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Heavy Metal Lead Guitar: An Introduction to Heavy Metal Soloing for Guitar (Learn How to Play Heavy Metal Guitar) Paperback – December 2, 2015

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Easily Master Metal Lead Guitar Soloing
Over 100 pages crammed full of essential modern licks, techniques and full solos.

Covers Heavy Metal and Rock Guitar Soloing in the Styles of Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Metallica, Bon Jovi, Extreme, Megadeth and many more...

130 Recorded Audio Examples in Standard Notation and Tab
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Build Great Modern Guitar Technique While Learning Exciting, Usable Vocabulary
Metal and rock guitar soloing books often focus only on building technique. While this is important, it is essential to build technique in the context of real musical. Heavy Metal Lead Guitar teaches you all the essential techniques the modern guitarist must master, but throughout the book each technique is rooted in hundreds of relevant musical examples in the style of your favourite guitarists.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ www.fundamental-changes.com (December 2, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 110 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1910403296
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1910403297
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 9.8 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.5 x 0.25 x 11 inches
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  1. Joseph Alexander

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    Joseph Alexander has been a guitarist and expert music tutor for over 20 years. His tuition books are published in four languages and have sold over 1,000,000 copies to widespread critical acclaim.

    Currently Joseph is co-writing groundbreaking music methods with Martin Taylor, John Patitucci, Jens Larsen, Levi Clay, Ulf Wakenius, Mark Lettieri Les Wise and many more...

    He is a publisher of over 200 music books and his label, Fundamental Changes is currently accepting manuscripts from a new talented generation of musicians and offers 3x the standard royalty rates to educators.

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    Rob Thorpe is a musician, composer and author living in Manchester, United Kingdom. Rob is equally at home in many styles, but specialised in contemporary classical, progressive rock and metal.

    Original music can be heard here: https://robthorpe.bandcamp.com

    As well as teaching, and writing Rob has composed music for film sountracks, live performance soundtrack concerts and his own creative projects.

    Rob has also won awards and participated in residencies and collaborations for contemporary music and multimedia performances.

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Christine Anzalone
5.0 out of 5 stars The book I’ve been looking for!
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2023
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I’m a huge fan of the fundamental changes guitar books. I have quite a few of them now from many different authors. Chris Brooks has been my favorite author.

Today I received the Heavy Metal Lead Guitar book by Rob Thorpe. I am extremely impressed with this one. This book covers the techniques that most metal players are looking for. It’s like a condensed version of their best books.

Also, the examples throughout the book are definitely metal without sounding cliche. It’s difficult enough to keep an immediate player busy. I found myself pleasantly challenged by the lessons. I’ve been looking for a book like this one for a while. Beginner players might find the tempos intimidating although a few lessons have both fast and slow examples.

I’ll be looking through the fundamental changes catalog for more books by Rob Thorpe.

I highly recommend this book. I wish I bought this one earlier.
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Jason Sioco
5.0 out of 5 stars The Essential Heavy Metal Licks Encyclopedia!
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2016
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For months, I have been contemplating to get this book. Finally I got the book just yesterday August 2, 2016. For years, I have been looking for a book that teaches guitar soloing. Most guitar soloing books out there made 8-10 years ago only teach you theory and technique. Those things are good, but they don't quite deliver when it comes to musicality. I went to different guitar lessons to learn guitar soloing, the teachers would end up telling me to transcribe licks. That seems to be the practical way to learn guitar soloing and improvisation, but with so many rock songs, where do I begin? Isn't life too short to transcribe an arsenal of licks? Then I had a game plan on my mind, I just need to know the essential licks, that's how I'll get started. In late 2015, I discovered this book and I end up purchasing it later.

This book contains the essential or cliché metal licks used by the metal masters in different eras. I know, because I skimmed the book and listened to all the audio. Yesterday, I only learned Lick 1a or the first lick of the book and I was already making a coherent metal guitar solo. I have composed guitar solos before, but they don't sound like rock or metal, they rather sound like a poppy ballad and it sounds very cheesy. How much more when I learned all the licks of the book? I'll be a metal head soon. I'm not your conventional metal head, because I listen to The Carpenters too. Just type my Amazon Username on Youtube and you'll see a bunch of my videos.

This book also teaches you licks beyond the book thru ear training. This book teaches you audiation as well or playing what you sing. So when I am done using this book, I can still learn more licks. The licks in the book also builds technique, the licks progress with steady difficulty. I know Fundamental Changes has more guitar soloing books. I will be getting them soon for self-study.

I highly recommend Fundamental Changes books to every budding and aspiring guitarist, a guitarist who is frustrated in their musicality, or a guitarist stuck in a rut and don't know what the hell to do.

Cheers!
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Robert Solomonson
4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
Reviewed in the United States on July 27, 2017
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good teaching book
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good book
Reviewed in the United States on May 31, 2023
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A pretty good coverage of metal guitar techniques. Not specific solos but "in the style of" examples. Covers a lot of different things, legato, tapping, etc. Might start out fairly basic but gets into some very fast stuff pretty quickly. Good book to spend time working through.
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Great book, I’ve bought a couple and plan on buying more. It’s a useful book especially for the type of music I play
5.0 out of 5 stars Great books
Reviewed in the United States on June 2, 2023
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It’s a good book, I’ve bought a couple and plan on buying more. It’s great especially for the type of music I play
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Silas
3.0 out of 5 stars Decent
Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2019
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Their book started off a little slowly, which could be helpful for beginners, I suppose. Once it got started on more advanced lessons, there were some good details on technique, but many of the examples were pretty basic, and told you to practice them in other ways, it didn’t detail that process very well, even once. There was some great information for me in the sweep picking and tremolo technique portions, though the author confused locking tremolo systems with floating ones, which was bothersome. Ultimately, I think I picked up a few useful tips, but shifted through some less useful material to get there, and am not actually sure I’m that much better at playing metal than I was before working through this book. It could have stood to be a lot more thorough, but made a decent introduction if you have some basic facility on the guitar already.
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Roughdale 1979
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2023
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Breaks down what you need to know in order to advance your playing. Highly recommended addition to your music library!
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Bette Noire
5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource for any guitar player!
Reviewed in the United States on October 18, 2018
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This is a really great resource for any guitar player looking to diversify and improve their skills. The lessons are broken down really well. I tend to be an over-thinker, which has intruded on my lead skills, but I feel like this book is perfect for people like me. I bought the Kindle version and am thinking the paperback might’ve been a better choice. I have a difficult time seeing some of the tabs on my devices and usually have to view full screen on my computer. I will probably buy my next book like this in papaerback form.
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Flavio
5.0 out of 5 stars Ottimo.
Reviewed in Italy on February 19, 2023
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Come le pubblicazione della stessa serie lo ho trovato molto utile. Non proprio ideale per i principianti senza la guida di un insegnante. Fantastico per chi non è alle prime armi, da stimolo anche per chi è già ad un livello medio avanzato.
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Andy
5.0 out of 5 stars Sweet dealio
Reviewed in Canada on June 8, 2019
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Liked that the audio clips were downloadable off the net instead of a crappy old-school format CD. The licks are tasty, juicy, and saucy
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pete
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 27, 2019
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Great book good examples and sensible learning curve whilst retaining challenge
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ivan
5.0 out of 5 stars ganar en velocidad
Reviewed in Spain on October 19, 2018
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En mi caso concreto encuentro muy útil este libro, aunque el heavy no es mi estilo de música preferido si que me encanta la velocidad que tienen los buenos guitarristas de este género en sus solos. Practicando los ejemplos de este volumen en seguida se observan progresos en la velocidad a la hora de tocar ligados muy útiles en los solos. Es un libro al que recurro muy a menudo para entrenar la velocidad o coger ideas para algún que otro fraseo rápido. Totalmente recomendable.
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niqui
5.0 out of 5 stars Génial
Reviewed in France on September 28, 2017
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Superbe bouquin malheureusement en anglais. Je vous conseilleriez bien toute la série mais moi c'est sur je vais en faire une petite collection. Je recommande.
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