Welcome to the Simple Metal solo lesson !
This lesson is a specific one. It's called simple because it is in fact simple, comparing to how advanced metal solos can be. Metal has always been a kind of playing pool for guitar players. It was a unique genre where you could actually launch everything you can - your most advanced skills. Everything was warm wellcome - speed, fancy stuff, all available techniques. In my lesson you can try some of the this stuff being stripped-down to a form, that is available for intermediate players. I hope it would be a great introductions to modern metal soloing, that would help you to develope your skills even more.
Gear used (in order of connection chain placement):
1. Hufschmid Helldunkel guitar
2. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 40%)
3. TSE808 - Tube Screamer simulation. Tone 75%, Drive 0 %, Volume = 100%
4. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
- Channel - blue
- Input 50%
- Gain 70%
- Pre EQ - brighter
- Bass 50%
- Middle 40%
- Treble 50%
- Contour 100%
5. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
6. Impulse - Catharsis s-preshigh
Tuning - Standard E
Backing track progression:
4/4
||: Am | Am | Am | Am |
F | F | Dm | Dm :||
Am | Am | Am | Am |
Am | Am | Am | E/A |
F | F | Am | Am |
F | F | Em | Em ||
Tempo: Main song tempo is 110 bpm. There are backing tracks available at 40, 55, 70, 90 and 110 bpm.
Time signature: 4/4
Scales used in this lesson:
A-minor
A-harmonic minor