
Master muting for high-gain tones with palm muting at the bridge to produce chugging notes. Silence unused strings and dampen resonances using foam dampers on tremolo or fixed bridges.
Explore muted and unmuted note combinations across one or two strings, using palm muting at the bridge and lifting off, and master riffs with down, up, and alternate picking.
Learn to form power chords from root and fifth, including inversions and voiced variants, with precise fingerings, muting techniques, and stamina-building riffs across the neck.
Do you dream of being a Heavy Metal Guitar player? Are you already a guitar player that wants to learn Metal techniques? Do you listen to your favourite albums, and want to emulate the riffs you hear, and one day create your own? Then this course is for you. the aim of this course is to get your technique to the level where you can gig, record, and write your own music.
On this course, you will learn:
Muting Techniques. Learn to get the chug on the notes you do want to play, and kill the notes you don't want to play.
Down Picking - the true test of metal guitar playing stamina
Alternate Picking - sometimes, you need speed and you can't get it just from down picking
Galloping - get the driving sound your favourite bands use
Playing combinations of muted and unmuted notes
Power Chords
Legato
String Skipping
Incorporating silence into your riffs
Harmonics
Bending
Discordance
Hybrid Picking - a great lead guitar technique, but also very useful in Metal riffing
The course is aimed at the beginning to intermediate Metal Guitar player. If you're an experienced guitar player, but never played Metal before, this course would also be ideal for you. If you've played in a metal band, but always knew your technique had something missing, then this course is for you.
As well as all of the techniques mentioned above, we also look at how you can combine these techniques to create your own riffs and songs. If this sounds like something you'd like to learn, this course will transform your metal rhythm playing.