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Here we have Thrashed, a solo study in the Thrash Metal style that gained popularity in the mid 1980’s with bands like Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus and Overkill. The style is based around fast palm muted downstroke riffs, alternate picking and fast bluesy hammer-on licks with bending and vibrato.

This lesson focuses on some of Mike Stern's phrasing concepts: Blues, Chromatics, Enclosures, Outside playing, Tritone Substitions, Bebop phrases and interesting motifs. Lots of material to be used in your personal improvisations.

This lesson focuses on combining advanced techniques for solos. You'll learn to use legato, sweeping , tapping, picking, string skipping, bending, vibrato and tremolo arm.

In this lesson we are going to see how to play both the organ and guitar solos of the song Highway Star by Deep Purple.

This is a little introduction to two handed tapping (both hands over fretboard).

This lesson is mostly focused on the picking hand. Most of the parts of the arrangement are played in a way that your hand meets to play most of the nu-metal/thrash/death/progressive/power metal examples. The chord progression is very basic.

This lesson covers 3 modes (A Mixolydian, A Dorian and A Ionian) over simple chord progression (A7, D7 and E7). It uses alternate picking, economy picking, hybrid picking, legato etc.

Aimed at the guitarist that has a good grasp of pentatonic scales and some knowledge of modes and wants to spice up their playing with some diatonic arpeggio ideas.

In this lesson I will show how you can use advanced rhythmic concepts like odd time signatures and tempo changes to create more interesting musical passages. If you mix them in with simpler ideas you can create something original without losing the flow of the song.

Take your phrasing and technique to the next level with this lesson, where we'll be looking at 10 different licks and sections of solos taken from some of the greatest guitar players from the last decades (Andy Timmons, Eric Johnson, Greg Howe, Jeff Watson, Joe Satriani, Kee Marcello, Shawn Lane, Steve Vai, Vinnie Moore, Yngwie...