Your First Metal Solo Lesson

Your First Metal Solo

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  • Welcome to Your First Metal Solo lesson!

    The idea of this lesson is to concentrate over stuff being used in metal soloing but....at the level "affordable" for beginners. If you're a metal fan that just started to play the guitar - this lesson is for you. Metal soloing is quite advanced. Usually when beginners try to master a solo of their idol, they figure out how to play slower parts, but can't skip through the faster ones. This one has been highly rethinked to deliver ease of learning solo part while maintainig the metal character. All supported with powerfull backing track.


    Gear used (in order of connection chain placement):

    1. Schecter Demon guitar
    2. Presonus Inspire 1394 firewire audio interface (input gain 60%)
    3. Poulin LeXtac vst plug-in:
    - Channel - blue
    - Input 50%
    - Gain 70%
    - Pre EQ - brighter
    - Bass 50%
    - Middle 40%
    - Treble 50%
    - Contour 100%
    4. Kefir impulse loader (mix 100%)
    5. Impulse - Catharsis 1on-preshigh

    Tuning - Standard E

    Backing track progression:

    4/4
    Em | % | % | % | Em | % | % | E |
    F#m | % | F | % | Em | % | % | % |
    Em | % | % | % | Em | % | % | % |
    Am | % | % | % | Em | % | % | % ||






    Tempo: Main song tempo is 120 bpm. There are backing tracks available at 60, 70, 80, 100 and 120 bpm.

    Time signature: 4/4

    Scales used in this lesson:

    E-minor




    E - major phrygian





    E - phrygian mode







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