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Exercise/etude for progressive metal fans.
metal, riff, b minor, picking, string...This is an instrumental song by Dream Theater that features the excellent guitar composition of John Petrucci in an intermediate level, perfect to make that leap to the next step in your playing.
dream theater, overture 1928, john petrucciI´m glad to present this example, a composition I made long time ago that it´s based on E minor scale and minor/major arpeggios/shapes.
instrumental, rock, string skipping,...Lesson inspired by Kiko Loureiro's solo albums. We will improve string skipping arpeggios, sweep picking, tapping and alternate picking.
kiko loureiro, angra, shred, metal,...Introduction to whammy bar techniques and their implementation in a musical context.
whammy, phrasing, rock, metal, techniqueBased on the use of Phrygian Mode by John Petrucci.
John Petrucci, Dream Theater, Arabic,...You will learn how to mix some melodic stuff with chromatic and unexpected notes.
riffing, progressive, extreme, metal,...We'll work on rhythmic variations with the tapping technique using one and four fingers.
Advanced tapping, rhythmic combinations,...
Welcome to the lesson of my speedy metal arrangement of Pachelbel's Canon in D. I'm not using much difficult techniques, I keep it relatively simple. The tricky part might be playing it up to tempo and getting the bends right.
Pachelbel, Canon in D, tempo, metal, speed
We are going to take a look at how to improve and tighten up the picking. The goal here is to PICK every note!
picking, economy picking, alternate picking
Inspired by bands like Slayer, Exodus, Pantera and old Metallica albums, we will work at very fast tempo with riffs that combine "only down-strokes" right hand technique with some fast alternate picking.
Thrash Metal, Slayer, Exodus, Pantera,...
Lesson inspired by famous virtuoso Michael Romeo. Many of his common licks included as well as recognisable typical Symphony X song style.
Symphony X, Michael Romeo, metal,...This piece is from the song called "World Set On Fire" from my album "Sevdah Metal". I played intro riff, chorus, solo and the outro riff. This can improve your riffing feel, alternate picking and eastern trills.
emir, hot, sevdah metal, riffing,...
Improve your timing and rhythm-playing precision! The lesson starts out with a simple variation of a few different chords. The same chords are used for the 2nd part of the song, but the trick here is to get rhythm and timing right as there is an odd time-signature feel going on, but it is 4/4.
timing, rhythm, precision, odd time...
South-Eastern European scales combined with melodic metal rhythm and melody using "Eastern trills" technique.
metal, heavy, balkan, triils, east
Lydian mode is almost the same thing as major scale/ionian mode. The only difference is sharp 4th in Lydian mode. This lesson is riffing only, using downstrokes only most of the time to get that powerful metal like sound.
lydian, riffing, lydian riffs