Guitar World: Metal for Life!: Mastering Heavy Metal Guitar

Strap on your ax for an extreme-metal boot camp, as Metal Mike Chlasciak helps you hone your chops to perfection. You'll learn how to traverse the fretboard with the ever-essential minor pentatonic scale, incorporate minor scales into riffs and rhythm parts, build power-chord variations for maximum sonic effect and much more. Plus, you'll get a firsthand tutorial in playing black and death metal and creating licks in the styles of Metallica, Testament, and Pantera, and learn 10 essential metal licks every guitarist should know!