Future Metal Shred
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Future Metal ShredBy Paul Wardingham
May 16th, 2011
Welcome to Guitar Messenger! My name is Paul Wardingham, and I’m going to be showing you how to play some futuristic-themed shred ideas using excerpts from my new album Assimilate Regenerate, as well as a solo written and recorded exclusively for this lesson. Whenever a student asks me how to play so-called ‘futuristic’ sounding licks, there are certain techniques and scales that always seem to spring to mind when trying to create this sound. Ex 1. Sweeping Sus2 Arpeggios – Cyber Warfare (4:31) Example 1 is taken from the last solo in the track ‘Cyber Warfare,’ and uses a sequence of… (Continue)
Putting Jazz In Metal With Ever ForthrightBy Nicholas Llerandi
February 17th, 2011
Welcome to Guitar Messenger! I’m Nick from the band Ever Forthright. Today we’re going to use excerpts from two of our recent songs, ‘The Counter Shift‘ and ‘Dispose Of Your Optimism‘, to demonstrate how you can use jazz harmony and concepts in modern progressive metal. All examples are played on an 8-string in standard tuning: F# B E A D G B E Passing Tones – The Counter Shift 1:43: This section is a great example of using passing tones (labeled PT in the tabs) to connect chords in a riff or progression. This section is pretty much a ‘techy’ take… (Continue)
