Learning scale boxes can be very boring and that's why I created this lesson for all those who want to learn scale boxes and want to do it having fun and practicing not only boxes but also licks. Alternate picking, some string skipping, licks built of 6-tuplets.

Mastering these kind of techniques means a lot of challenges. The most obvious is: developping clean/controlled speed. In order to this it is exteremely important not to push youreslf to the higher speeds - as this will give you an uncontrolled technique. Instead practice the exercise at a tempo where you feel completely comfortable.

"The music and the solo in D.N.A.F.T were written for Gustav Almöf's CD "SPIDER" 2003 with the band constellation called Juggernaut. (...)I usually like to combine easy melodies with more bluesy stuff. When I do rock solos I improvise a lot and catch and keep the parts that make the melody sounds interesting and dynamic. My goal is often to reach some kind of climax near the end. " I will teach you to combine speedpicking, legato and blues into a melting pot of shred...

"Map My Gap" fusion solo lesson continued. This part will be an excellent illustration on how to create a speedpicking run from our 101 speedpicking lesson patterns. The solo also yields some horizontal phrasing à la Steve Vai as well a some Eric Johnson style arpeggios. In this lesson you will find some difficult techniques as well some intermediate licks.

Focus on speedpicking - trash style

An unaccompanied solo with two-handed tapping, speedpicking and legato - combined with artificial screams and bending...does it get any cooler...? This solo utilises many of the techniques discussed in gmc 101 lessons, as well as stringskipping - as a bonus.

In this lesson we will use speedpicking licks to create a speed riff. If you ever listened to any power-metal bands you probably wondered how do they come up with their riffs and speedriffing is a good example of that. When you finish playing this riff you'll notice that all we did was combining simple powerchords with scales. Sounds interesting? Get on it!