Today we will talk about speed metal. This form to touch metal began with bands like Stratovarius, Helloween etc.

A power metal rhythm lesson inspired in the style of Angra, Stratovarius, Rhapsody of Fire and Sonata Arctica. When I finished the guitar work I recorded some orchestra arrangements based in a style created by the band Rhapsody of Fire called "Hollywood Metal".

I used 2 techniques in this lesson: sweep picking & string skipping to create this solo based on Luca turilli´s style.

Welcome to a new series. This time we'll pay some attention on different Meters. The main goal of this lesson is learn some options to scape for a while from classic 4/4 bars.

In this lesson you will not only find a solo filled with techniques to learn - but you will find a complete instrumental guitar song. The way we constructed this song allows you to practice it as if it where a lesson series - starting from beginner level and ending with advanced techniques.

Oh my god - is this the first collaboration lesson at gmc or what? We believe it is! Let's go through the clean and distorted rhythm guitars, covering verse and chorus. From there you will see how things develop into a "duel" kind of solo.

Pavel presents a riffing style very often used by Luca Turilli's film-score metal band Rhapsody of Fire. If you are a power-metal fan then you should definitely check this out!

Listening to Rhapsody and Luca's solo albums really got me into this kind of music and now i am working on heavily incorporating it into my playing style. This solo is written in F# harmonic minor scale, using some flat 5ths in some places and also some phrygian major scale runs. If you need a good excercise for your alternate picking and muting - this is the right one for you. You'll also find some sweep picking here!

In this lesson I cover the style of Black Veil Brides band that combines metalcore with glam metal.