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Dominik Gräber

The Metallica Downpicking Experiment

Okay, bear with me. After the little talk I had with @Ed Seith and @Ojas Sapkota in the forum I was curious how long I need to warm up these days to get Creep and Master up to speed.

I did warm up about 30-40 minutes for this BUT I realized (as I barely played to backing tracks before) that I've been playing Creep way too fast. Now I got issues with the timing when playing to a track, that's why I mess up the downpicking with Creep quite a bit.
I think I tried to play Master too fast too (but failed) so when putting on the backing track to Master it was quite easy to play it up to speed.

I don't know the whole songs so I can't tell you how it feels like to play this speed for 5 min + so this might be the next thing to experiment on.
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Jesse Salmons
Sounds good man! Id love to see you cover creeping death all the way through! One thing though, how are you doing the hammer on/pull off lick on the main riff? It sounded weird to me but it could just be bc maybe ive been playing it wrong 😂 ive always played it like:

D——-2——2–2——————————
A——-2——2—2——2h3-2h3p2p0
E 0-0—0-0—0—0-0————————

And duuude you downpicked master of puppets. I cant even do that. 😂😂
 
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Master sounds fine, could be cleaner and smoother.....but in case of creeping death, as you said, sometimes you tend to move out of sync...and at the start after picking open e several times, when you play E5 and d5, i think they are actually both picked instead of slided into d5 from e5. Try it man. And nice guitar by the way
 
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Jesse Salmons said:
Sounds good man! Id love to see you cover creeping death all the way through! One thing though, how are you doing the hammer on/pull off lick on the main riff? It sounded weird to me but it could just be bc maybe ive been playing it wrong 😂 ive always played it like:

D——-2——2–2——————————
A——-2——2—2——2h3-2h3p2p0
E 0-0—0-0—0—0-0————————

And duuude you downpicked master of puppets. I cant even do that. 😂😂
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Thanks! I play 2 3 instead of 2h3 I think but can't tell you If it's right. It's been an eternity since I learned this 🤣
 
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Ojas Sapkota said:
Master sounds fine, could be cleaner and smoother.....but in case of creeping death, as you said, sometimes you tend to move out of sync...and at the start after picking open e several times, when you play E5 and d5, i think they are actually both picked instead of slided into d5 from e5. Try it man. And nice guitar by the way
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Yeah, as I said, first time playing to the backing track and I really have problems with the Timing. Working on getting master Clean, but it's hard as I switched to a different Pick and haven't played it Standing up a lot.
You might be right with the Slide in Creep but I think it sounds cool either way. They might do the slide live.
 
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Jesse Salmons said:
Sounds good man! Id love to see you cover creeping death all the way through! One thing though, how are you doing the hammer on/pull off lick on the main riff? It sounded weird to me but it could just be bc maybe ive been playing it wrong 😂 ive always played it like:

D——-2——2–2——————————
A——-2——2—2——2h3-2h3p2p0
E 0-0—0-0—0—0-0————————

And duuude you downpicked master of puppets. I cant even do that. 😂😂
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Maybe I play only one 0 before the a String lick. That might explain my Timing issues with the riff🤔 can't Check right now

Edit: according to the Tabs I play it correctly
 
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