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Hello dear metalheads! In this new guitar lesson I’m jamming some new ideas on how to orchestrate chords and melodies for your songs and create some layers of harmony and melody. I start by playing some chords with my pick, beginning with: Em, Esus2/C, Dsus2, Csus2, Am7, Dsus/B, Cadd9, Cb5no3, C5. Then, on the second […]

Hello dear metalheads!!! Ιn this new lesson I’m jamming with my 6-string acoustic guitar some fingerpicking chords. You always get a fuller sound when you playing only with your fingers because you can pluck more strings at the same time, more in the vein of classical guitar playing. Also, the use of the low tuning, […]

Hello fellow metalheads! Ιn this new lesson I’m playing some chords mixed with a clean lead. I’ ‘m using my ESP LTD type strat with the pickups in the middle position and the tone control button up to get this well-known “strat” tone. On the chords on the first part I’m playing Am7, Dm7 and […]

Hello maniacs! Happy new year and all the best for 2021!!!!In this new lesson we are exploring the *pinch harmonics along with wide vibrato. This technique will add a lot of character and emotion into your playing and when you are using in your solos or melodies, it will make them to stand out of […]

Hello metalheads! On this new lesson I’m using Palm muting* to create some heavy riffs using triplets along with fifths and major minor dyads. When it comes to metal, Riff is everything and along with a great riff comes Palm muting a great technique that all metal guitar players are using to create this raw and […]

Hello dear Metalheads! In this new lesson I’m jamming some melodies in E minor scale. While playing brutal music for so many years, we are always striving for some melodies that will lift up our music and make the songs more melodic. I feel that the melodies have a very important role in the developing […]

Hello dear metalheads! In this lesson I’m demonstrating a very well-known and needed technique for downstrokes, to execute simple metal riffs. In metal music the riff is everything, so the heavier and aggressive sounding the better. I’m playing the riffs on this lesson using downstrokes. That technique is when you pick with your right hand […]

Hello dear metalheads! Vibrato is an essential technique to your arsenal of tricks and its your signature on the guitar. In this new lesson I’m arranging some vibrato technics using the e minor scale and E minor pentatonic blues scale. I’m doing a lot of pull-offs, hammer-ons and slides, using a lot of muting with […]

Great tips of how to make your acoustic pieces sound fatter and with more depth without the use of a normal 12 string Guitar, (In case you miss one and you want this type of sound). In this new lesson, I ‘m playing with my 6 string acoustic guitar using “Nashville Tuning” *. I’m using […]

This is a great technique for guitarists to give a nice and smooth sound to their arsenal of guitar licks. The idea here on this example is that you don’t use your right picking hand at all and you use only the power of your left hand doing a lot of pull-offs (flick the string […]

Fast Alternate (down/up) Riff Picking, Using Different Chords On this part, I’m playing some fast alternate picking open E single string riff, very typical in metal, combining some different chords like usual power chords fifths, G and F, F# aug, E minor, D Major, D octave, C octave with slides, G fourth, C tritone (the […]

(parts from the songs «Death Like Silence» and «Embrace The Nightrage» of NIGHTRAGE are played at the following videos) In thοse videos I’m using alternate picking and down picking, right hand picking in mid to fast tempos. On “Death Like Silence” video that follows, I start with a fast alternate right hand picking and then […]

In this video I am playing some chords in C# Minor, adding some open strings for extra “colour”. The technique I am demonstrating here is influenced by Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page and I am using pick and fingers together, just like Page does on “Stairway to Heaven”. This specific technique is called “Hybrid Picking” and […]

(a part from NIGHTRAGE’s song “The Venomous” is arranged at this video) In this video I am using alternate picking with my right hand. Which means that I am hitting the strings alternatively with up and down strokes. That way I can play the arpeggios a lot faster. As for the chords I am using, […]