November 2017

Instructor: Andrew Szucs
Speciality: Rock, Metal
Website: GuitarTricks.com This lesson teaches you how to play rhythm guitar in a style similar to James Hetfield of Metallica. Hetfield’s style incorporates a lot of downstroke picking, palm mutes, simple chord voices and single note riffs. The chords used here are simple “power chords” that you might hear in a lot of songs. What makes them Hetfield-ish is the ornamentation in between chords. A lot of the ornamental notes and chords are “outside” the scale. This gives the riff that dark metal sound. Even so, this progression doesn’t really sound like Metallica in the slow version that starts the lesson, where we explain the fingerings. For that, you’ll need to wait for the full speed demonstration. When the synchronization of the distorted guitar and the drums come together to give that classic metal sound, you can see how note choice alone is not the whole style. This lesson is part of a series that includes profiles of Tony Iommi, Ritchie Blackmore, and others.

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Instructor: Hanspeter Kruesi
Speciality: Blues, Jazz and Touch Technique
Website: GuitarTricks.com This is a lesson about advanced improvisation concepts on blues. It shows how you can play 3 different scales on any 12 bar or other blues. The blues pattern I use here has the following chord progression: D / D / D / D G / G / D / D A / G / D / D The scales which can be used are: D minor pentatonic D blues scale D, G and A mixolydian scale. You can play the following scales on the following chords : D : D minor pentatonic, D blues scale, D mixolydian scale G : D minor pentatonic, D blues scale, G mixolydian scale A : D minor pentatonic, D blues scale, A mixolydian scale On the Guitar Tricks site I have a whole bundle of licks which might give you some additional inspiration. Each lick is marked as pentatonic or mixolydian lick in the description. When you transpose a pentatonic lick you have to transpose it to the key of the blues you are playing. When you transpose a mixolydian lick you have to transpose it to the chord you want to improvise.

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Instructor: Prashant Aswani
Speciality: Rock, Metal
Website: GuitarTricks.com Guitar Tricks instructor Prashant Aswani takes you through some of the elements of style that make AC/DC one of the most popular bands in rock. In this lesson we’re going to take a look at a standard pentatonic lick in the style of Angus Young. This one is in A minor, and features the kind of aggressive bending and pentatonic playing that Angus often uses.

This free lesson is from an 8 lesson Artist Study at Guitar Tricks. This AC/DC tutorial looks at the foundations of the band’s signature tone, how Angus and Malcolm voice their chords and give them movement, some of the pentatonic licks they use, the use of open string licks, and double stops. In the final lesson there’s a jam along session with a rockin’ custom jam track!