Lick Library: Andy James' Metal Rhythm Guitar In 6 Weeks - Week 2 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 two includes: Drop D Tuning: Pedal tone riffs, chord progressions and phrasing, alternate picking, palm muting, the phrygian dominant scale, technique performances, three metal jam tracks.DVD 2 introduces even more chord possibilities using Drop D tuning which will help you create more interesting sounding progressions, these extended chords are also incorporated into playing chords from both a natural minor and harmonic minor scale (or Phrygian Dominant mode). Once again Andy has created backing tracks to put the lessons into context, in this case there are 3 metal backing tracks that Andy illustrates with examples for you to learn. Theses examples are quite a fast tempo so if you are a complete beginner undertaking this course don't expect to get up to speed straight away, you may have to practice playing riffs half time at first.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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