Heavy Metal Lessons
This page is dedicated to the art of playing heavy metal guitar. Here you can find heavy metal lessons, guitar tablature, links to other sites and more.
Palm Muting
By Ryan Spencer
Today we will talk about a crucial technique used in many different genres. Palm muting, aside from chunkiness, adds a nice percussive sound to metal, rock, and believe it or not, blues. You can always come up with your own uses or tricks for palm muting as well.
The Minor Scale
By Ky MacPherson
This is a beginner lesson on heavy metal rhythm guitar. If you are confused and/or discouraged by the discussion of the various "modes" or "scales", then this lesson is for you! The minor scale is very popular in heavy metal, as well as a lot of other types of music. So even if you don't care for heavy metal, you might learn something!
Power Chords
By Ky MacPherson
This is a beginner lesson on heavy metal rhythm guitar. If you have already read The Minor Scale you should have leanred the Half-Step and Whole-Step intervals. This lesson introduces a new interval: the Perfect Fifth.
The Tonic
By Ky MacPherson
This is a beginner lesson on heavy metal rhythm guitar. Although it focuses on heavy metal it is essential to understand the concept of the tonic to write any kind of music. A piece of music needs to maintain tension to give the song a sense of movement. A song without movement or tension would be a very boring song!
Heavy Metal Guitar: The Basics
By Kevin Marcus
Heavy Metal is fast music that has a lot of harsh sound to it, often comprised of a few chord formations posed at different positions on the fretboard. Using examples from popular songs this beginner lesson should introduce you to some of the more common chords used in heavy metal guitar.
Speed Metal
By Thomas Hood
Thomas Hood gives us a brief introduction to some of the techniques used by Speed Metal guitarists, complete with a number of examples and a couple of exercise thrown in for good measure.
Classic Black Sabbath Riffs
By Chris Korsak
First time contributor Chris Korsak hails from Portland, Oregon, where he works as a guitar instructor. In his lesson, you will learn some guitar riffs to such Black Sabbath songs as: Iron Man, The Wizard, Paranoid, and Sweet Leaf.
Tremolo Tapping
By Rob Gravelle
Guitar Noise is pleased to introduce you to Robert Gravelle, guitarist of Canadian Classic Metal Band, Ivory Knight. Rob is going to spend some time teaching us about some of the more advanced and specialized musical concepts that he really enjoys. First up - tremolo tapping, complete with examples from Randy Rhoads, Joe Satriani and Rob himself!
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