METAL LEAD GUITAR Heavy Metal Lead Guitar Course (Set of Two Books) (Includes 2 CDs)

Author: Joey Sternada (USA)
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: A new revised and upgraded textbook dedicated to the frontier players of modern heavy metal guitar; teaches heavy metal lead guitar techniques, theory, and musical concepts through a series of heavy metal phrases, runs, fast playing, and electric guitar solos. This book is a professional textbook that can take you to the level of lead guitar performance. The content of this book is aimed at guitar players with beginner to intermediate/advanced skill levels—those who have been learning and playing the guitar for one year or more. Beginners can also use it as an introductory textbook. The book first briefly outlines some basic knowledge. The main content of the book consists of six solos with complete band accompaniment, and the lead guitar techniques to be learned are distributed within them. The playing speed and difficulty of these solos gradually increase as the teaching content progresses.
Main Content:
- Using various minor pentatonic scales, blues scales, Dorian mode scales, and natural minor scales in phrases and solos.
- Various basic guitar techniques—including different forms of bends, vibrato, palm muting, and staccato.
- Basic concepts of phrases and rhythm.
- Developing a stable alternate picking technique.
- A series of speed exercises.
- Basic scale theory.
- Continuous scale patterns.
- Right-hand tapping techniques.
- Harmonics.
- The use of vibrato bars.
The second book continues to study more advanced music theory and techniques;
- The concept of phrase rhythm.
- Speed exercises.
- The theory of keys.
- Modes and more exotic scales.
- Arpeggio patterns.
- Harmony.
- Chord resolution.
- Extended scale patterns.
- Strumming.
- Right-hand arpeggio tapping techniques.