Metal

Learn some licks that utilize natural harmonics.

How to incorporate “Chicken Pickin’” into your metal-style solos.

Walk the line between playing only single notes while also outlining “wide” chord voicings via the use of arpeggios.

Try introducing some jazz-type chord voicings and harmonies into your metal riffs.

This lesson can provide you with a few patterns and ideas you can incorporate into your own solos and riffs.

Get your fret-hand chops in shape and develop excellent fretboard “traction” with this lesson.

Marty Friedman demonstrates some cool ways you can achieve the effect of fast arpeggio-based sounds while avoiding the predictability of standard sweep-picking licks.

Use your whammy bar to “color” chord patterns and give single-note lines different and unusual textures.

Link a few scale patterns together so you can start making full use of your guitar’s neck when you’re playing a lead.

This arpeggio concept can help separate you from the well-worn path many shredders tend to follow.