Become a Better Metal Guitarist Everyday

1. Get your head in the right place.
2. Schedule focused practice sessions.
3. Don’t just learn other people’s songs.
4. Get out of your comfort zone.
5. Freestyle to other music/songs.
6. Lift weights and eat well.
7. Don’t compare yourself to other guitarists.

Master 10 lead guitar techniques with this 10-point challenge

• Basic bend. Use three fingers for strength.
• Unison bend. Two notes should sound at the same time here: the string bend and the second note on the second string.
• Pre-bend and release. Also try.
• Hammer-ons.
• Pull-offs.
• Legato.
• Fast vibrato.
• Wide vibrato.

No. The Heavy Metal genre can reach very high levels of complexity, difficult technique, and speed. However, if you’re a beginner you shouldn’t wait until you master the advanced stuff before you start playing Metal on guitar.

The power chord is the most commonly used dyad form in metal without a doubt. It involves the root and 5th intervals and is considered neutral because it lacks the 3rd of major and minor triads or any real tension. This interval is known as a perfect 5th…

What you should do for a good lead sound is use the crunch channel on your amp, boost the gain (Hold down tap tempo while turning the gain knob all the way up) , boost the volume (Hold down tap tempo while turning the channel volume knob all the way up) and add a little reverb and delay.

What Are the Easiest Metal Songs to Play on Guitar?

• “Iron Man” – Black Sabbath.
• “Whole Lotta Love” – Led Zeppelin.
• “Back in Black” – AC/DC.
• “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin” – Judas Priest.
• “Master of Puppets” – Metallica.
• “Lonely Day” – System of a Down.
• “This Means War” – Avenged Sevenfold.
• “The Trooper” – Iron Maiden.

The truth is the Stratocaster can be the ideal metal guitar when it includes a set of ‘humbuckers’, either being ‘active’ or ‘passive. ‘ The image below is a modified Strat‌ with a pair of EMG active pickups (looking very sweet). The reason why the Strat can be an awesome metal guitar are for the following reasons…

Simply put, you’re picking back and forth. So when you hit one note with a downward motion, you’ll pick that second note with an upward motion. You’ll hear many metal bands playing super fast rhythms. They’re usually alternate picking.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that power chords are the first step to playing both rock and metal guitar. These chords accentuate the ‘heaviness’ of metal music. Dial back a few decades and you can hear Black Sabbath making power chords the standard for heavy metal music.

*You can see that the G and C power chords are virtually the same, just on different strings. This is pretty much it for power chords. You can play this almost anywhere on your fretboard using the first 4 strings. Second to power chords, palm muting is something you’ll hear in practically every metal song.

Riffing isn’t really a beginner metal guitar technique. However, I included it in this lesson because I want you to get used to riffing from the start, because it’s a crucial part of metal music. Riffing is simply playing single notes in that area of the fretboard you play your rhythms in.