Neoclassical Metal Guitar Lick

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Neoclassical Metal Guitar Lick

Neoclassical Metal Guitar Lick in F# Harmonic Minor Scale. For this lesson demonstration, I create this lick based on the idea that I learned from the song Far Beyond the Sun by Yngwie Malmsteen.

I strongly recommend you guys to check the album Rising Force by guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen, released on 5 March 1984.

Not just Yngwie Malmsteen but Al Di Meola, Ritchie Blackmore, Michael Schenker, and many others guitar players, have been using the same kind of pattern over the scales to create these baroque / neo-classical ideas.

The Technique – Alternate Picking

As you notice I play the lick using the alternate picking technique. Actually, the lick itself is an amazing exercise for improving your skills on the alternate picking technique.

Another thing you can do to improve your alternate picking technique, even more, is transposing the lick to the other shapes of the scale.

On my Skype Guitar Lessons. I used to teach my students how to improve a lick like that to the next level.

We work together to learn the lick, understand the pattern/sequences/fragment, and create a practice routine over the 7 shapes of the major/minor scale.

That helps a lot to internalize more the technique, and at the same time doing it will improve your ability to create your own licks and phrases to improvise, etc …

Gear Used On Metal Guitar Lick in F# Harmonic Minor Scale – Yngwie Malmsteen Joe Stump Style:

For this guitar lesson demonstration, I used :

I hope you guys enjoy that and let’s keep practicing.


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Metal Shred Guitar Lick

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Metal Shred Guitar Lick Tab Guitar Lesson

On this guitar lesson demonstration, you will learn how to play this Metal Shred Guitar Lick over the A Natural Minor Scale. The Lick itself is a great alternate picking exercise.

If the solo is too fast you can slow it down by selecting “settings” and selecting “playback speed”.

I hope you guys enjoy it.

Gear Used:


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Metal Shred Guitar Licks

Metal Shred Guitar Licks

Metal Shred Guitar Licks is a song that I did for my students to have some fun and at the same time learn some heavy metal shred guitar licks.

Most of the licks are in the style of Michael Schenker, Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Vinnie Moore, etc…

I’ve tried to give you guys licks that exploit different techniques like alternate picking, legato, string bending, and sweep picking.

The Metronome

I strongly recommend you to learn and memorize the entire song first. After that make sure that you’re playing all the phrases clean and accurate.

Just from that position, you’ll start to work on the speed up at. 

I know everybody talks the same about this … but remember is a muscular situation here, you need to create muscle memory first.

Once you have the muscle memory means (playing the whole thing nice and easy) speed up will be easier. 

Theory

The lead guitar is over the Bm pentatonic scale, B Natural minor Scale(D major Scale), and Bm triads. Most of the time I’m trying to target the root note (B). Since the track is in the key of Bm.

It’s a very common resolution for this music style. You can play some licks by resolving on the root of the key, in our case root(B). The emphasis is on you to learn to improvise by playing with the right spirit while staying within specific guidelines.

Of course, you can apply the same resolution idea for each chord change. But to keep things simple I just follow resolving and targeting at the root of the key (B).

Gear used on Metal Shred Guitar Licks:

For this guitar lesson demonstration, I used :

  • Ibanez Prestige RG 3120
  • Eleven Rack
  • Canon T5i

I hope you guys enjoy that and let’s keep practicing.

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