Ben Eller Teaches Pantera’s Trickiest Riffs with Nick Bowcott

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In this lesson, Sweetwater‘s resident metal maniac Nick Bowcott is joined by YouTuber “Uncle” Ben Eller to run through some of Dimebag Darrell’s trickiest Pantera riffs. What are some of your favorite Pantera licks? Let us know in the comments below!


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0:00 – Play In
0:30 – Intro
1:35 – The Innate Rhythmicality of Dime and EVH
2:27 – Swing and the “Power Groove”
3:07 – Thinking in 3s
3:28 – “Revolution Is My Name” and Triplets
4:08 – “Psycho Holiday” Intro
4:23 – Metrics of 4 vs. Metrics of 3
5:16 – Accenting with an Upstroke
6:59 – Dime’s Upstroke-heavy Riffs
8:04 – Dime’s Influences: Rock and Texan Blues
9:16 – “The Great Southern Trendkill” PH-heavy Riff
10:04 – Hick Bends
10:40 – The “Neutral 3rd”
11:07 – Putting the Eyebrows on a Riff
12:00 – Hick Bends and the “Revolution Is My Name” Intro
12:58 – Dime’s Diabolical Dyads
13:30 – “This Love” Chorus and Minor Dyads
13:55 – “Regular People” and Major Dyads
14:25 – Making “the Happy Shape” Evil
14:33 – “Shedding Skin” and Outlining “Happy” Dyads
15:11 – “CFH” “Under Solo” Dyads
15:44 – Music Theory vs. “This Sounds Cool”
16:40 – Arts vs. Science
17:11 – Symmetrical Lead Lines: “Falling Down the Stairs and Landing on Your Feet”
18:35 – Dime’s “the Only Scale You Need to Know” Rule!
19:19 – “Happy Accidents” and Being an Artful Thief
21:08 – When Being “Wrong” Is Actually Right!
22:24 – Stealing the Vernacular (©Greg Koch)
22:40 – Sign-off: Use Your Ears. To Be Continued . . .
24:05 – Play-out

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