{"id":17923,"date":"2019-12-08T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roadietuner.com\/?post_type=blog&p=17923"},"modified":"2026-08-31T10:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T10:05:41","slug":"remembering-dimebag-darrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roadiemusic.com\/blog\/remembering-dimebag-darrell\/","title":{"rendered":"Remembering Dimebag Darrell"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

15 years ago, the guitar world lost a legend. On December 8th<\/sup> 2004, a crazed fan killed Dimebag Darrell onstage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Metal has never been the same since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his signature Dean guitar<\/a> in hand, Dime was an icon. And, for anyone determined to learn metal guitar, mastering his licks<\/a> has proved a right of passage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, we\u2019re remembering Dime with some of our favorite Pantera live performances. If you\u2019re looking for a heavy metal guitar lesson, studying these clips is a pretty good place to start.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m Broken\u201d (Live 1995)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A monolithic song, made even more monolithic by a soaring, impromptu solo from Dimebag at the beginning. This one showcases Dime\u2019s love of alternate tunings and, as Guitar World<\/a> notes, is tuned down a whole step \u2013 a quarter step flat:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDimebag also experimented with \u201cdrop D\u201d tuning on Cowboys From Hell (C# plus 40 cents), but later become a fan of tuning the entire guitar down a whole step, beginning with A Vulgar Display of Power. This tuning (D,G,C,F,A,D-a quarter step flat) was used extensively on \u201cWalk\u201d and \u201cA New Level.” Further use of this tuning was used on Far Beyond Driven (\u201cBecoming,\u201d \u201cI\u2019m Broken,\u201d \u201c5 Minutes Alone,\u201d etc.), and by Reinventing the Steel it was Dime\u2019s main \u201cstandard\u201d tuning.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a tuning that has confounded aspiring groove metal shredders for decades now. Fortunately, it\u2019s super easy to save it a preset in your Roadie 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWalk\u201d (Live, 1998)<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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