Product Description
This intense metal method teaches you the elements of lead guitar technique with an easy to understand, player-oriented approach. The metal concepts, theory, and musical principles are all applied to real metal licks, runs and full compositions. Learn at your own pace through 12 fully transcribed heavy metal solos from simple to truly terrifying! "One of the most thorough" and "one of the best rock series currently available" - Guitar Player magazine. Music and examples demonstrated on CD.

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 13 reviews)

Great Book

This is a great book. It walks you step by step through learning to play lead. I am doing thing I never thought I would be able to do on a guitar.
July 03, 2008

Must be good

I bought this for my 14yo, along with Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar. They must be good because he leaves them all over the house after he's used them. They keep moving around, so he must be using them.
March 31, 2008

Become a lead guitar player

Great book to become an intermediate lead guitar player. It starts from the very beginning and covers scales (Minor pentatonic, blues, minor natural and dorian), speed exercises, intermediate techniques (natural harmonics, vibrato bar, tapping), timing up to sixteenth note triplets, basic theory and introduction to improvisation. It has good explanations, 171 exercises and 6 songs with full backing band to solo over that make you enjoy as you learn. Exercises and songs are demonstrated on the included CD.
It uses TAB with standard rhythm notation to make learning easier.
This book will be hard for absolute beginners because, although basic techniques (hammer-on & pull-off, bending, finger vibrato, palm muting, artificial harmonics) are explained clearly, the book includes only a few exercises for every basic technique and focuses on more advanced matters. They'd better start with a basic book as Metal Lead Guitar Primer to learn the basics.
Remember Troy Stetina is acclaimed as one of the best instructors world wide.

February 04, 2008

very nice gift

I have no idea about playing guitar. I bought this book as a gift for my nephew. He wanted me to order especially this (well known) book and said that it is very useful. Now he is very happy and he uses it a lot.
May 15, 2007

Excellent Series

The Troy Stetina series is definitely the best instruction books series you can find today. It is well-explained, you get great exercises and songs to play and you gradually feel your skills increasing. Highly recommended.
January 14, 2007

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