Metal

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.

How to incorporate shifting meters into your solos.

Some fresh guitar playing exercises/calisthenics that you can use to quickly and efficiently get your pick- and fret-hand chops back in shape.

Use the fundamental modes to discover new chord shapes and melodic ideas.

Learn more about double strummed octaves in this lesson from Periphery's Mark Holcomb.

Learn how to construct interesting, heavy and deceptively complex single-note riffs in this lesson.

Enjoy one of the late Oli Herbert's terrific Guitar World lesson videos.

Learn how to take a fretboard shape for a given note sequence and “octave mirror” it by “previewing” each note an octave higher.

Learn five riffs that demonstrate thrash metal's signature elements, presented in the styles of five key bands.