Sixpounder solo - Alexi Laiho

This is Children of Bodom's Sixpounder solo. One of the coolest patterns to ever exist - and way harder than it sounds!
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[@DesolateWastrel]

It's under appreciated just how hard this solo is. I've been trying to play it for years now and I can't get it as clean as this at 100bpm let alone at 150bpm. Amazing playing, I am so jealous!

[@DesolateWastrel]

@Souljar23 4 months??? What is your secret to playing this? I cannot get it 😩

[@DesolateWastrel]

@Souljar23 thanks for sharing your wisdom, it’s great that you’ve come so far in such short time. I hope one day I’ll be able to play this solo 🤞🏻

[@DesolateWastrel]

@Souljar23 Haha if you master sweep picking in a few months I’m gonna find you and make you teach me! 😂 I’ve been trying to master it for 20 years

[@napalmjayhee]

@Souljar23how about uploading a video. Its a different thing to "play" and play a solo clean.

[@adrielcalvelo]

Astonishingly brutal, razor blade-clean, amazingly executed. You sir have done it spectacularly 🔥

[@GammaFZ]

razor *bed-clean

[@Marisolita_95]

Wow, that was an amazing cover. So clear and flawlessly played. Bravo! 💜 Abrazos 💕

[@vukjovanovicofficial]

Absolutely loved that mans playing! You sir played it perfectly! R.I.P Alexi!

[@specialmustard237]

Absolute fire dude keep em coming 🔥🔥🔥

[@Xpeijz]

Sick!

[@GuitarObliteration]

Brutal!!!

[@timmysixxstrings]

Perfect. Alexi was one of my heroes and you nailed my favorite solo with ease.

[@mikestock1848]

nailed it, awesome job!

[@metal_moonlighter9235]

Absolutely superb! The video and lighting and reindeer blue look fantastic as well!

[@oldschoolrock4evr]

Perfect!

[@oldschoolrock4evr]

Bends and vibratos are the heart and base of guitarists you nailed this!

[@Augustmoon87]

Epic

[@panterasong4256]

Oooo. E-II. I have to ))))

[@vivekswamy7383]

Aweome. Spot on. Are you sweep picking at any point?

[@cj7318]

Wow. Very clean. 👏🏻 Just curious. Are you economy picking the first two notes of the pattern? Or is it strictly alternate?

[@unefleurrebelle6295]

from my view it's economy, because he directly moves his hand on the first two notes

[@cj7318]

Thank you. I am managing with fully alternate picking and using hybrid picking during the string skipping parts. It's still not that clean tho 😪

[@jhonathapizarro9854]

hello a big greeting the technique of the right hand is alternate picking?

[@SlaughtertheMatyr96]

Killer

[@markoloncar4254]

Well except the very tiny difference in vibrato (3 long notes) when compared to the original (RIP) Alexi Laihos solo, this Sixpounder solo was executed clean and perfect. I'm sure you could play it identically as Alexi on the record, but I like your version of the vibrato too. Sometimes I play it like that too when I practice the solo 😁

[@dogukanbalta833]

🔥

[@richardjones2811]

Is this the actual way it's played? So many variations online.

[@CHOPERUS23]

Do I spot some pentatonic licks there?

[@Kittletothemoon]

if you don't count the missing harmonics it's almost perfect 👌🤟

[@User396-]

Flap flap / kickdrum

[@MOWEI68]

like

[@digbick4294]

What tuning did u used for this?