This lesson will help you with the speed of your rhythm-playing, your melodic sense and the creation of simple, yet effective lead-passages.

Mellow clean and lead lesson.

A technique that is very used in music styles such as Grindcore and Death metal, bands like Cannibal Corpse are fond users of this kind of playing. Tremolo picking is when you play one note rapidly. It's basically alternate picking but faster!

Octaves in a metal context. We will be using octaves as a songwriting tool, so this lesson is supposed to give you ideas about how to add textures and soundscapes to your songs using octaves.

One of the greatest guitarists of all time, Dimebag Darrell played in Pantera, and created tons of classic metal riffs that we all know. These riffs are great for practicing your downpicking.

Opeth incorporates many styles of music from folk to jazz in their metal. As well as clean and acoustic passages. We will look at Octaves, trickier riffs, the tritone powerchord, which is basically a powerchord but with an added flat 5 interval.

This time it's more in the the style of Melodic Death Metal, and it is influenced by bands like In Flames and Soilwork. It uses only downstroke picking, alternate picking, arpeggios and Pedal note rhythms.

Improve your use of octaves, fast tremolo rhythm patterns, and pedal note rhythms. You will also learn how to harmonize riffs in thirds. This can really give the song new dimensions.

This lesson that is dedicated to the early years (the Ozzy years) of Black Sabbath. I received many requests for lessons in the style of Toni Iommi and also in the style of Sabbath so here we go!