HOW TO PLAY METAL GUITAR SOLOS: 5 Beginner Techniques & Patterns
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- čas přidán 25. 07. 2024
- If you're a metal and just starting to play guitar solos, I'm going to show you 5 techniques to learn that will make you better, faster!
I'm also going to give you 5 patterns to practice to go with each technique.
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These techniques and patterns for playing metal guitar solos will also help you if you're at an intermediate level. It's good to go back to the basics at times!
Here's the content for 'How to Play Metal Guitar Solos'
01:39 - Alternate picking pattern
03:12 - Speed picking lesson
04:49 - Palm-muted guitar solos (downstrokes - this sounds killer!)
06:38 - Finger tapping technique with pull-offs - simple, but sounds awesome in your solos!
08:18 - Simple sweep picking pattern
**Here's the Beginner's Sweep Picking video I was telling you about. This is 1 of 3 (there's also a playlist on my channel)....
Beginner's Sweep Picking Series (1 of 3):
• Sweep Arpeggios for Be...
I truly hope this lesson on how to play metal guitar solos.
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1) What's your favorite technique in this video?
2) Which one is the most challenging?
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Intermediate level guitar player here. This is a great lesson. Thank you, man.
You're welcome, and glad this helps!
Yeah this is sick. Helped me with sweeping
Thank you so much for making this it has helped me out so much, I have been seeing so much more improvement with my playing with these exercises cheers!
Glad this helped!! And if you don't have it yet, I have a practice guide here: www.jasonstallworth.com/guitarist/
Great lesson! I enjoyed very much and will be putting these in my daily practice.
Awesome to hear that dude!
your videos might be the most informatively simple i have seen. that sweep picking tutorial is so great. i cant wait to keep playing it.
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Great video, so easy to understand.
You’re metal tutorials have been saving me so much frustration.
Thank you !
Awesome to hear that🤘
Thanks Jason! Very helpful.
You're welcome!
Much appreciated Jason. I've been stuck in a rut for awhile as a intermediate player, and have been wanting to learn to solo for years as I felt as if I've plateaued and need to expand my skills to try and improve.
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I learn your lessons every day , thank you 🙏
Awesome, glad to hear these lessons help you!
Thanks for the amazing tutorials man! I've been wanting to get more into playing metal for a while but always found it quite scary to start, these videos really help! Also, that sweet picking sure sounds sweet!
Great to hear that!
Absolutely awesome 🔥💙💙👍
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Very good, I liked your lesson, my favorite lick is the one congratulations for the initiative!
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Jason, Jason, Jason.....my friend....may I have a word with you? You forgot to revel the reason you would chose a technique based on its feel and effect.
Ex #1:
You alternate pick in order to melt the faces of the audience and pummel them into submission until they are in sensory overload.
Ex #2:
You use all other techniques to conquer resilient individuals and competing guitarists to declare your dominance....but be careful, it may cause bowel eviscerations or death in weak rivals.
Knowing why you are doing a thing is at least as important as knowing how to do it. ;-)
Lol... these are important notes indeed my brother!!! 🤘
Love the tutorials man thanks a lot
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your seriously the goat this helps so much
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Thanks Jason once again for the very informative content on metal.
Your lessons are my 'go to'
when I'm looking for change ups to add to riffs.
Down picking is easiest for me....I'll give sweep picking the hardest thing for me to master.
Thanks again Jason.
You're welcome my friend! Yes, the downpicking is pretty simple in nature. And sweeps can be a beast!
Thank you so much for inspiration 🎸👍
You're welcome!
Nice video and helpfull tips. The most interesting is - for me - the palm muting lick, because this is something I never use. But now I will try it :-)
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Good stuff. Finger tapping is one of my favorites. I have to practice the basics and then speed it up. Having a lot of fun. Enjoy your Heavy metal series
Joe Muck yes it’s definitely fun to practice because it has this distinct sound!!
Amazing!
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Nice this helps alot 👍
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Nice one. Will give these riffs a try. 🍺
Cool, I definitely hope these lessons help!
I've commented before and I love how you break everything down, I honestly can learn a lot more by watching you than working with a teacher. Love it man. Keep doing what you're doing. I appreciate it. Much Love man
Thank you, I appreciate that
Hey Jason! You have some good SEO. This was the first video that popped up in my google search for metal solo, lol! 🤘
That’s awesome to hear!! SEO can be tricky sometimes!
Great video Jason! Love the Sweep picking. Probably the hardest part for me in soloing is figuring out the movable patterns. I'm sure I'm just over thinking it. Rock on. 🤘🤘🤘
Thank you, and yes, sweep picking is a touch cookie to master because the techniques goes completely against the grain of every other lead guitar technique. It's almost like learning a new language at first. But the one thing I've learned that helps is simple...consistency. If you practice the simple patterns, like in this video, everyday, you will force yourself to get better and can gradually move on to more complex patterns.
All that said, I still struggle today with sweeps! Some days I can pull them off with ease, and others it's like...did I just start playing sweeps??
You can think of them as Major Bar chords . To make it simple just use top three strings . GBE strings . And a regular D and D minor chord first position just move that same position up . Move D up a whole step it becomes a E .. etc
Bruh, you’re freaking awesome, man. 🤘🏽
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Dude its 2:39 am and im watching this lesson dying to pick up my guitar and learn this sooo bad but I have work at 11am and wont be able to til i get off... Ugh lol 😂😂😓
Crazy thing is 239 is my magic number! Seriously, I see it all the time! Crazy!
Damn, that is crazy lol hope i gave you good luck lol 😂😂 well im finally off work and home and am stoked to pick up my guitar and learn this lesson
Awesome lesson Jason - much appreciated! I love fast alternate/tremolo picking and have gotten pretty good at it. Your tapping technique is interesting and I look forward to trying it. Sweeping for me is a killer. I've tried it a handful of times over the years and had given up to move on to stuff I thought would be more useful (while that may be accurate, they sound awesome, so I'm anxious to try again with your teaching!). 🤘
Thank you Justin I'm glad this lesson helps! Yes, sweeps are a huge challenge, and have always been for me as well! When you get a chance, start with this video (it's 1 of 3 in sweep arpeggios for beginners series). I think these simple patterns will help you!
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@@jasonstallworth I certainly will ASAP. My dad's in town, a fellow Floridian (I'm in Cleveland)! 😎 Thanks for the great content!
My leads are more erratic than a Kerry King solo when I try playing fast leads. I get so far and go nuts with my trem bar. Not when playing covers of course, but when I try to add leads to my origional material. I've been playing for over 40 years and I've always been the rythm player who knows a little flash. This vid helped me figure out how to add leads to my songs a little better. It's good to hear another guy play stuff in a lesson format for inspiration. Thanks man.
Awesome to hear this!! 🤘
You are correct about the neck pickup. I realize I'm late with the comment xD the reason it sounds clearer could be a combination of things. However primarily the reason is the location of your palm and pick in reference to the pickup. Also the pickup in reference to it's location under the strings.
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Thank you!
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You need a donation button. I'm on riff 5 of your metal rhythm series. It's helping me a lot. Thank you!
I can’t believe I’m just finding this video now! I’m glad I did and I’m enjoying the lesson.
Glad you found it, dude…many more to come!
@@jasonstallworth I like it and they are definitely useful.
God damn I I know I've already complimented you so much but thank you for renewing my love for playing guitar. I have faith in kicking ass at it one day thanks to you!
Awesome to hear that, brother!! Happy to be a part of that!
Nice vid , you gained a sub for sure
Thank you and glad this video helped! 🙏🏻
@@jasonstallworth ya no problem, you are basically teaching , "the good stuff" in my opinion. So many other videos that I could just do without. I can use all of these to my benefit. Thanks
Appreciating the bass axe on the left frame and the real axe on the right.
Those are indeed studio necessities!! 🤘
I'm more heavy with my guitar.. I kinda need to explore the higher notes.. but I'm getting there
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Singha beer , badass !!
Love Singha!
Love from Bangladesh khasi guitar lover🥰🥰🥰
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Easily one of the best metal guitar teachers on CZcams
Thank you 🙏🏻
Great stuff, Learn Metal Guitar Solo's, Xray Machine optional..!!
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I.love. thit.this.video
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Tony Bradley here what size pick do you use
I switched from .60 to .88 a couple years ago
Question: When finger tapping you popped up some tabs..I was a bit confused the notes were for the left hand correct? but where exactly do you tap with your right hand is there a specific amount of frets above those notes? BTW the finger tapping bit sounded a whole bunch like Whitecross Flashpoint was that your Muse or just coincidence? Link below ..check out round :30 to se what I mean...Love the Vid
czcams.com/video/sBU-eRZQZzo/video.html
Oh man, I used to listen to Whitecross all the time and love Rex's playing! I actually haven't listened to them in years but you could say that a lot of my style was inspired by Rex, probably without even realizing it!
I started Just with downpick too😂 and after a year i learned alternate
Yeah that's my story...a year later!
Any tips for the Master Of Puppets solo?
I don't really have any tips for learning someone else's music other than just listening and practicing
What's the song you play at 0:07 ?
I just made that up for the video :)
What are some songs to practice this techniques?
I don't really practice any songs...I'm constantly writing my own music, riffs, and leads. My advice is to create your own licks using these techniques.
Shweeep :D
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Amp setup
I have a tone guide for metal here: czcams.com/video/2CTFk2ZHHZA/video.html
2:32 I’m not really sure why I like this joke so much
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Number 4. I have done legato and various types of hammer ons offs but usually stick with the 17-15-12 pattern type. Going from 12-7-12-8-12-10-8-7 will be different and thats what I am going to work on now. Also going to pay attention to a down stroke scale progression to see if it sounds that much different. I suck at down stroking. Stupid James Hetfield.
Lol, yeah Hetfield makes us all wanna play faster down strokes!
Cool that you started with trying to play Metallica I’m going master of puppets
Man, I never remember what I play in these videos! More than often it's a rendition of another song or something I've written
Haha "Beginner lesson for solos" - Proceeds to Sweep pick 😂😂 Cool lesson tho, think I'll stick with the 1st for now 😁
Lol...yeah, I just wanted to throw something in there for sweeps but tried to keep it simple. I actually feel that sweep picking is a bit overrated because it seems once people become good at it, that's all they do and nothing else.
I really think guitarists should focus more on rhythms and riffs.. That's the heart and foundation of metal!
I actually go deep into that in my course here: metalmastermind.com/metal-riff-master/
@@jasonstallworth yeah I know what ya mean, all you see is sweeps 🤣 and tbf beginners on solos are more advanced than 'actual' beginners, which is what I am lol
I'll check that link out!
Palm mute
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Very good lesson, but I didn't like the first riff. Sounded like an off key note being played there LOL
It's possible...we're all prone to mistakes!
Maybe you should spend a little more time watching video lessons on manners since you've got the guitar figured out so perfectly already.
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So let me break down my story for you guys here; I am a professional guitarist and I actually do make some money here and there as a part time studio guitarist (nothing major, sorry guys). I actually started off in metal. stuff like megadeth, slayer, Pantera, deicide, death, dimmu borgir, cannibal corpse, etc. but I have been so far removed from it for so long I gotta go back to the beginning with it. Rhythm isn’t the issue, but the way you approach a lead for blues, pop, regular rock, is different from how you would approach a lead for something like a morbid angel song. My shit sounds to happy now, so I gotta start broadening that horizon because I’m trying to figure out a way to bridge it all together. Kinda like Opeth in some aspects I guess
Thanks for sharing dude 🤘
@@jasonstallworth thank you, just goes to show that even as a professional musician you are always going to be learning and getting better
Palm muting definetely
That's the foundation of metal music! By the way, if you don't have my free practice guide that I give my subs, grab it here: www.jasonstallworth.com/guitarist/
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Solos...my biggest weakness.
Keep pushing and you will definitely get to a point where you're playing them more effortlessly!
..transition is a great word..all metal 🎸 players should transition to jazz or fusion...
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Jason the genius....
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