This procedure was developed by some classical composers at the beginning of the past century.

A full song lesson, that goes into the aspects of songwriting and song structure.

Today we will talk about speed metal. This form to touch metal began with bands like Stratovarius, Helloween etc.

Imagine you are the only guitarist in the band and your drummer comes up with a cool rythm. You know the chords, and you know 3 scales: minor, major and phrygian. You have 5 minutes straight to create a guitar part and to make it interesting.

When used in the song, a riff has to evolve according to the song moment. This lesson shows how to create a riff and do variations based on it, in order to change the song's momentum.

We're gonna focus on the writing of a metal song, with various parts where we will want the riffs to go in a succession from lower to higher and end it with a melody that gives the song a meaning.

Composition which includes licks used in Metal. Alternate picking, palm muting, staccatos and fast picking.

A few classic licks you can use in your compositions, or when practicing. We mix a lot of techniques like we could use into a full song.

A song-like form of a lesson that has all the parts that are needed for one metal song, but in shorter version. We will cover techniques needed to play this piece, and music theory behind it. Bebop and blues SCALE usage is featured in this lesson. There is a small lead section as well.