Second part of the Metalcore series. Combine famous licks & riffs with the backing guitars and master some alternate picking solo shapes. Also let's have some fun with tricky harmonics usage.

Playing arpeggios with a tapping technique is a great way to create technical smooth licks.

Roo welcomes you to the second part of "blue fantasy" (lead guitar etude). This lesson is easier than the first part, and contains alternate picking, sweeping and sweep picking phrasing, high frets playing, strings skipping.

Start by learning how to hold, fret & tune your guitar

Arpeggios, picking, sweeping, lots of it! The scale stays the same, Bb minor. A good thing about guitar is that we have the same fingering for all scales in the same group. All we have to do is to move one or few frets up or down.

Juan M Valero has recorded one of his songs called OMEGA. In fact it's an arrangement played with touch technique. This technique consist of tap directly into the frets with both hands.

Here's the "Are you ready" - GMC collaboration song lesson, so now you can finally jam along with it! =).It's in drop-D tuning, which means you should tune down the low E-string two half notes (two frets). All the other strings should have standard tuning.

When we refer to open chords, we usually thinks to the basic positions played by beginners on the first three frets, to start learning guitars. They are a mixture of fretted notes and open notes, that's way open chords. The same concept can be applied to any chords creatively, building beautiful sounding new shapes.