"Sixpounder" (Children Of Bodom) Solo Lesson/Analysis
Added 2025-01-02 23:50:10 +0000 UTCAre you looking for a challenging, super fun workout to seriously improve your alternate picking speed and accuracy? Then look no further!
This solo from Sixpounder by Children Of Bodom is one of the most infamous passages in their entire discography, which features heavy use of fast two-note-per-string alternate picking and some extremely devilish string-skipping arpeggios. At first glance it may not look that challenging, but this solo requires super accurate alternate picking at an awkward tempo which can't be "brute-forced". I personally struggled to play this for many many years and it really forced me to put time into making my picking more accurate and controlled.
I really feel that players of all abilities can benefit from learning this solo and should have a pop at it, which is why I've included more backing tracks than usual - starting at 100 bpm and increasing in 10 bpm increments.
Good luck and don't forget to share your progress with everyone in the Discord server!
Comments
There's a couple of tutorial videos of him demonstrating it!
Bradley Hall
2025-01-05 23:12:22 +0000 UTCThanks for this amazing breakdown. I will certainly include it in my practice routine. Quick question: how have you figured out that Alexi is string-skipping and not sweeping the arpeggios? It’s really weird indeed.
Tigidit
2025-01-04 14:49:47 +0000 UTCThanks Bradley great alt. picking exercise!
Christopher Bianco
2025-01-04 02:36:38 +0000 UTCYeah figured it'd be more convenient for most people!
Bradley Hall
2025-01-03 12:32:45 +0000 UTCI use the precision pick minis from Dan's Guitar Store!
Bradley Hall
2025-01-03 12:32:32 +0000 UTCHi Bradley that's a very nice solo! What's the pick u are using in this video?
Leonardo Boccali
2025-01-03 08:10:08 +0000 UTCThank you for making it in standard. I just recently got fed up with constantly tuning to play my favorite songs and I'm now chilling in standard lol
Mike Stec
2025-01-03 05:49:07 +0000 UTCI will try :D Thanks. c:
Saliinger ?
2025-01-03 03:36:00 +0000 UTCGreat section its one I retry every few months. I guess it's time to try again
Luis Bonnin
2025-01-03 01:24:00 +0000 UTCDamn that's a sick concidence!
Bradley Hall
2025-01-03 00:31:53 +0000 UTCRIP indeed 😔
Bradley Hall
2025-01-03 00:31:46 +0000 UTCCrazy, I'm currently working on this solo.
Sigifredo Corral
2025-01-03 00:19:48 +0000 UTCRIP the 🐐
@Greebo
2025-01-03 00:06:48 +0000 UTC
