Metal Essentials Level 1

Level 1: It's Time To Get Heavy

Dion Rushe

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Dion Rushe

Learn all of the key concepts you need to master to get started with metal. Our focus will be dialling up your technique and focusing on metal rhythms.

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Includes

22 HD videos

Lesson notes

Interactive tab

Backing tracks

Chord diagrams

Includes

22 HD videos

Lesson notes

Interactive tab

Backing tracks

Chord diagrams

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You'll work through this fantastic syllabus

1

Metal Primer

2 lessons with videos and notes

Before we properly start the course, it is important to cover some key metal concepts regarding the technique and sound you will want to start developing.

2

Down-Picking

5 lessons with videos and notes

We'll be starting by looking at a cool rhythm track that will help you get to grips with the concept of down picking. This is simply the technique of playing everything with downstrokes.

3

Metal Soloing!

5 lessons with videos and notes

It's now time to get to grips with our first metal solo! It has to be said that riffing and rhythm playing is the core part of the metal genre, but there are also plenty of fantastic lead guitar parts to work with.

4

Inverted Metal

5 lessons with videos and notes

We take things up a serious rhythm notch in this unit, and our main two focuses are developing faster picking techniques and learning to play inverted powerchords.

5

Dropping The D

5 lessons with videos and notes

For our final unit we will once again take things up another notch, and teach you two of the most well-known techniques in metal: Drop D tuning & pinched harmonics!

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