What's up everyone? And welcome to 'Ola Learns'.
The video series where I sit down with a song and try to learn it on guitar
Back in the day, during the 90s, there wasn't really a... you know...
...an online guitar tab community
Not that big anyways...
Not like it is today, where there's guitar tabs of everything out there available
But back in the day, you didn't really have that
So you would either resort to guitar tab books
Or just... you know...
You'd have to listen to the song, and pick up the song yourself
I've always been more of a fan of picking up the song by ear
Because that trains your ear
So that's a good thing
And you first start, it might be really hard and feel very difficult
But the more you do it, the easier it will be for you to pick up what's being played
If you listen and play together with an actual album
So today I'm gonna do a song that I've actually never properly learned
And it's a Pantera song called Becoming
And it's quite weird, because it's one of my favorite songs of Pantera
But I just thought it was so f***ing hard to pull that shit out
I just never got it to sound the same as on the album, and...
You know, I just gave up basically
I just couldn't get it to sound good
And speaking of guitar tabs...
Back during the 90s, at least these were available
This is a... 'Selections From Far Beyond Driven - Pantera'
'Authentic Guitar Tab Edition'
But this is the official tab book
It says 'Authentic Tab Book'
I was religiously... you know, learning songs
Pantera songs, looking in this tab book
Well, later I found out that it's not very accurate
It's definitely not how Dimebag played a lot of the stuff in here
If you check the tab for 'I'm Broken', it says this...
I thought that was the way that Dimebag played it
But then you would see Dimebag live, and he plays it like this
Which just sounds... a lot more like the album
There's a lot of inaccuracy in this guitar tab book right here
So it's basically shit
But I still have it, because you know, it's a memory...
of when I was growing up playing guitar
So one of the things about Becoming is that part uh...
Where it squeals a lot, like 'Wheee'
And the way the Dimebag acquired this squeal...
was that he was using a whammy, he did this for a lot of songs
A Digitech Whammy like this one
I think he had the first version, this is probably the fourth version
But it's still doing the job, you know?
And I have it set to... Oh
I did not have it set to 2 octaves
But it's supposed to up 2 octaves, so... like this
And he would do this a lot with like harmonic squeals and you know, the Dime squeals, so...
You know, a little double effect
You nail the harmonic on the fretboard, and he raises it up using the Digitech Whammy
And the song Becoming is one of the songs where he's using the Digitech Whammy a lot
Uh... and in the main riff
And I've never figured this out
So we're gonna try and figure it out today, I'm gonna listen to the song
I'm using this guitar today, this guitar is tuned to standard D
But tuned to 425 Hz
So just like on the album
So let's listen to the song
OK, the tab wants us to play this
Which is not right, it starts at the 6th fret, not the 5th fret
And then the tab wants to play the main riff like this
Sounds pretty... similar
And it says here in guitar figure 2 that I'm supposed to play this
And it's definitely not very accurate, so we're gonna listen and...
find out exactly how to play it
Wheee
You can hear that 'Eee'
That's the whammy right there
I have to check a video for this
Thank god for videos, man
This is not easy
Can I see how Dimebag is playing it?
Well, as you can see he's definitely not playing up here
Wait-- not the audience, film Dimebag
This is good
I see him playing this part right here
He's playing it here
I think that's it
Oh...
OK
He does that little slide
I think we have the screeching part right
So it's on the 5th fret of the...
G string, and then you go full-on on the Whammy, so...
Listen to the octave
I think that's it
OK, I think it's from the 2nd fret to the 4th fret
Or...
Can we slow it down? I wanna hear it properly.
Is it really the 2nd fret or the 3rd fret?
But there... there it sounded like it was on the 3rd fret
So it sounds like he's mixing a little bit
Going from the 2nd fret
to the 4th fret and also the 3rd fret to the 4th fret
It's hard to hear with the muting, but...
Oh...
Yeah, man
I mean, it sounds correct either way almost
Alright, next part
OK, let's go back... what is he playing?
He's doing a slide or something
He's working around this part anyways, so...
OK...
I think that's it
Thank god for videos, man
Then it sounds like 1st fret
It sounds almost like he's doing
The thing is I think that he might be pushing the strings a little harder
When he plays that, so it sounds almost like it's going 1st fret
If you push harder on the strings, they're gonna go sharp
So maybe that's a little bit of effect right there
OK
There you hear the...
You hear clearly there that it's the 2nd fret
OK, let's do the chorus
Oh shit, OK
OK
I wanna see how he plays this
Oh my god, listen to this sound, man
That sounds so fucking badass for being a live show, man
OK
OK, so it's settled, he plays 2 - 4 here
OK, it's settled
I see that there's a lot of covers out there, but I wanna see... you know...
I wanna see the real deal
I wanna see Dimebag play it, man
He's playing it up here
That makes a lot of sense, because here...
It's not as fat sounding as over here
Listen to that, you get a lot more extra bass higher up on the frets
I think we have all the parts then
Is this a solo?
And this solo is a little bit weird, it's...
I mean, it's basically just whammy and a bunch of... you know...
Uh... Dime squeals
Look at this
So it's definitely--
Like, what he's playing right here is definitely not what he sounds like on the album
Uh... but...
I mean, that's Dimebag for you right there, he was switching it up all the time
Huh... I mean...
It's just a lot of feel, I think it's gonna be really hard to tab out, or you know...
replicate this solo to perfection
But we're gonna give it a shot
I'm gonna through the different parts now, and just play 'em really quick
At a slower pace
OK, I have to wing the solo, man
OK, let's try to play it all again
Without the click maybe
Ahh...
Oof, OK
Ah...
Oh... oh-- oh--
There it is, sorry
Solo
Sorry...
I got this
There you go, man
The solo part, obviously I winged it a little bit
I just did a little the whammy and...
Tried to replicate the notes, but...
Uh... other than that, I think I got it all down
It's a little tricky, man
The tricky part is getting the...
This part
The whammy part to sound gnarly as fuck
If you just pick the notes...
It just sounds weird, but if you pick 'em hard...
You get a little extra...
Arrghh you know?
There you go
So you need to fucking get that part right
There's a big difference between this
And this
It's definitely not easy getting it perfect every time
It just sounds like a 'meow' if you do it wrong
Now I wanna check out some covers
Obviously fucking Attila has one
OK, so apparently you would have saved a lot of time
If you didn't watch this video I made and just go watch Attila's video instead
Because Attila is an amazing guitar player
And he has the Dimebag stuff down to... you know...
He's got it down, OK?
OK, so Attila also did the solo
on this, so if you really wanna nail the solo perfectly
You should go check out Attila's video right here
I'm definitely gonna link it in the description of this video
I mean, this process would have been a lot quicker
if I just had this video to begin with
So, if you wanna learn the small quirks of what Dimebag was doing
I definitely recommend checking out this video, because...
Attila's going into the fucking details, you know, with the...
About moving the right hand as well while doing the pinch harmonic
Stuff like that, so I mean...
After this, if you wanna, you know, dig down deeper into Becoming
Check out his video
And that, my friends, was Ola Learns right there
Holy shit, I finally know this song
That makes me happy, now I can play that riff
This video will most likely or probably be demonetized
Or maybe even blocked by Warner Bros
Uh... just for using the Pantera song Becoming
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Thank you so much for watching, guys
This has been an absolute pleasure
Goodbye.