Lick Library: Andy James' Metal Rhythm Guitar In 6 Weeks - Week 1 DVD

Welcome to the Metal Rhythm Guitar in 6 Weeks guitar course. This course is designed to focus your practice towards realistic goals achievable in six weeks. Each week provides you with techniques, concepts and licks to help you play and understand metal rhythm playing at a manageable pace.Different rhythm patterns are taught each week to help you towards playing in real musical situations and develop an ear for the differences between players. If you have been frustrated or intimidated by other educational material this course is for you. You will see the improvement... as you work through each week.Practice can sometimes be difficult with 'the player often being unsure which material to work on. With the Metal Rhythm Guitar in 6 Weeks course the material is presented to you in easy to absorb sections which progress in a sensible logical order. Each DVD also includes a killer metal guitar jam track.Week one includes: Standard Tuning: drop picking and palm muting, triplets and left hand muting, alternate picking, chord variations, practice routines, getting a metal tone, four metal jam tracks.Andy covers picking rhythms using down picking and alternate picking he also introduces palm muting and using the left hand to mute. The DVD starts out with some simple exercises using basic rhythm patterns and then he moves on to introducing triplets all mainly using a simple E5 power chord but he also goes through some different chords used in metal rhythm using the b5, 9th and 6th. The DVD concludes with a series of exercises over backing tracks using some advanced picking rhythm patterns played on different beats of the bar to help improve your timing and feel for playing and off the beat. As a bonus Andy also takes you through a few pedals that he uses for the video to get his metal tone.Andy James is one of the UK's rising stars in the world of shred and metal guitar and has taught thousands of budding shredders world-wide through his DVDs and tutorials. He is also the lead guitarist for the band Sacred Mother Tongue. His blistering technique has been applauded by guitar legends such as Vinnie Moore, and featured on Sky TVs Musicians Channel. [show more]

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