Dark Funeral - My Dark Desires - Guitar Tab

About My Dark Desires

At 190 BPM, "My Dark Desires" by Dark Funeral sits in the upper range of what your picking hand can comfortably sustain, and Drop D tuning adds a whole extra dimension of low-end aggression to the riffing. The dropped tuning lets you power chord the low string with a single-finger barre, which is convenient at this tempo, but the real challenge is keeping your alternate picking or tremolo picking clean when the metronome is moving this fast. Black Metal at this speed punishes any tension in your forearm, so warming up slowly and watching for grip tightening is essential. Set the Practice Toolbar to a reduced tempo, isolate a four or eight bar phrase, and loop it slowed down until the picking motion feels effortless before you push the speed back up. Focus on muting discipline too: at 190 BPM, any unwanted string noise becomes a wash of undefined noise very quickly.

• Drop D tuning gives the low riffs a heavier bottom end and allows one-finger power chords on the sixth string, useful at extreme tempos.
• At 190 BPM, clean tremolo or alternate picking is the core technical demand, making slow practice with the Practice Toolbar essential.
• Left-hand muting technique is critical here: unintended string noise becomes very audible when riffing at this speed.