Heavy Metal Guitar Lessons!!!!

Guitar lessons for beginners to advanced guitar players. Guitar Metal features online guitar lessons including tuning guitars, learning guitar tablature, guitar licks, Pentatonic guitar scales, the Natural Minor Scale and guitar lessons based on classic heavy metal songs. There is also a guitar diagram for new guitar players to become familiar with the parts of the guitar. The lessons on Guitar Metal are free, however you can also purchase guitar lessons on DVD from Metal Method by clicking here or by following the links on the left menu. Metal Method guitar lessons are some of the best guitar lessons out there for rock and heavy metal guitar, so if you're serious about learning to play guitar, you should definitely check them out.

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Pentatonic Minor Guitar Scale Continued

The other 4 positions

The Pentatonic minor scale has five scale positions. The first position can be seen in the lesson "Pentatonic Minor Scale". This lesson contains the remaining 4 positions of this scale.

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Pentatonic Minor Scale

The Pentatonic minor scale is still a very popular scale for guitarists in hard rock and heavy metal and can be heard in the work of guitarists such as Hendrix, Page and Angus Young as well as many others too numerous to mention. It's safe to say, that every guitar player uses the Pentatonic minor scale at one time or another.

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Natural Minor Scale

This guitar lesson will focus on one of the more popular guitar scales in rock, the natural minor scale. In the lesson Major Scale Modes (C Major Scale Expanded) you learned the "Aeolian Scale Mode" In this lesson you will find that the Aeolian Scale Mode is also the natural minor scale. For this lesson we will first concentrate on the A natural minor scale and then transpose* it into the E natural minor scale. Both A minor and E minor are very common keys in rock and heavy metal so it makes sense to start with those keys.

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Using Scale Patterns to Expand Your Playing and Improve Your Speed

I remember some years ago I was reading an article from Billy Sheehan (Bass player for Talas David Lee Roth, Mr. Big, Steve Vai and Niacin) and he was talking about how he had seen kids playing the video game Pac Man, and how they where racking up huge scores using patterns they had learned from books about the game.

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Tuning the Guitar Introduction

Tuning the guitar properly is the most important thing to learn when learning to play the guitar. If your guitar is out of tune nothing you play will sound good. I once heard an early bootleg tape of Van Halen and during the performance Eddies guitar got knocked out of tune. Even with a player of Eddie's caliber, things just sounded bad until the problem was corrected. I would suggest purchasing an electronic guitar tuner and learning how to use it. I also would strongly advise following these interactive guitar tuning lessons. Using these online guitar tuning lessons will help you train your ears for tuning.

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