This lesson is more in the style of AS I LAY DYING, a band I definitely recommend, especially their first albums, with all those fast, aggressive riffs and great compositions to head-bang big time!!

Second part of the Metalcore series. Combine famous licks & riffs with the backing guitars and master some alternate picking solo shapes. Also let's have some fun with tricky harmonics usage.

Lesson for Metalcore fans. Speed, palm muted, down-picking riffs, very popular in modern playing. Simple minor scale and epic melodies. This lesson is a right hand workout in 220 bpm. "Must try" for every semi-advanced metal guitarist.

Riffing in the style of bands like Periphery and Cloudkicker

Based on the band Pronoia where he uses Phrygian Minor riffing.

Progressive metal riff that gives the allusion of change.

This time we will look at a metal riff using the E Lydian mode.

In this lesson we work with a main riff with some variations on it and then we come up with chords with ninth.

Metalcore band influences and their differences