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(Guitar Recorded Versions). Shred your axe and thrash your big hair through the air with this jam-packed collection of metal favs in note-for-note guitar trancriptions with tab. Songs include: Ace of Spades * Bark at the Moon * Breaking the Law * Crazy Train * Dying in Your Arms * Enter Sandman * Hail to the King * Iron Man * Master of Puppets * No More Tears * Painkiller * Redneck * Symphony of Destruction * Toxicity * War Pigs (Interpolating Luke's Wall) * Your Betrayal * and more.

As the cornerstone for the innovative band Dream Theater, John Petrucci has rapidly become one of the most respected and talked about guitarists of the '90's. He has been featured in virtually every major guitar publication worldwide and was voted "Best Guitarist for 1994" in "Guitar" magazine and "Break Through Guitarist of the Year (1993)" in "Guitar For the Practicing Musician" magazine. This powerful and all encompassing book starts with a valuable segment on warm-ups followed by up-to-date practice concepts that address dealing with today's information explosion. John has provided detailed lessons concerning speed and accuracy using rhythmic subdivisions, chromatic exercises, dynamics and scale fragments. Other topics include picking through arpeggios, string skipping, sweep picking, legato technique and how to expand the color and texture of basic "power chords." Also included are detailed transcriptions and demonstrations of dozens of exercises, examples and special etudes ranging from easy-to-master to very challenging. All music examples are contained on the included recording and written in both standard notation and tablature. Book jacket.

Learn to Write Devastating Drop Tuned Metal Guitar Riffs If you're ready to explore the art of riff writing in drop tuning, Metal guitar legend Chris Zoupa is here to set you straight. Drop-Tuned Riff Writing for Metal Guitar is your complete guidebook, map and compass to creating your own powerful rock riffery! In its hallowed pages, you'll find Zoupa's complete approach laid out - step by step - lovingly crafted to sharpen every area of your modern rock rhythm guitar skills. You'll discover hundreds of fun, creative and outlandish tools to improve your riff writing, performance, tone, speed and power! In fact, you'll be shown how to turn any fragment of an idea into a full-on rock symphony. Drop Tuned Guitar Wizardry - From Zero to Hero You'll start off by consolidating the basics of rock rhythm guitar before quickly moving on to discover the force of metal rhythm guitar. From chugging flat fingered power chords to major and minor triads, you'll work your way to suspended 2nds and 4ths, as well as other advanced chords like add9, 6 and "dropped voicing chords". You'll also discover versatile chord sequences and how to disguise them while adding harmony and texture. Next, you'll discover the art of single note riff writing and how to expand these first ideas into complete songs. Along the way you'll discover how to write in "odd" times like 5/4, 5/8 and 7/8 and really get creative with note placement and texture. In all, you'll discover over 130 exciting examples of Drop-Tuned Riff Writing. - Build perfect time with the heavy metal rhythm primer - Learn to chug, add basslines, harmonies and more - Discover essential chords fingered for drop tuned guitar - Learn to write your own riffs and turn them into full tracks - Easily play in cutting edge odd times like 5/4, 5/8 and 7/8 - Master chord sequence building and learn how to always pick the perfect sound From Exercises to Drop Tuned Riffs Drop-Tuned Riff Writing for Metal Guitar quickly helps you master the techniques used by today's virtuoso rhythm guitarists, and presents them all in Chris Zoupa's hilariously irreverent teaching style that's loved by millions on YouTube. Open your ears to over 130 incredible new approaches to writing music for drop tuned guitar. But be warned... you'll be a different player on the other side! Buy it now and take your drop tuned guitar playing to a whole new level.

"Features: Techniques, scales, modes, patterns and sequences for death metal guitarists ; Sample riffs in the styles of Death, Opeth, Meshuggah, and more! ; Covers classic, melodic, and progressive death metal ; Detailed breakdown of picking styles, including alternate, tremolo, sweep, economy, and cross picking ; Lessons in bending, tapping, pick harmonics, string crossing, rhythm, and odd time signatures. Includes CD with over 50 minutes of authentic and powerful demonstrations." -- front cover.

(Bass Instruction). As the original bassist for the seminal death metal band Cannibal Corpse, author Alex Webster offers invaluable insight into the realm of metal bass guitar. This exclusive book/audio pack provides detailed, hands-on training, featuring vital bass guitar techniques and concepts. Extreme Metal Bass further demonstrates how these techniques can be applied in real-life situations within the context of a song. No matter what brand of metal you subscribe to from classic metal to modern metal and beyond Extreme Metal Bass will supply the bass skills you crave. Extreme Metal Bass also includes access to enhanced audio with demonstration and play-along tracks of all the examples in the book, plus play-along MIDI drum files for optimum practicing. This book is designed for players who use a standard-tuned five-string bass (low to high: B-E-A-D-G). If you do not have a five-string bass, a four string (tuned B-E-A-D) will work for much of the material presented.

Three Best-selling Heavy Metal Guitar books in one complete volume! - Heavy Metal Rhythm Guitar - Heavy Metal Lead Guitar - Progressive Metal Guitar

Heavy Metal Lead Guitar goes way beyond technique and licks: it actually teaches you to be creative and musical when you soloing.

(Stylistic Method). This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand, player-oriented approach. The metal concepts, theory, and musical principals are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions. Learn at your own pace through 12 'smoking fully transcribed' heavy metal solos from simple to truly terrifying! 'One of the most thorough' and 'one of the best rock series currently available' - Guitar Player magazine. Music and examples demonstrated on CD.

100 Killer Riffs and Fills for Rock Guitar is a beautiful, easy-to-read hardcover book with internal wire-o binding is 6.5in x 8in, a perfect size for readers to keep handy. The binding allows it to lie open flat for easy reference during practice. The stylish design of the book, along with the interior photographs, illustrations and diagrams, make the learning process simple and fun for beginners and enthusiasts alike. With chapters on intro riffs, verse riffs, and chorus riffs, guitarists will learn to build out a song like a professional. The fills can help smooth out the music to sound polished and perfect. Different types of music like blues, classic rock, heavy metal, progressive, alternative rock, and fusion will catch the ear of any musician. This book has been written with just one objective in mind: to turn reders into proficient rock guitarists. It achieves this through an in-depth analysis of the six most important styles in rock today. Work through the book and you'll be a vastly different player by the time you've finished it: fully "schooled up" and ready to rock like a pro.