How to Play Pantera's A New Level on Guitar
Hi, I’m Andy Aledort and in today’s lesson we’re going to be going in-deep with diabetic Darrell Albert from the band Pantera, the late great diabetic girls fronting one of the greatest metal guitar players, one of greatest guitar players that ever lived and in this in deep lesson morals we’re going to be covering how to play a song as transcribed in this issue, “A New Level” and one of the first things with Dime is the tuning that he would use. His normal tuning was down a half-step but then rise on achromatic tuner in additional 40 cents. So, another way to think of that is instead of being tuned down a half-step, you’re tuned down a quarter step. It’s in between.
Just as Darrell’s normal tuning, there’s a quarter tone flat when he tuned down a whole step that was a quarter tone flat as well. It gets a little confusing but a good way to do that is to tune down a whole step and then tune down an additional 40 to 50 cents on your tuner which is how I have the guitar tuned up. You could think of it in two different ways. You could also think if it is being tuned down a step and a half and then being 40 cents higher than that so, in that sense it’s in between being tuned down a whole step and being tuned down a step and a half.
Alright, so if I pick my A string, it’s going to come up as G but it’s a hair flat so as I was saying, for a walk and for a new level, he has tuned down a whole step plus a little bit more. And when the string settled, moving around a little bit, it’s somewhere around 40 cents below. Here’s the D. It’s the same thing. You can see it as I bet 40 to 50 cents lower so it’s right in between. Alright, so to make as easy as possible, I’m going to give you the pitches and you can tune your guitar up for this guitar and this will be in tune with the recording.
The very first thing you’re going to hear in this song “New Level” is a pick scrape that Darrell does and he has an echo device set very wet. You hear a lot of echo repeats. It’s a relatively slow in between a stop like a fast lap-back. It’s a little bit slower than that and then there are multiple repeats and that sounds like this. So what I’m doing is as I’m rubbing the edge of the pick with the guitar set on the bridge pick up. I’m just basically rubbing the edge of the pick against the G and the B string like that. And then, I move down a little bit as I do it.
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