Ultimate Shred Machine: Learn shred guitar techniques
What you'll learn
- Have a better understanding and grasp of all the techniques needed for rock and heavy metal lead guitar playing
- Understand how to play and compose with new techniques and also use them in learning the solos you want!
- Better understanding of how to practice and hone technique to the desired level you want
Requirements
- Beginner to Intermediate playing
- Able to read tablature
- Basic dexterity to be able to cross strings and play licks and scales.
Description
This course is designed to help players get a better grasp of practicing and appropriately using the big 4 techniques of rock and heavy metal. We're talking about SHREDDING, LEGATO, TAPPING and SWEEPING.
Each section of the course is devoted to one of these techniques and has multiple examples beginning very simply and gradually increasing in difficulty and complexity. Each section will also be divided up into sub-sections of each technique and the common problems that can occur on the minor details within techniques. I will be providing tips, tricks and hacks to these common problems!
Who this course is for:
- Any guitarists wanting to up their shred speed, legato, tap and sweeping technique
- Someone who has already tried to learn these techniques and failed due to it being presented in a boring manner or the exercises were dull
- Someone who wants to learn rock and metal techniques in a fun and easy to understand manner, without all of the technical jargon.
Course content
- Preview01:08
- Preview06:27
- Preview01:50
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- Preview01:01
- Preview00:40
- 00:27USM Figure 1.4 - 'E' Chromatic w/semiquaver pulse
- 00:57USM Figure 1.5 - 'A' Minor pentatonic w/triplet quaver pulse
- 02:16USM Section 1C - The Radius Of Your Picking Motion
- 00:39USM Figure 1.6 - 1 string 'E' minor exercise w/semiquaver pulse
- 00:32USM Figure 1.7 - 10 note 2 string 'A' minor lick w/quaver pulse
- 00:37USM Figure 1.8 - Extended 10 note 2 string 'A' minor lick w/semiquaver pulse
- 02:57USM Section 1D - Shredding Pentatonics & Chromatics
- 00:41USM Figure 1.9 - Alternate pick building 'A' minor pentatonic lick
- 00:50USM Figure 1.10 - Wylde 2 string grouping 'A' minor lick
- 00:48USM Figure 1.11 - 'E' minor pentatonic speedball lick w/ semiquaver pulse
- 00:28USM Figure 1.12 - 4NPS chromatic ascend & descend exercise w/semiquaver pulse
- 00:31USM Figure 1.13 - 4NPS chromatic ascend & descend 1423 exercise
- 00:38USM Figure 1.14 - 4 finger spider crawl descend into ascend w/ quaver pulse
- 00:33USM Figure 1.15 - 4 finger spider crawl ascend into descend w/ quaver pulse
- 00:32USM Figure 1.16 - Chromatic waves descending and ascending w/ semiquaver pulse
- 01:54USM Section 1E - Shredding Diatonics & 3 Note Per String Patterns
- 00:34USM Figure 1.17 - 3 common 3 note per string shapes
- 00:36USM Figure 1.18 - 3 note per string ‘A’ Aeolian diatonic scale w/ triplet quaver
- 00:58USM Figure 1.19 - 2 string Skwisgaar warm up shred w/ triplet quaver pulse
- 00:30USM Figure 1.20 - 2 string descend/ascend shred in ‘E’ minor w/ semiquaver pulse
- 00:40USM Figure 1.21 - Paul Gilbert style ‘F#’ Aeolian diatonic shred exercise
- 00:35USM Figure 1.22 - ‘E’ Phrygian Dominant crawling shred lick w/ semiquaver pulse
- 00:35USM Figure 1.23 - 3NPS ‘A’ pentatonic scale shape w/blue note w/ triplet quaver
- 00:40USM Figure 1.24 - 5/4 Alexi Laiho style neoclassical shred in ‘A’ harmonic minor
- 00:41USM Figure 1.25 - Under The Influence shred in ‘A’ minor w/ semiquaver pulse
- 00:31USM Figure 1.26 - 4 & 2 Pentatonic b5 shred in ‘A’ minor
- 00:32USM Figure 1.27 - Epic chromatic bumble bee shred sequence w/ semiquaver pulse
- 02:28USM Section 1F - When And How To Use Economy Picking
- 00:39USM Figure 1.28 - ‘G’ Ionian 3NPS diatonic scale w/economy picking
- 00:46USM Figure 1.29 - ‘A’ Aeolian 3NPS 1 2 3 5 crawl w/economy picking
- 00:48USM Figure 1.30 - ‘C’ Ionian 3NPS 1 2 3 5 crawl w/economy picking
- 00:43USM Figure 1.31 - ‘E’ minor pentatonic w/ blue note w/economy picking
- 02:04USM Section 1G - String Skip Shredding
- 00:41USM Figure 1.32 - Descending chromatic string skip warm up w/ semiquaver pulse
- 00:43USM Figure 1.33 - 4nps string skip chromatic ascend and descend 1423 exercise
- 00:41USM Figure 1.34 - String skipped 4 finger spider crawl descend into ascend
- 00:43USM Figure 1.35 - String skipped 4 finger spider crawl ascend into descend
- 00:47USM Figure 1.36 - String skipped diatonic arpeggio ascend w/ quaver pulse
- 00:38USM Figure 1.37 - ’B’ Phrygian dominant string skipped descending shred
- 01:10USM Section 1H - A Gentleman’s Conclusion To Shredding
Instructor
I have been playing guitar since 1993 when I received a guitar shortly after my 5th birthday. From day 1 I was obsessed. I was excelling through all school music and was constantly in bands.
By age 15 I was teaching out of a room in my house and my passion for music blossomed further. My love for teaching and nurturing players has been an amazing 15 year journey.
A few short years ago I started a YouTube channel called Chris Zoupa/Learn That Solo dedicated to learning rock and metal lead guitar as a way to put my knowledge to use, to keep my playing and ear training fresh and to pay homage to the guitar heroes that inspired me to be the player I am today.
I now have 100,000+ YouTube subscribers and teach over 80 guitar lessons (in person and Skype) a week with students from all over the world ranging from Australian (my home country) to America, Canada, Chile, Turkey, Mozambique, Ireland, Scotland, England and India to name a few.
I'm hoping that I can use Udemy to reach more inspiring students and aspiring players!