Free metal guitar lessons
Tighter riffs. Cleaner picking. Speed that holds up on a recording.
Your chugs turn to mud under gain. Your upstrokes disappear at 140 BPM. You know three pentatonic boxes and every solo sounds the same. Each lesson here goes after one of those problems, with an original tab you can loop against a click tonight.
What's holding your playing back?
Pick the one that sounds most like you. Each link goes straight to the fix.
- "My chugs sound muddy and loose." Your palm is probably in the wrong spot, or the gain is covering up uneven hits. Palm muting and tight rhythm
- "I can play fast on one string but fall apart in riffs." That's string crossing, not speed. The outside string-crossing drill
- "My forearm dies halfway through a thrash song." Your stroke is too big and you skipped the endurance work. Downpicking endurance
- "I've been stuck at the same tempo for months." You're grinding past the point where the motion is still trainable. Building speed without tension
- "My solos sound like scale exercises." The notes are fine. The landing notes aren't. Targeting chord tones
- "I want that heavy low sound." Start with one string and a whole step. Drop tunings: Drop D to Drop A
Learn by topic
Six areas cover everything from your first power chord to your first sweep.
Rhythm & Riffs
Palm muting, downpicking, syncopated chugs and staying locked to the kick drum.
Picking & Techniques
Alternate picking, sweeps, tapping, legato and pinch harmonics, broken into drills.
Scales & Theory
Minor pentatonic, natural and harmonic minor, Phrygian, and what each one sounds like over a riff.
Lead & Solos
Landing on the right note, leaving space, and building solos people actually remember.
Practice Plans
20, 40 and 60-minute sessions, a metronome routine and what research says about spacing practice.
Gear & Tunings
Drop tunings, string gauges, amp and sim settings that keep your rhythm tight.
Start with these four
If you only read four lessons, make it these.
The Beginner-to-Solid Metal Path
Six stages from holding the pick to playing a real riff clean with a click, each with a test you have to pass before moving on.
PickingAlternate Picking for Metal
A short stroke, clean string changes, and a step-by-step ladder to even 16th notes.
RhythmPalm Muting and Tight Rhythm
Where your palm goes, how hard to press, and why your chugs sound like mud.
ScalesMetal Scales for Guitar
The scales metal really uses, with a one-bar tab for each and the sound each one adds.
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