Never realized Mike doesn't know a lick of chord theory. That just makes me appreciate his craft and ear for melody that much more...
Mikael Åkerfeldt Masterclass Lesson and Guitar Rig Video!
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Awesome! Lucky lucky fellow to get to play with Mike!!! Makes me just giddy with anticipation for the tour coming up!
N-MAYH
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BefriendedUnit
They wear white for me
Brilliant! Thanks!
Check out the interview too. Good questions that other interviewers seem to never ask...
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IC: I want to talk about your signature death metal growl. Is it something that you’ve developed over the years, or did you always have it – just walking around with that deep growl?
MA: I don’t know. I basically started doing it because I thought I could do it, because I wasn’t really a normal singing type of singer. So with my first band, basically we just made a few simple riffs and did some naïve lyrics and screamed. Later on, I came up with something that I wanted to sing over, so I tried that, too, and eventually I was kind of doing both styles."
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"IC: Part of the unique sound of Opeth is made up of some of the more complex harmonies that you compose. Did you ever study theory or any kind of harmony in particular?
MA: No.
IC: Do you know the chords that you’re playing?
MA: No.
IC: You just do it all by ear?
MA: Yeah"
Check out the interview too. Good questions that other interviewers seem to never ask...
"
IC: I want to talk about your signature death metal growl. Is it something that you’ve developed over the years, or did you always have it – just walking around with that deep growl?
MA: I don’t know. I basically started doing it because I thought I could do it, because I wasn’t really a normal singing type of singer. So with my first band, basically we just made a few simple riffs and did some naïve lyrics and screamed. Later on, I came up with something that I wanted to sing over, so I tried that, too, and eventually I was kind of doing both styles."
and
"IC: Part of the unique sound of Opeth is made up of some of the more complex harmonies that you compose. Did you ever study theory or any kind of harmony in particular?
MA: No.
IC: Do you know the chords that you’re playing?
MA: No.
IC: You just do it all by ear?
MA: Yeah"
dude u made my day! thanks alot for sharing this! and the guy over there was so lucky to play with Mike, damn lucky!
what? all i meant was you cant hear his voice very well
huh? i wasnt talking to you
Annihilat0r
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I can't believe he played the simple to figure parts of Face of Melinda and didn't play its all-mysterious distortion riff which is different in each tab I've seen. I believe the correct tab for FoM distortion riff is:
E||----7-7---5-5---5-5---5---3-3-3---||
B||----5-5---5-5---5-5---6---3-3-3---||
G||----5-5---5-5---7-7---7---3-3-3---||
D||----7-7---7-7---7-7---7---0-5-5---||
A||--0-----0-----0-----0---0-------0-||
E||----------------------------------||
That riff deserves an entire thread
E||----7-7---5-5---5-5---5---3-3-3---||
B||----5-5---5-5---5-5---6---3-3-3---||
G||----5-5---5-5---7-7---7---3-3-3---||
D||----7-7---7-7---7-7---7---0-5-5---||
A||--0-----0-----0-----0---0-------0-||
E||----------------------------------||
That riff deserves an entire thread
x_OPETH_x
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it still boggles my mind to this day that they use the fucking GT-8s for distortion....
i've played with one for HOURS and haven't been able to get an acceptable tone. Especially not compared to the distortion from the Hughes and Kettner Switchblade it's connected to
i've played with one for HOURS and haven't been able to get an acceptable tone. Especially not compared to the distortion from the Hughes and Kettner Switchblade it's connected to
gumtree
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BefriendedUnit
They wear white for me
Cock, I got the start of Lotus Eater wrong on my y/t version!
I'll have to re-start the tab now......
I'll have to re-start the tab now......
BefriendedUnit
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Is the chord given in the tab, but not one Mike plays, which I think is a regular Am. It's the same chord, it's not the exact same notes, but the wrong fingering when there's visual evidence makes the tab wrong, yeah? Especially when it's easier to play the original way
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Is the chord given in the tab, but not one Mike plays, which I think is a regular Am. It's the same chord, it's not the exact same notes, but the wrong fingering when there's visual evidence makes the tab wrong, yeah? Especially when it's easier to play the original way
Ok, the first chord I think is technically the same, except I play different notes in that chord.
So I suppose it's still acceptable though. It's just every time a video comes out with MA playing Lotus Eater, I find parts where I've been playing it wrong! It makes me sad....
