"Wrong Side" demonstration

A short clip of Devin playing the riff from Wrong Side from "The New Black".

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Music

Tags:

• Devin
• Townsend
• Wrong
• Side
• New
• Black
• SYL
• Strapping
• Young
• Lad
• demonstration

[aligatorsandwitch72]

that guitar is tuned so fucking low.

CGCGCGE thats damn near an octave down.

[d0ct0rg0nz076]

Close, it's actually GCGCGCE ;)

[donotfloataboveme]

Damn you, Devin!! You make it look so easy. That was pretty kickass. Is it just me or does the neck on that guitar look pretty wide?

Either way, sweet guitar, kickass song and solo, Strapping young lad and Devin Townsend kick so much ass, I fuckin love em.

[d0ct0rg0nz076]

The neck on that guitar is wide, it has to be to make room for the 7th string ;)

[drmoshie]

fantastic reasoning and argument structure! well done

[Murdoch584]

That sweep section is insane! I feel like if I watch it too many times my brain will explode.

[TheNotDone]

@Murdoch584 its pretty straight forward actually when you break it down. Its symmetrical diminished 3 string sweep arpeggios with 1st note of each 8 note pattern changing. The open tuning makes the lick sound wider than would be in standard tuning.... Also Devin is a king.

[LessthanJake14]

@Spermwhales93 Yeah, saw that on his Youtube channel. I GASsed straight away.

However, he's not using Open B for Deconstruction, only on some tracks; like he did with Ki and Addicted.

[Spermwhales93]

@LessthanJake14 He's going to be using his Peavey 7 string on Deconstruction, so he is going to use them more often. He probably doesn't need to use them that much because he has guitars that are tuned in Open B and Open B flat now, so he can get almost all the range of a conventionally tuned 7 string on a 6 string.

[LessthanJake14]

@Spermwhales93 Yeah, knew about the tuning and found out that it's a custom STEF B-7 (due to the different headstock).

Wish he'd use seven strings more often, he implements the low G well rather than just CHUG-CHUG-CHUG-CHUG.

[Spermwhales93]

@TheNotDone I've never heard of anyone doing that before! You must be the only person who uses Open B minor.

[TheNotDone]

@Spermwhales93 actually it would be D# for the high string in open B.. I tune just that string down half a step.... gives it a more minor/ tense sound.

[Spermwhales93]

@LessthanJake14 It's an ESP STEF B-7 7 string baritone, most likely a custom shop model. Devin tunes it in GCGCGCE (Open C tuning).

[Spermwhales93]

@TheNotDone It's called Open B.

[TheNotDone]

@d0ct0rg0nz076 its true haha I enjoy the B F# B F# B D tuning myself.. dunno what its called, but its awesome.

[LessthanJake14]

The body is definitely the STEF B-7 but the headstock is custom, judging by the longer version of this.