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How To Improve Your Alternate Picking
Paul Gilbert style excercise that will help improve your alternate picking. This lesson emphasizes the importance of speed and clarity.
Metal · Intermediate · 5671 Hits · 4.25/5 (12 ratings) · Last modified: 6/28/2004
 
How To Play Metal Solos
How to turn that pentatonic bumbling into a structured metal solo lucifer himself would be proud of!
Metal · Intermediate · 58364 Hits · 4.36/5 (33 ratings) · Last modified: 2/5/2003
 
Idea For A Metal Ballad
This is my first post and I just wanted to put in an idea of a rhythm with small improvisation on it. Hope you like it, comments are very welcome!
Metal · Intermediate · 8302 Hits · 4.75/5 (8 ratings) · Last modified: 10/16/2003
 
Improving Your Trills
Three straight foward excercises to help the guitarist improve his trills.
Metal · Intermediate · 4042 Hits · 4.33/5 (3 ratings) · Last modified: 6/26/2004
 
Intro To A Song
Just a intro in the ruff!
Metal · Intermediate · 4919 Hits · 1.50/5 (2 ratings) · Last modified: 3/1/2001
 
Jason Becker Arp Sweep
Jason Becker Arpeggio Sweep
Metal · Expert · 4044 Hits · 4.00/5 (2 ratings) · Last modified: 11/18/2004
 
Just A Little Bet Of Classic
Have a look
Metal · Intermediate · 6437 Hits · 3.80/5 (15 ratings) · Last modified: 6/10/2000
 
Legato, Sweep, Tap And Alternate Picking
Trick using legato, sweeping, tapping and alternate picking.
Metal · Advanced · 4796 Hits · 2.33/5 (3 ratings) · Last modified: 9/4/2002
 
Lets Start Shredding
This is for you beginners out there who want to be able to walk into a guitar store, pick up a guitar and blow the passersby away! Three easy licks that build the right stuff.
Metal · Beginner · 23047 Hits · 4.38/5 (13 ratings) · Last modified: 9/4/2003
 
Licks Am Harmonic
Licks Am Harmonic Alternating Picking
Metal · Intermediate · 10798 Hits · 4.43/5 (7 ratings) · Last modified: 7/17/2002
 
Lip Gloss
91. Lip Gloss (#10745)
by Rob Samp (115)
Atreyu Tapping
Metal · Advanced · 1563 Hits · 1.50/5 (2 ratings) · Last modified: 3/8/2006
 
Little Spanish Metal Melody
A spanish metal melody I came up with one day. Try what it sounds like at a higher tempo too. it sounds cool.
Metal · Advanced · 6457 Hits · 3.50/5 (4 ratings) · Last modified: 7/4/2001
 
Make Your Guitar Growl
This is a good ender to a solo. or even a good starter to a fast and heavy solo. it takes a little practice to make the sound clear but its good.i don't have a sound clip of it but just play around with it.
Metal · Advanced · 15494 Hits · 2.67/5 (9 ratings) · Last modified: 9/24/2001
 
Malmsteen Speed Picking Lesson
Play Like Malmsteen
Metal · Advanced · 12024 Hits · 4.00/5 (32 ratings) · Last modified: 7/31/2001
 
Maximum Overdrive
Easy
Metal · Beginner · 2788 Hits · No rating · Last modified: 4/28/2004
 
Meat Metal
A metal riff I came up with sounds cool
Metal · Intermediate · 3968 Hits · 2.33/5 (3 ratings) · Last modified: 11/17/2002
 
Melodic Metal Rhythm
A short piece of a song i wrote in d min. it's metal, it's good. the end rhythm might be a little rough, the playback doesn't work in the composer.
Metal · Intermediate · 2308 Hits · 4.67/5 (3 ratings) · Last modified: 11/10/2012
 
Metal For Begginers
Some easy metal for the begginer player
Metal · Beginner · 5429 Hits · 2.60/5 (5 ratings) · Last modified: 1/26/2003
 
Metal Intro
Easy
Metal · Intermediate · 3959 Hits · 3.89/5 (9 ratings) · Last modified: 8/11/2002
 
Metal Intro And Reefs
Some ideas that could help you to create your own metal reefs...just be yourself!
Metal · Intermediate · 4967 Hits · 4.33/5 (3 ratings) · Last modified: 7/10/2005
 
Metal Riff
101. Metal Riff (#3250)
by Jeremy Muise (38)
My first time making a lesson on wholenote Just a little basic riff
Metal · Beginner · 4534 Hits · 3.20/5 (5 ratings) · Last modified: 7/26/2001
 
Metal Riff To Build Big Chops
A riff i wrote that will make you a faster player
Metal · Intermediate · 2271 Hits · 2.00/5 (3 ratings) · Last modified: 11/23/2006
 
Metal Rites
103. Metal Rites (#5553)
by Steve Evets (74)
Another cool sounding little metal riff.. easy
Metal · Intermediate · 2825 Hits · 1.00/5 (1 rating) · Last modified: 11/17/2002
 
Metal Touch
104. Metal Touch (#5566)
by Steve Evets (74)
A mix of your typical power chorded riffs in a verse and then some more jazzier elements for a pre-chorus.
Metal · Beginner · 2553 Hits · No rating · Last modified: 11/18/2002
 
Metropolis Pt 1
Pretty hard song..this is the best part of the song..
Metal · Advanced · 1779 Hits · 2.50/5 (2 ratings) · Last modified: 10/23/2004
 
Minor Scales Pt I
Hi everyone,well this lesson we'll talk about three different types of Minor scales and how they're relations with the Major scales.I hope this lesson be a blessing for you.So lets start shall we?
Metal · Intermediate · 4169 Hits · 2.00/5 (2 ratings) · Last modified: 7/7/2010
 
Neo-Classical Style
Classical/Metal Sounding Lick
Metal · Advanced · 4003 Hits · 3.00/5 (2 ratings) · Last modified: 1/30/2003
 
Neo-Riff
108. Neo-Riff (#1258)
by Victor Kern (419)
If you want to play like Malmsteen, so this is gonna help you!!!
Metal · Intermediate · 12392 Hits · 4.88/5 (16 ratings) · Last modified: 8/2/2000
 
New take on Ascending Runs
tired of cliche runs? this lesson will help you develop a different way of looking at the fretboard.
Metal · Intermediate · 13308 Hits · 4.40/5 (15 ratings) · Last modified: 2/12/2000
 
Niccolo Paganini's Caprice #5
I don't really know who this guy is, I just know that he was an amazing shredder. This is an amazing example of what metal and classical sound like when mixed.
Metal · Ridiculous · 9440 Hits · 4.86/5 (21 ratings) · Last modified: 5/7/2002
 
Of Minor Consequence
The technique I'm playing here is one I got off Rithcie Kotzen and Malmsteen...Of course, I put in my two cents worth,still it has a good wide interval lick that will sound great once you master it.
Metal · Advanced · 5033 Hits · 3.70/5 (10 ratings) · Last modified: 11/10/2000
 
Open Ended Tapping
I Made this up when I first started tapping, It can be played very fast or on beat, either way it sounds pretty cool.
Metal · Advanced · 2690 Hits · No rating · Last modified: 2/18/2006
 
Open-String Legato Arpeggios
Let's combine some hammer-ons, pull-offs, and taps with open strings to create some classic arpeggio washes...
Metal · Advanced · 37345 Hits · 4.32/5 (19 ratings) · Last modified: 10/1/1999
 
Out Of The Box
Learn to play out of the box. Don't fall into the rut of playing the same caged & box patterns...
Metal · Intermediate · 4813 Hits · 3.43/5 (7 ratings) · Last modified: 2/11/2000
 
Outlining Relative Chords In Solo's
Spicing up lead work in your solo's.....
Metal · Advanced · 4120 Hits · 3.57/5 (7 ratings) · Last modified: 2/17/2000
 
P.Gilbert Pentatonic Riff
This riff helps with alternate picking the minor pentatonic and it's also good for hammering through the scale.
Metal · Intermediate · 7287 Hits · 3.00/5 (4 ratings) · Last modified: 3/20/2001
 
Pachelbels Canon For Pick-Style Guitar
Old classical piece arranged for pick-style guitar. Very good arpeggio exercise...
Metal · Advanced · 9507 Hits · 4.50/5 (26 ratings) · Last modified: 7/2/2000
 
Paganini Caprices
A colection of caprices from paganini
Metal · Ridiculous · 53994 Hits · 4.59/5 (34 ratings) · Last modified: 10/16/2004
 
Paganini's 24th Caprice
A section of Paganini's 24th Caprice for electric guitar. This is a great neo-classical shred piece, on of my favorites.
Metal · Advanced · 8975 Hits · 4.60/5 (10 ratings) · Last modified: 6/26/2004
 
Paganini: Caprice #5
Here's an excerpt from Niccolo Paganini's Caprice #5 for Violin. Some of you may recognize part of it from the guitar duel in the movie "Crossroads"...
Metal · Ridiculous · 153991 Hits · 4.52/5 (235 ratings) · Last modified: 11/26/1999