 Hello everyone and welcome to Blackstar Potential. My name is Lee Fuge and I'm here today with musicteacher.com and in this video we're gonna learn another classic riff. This time we're gonna learn the riff from the Death Leopard Track photograph. All the tones you're hearing in this video are coming direct from the Blackstar IDCore V3. This is running via the Cabrig software straight into my DAW over a USB cable. The patch I'm using for this tone is also available on the Architect online community. There's a link for that down below in the description. So the tone you're hearing is not based exactly on the original studio recording because the original studio recording is actually a very bright brittle tone with a lot of background noise. So I've based this tone loosely off a more modern live guitar sound that you'd expect Death Leopard to use. This is using the super crunch voice of the amp with the gain just over halfway. It's actually quite a scooped sound so I've got the bass and treble just above midnight and the mids down quite low. The ISF is also over to the American side. There's also quite a lot of effects processing on this so I've actually got some chorus on the guitar. I've got some fast slapback delay and a plate reverb. The original tone actually has this kind of metallic overtone to it from a lot of delay and reverb set very, very fast. So I've tried to recreate that with the effect in the amp as well. So the riff we're gonna be taking a look at is the introduction riff. There are two different guitar parts going on at once here but we're just gonna learn the simpler version of the two. So anyone that's starting out playing guitar can learn this fun riff. So here's the riff in full. So this riff is actually based around some very simple double stops. So the first thing I'm doing is playing the ninth fret on the D and G together. Now all of this riff is based just on those two strings. So the first thing I'm doing is playing those ninth fret notes together three times. Then I'm moving this note that my third finger is playing down to the eighth fret. So to do this I can play these two notes with my second and third finger. And I can pull that finger off to play the eighth fret with my first. The second half of the riff then is this power chord shape. So the seven on the D and the nine on the G. Play that twice and then play a double stop on the seven of the D and G. So in the track you just repeat that part twice. The second half of the riff uses all the same notes but we are changing the rhythm slightly. So once again I'm starting with that ninth fret double stop but this time just playing it twice. Then I'm moving the third finger down to my first finger on the eighth and playing that three times. Then I'm coming to the power chord on the seven and the nine playing that twice. And the double stop on the seven three times. And then as it is in the track that part is also played twice. So once you've got those two parts learned you just have to put them together. That is the entirety of the intro riff. So here it is in full slowly. And then once more all the way through at full speed. So there you go. There is the intro riff from the Death Leopard track photograph. I hope you guys have enjoyed this riff. It's a great format to learn even if you're new to playing this is a great fun riff to pick up and learn. Let me know down below in the comments if there are any other classic riffs you'd like to see us talk about in this series of videos. We'd love to hear which riffs and which licks you guys want to learn. And don't forget you can download the patch that I've used for this video from the architect online community and add this to your own ID course series amps. Like I said, this is not based exactly on the studio version of the track because of all the factors I explained at the start of the video. It's based more on a modern live Death Leopard style guitar sound. Thank you all so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this riff. Like I said, let me know down below in the comments if there's any other riffs you guys want to learn. Don't forget to check out the Blackstar Amplification YouTube channel for more videos just like this. And don't forget to check out musicteacher.com if you're looking for a guitar teacher in your local area. Thank you guys so much for watching and I'll see you soon.