Music fans use extreme metal as an umbrella term for the harsher and more underground forms of metal: speed, thrash, death, black and doom. These subgenres use more distortion and more aggression than other forms, with tempos that vary from incredibly fast to sludgingly slow.
The output of popular bands like Slayer, Venom, and Metallica in the early 1980s paved the way for more abrasive sounds in metal; these artists set themselves apart from more traditional heavy-metal acts of the time, Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, by challenging the perceptions of the genre. Screaming replaced melodic vocals and guitars began to sound more like weapons of mass destruction. It was an exciting – and very loud – time in music history.
Scrap the standard E for something lower. Low tunings create less tension on the strings, so heavy gauge string sets are crucial to prevent strings from flopping and going out of tune. Metallica and Slayer started out in standard E tuning but later explored lower tunings in Eb and Drop D (same as standard E tuning, except for the bottom string tuned a whole step down to D). Doom and death metal tend to use the lowest tunings, like B or A. Also, a good rule of thumb is to increase your string gauge one step for every whole step you tune down. So if you normally play 10s in E Standard, be prepared to go to 13s for B Standard, and have the guitar set up accordingly.
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Death and thrash metal rely heavily on fast, percussive rhythm parts to propel the songs and crank the feeling of energy.in the rhythm parts. The key to getting that machine-gun like crunch is a technique called palm muting: Rest the side of your hand or your palm on the strings, then strum. The goal here is rhythmic accuracy, so you don't need to whack your guitar to death to get it right; a light touch can go a long away. Extreme metal also favors a scooped EQ – crank the highs and low freqencies on your amplifier and drop the mids to give those palm mutes their distinctive flavor.
Keep the pick close to the strings and your arm above your wrist loose for the most effective and comfortable tremolo picking.
Extreme metal – particularly black and death metal – frequently utilizes tremolo picking, which incorporates continuous up-and-down strokes on a single string played at high speed. Economy of movement is key! The shorter the distance your pick moves away from the string, the greater accuracy and control you'll have.
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Down-tuning, palm muting, and tremolo picking are easy to learn, and players can adapt them to any skill level. These techniques are the foundation of thrash, death, black and doom metal – extreme metal wouldn't be extreme without them.
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Contact Us Privacy Terms of Use Notice At Collection Do Not Sell / Share My Personal Information Limit Use / Disclosure of My Sensitive Personal InformationLearn how to stop sounding mechanical and start sounding like some of your favorite Metal artists with instruction from Shaun Michaud. In this series of video tutorials, Michaud, course author of the
Course at Berklee , demonstrates several Metal/Progressive Rock techniques that will make your playing faster and more efficient, plus give you a quick how-to for learning quintessential Metal tools like sweep picking and songs like John Petrucci’s solo in “Erotomania.”
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In this first video, Michaud demonstrates a technique he developed after years of dissecting solos from his favorite metal guitar players that breaks down a method of approaching the major scale from the entire fretboard. This method strays away from the traditional approach of the major scale from a smaller window on the guitar that is shown in most beginner books. He starts by pairing the strings into two-string groupings. Each group has the same interval between the strings, thus creating the same shape for each set. Starting from each of the seven notes in the major scale, Michaud plays through the scale patterns up the fretboard, through each string set. He then shows how to use this technique to create musical solos.
Now onward to an Achilles’ heel of guitar players, which is note recognition on the fretboard. Michaud shares an exercise he created that builds note recognition to help with freedom in playing. He starts by looking at the first 12 frets of the guitar and finds only one place to play each note of the scale on each string of the guitar. Using the C Major scale, he finds C on the 6th string, finds D on the 5th string, E on the 4th string, F on the 3rd string, G on the 2nd string, and A on the 1st string. Once he gets to the top string, he reverses direction and continues the scale from where he left off by playing B on the 2nd string etc. This creates what he calls the “neverending” scale.
Combine learning shapes and learning notes on the fretboard, and you will always know where you are. —Shaun Michaud, Author of the Metal Guitar course at @Berklee Click To Tweet
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In this next video, Michaud shows you how to play John Petrucci’s solo in “Erotomania” by Dream Theater. Using hexatonic shapes, he breaks down the solo phrase by phrase, showing you exactly what is going on in Petrucci’s playing. It serves as a perfect real-world example of using lanes and shapes of major scale patterns in a metal guitar style solo.
Now let’s learn Michaud’s approach to pentatonic scales. His method will allow you to learn new ways to divide the notes on the fretboard and create new shapes so that you can play fresh melodic content. Michaud builds upon the lane idea with some familiar sounds of the pentatonic scale.
Michaud moves on to a second way to access the same five notes using the same seven shapes using relative pentatonic shapes, which will allow you to play these notes in a different spot on the guitar neck. This is accomplished by pairing shape one with five, two with six, and so on.
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Next we look at sweep arpeggios and the picking technique behind playing a smooth sweep. He breaks down how to accomplish a fluid sweep by playing each string while simultaneously working your way up and down an arpeggio, which involves lifting each finger allowing separation between each note. Michaud starts with arpeggios on the 5th string using the G major triad.
In this last video, Michaud uses Bach’s Sonata No. 1 in G minor to demonstrate the concept of octave displacement. He explains how octave displacements can create unique-sounding lines. Using this technique, you can play a continuous scale without the listener noticing because of where the scale jumps an octave higher.
Shaun Michaud is a Berklee grad who has been teaching at the school for more than 16 years. The music he has written has appeared on the History Channel, and in films such as
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. He has written, recorded, and produced five albums, two of which were released on the Inside Out label. Working as a recording engineer for more than a decade, he has hundreds of recording and mastering credits in the classical music genre for Parma Recordings.
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