OLA 14 DAYS - Guitar Challenge #4 - MASTER THE METAL GALLOP

In this video challenge, I'm challenging you to work on your metal riff gallops. For some it might be easy, for some it's challenging, but the point of the video is to make everyone gallop like a maniac in no time.
Don't forget to tag your progress on Instagram and on Youtube with #ola14days so I can find you!

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[OlaEnglund]

Welcome to another challenge! Be sure to upload your progress to Youtube or Instagram and tag with #ola14days so I can follow your progress!

[crimsonbit]

Great now we can play almost every Slayer song and half of the Gojira songs

[saboteursweden]

Great exercise! I would add that it’s good to allso play the gallop on the 5th string to not make the hand movement too big. Picking only on the 6th string gives a lot of space with no string above that can make it harder to transition to other strings later.

If that makes any sense...

[SkitzoMR]

Everytime Ola starts galloping zeros, Gojira backbone starts to play in my head.

[RelentlessOhiox]

I'm lucky. Galloping was one of the first things I learned when I picked up guitar as a teenager. Before I even learned chords and progression and scales and such. I just loved breakdowns haha.

[blakecurtis]

I have to at work in 5 hours and have not slept. Ola, you are worth it.

[bornindissonance]

Being left-handed and playing right-handed, galloping has always been difficult for me. Thanks, Ola!

[reprisalwithin]

One thing I'd highly recommend is once you feel some coordination building and your want to actually take a good stab at triplets is to try playing along to Slayer-Ghost of War at about 2:40 into the song it is basically triplet-downstroke, downstroke-triplet over and over. Try your best to keep in time and keep repeating this part and playing along to it. Before long, you'll begin to sync up. This will help you speed the process immensely. Also, try to relax your muscles as much as you can, each stroke done with as minimal pick travel as possible, most of this technique is more efficiently done by using mostly just your wrist. Allow your hand to take on whatever demented form it wants, there is no real right or wrong way to hold the pick it's whatever works for you but you need to practice to find out what that is

[andreriant]

I’ve been doing this for so many years but still having fun galloping on the strings 🤘thanks Ola

[DieLppenWG]

Hey Ola, just found this format and it's pretty epic. We definitly need more of this.

[ristofly]

Just finishing building my, please let it chug guitar. I got to say your videos are really fun to watch. Learning to chug is going to be a blast. Thank you for making your videos.

[kuisma]

3:16 Pro tip: Extend fingers to create extra leverage for additional speed & chug 🖤

[yukeemusic]

I love the challenge, keep it up please

[supermastater]

Your videos are not shitty man, I know you’re joking and all but seriously, stop. You put one of the best electric guitar and gear related content out there.

[stevevallance]

Hi, Steve from California! Dig your show, thanks.

[TravisHaynes-zs]

I think I usually end a gallop with an uneven number of notes with two down strokes. Alternate picking the fist notes, however many there may be.

[drewbierants]

Yes, I need something to practice gojira gallops with!

[GravesoftheInnocent]

You’re to 300k subscribers! Nice man!! 💪🤘

[chemx]

I saw a video of Lucas Mann (from Rings of Saturn) explaining how to play a song, and one of the parts is a really fast gallop, and he recommends using the alternate picking for fast galloping, I mean:
Down/up/Down/pause__ Up/Down/Up/pause
And obviously you need to accentuate those upstrokes when starting the group of three notes.
Just to let people know and try practising both ways or choose this one if they want to play something similar to what Lucas Mann was playing.

[adammorris]

This is awesome! Im currently learning frayed ends of sanity by Metallica, and the rhythm guitar under the solo is super fast gallops! It's super hard and this will help out A LOT!