The Gus G. Soloing style is in my opinion a mixture of Zakk Wylde meets John Petrucci, with a lot of original stuff. He uses a lot fast pentatonics, with blues riffs, scale fragments and sequences with sliding intervals. Both rhythm and soloing.
Symphony X is a power-progressive-neoclasical band with the guitar master Michael Romeo. We will study some alternate picking riffs, with a bit of legato, tapping arpeggios with string skipping and unregular patterns, and lots of metal sounds.
Get that combination and coordination of tapping, hammer-ons and pull-offs flowing nicely with a minimum of stops.
It can in addition be usefull for those new to tapping to build up some tapping-finger strength.
I'll explain how I build intricate rhythm tracks over modern prog tracks. To achieve that, we'll use a combination of power chords with scales. Mixing these two elements are the key to creating interesting rythm parts.
Time for some more advanced riffs! In this lesson we'll work mostly on legato and downstrokes, and a tempo of 100 BPM will make it fun and tricky to play ;)
In this tune I used different techniques like palm muting, only down strokes rhythm technique, alternate picking, sweep picking, bending, hammer-on and artificial harmonics.
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.