Metal
Tight palm-muted riffs, speed and dark scales.
Tight riffs
- Palm-muted chugs and gallops
- Minor and Phrygian riffs
- Down-picking stamina
Milestone: Play a gallop riff at 120 BPM locked to the drums.
Needs: Power chords & palm muting, Muting & stamina · about 8 hours
Speed and darkness
- 16th notes at 140 BPM
- Harmonic minor and Phrygian dominant
- Drop tunings and pedal-tone riffs
Milestone: Write and play a riff-based song section.
Needs: Speed & picking systems, Minor keys and Level 1 · about 12 hours
Shred
- Sweeps and tapping in solos
- Neoclassical lines
- Odd-time riffs
Milestone: Play a solo with sweeps and tapping at tempo.
Needs: Sweeps, tapping & hybrid picking, Minor-key colours & symmetric scales and Level 2 · about 16 hours
Hear it, try it
A typical metal phrase and a backing track to play along with. Everyone can use these, on any plan.
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Harmony: Power chords, pedal-tone riffs, chromatic moves, Phrygian ♭II, harmonic minor V.
Scales: Aeolian, Phrygian, harmonic minor, Phrygian dominant, diminished, minor pentatonic.
Technique: Tight palm muting, alternate picking at speed, gallops, sweeps, tapping, legato runs.
Randy Rhoads, Kirk Hammett, Dimebag Darrell, John Petrucci, Marty Friedman, Tosin Abasi.
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