms of cleanlines but also a lot more stiff and boring.
Which brings me to something I noticed about my playing. I watched some of my old videos today. They are like really stiff, plain boring, but mechanically correct, sort of. I didn't really play like I mean it, which I nowadays do. And that's where I noticed I completely stopped anchoring with my right hand. You know, where you sort of dig your pinky into the strings to play cleaner? I didn't change this consciously but I just started playing more in line with what my body wants to do. Sounds weird, but your body can really guide you in how to play something the "correct" way. If you listen to it you can tell what motions are kind of alien, and what movements are straining. Anchoring for example doesn't let my wrist move as freely as I need and want it to. It can't breath, so to speak. That freedom of movement costs some cleanlines but it's negligible. Without that anchoring the movement is a lot more natural, a lot rounder, which should explain some of my picking technique.
By the way, do people still read blogs these days? Was thinking about doing one haha. I don't always feel like talking about specific subjects in those descriptions when they are not fitting. (That anchoring is not really fitting here for example).
Anyway, enjoy the video :)
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