Lead Guitar Boot Camp is an intensive guide to building bigger, better and faster chops. In this 90-minute DVD, you’ll learn essential techniques, like daily warm-up exercises, alternate picking, wild and wide stretches, and how to move through scales. Plus, you’ll be taught soloing strategies for all styles, including classic rock, heavy metal, thrash, punk, emo and deathcore.
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Chapter 1
Daily Warm-Up Exercises: Symmetrical Patterns
- A. Three Notes Per String: Index-Middle-Pinkie (1, 2, 4)
- a. Legato (Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs)
- b. Using the Metronome
- c. One-, Two- & Three-String Exercises
- d. Alternate Picking
- e. Picking Techniques: Floating, Anchoring, Resting on the Bridge
- B. Index-Ring-Pinkie (1, 3, 4)
- a. Legato
- b. Alternate Picking
- c. Reverse Order
- C. Four Notes Per String
- D. Wide Stretches: Index-Middle-Pinkie (1, 2, 4)
- E. Mordents
Chapter 2
Daily Warm-Up Exercises: Scale Patterns
- A. A Natural Minor (A Aeolian Mode)
- B. A Natural Minor: Three Notes Per String
- C. Moving Through Scale Positions
- D. Organizing Scale Studies Into Three-, Four-, Five- and Six-Note Groups
- E. Moving Through Scale Positions of Natural Minor in Four-Note Groups
- F. Examining the Fundamental Modes and Modal Positions in Three- and Four-Note Groups
a. Other Minor Modes
- i. A Dorian
- ii. A Phrygian
- iii. A Locrian
b. The Major Modes
- i. A Major Scale
- ii. A Lydian
- iii. A Mixolydian
- G. Single-String Modal Studies
- H. “Threes on Fours:” The Dickey Betts/Jeff Beck Scale Study
- I. Minor Pentatonic: Scale Position and Studies
Chapter 3
Essential Soloing Tips From the Rock Guitar Greats
- A. Joe Satriani
- B. John Petrucci
- C. Jeff Loomis
- D. Jimmy Herring
- E. Michael Angelo Batio
- F. Paul Gilbert
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A longtime contributor to Guitar World magazine, and the author and producer of literally hundreds of artist transcriptions, books, and instructional DVDs, Andy Aledort has influenced and inspired guitarists around the world for many years. During his long tenure at Guitar World, Aledort has written lesson features on such metal artists as Dimebag Darrell, Zakk Wylde, Avenged Sevenfold, Slipknot, Alexi Laiho, Yngwie Malmsteen, Trivium, Killswitch Engage, Nevermore and many others. He has also created many of Guitar World's best-selling instructional DVDs, including How to Play Hard Rock and Heavy Metal and Guitar World's best-selling DVD, How to Play the Jimi Hendrix Experience's Axis: Bold as Love. A brilliant guitarist in his own right, he has worked with Experience drummer Mitch Mitchell and the Band of Gypsys rhythm section of bassist Billy Cox and drummer Buddy Miles.
