Favorite guitar technices

MKLANE

So, me.. Being the metal head I am. There are a few technices that i like to use when i play. The main ones are pinch harmonices and sweep picking.

Pinch Harmonics is playing a note and giving it a "squeel" sound. It's used mainly at the end of riffs and before the next riff in a song. How you do this is with your picking hand. Most people play with the pick slightly slanted while picking or strumming. In order to do this technice you must keep the pick parrallel with your thumb lowered on the pick. Then when you pick your thumb will gently brush the string RIGHT after the pick has hit the string. This is a very hard technique to master but once you do it sounds very good.

The sweep picking technique is a way to "shred". Bands such as the human abstract and solo artists like Yngwie Malmsteen use this sound. basicly what you do is create a chord (typically a bar chord). You finger each note and pick each individual one and beggin to pick up spead until you are able to do this quickly. Once you are able to move your finguring hand quickly you should be able to move to different bar chords. The motion you begin to have with your picking hand is similar to a sweep motion going up and down the strings. It's not a strum but more like a sweep. Now. After you get this down. YOu have to be able to mute each individual string right after you play it by releasing pressure off your fingure to deaden the note. If you don't then each note will bleed together.