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Learn the techniques that make heavy metal
fast, brutal and even... melodic.
If you're into thrash metal, death metal, or any other form of heavy metal and want to learn
the essential guitar techniques used in all the metal sub-genres, this is the
place.
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Heavy Metal Guitar Basics >>
Power Chords
Power chords are...not chords! They are diads (two notes played
together) used religiously in
rock and heavy metal. They work well under high gain/distortion, so
turn your amp's settings up and learn how to improve your riff accuracy
and speed with these power chord exercises.
Palm Mute Guitar
Palm mute guitar is a technique used in all forms of heavy metal,
giving a more percussive edge to distorted/high gain guitar. Use this
lesson series for the basics, moving onto some more advanced tips and
techniques in the 2nd and 3rd parts.
Part 1: Palm Mute Guitar Basics
Part 2: More Advanced Palm Muting
Part 3: Fast Palm Muting
Fast Guitar Picking
This lesson covers tremolo picking - an alternate picking technique used most commonly in thrash metal.
Machine gun picking methods. Great excercise... for your hand anyway.
Metal Guitar Scales
A bit of focus on lead guitar and the scales
commonly used in heavy metal to support its harsh, aggressive style. We
look at the modes and more exotic scales used in metal, and there are
backing tracks for you to try them out over... don't say I never give
you anything.
How to Play Death Metal Guitar
The basics of playing death metal guitar.
Part 1 introduces the "death scale" and some
alternate picking, palm muting techniques to use with the slow, lumbering side of death metal.
Part 2
looks at complimenting blast beats using tremolo picking and riffing at
speed. Plus, we finish by building a progressive death metal riff from
the elements we've learned.
Thrash Metal Guitar Lesson
Know what the secret is to that satisfying rhythmic chaos in thrash
metal? Pick groupings - This lesson gives you some more technical
picking exercises to make your thrash playing more dynamic, working with the percussion. Plus, we look at general tremolo picking and some other essential thrash metal styles. Enjoy!
Metal Rhythm Guitar This
lesson focuses on working with the percussion, with drum tracks to try your own
stuff over. We also get introduced to the groove element of heavy metal, which
is covered in depth in the Burning
Metal Course.
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