I called this technique "Repetitive Sweep Picking" because you can do your arpeggios more attractive and less difficult by repeating a few notes in your sweeps.

Essential exercises to get your hybrid picking chops up and running at a basic level.

Time to look at the style of this extremely popular heavy metal guitarist. Conveniently enough, this lesson comes right after the Matserclass "Hot Blues" lesson - because Kirk Hammett's style is in fact heavily inspired by blues. This lesson will mainly deal with Kirk's solo style from the Metallica "Black Album" and onwards . Mr Hammett himself claims his goal with his new solo approach was to get "a bit bluesier" - and the result was an effective blend of metal, blues and wah-wah driven madness. This lesson will take you one step closer to playing like your guitar hero.

By using the very simple concept exposed in this lesson, you will soon be able to create some very complicated sounding riffs.

A progressive series of basic pentatonic licks to help you with your right and left hand technique, your stamina and to increase your speed and to have more options when you are playing.

Two combinations of licks. We are going to play the basic lick and make a few variations and combinations.

Two new combinations of rock licks for pentatonic exercises.

Tackle some chunky riffings and super flash pentatonics in this lesson.

Learn how to move the Minor Pentatonic scale through different positions to join it up all over the neck.