Is there anyone grittier than Lemmy? Fast, rippin' metal. We're going to look at the riff in this thrashing, driving number, along with some right hand techniques, tuning down a half-step, and rhythm parts. Then we'll put it all together in a play-along performance...buckle up tight.

We will be using some of the rhythms from a tune that I wrote for my old band back in the late 80's. The rhythm parts were pretty heavily modeled after some of my favorite tunes of that era and are also fairly easy to play, once you get used to the tempo. Though te bulk of the rhythm work will take place on the low E String (E-String Death Chunk...LOL), we will also take a quick look at a few othe...

This tutorial was essentially inspired by many of the great shredders over the years, who have employed these licks so effectively. The overall purpose of it will be to learn how to cover the entire range of the neck of the guitar using 3 note per string-Shred/Speed style licks. All the licks in this set of lessons will be based in the A Aeolian Mode (A Natural Minor scale). The tutorial is labele...

This is a 3 lessons series that teaches the elements making up my original song, Quarantine Zone.

In this tutorial you'll find some examples of melodic metal soloing played over simple metal/rock progressions to give you ideas for your own solo compositions!

In this tutorial, I will show you how to play all the rhythm guitar riffs of a complete metal song. You'll be able to practice palm muting, alternate picking, Hammer-ons, pull-offs and many other techniques often found in metal music.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to play all the rhythm guitar riffs of a complet metal song. You'll be able to practice palm muting, alternate picking, strumming, pull-offs and many other techniques often found in metal music.

In this tutorial we will take a close look at the use of downstrokes. The tutorial will be divided in three parts.

This is the fourth chapter of my tutorial series on metal rhythm guitar. In this tutorial, you will be able to practice a lot of alternate picking and work on palm muting both single notes and powerchords.

This tutorial is meant to show you some metal rhythm ideas for you to practice and help you develop your metal rhythm guitar skills.

Ok....One segment down and on to part 2 here. For this 2nd riff we will be dealing with more than just the E & A strings and straight Root/5th power chords. We are going to go a little bit further with the whole 80's Metal inspired chromatic theme as well as mess around with some pinch harmonics and sliding octaves. So even though it's still pretty simple & straight forward, there is a bit m...

The staff here at Guitar Tricks had suggested a couple of easy lessons based around some fairly straight forward, palm muted Metal rhythm playing, so I wrote & recorded this short riff segment and will use two lessons here to break it down for you. This first riff is the easier of the two and is based very heavily on the many of the tricks of the trade from the mid/late 80's Metal scene, whi...

For this lesson, I pulled out a Thrashy-Blues type lick, that is similar to the style that guitar players Gary Holt & Rick Hunolt used to employ back in the late 80's/early 90's. Most notably on tunes like Toxic Waltz or Cajun Hell, that were built around thrashy, yet blues based riffing....albeit with a ton of chromatic chunking thrown for the sake of nastiness. LOL Likewise...the bluesy elem...

This Em Arp lesson is geared towards building the skill of alternate picking, both single string lines and arpeggios. This particular run, represents the type of arp/single string mix that I typically like to employ in solos. I've always favored runs/lines/licks that employ a mix of single string and arps in them, so this is a pretty standard example of a segment that I might use over an Em me...

This is just a quick Pentatonic Picking Exercise, in the E Minor box position (12th fret). It will hopefully help you to develop your 2 note per string picking abilities and give you just a slightly different way of approaching the typical Pentatonic box-style licks. The whole Eric Johnson connection mentioned in the vid may not be all that apparent right now, but as we develop and expand on t...