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.
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.