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To quickly review, the last four columns have covered the following approaches to ear training: singing the notes of major and minor scales while playing them; playing pairs of notes and identifying the intervallic relationships between the notes; learning to identify different chord qualities (types) solely by hearing them; singing in harmony with single-note riffs […]

HARMONIC SCREAMSWhat’s shakin’, tough guy? Like I promised at the end of last month’s column, this time I’m gonna light you up on how to do “harmonic squeals,” like the ones at the end of “Cemetery Gates” (Cowboys From Hell). A bunch of you have written in asking about this technique. Thanks for all your […]

Squeal Like A Pig! – Dimebag Darrell Squeal Lesson and harmonic Lesson What’s up Dad, we’re back! Last issue we got into using the whammy bar to make natural harmonics scream back up to pitch. In this column we’re gonna be using the bar to to pull these jewels up to notes that are higher than […]

Guitar Harmonics Lesson: In This Lesson, we’re gonna talk about harmonics-how to get ’em, where you can find ’em and what you can do with ’em. There are a number of different ways you can make harmonics happen. You can induce ’em with your pick (pinch harmonics), you can tap ’em like Eddie Van Halen […]

Shawn Lane still remains a mystery to music fans in the UK. even though he voted best new talent in Guitar player magazine’s 1992 poll and has drawn praise from the likes of Vernon Reid, Eric Johnson, Kirk Hammett and George Lynch …. By Cliff Douse Shawn lane interview taken in October1994: Lanes Tapes have […]

Famous guitarist Shred maestro Rusty Cooley answered all those inane questions you really want related with guitar string. Do you have a type of pick that you can’t live without? I use Jim Dunlop Extra Heavy Gel Picks. This is what works best for me. I have tried all of the others but always come […]

PREPARE YOURSELVES FOR QUITE POSSIBLY THE MOST OUTR AGEOUS STRING ‘EM UPYET TO GRACE OUR PAGES. THE KILLSWITCH ENGAGE AXEMEN DISCUSS CHOCOLATE FOUNTAINS, TAMPAX AND BAGS OF POO ••• TAKEN IN 2007 We Were this close to pulling a fast one on killswitch engage’s hirsute axe duo Adam Dutkiewicz and Joel Stroetzel. The premise was, […]

I believe if you want to be a good composer, the first thing we should focus on more is Chording. When writing the original song, we often stick with common chordings that have already been used on millions of songs.  In this “Song with great Chording” Series I will suggest songs with some exotic/uncommon chordings […]

Mooer GE200 Is a beautiful budget-friendly Multy Fx processor. Making a guitar tone sometimes is tough if you are not familiar with it, so here are 2 free Metal Guitar tones for you. You can listen to the sample here : So i used 2 different tones here one for lead and one for Riff […]

Cadd9 Guitar Chord – The name says it all : ) The Cadd9 guitar chord is a C major chord with an additional 9th note from C Major Scale which is D. Cadd9 Chord has a very positive sound and in theory, you can replace the major chord with Added9th Chord, some times that will […]