ROAD TO SUCCESS

Stage one is complete when playing with confidence solo to Smoke on the Water

Stage two is complete when playing with confidence solos to master of puppets, number of the beast

Stage three is complete when playing keeper of the seven keys

Step one

- Learn to go up and down the scale in 7 positions very fast using alternate picking
- Also learn very fast angelo lick forwards adn backwards
- Also the cocacola style lick fast

Steo two

- Guitar gym exercises to build speed and shredding runs

- Also Stetina book for this

Step three

- Solos to metal songs such as master of puppets

STEPS

- First, master 234 on one string, alternate this to 124 and 134 and similar. Then, introduce
second string and move between them. Then add other variations such as gilbert lick.
- SCALES AND GUITAR GYM UP TO SPEED
o To help with this learn to pick notes hard – this is to combat the bad habit of trying to
supress notes sounding loud
- PERFECT TB HAND SYCN EXERCISE = THIS WILL MAKE YOU PERFECT WITH PRECISON
o Index finger and pinky alternate notes with metronome till highest speed
 1st step index on downbeat, second step pinky on downbeat
 Even better – do bursts and rests, but the picking hand keeps on picking
o Then all other finger combinations

Guitar playlist

The guess who – American woman

Black Sabbath – Paranoid

Booker T and the MGS – Green Onions

Dead Weather – I can’t hear you

To add

Should i stay or should i go

Heart - barracuda

Doors – break on through

Rage against the machine –

Cream – sunshine of your love

Metallica – enter sandman

Metallica – for whom the bell tolls

Metallica – seek and destroy

Iron maiden – run to the hills

Iron maiden – the trooper

Iron maiden – aces high

Helloween – i want out

Ultimate

Metallica – master of puppets

Metallica - One

Iron maiden – number of the beast

Helloween – keeper of the seven keys