Comments on: Practice Helps You Learn Guitar By Ear

By: stickymongoose

stickymongoose — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:52:59 +0000

If you want to be able to play well, you should try to learn as many scales as you can. Also, practice as much as you feel comfortable with devoting to the guitar. You won't get any better without regular practice. Chord shapes won't be as important as becoming proficient at playing in different time signatures and strumming patterns when playing metal. Also, even if you want to play heavy metal, you should try to practice with a relatively clean tone, so that you can keep track of your progress and learn to correct your mistakes.
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By: vinster

vinster — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:50:59 +0000

Well , depends on which "Metal" you speak of. If your after metal of today , you just need to learn to tune down to low C and just play "Root / Fifth / Octave" power chords, if you wanna sing as well , watch Sesame Street's "Cookie Monster" for that essential current metal vocal, and remember – in todays metal , it's more important to have a "look" than to be able to play well. Do i sound bitter? You betcha! – Seriously , if you ask about scales and stuff then you must want to really play , for which i will suggest to you – metalmethod.com i think you'll find what you need there.
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http://www.metalmethod.com

By: martin925

martin925 — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 02:48:59 +0000

*playing with heavy distortion
*hammer-ons and pull-offs
*quick strumming patterns
*power-chords, and being able to quickly change from different ones (this is easier when playing in Drop-D)
*playing in different tuning (besides standard, the most common for heavy metal are Drop-D and Drop-C)
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By: ShesRabid

ShesRabid — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:46:17 +0000

Specifically, what types of things must i practice to learn how to play heavy metal on the guitar?
What types of scales should i work with? How often should i practice? Any good websites that you can think of that would help me learn? Thanks!