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- Metalcore Chops #1LEVEL 7Lesson 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.
- Metalcore Chops #2LEVEL 8Second 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.
- Chops BuilderLEVEL 5Neoclassic etude covering pinky independence, 6 string arpeggios & string skipping.
- Country ChopsLEVEL 6In this lesson we will look at many double stops and triplet style licks important to get a chicken picking sound.
- 90's Metal ChopsLEVEL 5Practise Your palm muting, rhythm precission and pinch harmonics with some good old chops from the 90's. Influenced with bands like Metallica, Megadeath, Pantera and similar.
- Strict Alternate PickingLEVEL 6The most aggressive-sounding picking there is. NB not for the faint-hearted!
- Alternate Picking BasicsLEVEL 3Licks examples and detailed explanations of how to start working on the right hand alternate picking technique, including hand positions, basic mechanics of the movement, pick angles, hand angles, strength management.
- Alternate Picking RiffsLEVEL 6140 BPM heavy progression - improve your timing and speed!
- Alternate Picking WorkoutLEVEL 6For intermediate players inspired by Paul Gilbert and Yngwie Malmsteen.
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Cosmin Lupu9th July 2013Hey Frank - there are some people that use the pinkie and others that don't - it is not wrong not to use it, as long as you can execute the parts at the desired speed while being relaxed. Let me know how it goes
frankdatank9th July 2013well for the begining i use my first second and third finger instead of the pinky .. is that wrong ??? its just to safe some useless motion
- Cosmin Lupu6th July 2013
Hello Frank - it is not normal for any kind of exercise to give you hand pain - have you been practicing slowly? If not you should definitely do that. Whenever you feel pain, it is the body's way to tell you that you should stop what you are doing, see what's wrong in the way you do it and find a way to do it so that your body will not feel pain again. Let me know
- frankdatank5th July 2013
is this normal if that kind of exercice give me hand pain ??
mhskeide24th August 2008Yeah! Took me a long hour to nail it;)
Great exercise, and really loved the lick in vid 4, I`ll be sure to add that to a shred solo:D
Melodicintenions4th April 2008your right thats my biggest mess there when I think about speed I mess up and when I try holding my breath well lets say the brain dont get enough oxygen when you do try to think doy!
Carlos Carrillo19th March 2008David!!
great lesson!!!
good job!!!- Qualenp13th February 2008
This is a sick lesson.
Thanks
- 777-HAIRMETAL4HIM-77711th January 2008
WOW
thats all i need to say 
Starry Manhattan Rain29th December 2007awesome playing! I have just registered and already there is so much to learn.
Tomy Jeon24th December 2007Amazingly quick, yet so clean!!!
- guitarmasterwannabe12th November 2007
is this god?? hehe
Ben N20th October 2007thats what i call speed
and a very clean tone
great- ch00ch00man15th October 2007
Oh, and btw David, very nice lesson. I think I'll incorporate that in to my practice routine
Thanks,
Boris - ch00ch00man15th October 2007
Eat-Sleep-andJam: The key is actually D major. E dorian happens to be a mode (second) of the D major key (as is every other scale in this exercise; C# Locarian and F# Phrygian). The best way I found to learn these modes on the guitar, as well as practically the whole neck, is to practice three note per string mode shapes. I'm not gonna repeat them here, they are summarized in various different lessons.
Hope this helps,
Boris 
Eat-Sleep-andJam14th October 2007Sweet Lesson David
I still suck at theory but if I played all those different modes Id still remain in the key of E Dorian ? Are there any scale patterns I can play below the 9th fret and still remain in the key of E Dorian ? Thanks - John
zoom14th October 2007Great stuff David! I've got a question though. I hope it's not stupid. The Key you say is E Dorian as opposed to D Major is this because of the Chord progression?
Juan M. Valero14th October 2007great lesson !!! as muris said it's pure madness hehehe, I love it
- Ben N14th October 2007
wow
great!! 
Muris Varajic13th October 2007Well done David,pure alternate madness!
- TheClansmanDK13th October 2007
Great work David! Sounds ace with all the different key scales!
Tank13th October 2007Nice etude David, there's a lot of great usable licks in here (for me to steal!!
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The Uncreator13th October 2007Great stuff David! Love the variation of patterns!
Kristofer Dahl13th October 2007Excellent exercise - lots of different patterns put together!
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This lesson is an alternate picking study that will help you develop strong picking chops. There is only one rule here to remember: use alternate picking only!
The key of the song is E Dorian. We will use 4 different scale patterns here:
C# Locrian, D Ionian, E Dorian and F# Phrygian.
These scales are all related to each other as they all use the same notes.
Make sure to study the examples very slowly. Speed will come automatically without thinking about it. If you start thinking in terms of speed, that's when you get nervous and mess things up. So remember, practice slowly and breathe!
Good luck and keep rockin'!
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