Challenging riffing exercise to develop your alternate picking and timing!

Today we will talk about speed metal. This form to touch metal began with bands like Stratovarius, Helloween etc.

Imagine you are the only guitarist in the band and your drummer comes up with a cool rythm. You know the chords, and you know 3 scales: minor, major and phrygian. You have 5 minutes straight to create a guitar part and to make it interesting.

You will learn how to mix some melodic stuff with chromatic and unexpected notes.

Lesson inspired by famous virtuoso Michael Romeo. Many of his common licks included as well as recognisable typical Symphony X song style.

This is a challenge for all metalheads out there who love agressive metal riffs. This lesson is full of cool alternate picking stuff so even if you are not into the metal your picking can gain a lot if you use this lesson as an alternate picking excercise! Get in and prepare to pick FAST!

Welcome to the lesson about the Symphony X ballad. I've made this lesson to explore some elements of the composition that this great band uses when they have to make an intro or some nice ballad.

A fast shred solo at 220 bpm, combines alternate picking, wide finger stretching, economy picking (sweep picking), alternate picking and legato.

Exercises & tips to play faster, based on this simple principle: Speed is a by-product of accuracy.