What is a Learning Path, and how will it help me?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals, themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on track.
What is a Learning Path?
Don’t know where to start? Our Learning Paths take the most common guitar goals themes and playing styles and provide a handpicked path of lessons, from our library, to put you on the right track.
With a mix of technique and song lessons, you will find each Learning Path serves as a medium term practice routine too! Providing you with the skills you need, when you need them and some songs with which you can instantly apply your new techniques and concepts.
1
Getting a Metal Sound
Let’s start the right way! Metal guitar is all about that heavy and devastating guitar tone. Part one consist of a single lesson, but arguably the most important – getting your guitar sound right!
1 LESSON, RUN TIME – 06:18 MINS
Lessons in Part 1 include:
Getting a Metal Sound
2
Palm Muting & Accenting + Holy Diver Lesson
Sounding tight, punchy and aggressive is the key to getting heads banging with your metal rhythm guitar chops! Once you have the right sound, the next step is your attack and controlling that heavy distorted sound. In this section we look at the core techniques used for achieving this and a metal classic to help you put in all into practice.
3 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 30:43 MINS
Lessons in Part 2 include:
Down Picking & Palm Muting
Metal rhythm study piece
Dio – Holy Diver Lesson & Play-along
3
Alternate Picking Riffs
Delivering machine gun speed metal riffs and thrashing rhythms requires a picking hand of steel. Develop your speed picking with this technique lesson and two metal monster hits which give your alternate picking a workout. Good luck!
3 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 31:50 MINS
Lessons in Part 3 include:
Alternate Picking
Black Sabbath – Iron Fist – Rhythm Guitar
Slayer – War Ensemble – Riffs
4
Pinched Harmonics
Delivering machine gun speed metal riffs and thrashing rhythms requires a picking hand of steel. Develop your speed picking with this technique lesson and two metal monster hits which give your alternate picking a workout. Good luck!
2 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 15:30 MINS
Lessons in Part 4 include:
How to play pinched harmonics
Black Label Society/Zakk Wylde – Stillborn Lesson & Play-along
5
Drop D Tuning
Sound heavier and open up a world of new metal riffs, songs and inspiration. Drop D tuning is a metal rhythm guitar staple and captures that true metal sound like nothing else. In this section you will learn about drop D tuning, how to create drop D guitar parts and pick up some killer metal songs in the process.
6 LESSONS, RUN TIME – 1 HOUR, 25:39 MINS
Lessons in Part 5 include:
Introducing Drop D
Next step drop D ideas and concepts
Drop D Songs:
Marilyn Manson – The Beautiful People
Pantera – Walk – Riff
Alice In Chains – Them Bones – Riff
Rammstein – Feuer Frei
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