A challenge for your hand muscles and fingers, but try to do the whole exercise at once without rest or stopping.

Only using two strings and very basic shapes!

Phrasing over a basic chord progression, using various techniques and scales. Improve your overall timing and scale visualisation!

Improve your timing control and add power to your alternate picking technique!

Heavy progressions and fast downstrokes - in the style of (arguably) the greatest metal band of all times.

Essential right-hand techniques needed to play your first song: Strumming with Ups, Single String Picking and Fingerstyle

Here's the "Are you ready" - GMC collaboration song lesson, so now you can finally jam along with it! =).It's in drop-D tuning, which means you should tune down the low E-string two half notes (two frets). All the other strings should have standard tuning.

Let's get into the right hand technique - Alternate Picking basics.

It's time to get low! Come and join me for a Beginner's lesson on Drop D Tuning and some basics on how to play in Drop D!