Hi! I am Bob from Toronto, Canada. This guitar lesson video is part 2 of heavy metal guitar solo and tips. I will show some methods from soloing that I most frequently use in my metal guitar playing, and a sort of reflection of my style. The first one is combining an open string with power chords, like this for example.
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So, what you could do is play A power chord in the 5th fret and play the open top string three times then move it to the 7th position and open three times, and to the 8th fret position open three times and back to the 7th, 5th, 4th and 5th..
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Also you can try at the open A 5th string, so that would be D 5th open A 5th string three times and the 6th open three times, and the 5th and the 3rd open, and the 5th, so it is --
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Next, you could try hammer on’s and pull offs on the bottom two strings separated by three frets ascending like so.
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So, that would be the bottom 1st string 6th fret pull off to the 3rd, 2nd string 6th fret pull off to the 3rd and play that twice and then just move it up three frets, play it in the exact same way. Three more frets, up three frets again so it is --
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You could also try playing the middle two strings in the same manner but separated by two frets. It would be the 3rd string 3rd fret pull of to the 1st fret and 4th string 3rd fret, 4th string 1st fret, so it is --
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Just move it up two frets, some more frets, two frets, one fret again, 2 frets, 2 frets and ends up sounding like --
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You could also try ascending three octaves using six notes like so and that would be the top string 6th string, 2nd fret hammer on to 3rd, hammer on to 5th, 5th string 2nd fret hammer on to 3rd, hammer on to 5th and the 4th string 4th fret, hammer on to 5th, hammer on to 7th, 3rd string 4th fret, hammer on to 5th, hammer on to 7th, and the 2nd string 7th fret, hammer on to 8th, hammer on to 10th, 1st string 7th fret, hammer on to 8th, hammer on to 10th and pull off to 8th. Pull off to 7th and back to the 2nd string 10th fret, pull off to the 8th, pull off to the 7th.
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And you can play that in different positions as well like the A position 5th fret. The B 7th position, next is the diminished scale which is played like this.
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So, it is the 2nd string 3rd fret, 1st string 1st fret, 1st string 4th fret 1st fret again then just play that pattern up three frets. 3 more frets, 3 more frets, 3 more frets, 3 more frets so it is --
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And you could play it on the way down too as well.
And finally the speed picking which you could play on the diminished scale again, which would be like 1st string 1st fret, 4th fret, 7th fret, 10th fret, 13th fret, 16th fret, 19th fret and play those notes about the speed picking so it is like --
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Now, the speed picking can really enhance a riff. Here is an example, I will play this riff without speed picking first, and then I will play it with the speed picking and hear the difference.
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Now, here is the same riff but with some speed picking added to it.
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See how it is enhanced a little bit? Well, I hope you found this lesson helpful and you can see some of my riffs that I have played in some of my YouTube videos called “Grinding Halt” “Rise of the Dragon” and “Subconscious Illusions”. Bye for now.
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