220bpm Speed Metal Shred Solo Lesson

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- Alex8714th September 2008
  Very precise Jose Great composed
- Jerry Arcidiacono14th September 2008
  Great alternate picking runs here
- Danilo Capezzuto14th September 2008
  Great runs here Jose! Are you trying to burn your pick? Compliments!
- Kuba Szafran14th September 2008
  Great lesson and what a technique!
- Bondy14th September 2008
  face melting ahhhhhhh top Job
- superize14th September 2008
  Nice shredding i will definently learn this
- purple hayes14th September 2008
  Nice solo. I'm bookmarking it and I'll try it in a year or two.
- Starry Manhattan Rain14th September 2008
  Jose, what planet are your from? Your technique, tone and phrasing are still astonishing to me.
  
  After you posted in that thread of mine on hand size a month or so ago, you truly restored my faith in that hand size really doesn't dictate how well/cleanly/fast you can play if you are dedicated enough to the instrument.
  
  Keep on rocking and if you've got aa album out/coming out, I'd love to buy a copy.
- Emir Hot14th September 2008
  haha excellent man
  
  Shred on!!!
- Marcus Lavendell14th September 2008
  Amazing! Well done Jose!
- Muris Varajic14th September 2008
  Killer picking Jose!!
- Nazgul14th September 2008
  In maybe 10 years I'm ready to do this. Great job!
- Jose Mena14th September 2008
  Thanks guys
  
  QUOTE (anthony.morrissey @ Sep 14 2008, 06:36 AM)
  Jose, what planet are your from? Your technique, tone and phrasing are still astonishing to me.
  
  After you posted in that thread of mine on hand size a month or so ago, you truly restored my faith in that hand size really doesn't dictate how well/cleanly/fast you can play if you are dedicated enough to the instrument.
  
  Keep on rocking and if you've got an album out/coming out, I'd love to buy a copy.
  
  Hey man thanks for the compliments
  
  I believe hand size must have nothing to do with how well you can play, just practice.
  
  By the way I am working on my album, on myspace you can listen to 2 tracks that will be on it, I am working on adding real drums to some of the tracks which will benefit a lot from it.
  
  QUOTE (purple hayes @ Sep 14 2008, 06:23 AM)
  Nice solo. I'm bookmarking it and I'll try it in a year or two.
  
  You should try it now, if alternate picking is something that you want to develop, just try it slower and speed it up little by little. When you get to 170 you are already playing fast, at 190-200 you will be shredding.
  
  QUOTE (Nazgul @ Sep 14 2008, 07:50 AM)
  In maybe 10 years I'm ready to do this. Great job!
  
  Same for you, start now, if this type of playing is something you would like to go after.
- Bogdan Radovic14th September 2008
  Impressive speed Jose !!
- Guitarist1614th September 2008
  Hope you win the contest. I have seen some of the other entries and none of them were even close to this. Great job!
- Vinod Saranga14th September 2008
  Clean playing and nice runs
  Just Awesome Jose
- The Uncreator14th September 2008
  Very tastefully done and great technique, I think you stand a chance to win the contest for sure.
- Pablo Vazquez14th September 2008
  great one, Jose!!!!
- Eat-Sleep-andJam14th September 2008
  its amazing
- Carlos Carrillo14th September 2008
  This is very Fast! Jajaja!! Very good technique!! Really... what planet are your from? jajaja!
- sigma714th September 2008
  i jusssst crapped myself. haha how does someone get so accurate beats me. haha Very awesome and very fast!
- skennington14th September 2008
  Awesome Jose!
- Ivan Milenkovic14th September 2008
  That is tooo fast mate, well done
- Trond Vold14th September 2008
  Thats almost too precise! Well done
- chmilew14th September 2008
  Wow, that was impressive Jose !
- Hisham Al-Sanea14th September 2008
  nice shred Joe.
- Nick32515th September 2008
  cool
- Jose Mena15th September 2008
  Thanks everyone
- TreyDeschamp15th September 2008
  Did someone inject you with something that makes you a super beast or am I just going crazy?
- Lian Gerbino15th September 2008
  FAST!!!! well done mate!
- Jeff Curtis15th September 2008
  I just Went blind
- David Wallimann15th September 2008
  Man, you have great chops! You guys are killing me! I need more practice!!!! :-)
- Kristofer Dahl15th September 2008
  Such aggressive picking chops - really cool Jose!
- Jose Mena15th September 2008
  You guys are funny, but this was the best one:
  QUOTE (turkeybutttrey @ Sep 14 2008, 09:10 PM)
  Did someone inject you with something that makes you a super beast or am I just going crazy?
  
  lol
- Sergio Dorado15th September 2008
  Great alternate picking. Muy limpio tu púa-contrapúa. ¡Felicidades!
- Toni Suominen15th September 2008
  Awesome lesson for developing picking, thanks Jose!
- Ian Bushell15th September 2008
  Super fast and precise technique Jose! Killer man:)
- Gabriel Leopardi16th September 2008
  Awesome shreding Juan! Your technique is amazing.
  Well done.
- BIGD216th September 2008
  VERY GOOD....
- Jose Mena16th September 2008
  Thanks guys
- Marcus Siepen16th September 2008
  absolutely impressive, great lesson
- Jose Mena16th September 2008
  Thanks Marcus, good to have you back
- Gerardo Siere17th September 2008
  Nice shredding.
- Guitarman70020th September 2008
  i normally dont like shred, but this is absolutely amazing. VERY tasteful composition, and great tone and feel. perfect.
- Jose Mena20th September 2008
  Thanks Gerardo, and thanks guitarman700. your comment means a lot, it is hard sometimes to shred and create a good melodic solo at the same time. I try, but as the guy that is composing it, it is hard to judge if it actually is a good solo or just plain nonsense shred. My intent was to shred here but at the same time create a cool solo composition, so thanks for the comment.
- Aleksander Sukovic20th September 2008
  Impressive! Great technique, very precise!
- Jose Mena20th September 2008
  Thanks Aleksander, I have seen your Tapping lessons, they are insane, I'll borrow a few of those if you don't mind
- Aleksander Sukovic20th September 2008
  QUOTE (Jose Mena @ Sep 20 2008, 07:58 PM)
  Thanks Aleksander, I have seen your Tapping lessons, they are insane, I'll borrow a few of those if you don't mind
  
  Be my guest
- Vasilije Vukmirovic4th October 2008
  Perfect picking! Clean, rhythmically precise!
- Jose Mena5th October 2008
  Thanks Vasilije
- kebsis6th October 2008
  Sour note at :31, amazing though.
- Jose Mena6th October 2008
  Hi Kebsis, thanks for the comment, You mean that bend towards the end, yes I accidentally hit the string with my finger right after plucking it, but I used the take anyway.
- Jesse7th October 2008
  I am gonna have nightmares about this:P I'll be forced by someone to play this and my fingers will break off.. noooooooo!!!!!!!!!
- Jose Mena7th October 2008
  QUOTE (Jesse @ Oct 7 2008, 01:16 PM)
  I am gonna have nightmares about this:P I'll be forced by someone to play this and my fingers will break off.. noooooooo!!!!!!!!!
- Matt2313th December 2008
  Amazing shredding.
- Jose Mena14th December 2008
  Thanks Matt23
- Young Guitarist6th January 2009
  You'r fingers must be programmed in some way
  
  Did surgeons and scientist put some robotic implant in you'r fingers, if thats the case
  
  how much does it cost? lol
- Jose Mena7th January 2009
  QUOTE (Young Guitarist @ Jan 6 2009, 04:36 AM)
  You'r fingers must be programmed in some way
  
  Did surgeons and scientist put some robotic implant in you'r fingers, if thats the case
  
  how much does it cost? lol
  
  It is special surgery done only in Ecuador
  
  As you can hear there is a dead note towards the end, so they must have not done a very good job on mine.
  
  kidding aside, all it takes is practice, it is just like any exercise, you simply have to work on it to get to a certain speed, and be warmed up when you try this.
- Pedja Simovic10th April 2009
  Awesome Jose , alternate picking is amazing here
- Canis22nd April 2009
  That's some serious shredding!
  Thanks for this, I bet I can get a good speed if I start to practice this slowly ^^
- MigeZ13th May 2009
  FAKE! (youtubers) Thats damn fast mate Awsome shredding I was eating peanuts in the same rhytm with teh drums. Crazy speed Like Michael Angelo Batio
- Jose Mena19th May 2009
  QUOTE (Canis @ Apr 22 2009, 09:08 AM)
  That's some serious shredding!
  Thanks for this, I bet I can get a good speed if I start to practice this slowly ^^
  
  That is how you do it, slowly first and increase speed slowly
  
  QUOTE (MigeZ @ May 13 2009, 01:32 PM)
  FAKE! (youtubers) Thats damn fast mate Awsome shredding I was eating peanuts in the same rhytm with teh drums. Crazy speed Like Michael Angelo Batio
  
  Thanks MigeZ.

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Hello Everybody! Welcome to yet another shred solo, I hope you are not getting tired of these, what happens is that lately I have been practicing a lot of shred for the dean shredder contest, and have decided to share this with you. This is the first part of what I played for in my Dean Shredder contest entry.

The solo is in the key of E minor, and was developed over a old solo I used to play with my old band Demolicion, but I have made it longer and a little faster. The tempo is 220 bpm and I am playing 16th notes, the 16th note runs I do here are quite long and are played with Alternate picking, this should help you develop stamina when fast runs with alternate picking.

I have thrown in here some of my craziest left hand stretches although played only at 8th triplets, it presents the challenge of reaching frets that are far away.

Another thing that this lesson should provide is a few patterns that are arranged to be played in 16th notes even though we are playing the scale with the typical 3 notes per string shape. This is sometimes hard to get used to, practice slow and try to get used to it.

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