100% alternate picking and all you have to watch for is rhythm and palm muting. There are a couple of slow backing tracks in case you're new to galloping so you can star off slowly.

Rhythm figure often used in heavy metal music.It's made famous by Steve Harris of Iron Maiden and used by many other bass players out there.

Get your Pinched Harmonics down with this etude!

Basic rhythm metal guitar, suitable for beginners.

Iron Maiden has influenced thousands of guitar players around the world. In today's lesson we'll study a piece in the style of this British metal band. In order to reproduce the guitars that make this group so appealing, we'll use a combination of minor pentatonics and natural minor scale.

In this tasty lesson Pavel shows us how to combine chords/double-stops with licks - to create some powerful rhythm guitar. "...also this lesson will show you how to sound "big" with only one guitar in the band. Often, when the lead guitarist plays a solo it sounds empty because there is not enough backings. Well - it can be improved! How?? Check this lesson out!"

Should help the metal apprentice out there to play riffs using simple tools such as power chords and scale segments.

In this part we will be using the following techniques: 2 string Sweeping, Power Chords, Galloping, Palm Muting, Slides and Vibrato.

These guys have invented what I call Epic Metal, one of the first talking about kings, swords, axes and hammers in their lyrics.