Metal Guitar Licks

Metal guitar playing focuses on scales, patterns, and techniques to develop iconic licks and solos.

Balances setting specific goals with prioritizing short practices and revisiting previous knowledge.

Tuning techniques using electronic tuners are covered, ideal for self-directed learners and those lacking guidance from a teacher or fellow musician.

Visual scales and their musical applications are explored.

Introduces guitar tablature notation, illustrating note positions on the fretboard.

Tablature symbols are introduced for guitar techniques such as hammer-ons, pull-offs, bends, and other playing methods.

Covers the basics of minor pentatonic scales and accompanying licks and techniques.

Introduces the A minor pentatonic scale and its application across the fretboard through five essential patterns.

Hammer-ons, pull-offs, and vibrato techniques for metal guitar solos are covered.

Techniques for creating minor scale licks include muting and whammy bar application.

Introduces the fundamentals of Natural and Harmonic Minor scales in various positions on the fretboard.

Scales and rhythm techniques for metal guitar solos are covered.

Intricate rhythm and lead guitar techniques are applied in the demanding piece The Raptor.

Covers advanced metal soloing techniques using The Raptor as a focal point, focusing on rhythm and lead guitar styles.

Modes are types of scales used for improvising and composing melodies over chord progressions, with connections to major scales.

Introduces the Ionian mode pattern and its connection to major scales using a familiar example in the key of C.

The Dorian mode's tone and semitone pattern are explored, yielding a distinctive sonic characteristic.

The Phrygian mode pattern is introduced, featuring its distinct tone and semitone structure, with examples of its use in music.

The Lydian mode's distinctive tone and semitone pattern is analyzed, offering insight into its musical properties.

The Mixolydian mode pattern is covered, with an emphasis on its musical applications.

Introduces the fundamental structure of the Aeolian mode and its practical use in crafting melodic phrases.

The Locrian mode's fundamental pattern is explored, highlighting its distinctive tonal features.

The Dorian mode is introduced as a fundamental concept in Metal guitar styles, with application demonstrated through a solo.

Covers metal guitar solos in C using Dorian patterns and power chords.

Major Pentatonic scale patterns and their applications in Metal guitar styles are covered.

The blues scale is covered, highlighting its importance in metal guitar techniques.

Diminished and chromatic scales used in metal guitar solos to create distinctive sounds.

The diminished scale is introduced as a versatile harmonic device for creating distinctive sonorities over diminished chords.

Diminished seventh arpeggios are covered, with techniques for application in guitar playing.

Introduces the chromatic scale, its patterns, and exercises for improving guitar playing.

Scales and techniques are applied to tackle complex compositions, with analysis of rhythm and lead guitar components.

Covers strategies for overcoming nervousness while performing in public, including knowing material well, and trusting oneself.