Keeping with the heavy metal lessons, the terrific Ultimate-Guitar.com has tutorials on a lot of exotic techniques — tapping, arpeggios, sweep picking and exotic scales.
Pretty soon, you’ll be so good, it will be SCARY!
WADE
Every musical genre has its fans and its detractors. But every genre deserves respect.
People who turn up their noses as — say, Polkas — will sniff and tell you, “There is no such thing as a GOOD polka!”
Yet I can take you to certain towns and show you crowds of people dancing and drinking and having a good time (and paying good money) to enjoy the polka.
I dabbled in heavy metal quite a few years ago and I think there is even a sample of my work on my music page (link is over in the right-hand column).
If your goal is to write heavy metal songs, you may want to check out “tips for writing diverse metal genres” over on the Ultimate Guitar website.
WADE
tags: songwriting, heavy metal
I’d vaguely heard of musical modes but didn’t know much about them until I decided to take some brush-up piano lessons a few years ago.
My teacher was a retired rocker from the 60s who had modest success and was enjoying his life of relaxation in a California beach resort town where my wife and I were staying.
As I got more educated in modes, I also got more interested in Jazz music. I’d never understood where a lot of it came from or where it was going until I got modal.
If you want to stick your toe in the water, there is a great two-part series at ultimateguitar.com
Take a peek and see if it can help you awaken some creative juices in your playing or songwriting.
WADE
This lesson will teach about the modes, give you songs to listen to for the modes, and be able to see in notes how the modes work out in theory.
Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
This lesson details an example beginner guitar session. It shows you some specific things to practice and for how long you should aim to practice.
Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
If you are a beginner or need brushing up on some fundamentals of playing the guitar, get your picking fingers over to Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com and check out techniques for making barre chords.
WADE
I am working on learning the notes on the fretboad but I have no idea where to go to start learning about caged. The info on the various web sites seem to be nothing more than a tease to tr…
This is a lesson (sort of) showing you the best (IMO) warm ups to get your fingers limber in as short a time as possible, these DO work. My hands are always cold and they even manage to warm mine up after about 10 minutes with a metronome.
Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
This lesson is a collection of tips that will help you get the most out of these lessons and your practice.
Lessons @ Ultimate-Guitar.Com
Why do I want to learn it? Interesting question! After years of playing the guitar by ear I started having lessons a few years back, but have increasingly felt that there was something missing – learning lots of stuff, but having no overview of the fr…
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