Jack here, jbf music and guitar, this quick guitar tricks tutorial is on spider chords;
most commonly associate with Dave Mustanine, or Megadeth, formerly Metallica; and how you
can apply the same principle in other ways.
The basic idea is using two fingers to play a chord, in this case a power chord, then
use your other tow fingers to fret a different chord, to begin with, lets just move it up
a semi tone. Most metal. So, you could also use this across the strings, here I’m going
from a D5 to a Bb 5 . You can move this around as well, so we could just descend in semi
tones . And slower . We could do a tone on the same string, going
from D5 to E5 , or D5 to B5 on the next string. And combine these ideas, like this: D5, B5,
Gb5, A5 or E5, C5, A5, B5 this technique has a sharper, more staccato sound than if you
were to slide between them . And of course we can use shapes other than 5ths, like this
So, there I’m using a minor 3rd, then b5, a 5th like before. Major 3rd, major 3rd again,
then minor 3rd to major 3rd.
We could also pick the notes, here I’ve got a major 2nd; G to A and a minor 6th; F#
to D. which might sound nice with a bit less gain and you oudl even just take that trhough
the scale. WE
could also harmonise this, so lets take two major 3rds to out line a C major 7 and harmonise
them with 3rds, to get C to G, then up again to here, so we get a C major 7 to G major
7 with the harmony, then just to make it more complicated I’ll move guitar 1 up to those
minor 3rds, so we get an E minor to B minor *Click on
And there I just finshed up on 5ths a 5th apart. Quick Recap: use it on power chords,
semi tone moves, use it across strings, descend chromatically for a more metal sound. Move
by a tone, on one string or across them. Use different intervals; like 3rds & 6ths ; try
picking the notes and use it to create harmonies. Any other cool ideas you’d like to share
fire them down in those comments!
If you liked this you might want to check out some of my Marty Friedman lessons, my
Prog metal soloing in 5 minutes lesson, or reimagined Symphony of destruction solo; links
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