Easy to Play Heavy Metal Guitar Techniques For Beginners

I would recommend every aspiring guitarist who wants to play heavy metal and contemporary rock music to learn guitar shredding styles. Shredding makes your playing more dynamic and interesting. It is the right usage of different shredding techniques that makes your playing sound melodious and musical.

These are some of the contemporary rock and heavy metal guitar techniques that is the staple for a heavy metal guitarist.

* Sweep picking - is a modern guitar playing style used to play extremely rapid arpeggios across the fretboard (sometimes on all strings).

* The tapping technique - is used to play a couple or 3 notes or to play arpeggios using pure legato with no picking. Various techniques are used to perform passages with wide intervals, and to create a flowing legato sound. Some performers make complex combination of tapping and sweep picking. This increases speed by reducing the motion of the strumming hand.

* Alternate picking - is a guitar playing technique, used only by plectrum or pick users, by alternating downward and upward picking strokes in a continuous run, and is the most common method of plectrum playing. If this technique is performed on a single note at a high speed, then it may also be referred to as tremolo picking.

* Economy picking - is a guitar-playing style which is combination of sweep picking and alternate picking. Economy picking involves using alternate picking except when you change strings. The main intention here is to minimize movement in the right hand, and avoid the motion of "jumping" over a string prior to picking it, as often occurs in alternate-picking.

Shredding can be considered as the staple to modern day guitar playing and is quite an interesting style to learn, but at the same time takes hard work and determination from your part. So If you want to be successful in modern rock n' roll or heavy metal guitarist or Jazz, Blues or Blues Grass guitarist you have to start investing time in learning shredding.