Shredding Death Metal Guitar (book/CD)

Alfred Music Publications
Extreme Technique Meets Metal Guitar
Series : Serious Shred 


Jared Meeker explores all the techniques and concepts essential to this unique style that include picking and legato, palm muting, bending, tapping, pick harmonics, string crossing, and odd time signatures.

Shredding Death Metal Guitar covers a variety of death metal genres (including classic, melodic, and progressive death metal), and features extensive riff and soloing sections with examples in the styles of bands like Death, Opeth, Meshuggah, Children of Bodom, In Flames, and more! The accompanying CD features all the examples from the book.


•  Techniques, scales, modes, patterns, and sequences for death metal guitarists
• Sample riffs in the style of Death, Opeth, Meshuggah, Children of Bodom and more
• Cover classic, melodic and progressive death metal
• Detailed breakdown of picking styles, including alternate, tremolo, sweep, economy, and cross picking
• Lessons in bending, tapping, picl harmonics, string crossing, rhythm, and odd time signature

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