In our ultimate DVD guide, Super Shred, you'll learn hundreds of soloing tricks and tips from Nevermore's Jeff Loomis! Jeff Loomis is known for playing the seven-string guitar exclusively, and some of the lessons incorporate the seventh string; however, they can be adapted for use on the six-string guitar.
This follow-up to Guitar DVD: Learn Shred Guitar gives you extended lessons on scale studies, sweep picking, modes, arpeggios and writing heavy riffs. With 60 minutes of lessons and TAB in our digital booklet, the Super Shred DVD is the master class you need to take your shredding to the next level!
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The Guitar Heroes DVD content includes:
Basic Studies to Build Chops
- Warm-Up Exercises
- Scale Studies
- Economy Picking
- Sweep Picking
- Sweep Picking with Fretboard Tapping
- Diminished/Dominant 7th Sweeps
Heavy Riffs
- The Importance of Writing
- "Shouting Fire at a Funeral" Intro & Verse
- "Jato Unit" Intro
- "Devil Theory" Intro
- "I, Voyager" Intro & Verse
- Pedaling Off the Low B String: "Inside Four Walls" and "Enemies of Reality"
Soloing
Scales
- B Phrygian Dominant (Fifth Mode of E Harmonic Minor): "Shouting Fire at a Funeral" Solo Excerpt
- B Phrygian (C Lydian)/B Phrygian Dominant: "Jato Unit" Solo Excerpt
- "Warped" A Blues Scale: "Jato Unit" Solo Excerpt
- B Aeolian: "Devil Theory" Solo Excerpt
Arpeggios
- "Miles of Machines" Intro
- "Jato Unit" Solo Excerpt
- "Devil Theory" Solo Excerpt
Sweeps
- "Devil Theory" Solo Excerpt
- "Jato Unit" Solo Excerpt
Model No.DVD-SPRSHRED
As lead guitarist for Nevermore, Jeff Loomis brings technical proficiency and diverse composition skills to the panel of Guitar World DVD teachers. He began playing guitar in earnest at the age of 15 and only one year later won a local guitar contest. Around the same time, in 1987, he auditioned for the second-guitar position in Megadeth, despite lacking band-playing experience. Though he didn't get the gig, he got the blessing of Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine, who told him he would one day be a great guitarist. Loomis persevered and went on to play briefly with the short-lived metal band Sanctuary. In 1991, he formed Nevermore with two of that group's former members. He made his solo album debut in 2008 with Zero Order Phase, a disc of incendiary instrumentals. Loomis has a trick bag that is both deep and diverse—from tremolo picking to sweep arpeggios to atonal tapping—and his solos are like mini compositions within the songs.
