DIMEBAG DARRELL's 29 Greatest Guitar Techniques! 

If you play guitar and love Pantera, it's hard to not "go crazy" with the divebombs.

*Here's to anyone who wants to learn how to play like Dime:* Get his techniques down, but it doesn't have to be perfect, then just have fun and play from your gut. Just do what feels right. Have fucking fun! Honestly, THIS is how Dime wanted other guitarists to be. Don't worry about messing up or just hitting one note wrong, just keep going and have fun. It really does NOT get much more simple than that. RIP to the legend...

Cowboys From Hell (solo) 0:33 Cowboys From Hell (solo) 1:37 CFH (solo) 2:53 CFH (solo) 4:08 Walk (solo) 5:18 CFH (bridge after solo) 6:49 CFH (solo ending) 7:44 CFH (verse riff)/Psycho Holiday (first riff)/A New Level (verse riff) 8:59 (no song in particular) 10:32 Psycho Holiday (solo beginning) 12:58 Heresy (intro) 13:36 Domination (solo beginning) (not the same scale, but the rhythm pattern is the same) 14:37 I'm Broken (solo) 15:36 Cemetery Gates (signature riff)/CFH (bridge after solo) 16:24 Cemetery Gates (solo) 17:20 Cemetery Gates (solo) 18:07 Cemetery Gates (solo) 21:06 Cemetery Gates (solo) 22:02 Domination (solo, first lick) 22:51 Fucking Hostile (last part of the solo)/a few other songs 23:32 5 Minutes Alone (solo) 25:09 (no song in particular) 26:36 Walk (solo) 27:27 Walk (solo) 29:04 Walk (solo ending) 29:58 I'm Broken (intro/chorus riff)/CFH (verse riff)/Cemetery Gates (signature riff) 31:01 CFH (second riff) 32:27 (no song in particular) 34:06 CFH (solo) 34:47

All of dime’s riffs were legendary because he wrote most on the shitter, which all of you know is in close proximity to the shower, which is where all the greatest ideas come from. If he could have wrote tunes in the shower, he would have made tunes only audible to the gods themselves... RIP DIME & VINCE!

Dimebag is truly one of the greats. But not just for his chops, but the heart that drove it all. That guy lived life like no other. I have never heard of anyone say that he treated them bad, said anything bad or anything negative. It was always "what's your name? Well let's do a shot William Smith and raise some hell!" That was his MO. Total stranger? Not in 2 minutes. No, in two minutes we're going to be best buddies.

I feel like Dime has always sort of been a slightly underrated guitarist. Like people like him, but he's always like second or third behind other "shredders". More people need to see/hear this dude's insane talent! He needs to be recognized more...

Most people struggle playing this sober and Dime played this off his ass lol, love the video man, subbed!

some reason i almost get to tears when i do dime stuff. i know how much he loved guitar and i luv it soo much too and i just think what a soul he was and what music he cudda put out. uggh man. RIP dime

Dime has a video where he explains how he does his harmonic dives without picking. He flicks the string as he dives the bar and then hits the harmonic on the way back up.

43 year old here. Really appreciate the video I consider myself a potential student. I started playing a few years ago, just a self taught/utube videos guy. I was always a jock but as I get older it’s really great to learn something I can approach with the same intensity that I approached athletics with. It’s something you can do when you’re 80 and it wouldn’t be possible without people like you.

All I keep thinking is how funny it would be to have Dime there with you to comment in his own Texas slang on what you're doing, since he never really thought about the theory or musical notation involved in his styling. Well done!

Thanks!! Dimebag truly one of the greatest

I just saw I video where Dime explains how he usually does the squeal. Mute all but the G string with your left hand, flick the G string with a finger on the left hand, divebomb the whammy, grab a harmonic, and then lift it up. He did it so fast you don't even hear the divebomb. However, it's important to make it sound exactly like Dime. Don't mean to be rude, just repeating what Dime said himself.

First one I've seen who got the upstrokes right. Everything about this video is great. Thanks man, you rule

I've only watched the first 5 minutes and this has already helped me. I'd consider myself a beginner guitarist that's stuck in a rut. This video has so many great exercises that I will continue to come back for. I only stopped after 5 minutes because I tried the "pick to hammer on combos" technique/exercise and my pinky is killing me.

I'm practicing Dimebag licks and riffs and I just learned that it's pretty hard to do those super fast legato stuff he did. I always thought legato was somewhat cheating but it's so much harder than I thought to do at that speed.

For dime squeals you do a random pull off so you have an open G string with your left hand , dip the bar , catch the harmonic on the way up, continue pulling up on the bar for the squeals. It's a fast motion. There's a video of dime explaining it. Just doing a natural harmonic isn't correct.

Dimebag was such a unique player, his technique was beyond crazy!! Perhaps you should also do a video on the techniques of Glenn Tipton and KK Downing of Judas Priest

I remember Dime walking down the row of fans waiting to get in to see Pantera as the opening act for Skid Row in Fort Wayne, Indiana. He was saying hi to everyone and asked, “Are you guys gonna rock us tonight?!” They definitely blew away Skid Row! Thanks for the lesson, Mike…

For android/iOS users Flat 5 Lead Runs 0:33 Pick to Hammer On Combos 1:37 Circular Motifs 2:53 Two String Six Picking 4:08 Major 3rd Option 5:18 2 String Pull Off Slides 6:49 6th Dyads 7:44 Muted Syncopated Rhythms 8:59 Dimebombs 10:32 Mirroring Octaves 12:58 Natural Harmonics in Riffs 13:36 Descending 3’s 14:37 Lick Doubling 15:36 Pinch Harmonics 16:24 Staccato Pick Digs 17:20 Legato Licks 18:07 Spider Exercise 21:06 Extreme Stretch Pull Offs 22:02 Phrygian Dominant Licks 22:51 Unison Bends 23:32 Double String Bends 25:09 Extreme Vibrato 26:36 Legato 6’s 27:27 Double Hand Slides 29:04 Minor 3rd Climbs 29:58 Pentatonic and Flat 5’s in Riffs 31:01 Inside Picking 32:27 One String Six Picking 34:06 Tremolo Stretches 34:47

If you wanted to know you were playing cemetery gates main riff in the wrong position. The opening chugs are right but dime moves up the neck and uses the A and E strings 7th fret position to play that riff, of course it doesn't matter much but if you like doing that one off massive bend he puts in then it easier to do in that position.

Pentatonic + flat 5 = blues scale

Enjoyed seeing the mind blowing technique broken down. Dimebag was amazing. Sticking this one aside for 2-3 years down the road.

Great video overall, I just missed one of his coolest, unique technique, what he called playing it Texas style (aka the right way): instead of picking a note, you pick a half or full note below and bend up to it (think Revolution is my name intro). This video slightly touched on this around 26:20, but there's more to it

Thank you for sharing this video. I really like how you explaine everything, in proper and technical terms. This will take some time to nail these techniques. Always glad when someone is inspired by the master of metal guitar, Dimebag Darrell Abbott! Peace and RESPECT 👊

Just found this channel for the first time. I like the teaching style. I played for years then didn't for years and I'm trying to get back to it now. Thanks for making the vids!

The EVH, RR, Ace, and Dimebag videos are really good. Doing one on Marty Friedman's solo techniques and such would be amazing.

The-Art-Of-Guitar You are a very good teacher. You have a knack for this that supersedes anyone else that I have seen trying to teach guitar on RU-vid.

And he did this drunk...😳

I have that very guitar - Dean Dimebonics! It's built like a tank, plays beautifully and the pickups are incredible!

You should look into how he actually did his dive harmonics. He never picked them. It’s a very cool and easy technique

Uploaded on my birthday, and Dimebag is my favorite guitarist

Flat five, or the augmented fourth, or the tritone. The devil’s interval. 😈

Hands down my favorite tutorial!! Very well done.. Thanks for explaining everything in such detail especially the picking!!

Great lesson. Seems like you're not a guy that spent a lot of time imitating Dime so you bring a fresh perspective into his technique. Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to do something cool.

I'm a huge Dime fan,and glad that you demonstrate all these beautiful techniques clearly..great job,man🤘🏿👍

Very professional tutorial. Thank you... & RIP Dimebag.

There are lots of picking techniques like his upward strokes that are really necessary for a particular song to work. Dime's a genius the greatest heavy metal guitarist of all time.

Dude you are the man, keep it up!

dude, as a huge Pantera fan, thank you so much for doing a Dimebag video man \m/ if this is the appropriate place for song requests, could you do 5 mins alone ?

Dime dives the bar, flicks the open string with his left hand, as it's dipped and when he pulls up the bar, taps the harmonic on the string he's making scream so it has a further motion to grow and longer the squeal. Everything else was bloody brilliant!

21:38 : That look! Haha I think most players would agree that is the face you make when you first start diving into the depths of Dime! Awesome video man!

This is one of the best videos on RU-vid, ever! Thank you so much for making this.

This is a really cool vid. It's funny to see how many different techniques of Dime's I worked into my own playing without even realizing it. Thanks for sharing!

Hey man, I like that U respect Dimebag & his God-given talent 2 make a vid. like this. Keep rockin! R.I.P. Vinnie&Dime🖤🥀🕯️

Really good lesson of Dimebag’s bag of tricks. One of the best Dimebag lessons I’ve seen so far.

The Phrygian scale makes everything sound like spanish/flamenco, that's why it's so awesome. BTW you must know EVH was one of his big inspirations. Listen to oldskool Eddie and you can practically play all of Dimebags stuff.

goddamn thanks alot dude , softly spoken and clear , you take ur time describing and tutoring but not too slow for the more advanced players but really good for begginers , you're a great teacher never felt better subscribing to a channel thanks alot keep up the great work !!! going to learn everything on ur channel

Could you do Brian May

Hey man, love your lessons. I already know most stuff you go through but it's enjoyable. By the way, if you want a guitr that sound identical to Dimebag? Find out wht the pickup in the bridge is, buy it, and you could put it in a sweeping brush with strings and it'd sound identical. Same for every other guitar. Take the pickup out of Hetfileds guitar (buy it online), put it in your 70 dollar strt copy, put strings on ans boom, it's identical to hetfields guitar. All that "Tone Wood" stuff is bullshit. They use the woods in guitars that they use (maple, Rosewood, ebony and all the other ones) are only used because they're very cheap, readily avilable locally in MASSIVe quantities so there's very little money spent on shipping to the factory, and the main reasons are because those woods they use are hrd enough to last many years, but soft enough that the machines used to cut the shapes out don't blunt the blades easily, so they can spend less money on machine tools. Thats LITERALLY the only reason those woods are used. Nothing to do with "Tone" as there's no such thing has any wood or plastic or metal on the guitar giving you any "Tone" when the guitar is plugged in. The only thing that creates 100% of the sound of an electric guitar is the pickup, the strings and the material used on your pick or fingers. (also you can change the sound by playing your notes higher or lower on the string). the wood, plastic, mojo, worn paint, jimmy hendrix's sweat, angus youngs blood, ALL that shit, makes ZERO difference to how the guitar sounds.

Dime bag will always be in our hearts a mutual friend and I were very affected when he was assassinated wheel every dime bag thank you Jesse for the introduction to key grip friends 4ever

Great video! Thanks! In one video I saw someone asked Dime how he does the whammy bar stuff and he was showing the guy and the guy was asking for more details and Dime just said "man you just gotta go for it." and I dunno I always remember that when I'm trying to learn something new and its true. Sometimes you just gotta go for it, and sometimes you wont get it and sometimes you will.

Really like your way of instructing and your explanations are easy to follow also. I like the fact that, while studying for this, my fave Metal git-fiddle-ist has you intrigued and a bit captivated! That's good shit! You are a pretty sikk axe-slinger yourself, by the way. Keep up the killer work!

FAB tutorial. I learnt more in 36:21 minutes than I have done in 45 years playing. Cheers maan! ✌😎

This is such a smooth video. Good on you! Way to explain to the intermediates.

On the divebomb/power term harmonics, if you want two get one of the truly authentic Dimebag sounds. Try left hand muting (let your thumb climb over the top muting the lower/ thicker E,,A,D what your first and second finger catch the high E, and B)say all of the strings except for the g string, use your ring /3rd finger to do a pull off as your picking hand plays/lightly taps any of the harmonics as you flip the whammy bar back pulling it back, you get those haunting blended shrills the stand your hair on ends leaves butterfly courses in your guts. If you put a bit of the wah wah, or octivizer peddle on top of it people will think you are channeling Dime bag. Will after a bit of wood shedding it, and it flows fourth what seems like effortlessly. It took me a few days to pull off this technique, but it didn't come out whole until like a mouth later when I slammed some brutal attitude into it, that was when it truly felt whole. Hope this helps someone else get the same feeling I got that night and every time since.

may be a little late but this actually helped understand better how to use fingers when hammering on, and also how to pick better when playing those solos, Your a great teacher even if you don't think so.

One should never play the 3rd straight in 'the blues' or similar - always that slight bend to imply the ambiguous major. :)

I've always thought Dimebags sound was particularly cool sounding but I never really have done a deep dive into what he does. Pantera was just one of those bands that i liked the sound of but never really listened to them. This video was well done. Thanks

Definitely going to watch this one a thousand times

I started playing guitar because my sister brought home Metallica master of puppets... I started to LOVE the guitar when I saw cemetery gates on head bangers ball when I was in 7th or 8th grade!

It never ceases to amaze me how Dimebag never practiced in the sense of practicing. He always had fun while learning and that is how one should approach learning techniques imho

Cool video brother! I think Dime would have been proud of this. I'll be referencing this more in the future for obvious reasons. Thank you! Getcha pull!

You drop some good knowledge. I seen you pop up a few times on my recommended videos. I like learning about the techniques different players use. Gonna give you that sub.

8:47 Yeah I know what you mean! I discovered it by just messing around, it happens when you pick right where a harmonic would be on that string, for example if you pick right above the 12th fret on an open string.

I'm diggin your videos man. I just picked guitar playing back up after about a 10 year break... been struggling but these videos are helping me get back in the swing. Keep em coming! Don't know if you've done one or not but a Mark Tremonti techniques video could be fun

Excellent dude Got some inspiration back

I seen that in a 2007 or 2008 revolver mag when I was like 13 and fantasized about that exact guitar then and haven't thought about it for years lol seeing this crammed me into a time machine and blasted me back💯

Great lesson, thank you.

Amazing Mike!!! Thanks for share this techniques. By the way, awesome DIME guitar!

My love for dime and your vids make playing guitar a great time thank you keep them coming !

everything he did had that sour feel and being a Dime fan that's his word and sound no less you just spent 30 of those minutes showing most tricks he had to pull this awesome feel he invented, the most underrated MAN in general in history.... getcha pull

Practiced so much I felt like a teenager again made memory for me

This is my Favorite lesson video on youtube, Ill be getting stuck into these techniques and re watching this many times. You obviously put alot of time and effort into researching and putting these together whether you had help or not and that is very inspiring making me want to do the same. but ill just take the easy way and let you do the hard work for me ;) you have earned another life long subscriber/student \M/ \M/

Muy buena tecnica p mostrar los tips de darrel...hermosa dean ...abrazo desde argentina...dimebag r.i.p

Could you do an Eric Johnson episode? There isn’t much about him and you explain things very well where I can understand, and EJ is one of my heroes! Thank you for doing RR, Dime, and Clapton, other rock gods!

wonderful lesson! P.S. make sure that detergent is completely rinsed out in the wash,if not, the itching will drive you crazy all over,happens now and again.

Bro your really good at teaching playing and talking I'm impressed. That's a sick guitar and sound set up you got going on to.

This is great. Thank you!

Much love for showing ppl this

Fun stuff. Ever do fretted cords with picked harmonics while using palm mutes during an arpeggio? This is awesome watching all these techniques I've been doing since the 80's. You explain it so well.

what a fantastic lesson!

Another easy way to do divebombs is to dump the bar slightly, tap the harmonic, and rip it. It will give you a lower starting point, make the strings slinky so you can tap them easier, and allows you to get much higher harmonics then starting off at the normal point

Such a great video THANK YOU

Can you Do one for Buckethead?

Loved that lesson and love Dime so much love your method of teaching easy to grasp without confusing books lol

man, i want to tank you, i got months of practice with this single video!

Can you do the guitar techniques of Kerry King and Trey Azagthoth? There are some unique things that they do that are quite interesting. Thanks for the video!

12:25 I love when you were so enjoying the moment 😊

Thanks,this is very helpful!

So glad I found this video!!!!!!

"I don't want to kill the guitar" You will never sound like Dime with that attitude!!

What a killer lesson, thank you bro!

This is a great video for everyone my guy,👍

One of my best guitarist ..and loved to see his techniques too

I own 2 Razoeback 255's, A Dimeslime, and Black & Yellow V , used to have a B;ack & Silver Razor also sold it

Amazing video!

18:07 I use this just too much because of Dime. Adds a lot more fluidity and groove. Classic Dime sound ;)

Sounds awesome for real

Thanks for Everything You've done To Help all of Us Out. You should do a Habits of Jeff Beck Video. That would be a Filled Video.