Master Metal Guitar! Neoclassical Music Theory - YouTube

music written from 1730 to 1820 is known as the Classical period during this 90

year span composers such as Mozart Paganini and Beethoven wrote their most

memorable music the ideas put forth in these compositions are still emulated

today shred guitar maestros such as Yngwie Malmsteen and michael romeo of symphony

x lead the charge combining classical music with metal of the modern age a new

art form has risen I give you neoclassical metal

welcome to the Shred zone I'm shredmaster Scott this video is

about how you can become a master of metal guitar not your friends not the

hot babe next door you me yeah you in order to accomplish this goal we'll

examine a neoclassical example from my master of metal series watch to the end

of the video to find out more about the series the harmonic minor scale and the

i-iv and V chords create the neoclassical sound in a moment we'll check out the

theory behind the music why that sounds terrifying

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let's unpack this neoclassical etude in a minor it's really a minor piece so you

have nothing major to worry about you tell the best jokes shred a series of

hits kick off the piece using the one and five chords for a minor e next we

launch into a litany of pull offs to impress the dudes I mean the babes darn

it nothing wrong with impressing dudes pull off technique is used to outline

the primary neoclassical chords namely A minor D minor and E the E chord contains

the raised 7th degree or G sharp note this is characteristic of classical

music more on that later in bar 6 the chord progression is

embellished using inversions before bringing the piece to a close what a

ride now let's certainly get the most important scale use in neoclassical

music the harmonic minor scale the minor scale was used to measure the amount of

coal in each load before excavating to the surface that's not right

harmonic minor differs from regular natural minor by one note the raised

seventh degree of course a natural minor is spelled a b c d e f and g and a harmonic

minor is spelled a b c d e f and g sharp piece of cake the essential ingredients

for the neoclassical sound is the i-iv and V chords and the harmonic minor

scale to really take your chops to the ultimate level check out my new master

of metal series in this series I unpacked five etudes in various metal

styles you'll learn the key components to become a metal god

each etude progresses in difficulty ending with the impossible fifth etude

oh my tablature extensive music theory analysis and backing tracks are provided

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