Metal
Classic Metal
"Heavy metal riff like Enter Sandman in Em"
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Why practice with metal?
Develop Speed
Metal pushes your alternate picking, sweeping, and legato to the limit. There's no hiding sloppy technique at high tempo.
Build Precision
Tight palm mutes, clean string skipping, and locked-in rhythms. Metal demands and develops technical precision.
Explore Dark Harmony
Harmonic minor, Phrygian, Locrian - metal uses scales other genres ignore. Expand your harmonic vocabulary.
Practice tips
- Palm muting is essential - practice your muted downstrokes for tight rhythm
- The harmonic minor scale gives you that neoclassical metal sound
- Practice with a metronome - metal demands precision