TAB Thread.

rj rl said:
Hola amigos, a small technique question: with alternate picking how do you get rid of noise while playing e.g. 3-notes-per-string licks? When i switch from 5th string upstroke/to 4th string downstroke i always catch 6th one extra time. I'm currently just adding legatos so it sounds ok, but for the sake of it - how do u do it?
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Mute unwanted string noise with either your palm(lower notes) or fingers(higher notes). That way the only notes sounding are on the string you are picking.
 
I've asked for it before when AYDY was released and have to ask it again since I don't know how the following short is played. I know I did a tab for ir and also a cover but it was more or less just a guess. This short piece is propably the only bit of any COB song where I don't know exactly how it is played. The bit is from Next In Line.



At 1:43 the 2 notes before the harmonie on 16th fret. I can't exactly tell if it's some kind of a tremolo arm flutter or just down slides or both together or whatever. I'm sitting here with my guitar for 40 mins now and still don't know how to play it. That causes me headache.
 
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I'd say it's a tremolo flutter with downslides and slight mute with the palm instead of ringing openly. I've just watched your cover again and believe that you're really close (19th & 18th fret on g seem about right too).
 
aimfailz said:
IMO it's dive bomb (16th fret harmonie) but not completed twice and then 3rd time is complete dive bomb.
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Yeah, the first two notes are obviously harmonics that are played when the whammy bar is pressed down and then raised only a little bit.
 
To me it sounds like he is sliding up to a high note 2 times before hitting the harmonics or he is kind of sliding up to a random high note and pulling up on the trem bar to the desired pitch, then hitting the harmonics for the long note. Steve Vai does this shit all the time. Slide up to a high note while depressing the whammy bar or doing a reverse slide to a low note while pulling up on the bar. Makes a weird animal like sound.

"Bend the bar down and slide up the neck on the G string. As you slide your finger up the neck, raise the bar slowly. Boy, what fun!

Now, do the opposite. As you slide up the string, bend the bar down so your finger is sliding, but the pitch is the same. It can sound like a purring cat. Growwlll!"

http://www.vai.com/fun-with-your-whammy-bar/

I have the tab book at home for this album so I'll see if I can remember to look in it when I get home just to see what they are saying.
 
Well, I don't care about tab books. Everybody knows that Mitch and I do better tabs and that every tab in those so called "tab books" are at least 30% wrong.
But I do also think that those two notes are just slides with propably no flutter effect. It's hard to tell because you can't hear the guitar good enough but I've tried it so many times with that flutter effect and can't get it to sound as close to what Alexi plays... I give up.
Well, I'm pretty sure now that there's no flutter in it because the flutter sound itself is to weak in the album version. And you can't do just a 'little flutter effect'. You can't control your tremolo in speed when you do flutter things. The other problem is the short time distance between those two notes and I really doubt Alexi recorded it in two sections. So I came to the conclusion that it's just some simple sliding up which is perfectly accentuate with drums and the rythm guitar.
 
<Arcane> said:
Well, I don't care about tab books. Everybody knows that Mitch and I do better tabs and that every tab in those so called "tab books" are at least 30% wrong.
But I do also think that those two notes are just slides with propably no flutter effect. It's hard to tell because you can't hear the guitar good enough but I've tried it so many times with that flutter effect and can't get it to sound as close to what Alexi plays... I give up.
Well, I'm pretty sure now that there's no flutter in it because the flutter sound itself is to weak in the album version. And you can't do just a 'little flutter effect'. You can't control your tremolo in speed when you do flutter things. The other problem is the short time distance between those two notes and I really doubt Alexi recorded it in two sections. So I came to the conclusion that it's just some simple sliding up which is perfectly accentuate with drums and the rythm guitar.
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OK, I know you and Mitch tab things very well, just thought I'd tell you what the tab says as it may be right.....since you can't figure it out anyways can't hurt to see what the tab book says.

12th fret harmonic high E string......pull whammy bar up +1-1/2 and release back to normal.....real quick on the pull and release with tha whammy.

And I agree...deff not a flutter of any kind.
 
yeah realized it when the download was finished. I think the name "Children Of Bodom - Original Studio Backing Tracks" misguided me.
 
Guys, how do you play the first solo in Sixpounder? Because i don't think it is accurate in the tab here (1st page).

This (not my cover) sounds good to me.. or it seems to me that Alexi plays it somehow like that.



Of course, If you can prove me wrong, please do.. I am not a pro.
 
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