A solo in the style of Metallica's lead guitarist Kirk Hammett!

Time to look at the style of this extremely popular heavy metal guitarist. Conveniently enough, this lesson comes right after the Matserclass "Hot Blues" lesson - because Kirk Hammett's style is in fact heavily inspired by blues. This lesson will mainly deal with Kirk's solo style from the Metallica "Black Album" and onwards . Mr Hammett himself claims his goal with his new solo approach was to get "a bit bluesier" - and the result was an effective blend of metal, blues and wah-wah driven madness. This lesson will take you one step closer to playing like your guitar hero.

Lesson covering the rocker side of Metallica for beginners.

Lesson suitable for beginners/intermediates covering the style of the band Metallica.

Killer Thrash Metal riffing!

This song is on their second album, Ride the Lightening released in 1984.

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.

In this opportunity we'll see a very famous ballad by Metallica, Nothing Else Matters, from the "Black" Album.

A must know Metallica classic,