Creative Shred Guitar Exercises

Name: Creative Shred Guitar Exercises
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Learn new ways to use the big 4 techniques of rock and heavy metal!

Created byChris Zoupa

Last updated 12/2020

English

What you'll learn

Guitar Shredding with advanced technique and creative approaches for use in Rock & Heavy Metal.
Creative ways to use the legato technique.
Creative ways to use the tapping technique in scales and arpeggios.
Creative ways to use the sweeping technique with diminished, augmented and extensive sequences.

Course content

4 sections • 22 lectures • 1h 22m total length

CSGE 1.1 - Introduction & Warm Up Shreds2:55
Firstly welcome to my course ‘Creative Shred Guitar Exercises’! In this first module we’ll explore the many different ways we can look at “Shredding” across 26 exercises.

We’re going to start this section with a few warmup ideas – partly to get some blood circulating in those fingers but mainly to tell your brain “It’s shredding time!”
CSGE 1.2 - Shredding Pentatonics4:11
The pentatonic scale is a trusted scale of Blues, Rock and Metal players. In this section we’ll look at two-note, and three-note-per-string pentatonic shred exercises.
CSGE 1.3 - Diatonic & Harmonic Shreds2:41
Diatonic and harmonic scales are an absolute must for heavy metal guitarists. In this section we’ll look at multiple ways to use three-note-per-string patterns in cool shreds and sequences.
CSGE 1.4 - Shredding Arpeggios3:37
People often associate arpeggios with sweeping, but in the next few exercises I’m going to show you how to play arpeggios using the shred technique.
CSGE 1.5 - Stutter Shreds & Conclusion3:31
In the final section of this module we’re going to look at a concept I call stutter shreds. This technique will add pauses or stutters into your runs and solos without slowing down your picking hand. You’ll see this technique in context with the exercises that follow.

CSGE 2.1 - Introduction & Warm Up Legato3:49
In this section we’re going look at mainly chromatic and whole tone scales as a means to strengthen legato articulation and finger independence.
CSGE 2.2 - Pentatonic Legato Exercises3:59
In this section you’ll explore interesting ways to combine pentatonics and legato, with interesting picking emphasis and unorthodox three-note-per-string shapes.
CSGE 2.3 - Diatonic Legato Exercises2:48
In this section you’ll explore interesting ways to combine diatonics scales and legato. You’ll see interesting picking emphasis, as well as odd numbered note groupings and strange time signatures.
CSGE 2.4 - Legato Arpeggios4:12
Too often are arpeggios associated with sweeping, but in the next few exercises I’m going to show you how to play arpeggios using the legato technique.
CSGE 2.5 - Diminished & Melodic Minor Legato2:52
These two scales sound particular weird and freaky when played with legato and odd note groupings, and they’re a great place to start if you want to add some whacky Allan Holdsworth style ideas to your playing. We’re going to explore them thoroughly over the next few exercises.
CSGE 2.6 - Hammer Ons From Nowhere2:55
The “hammer on from nowhere” technique, put simply, is hammering on to a new string that hasn’t been picked. This creates a short cut to accessing extra notes that could have only been played with a complex picking pattern.
We’re going to explore this technique thoroughly over the next few exercises.

CSGE 3.1 - Introduction & Warm Up Sweeps3:19
In the next module of this course, we’ll explore the many different ways we can look at Sweeping across 26 exercises.

We’re going to start this section with a few warmup ideas to get the sweeping motion comfortable, as well as establishing a good synchronicity between the left and right hands.
CSGE 3.2 - 3 String Sweep Exercises4:09
The next section will be based around some interesting exercises concerning 3 string sweep arpeggios.
CSGE 3.3 - 5 String Sweep Exercises3:04
The next section will be based around some interesting exercises concerning 5 string sweep arpeggios.
CSGE 3.4 - 6 String Sweep Exercises3:56
The next section will be based around some interesting exercises concerning 6 string sweep arpeggios.
CSGE 3.5 - Building Sweep Arpeggio Exercises5:29
In this section we’ll explore arpeggios that build gradually, across a couple of crazy exercises.

CSGE 4.1 - Introduction & Warm Up Taps4:32
We’ll mainly see tapping warmups and building the fundamentals, with the aim to prepare you for the crazy stuff that will follow later in the course.
CSGE 4.2 - Tapped Pentatonic Exercises4:12
In this section you’ll explore interesting ways to combine pentatonic scales and the tapping technique, across a few exercises.
CSGE 4.3 - Tapped Diatonic Exercises2:59
In this section you’ll explore interesting ways to combine diatonic scales and the tapping technique, across a few exercises.
CSGE 4.4 - Tapping with Exotic Scales3:56
In this section you’ll explore interesting ways to combine exotic scales (Hungarian Minor, Harmonic Minor & Phrygian Dominant) and the tapping technique, across a few exercises.
CSGE 4.5 - Tapped Arpeggio Exercises4:53
Too often are arpeggios associated with sweeping, but in the next few exercises I’m going to show you some interesting ways to play arpeggios using the tapping technique.
CSGE 4.6 - Expressive Taps & Conclusion4:21
In the final section of this module you’ll explore tapping as an “expressive technique” across a few exercises.

Requirements

Students will need a good understanding of tab reading
Guitar Pro 6 will help but is not a requisite
Guitar players using this course should AT LEAST be at an intermediate level

Description

In this course we'll explore the big 4 techniques of heavy metal being, Shredding, Sweeping, Legato and Tapping. However this course will show you advanced, outlandish and out of the box approaches that will alter and your improvisation and composition of lead guitar!

If you've found yourself in a rut with dated approaches to these techniques, this course aims to show you the simplest ways to make something ordinary become special and really make your lead guitar playing POP!

Who this course is for:

Intermediate to advanced guitar players trying to get out of a rut

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