"Sixpounder" (Children Of Bodom) Solo Lesson/Analysis
Are 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 (13)
Thanks 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.
There's a couple of tutorial videos of him demonstrating it!
Thanks Bradley great alt. picking exercise!
Hi Bradley that's a very nice solo! What's the pick u are using in this video?
I use the precision pick minis from Dan's Guitar Store!
Thank 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
Yeah figured it'd be more convenient for most people!
I will try :D Thanks. c:
Great section its one I retry every few months. I guess it's time to try again
Crazy, I'm currently working on this solo.
Damn that's a sick concidence!
RIP the 🐐
RIP indeed 😔