Metal Guitar Styles
In this guitar video lesson collection, instructors Doug Boduch and Marcus Henderson will teach you all things metal guitar. From palm-muted power chord riffs to pinch harmonics and two-handed tapping, these lessons will run the gamut of metal techniques and show you how to apply them in plenty of fun, inspiring riffs and licks.
Videos
• Metal Rhythm Guitar (09:45) - Learn all the trademark techniques used in metal rhythm, such as power chords, dramatic rests, palm muting, pedal tones, and inversions/dyads (4ths, 3rds, and 6ths).
• James Hetfield Style (09:42) - Discover everything that makes James one of the most inspirational metal guitarists ever, including his use of power chords, tritones, palm muting, downstrokes, riff variations, galloping triplets, single-note riffs, open-string pull-offs, clean riffs (arpeggios), and more.
• Metal Licks (09:53) - In this video, we look at 10 different players and licks in the style of each: Tony Iommi, Ace Frehley, Judas Priest (Glen Tipton and K.K. Downing, Iron Maiden (Adrian Smith and Dave Murray), Kirk Hammett, Dave Mustaine, Scorpions (Matthias Jabs and Rudolf Schenker), Randy Rhoads, Zakk Wylde, and Dimebag Darrell.
• Randy Rhoads Style (08:53) - Learn how Randy rewrote the rules of metal guitar and inspired countless players with his leads and rhythm playing alike.
• Eighties Metal Guitar (09:04) - This video looks at all the techniques and tricks that drove eighties guitar, such as palm mutes, 16th-note riffs, chorused clean-tone riffs, pinch harmonics, scale sequences, the blues scale, tapping, and more.
• Modern Metal Guitar (11:34) - In the 21st century, metal guitar evolved along with the music. In this final lesson, we'll look at some of its defining traits, like detuning, palm muting, alternate picking, mixing open strings with higher frets, octave shapes, use of effects (wah, delay, etc.), tremolo picking, and harmonized lead lines.