The ultimate guide to mastering shred guitar technique with Chris Zoupa. Forget the 'vanilla' guides and make way for the Ultimate Shred Machine! This no-nonsense guide cuts through the misinformation surrounding these techniques and teaches the essential skills to super-charge your playing.
If you're stuck in a rut with your rock guitar soloing, Shred legend Chris Zoupa is here to set you straight. Creative Shred Guitar Exercises is an eccentric collection of Zoupa's most devilish shred guitar ideas - all lovingly crafted to sharpen every area of your modern rock guitar technical skills. You'll discover 100 fun, creative and outlandish exercises that will improve your abilities and equip you to tackle any soloing situation. Every musical example is focused on the four essential areas of picking, legato, sweeping and tapping... ... and each discipline is stretched to breaking point with exciting and left-field exercises to unleash your inner virtuoso. Break Out of the Box and Break That Rut! If you're sick of playing the same old clichéd licks, or have an over-reliance on "pure technique", Zoupa has the antidote with this set of 100 creative drills that isolate your technique and get you creative in any guitar soloing situation. Chromatic and whole tone exercises to build clean execution Ascending and descending diminished patterns that add tension to your playing Finger independence workouts to help you play anything on guitar Major 7th, tritone and augmented combos to add unique depth to your solos String skipping and odd-grouping drills to add exciting melodic leaps and rhythms Pentatonic shred ideas that go way beyond the ordinary Go Way Beyond the Diatonic and Harmonic Concepts of the Masters You'll also get to drill shred sequences that take inspiration from iconic guitarists and quickly learn to create your own takes on... Triplet and string-changing monster runs in the style of Paul Gilbert and Buckethead Epic Hirajoshi Pentatonic sequences in the style of Trivium and Cacophony No-nonsense Neo-classical picking workouts a la Yngwie Malmsteen Futuristic, spacey intervallic lines reminiscent of Steve Vai and Tosin Abasi Joe Satriani and Guthrie Govan-style licks to make diatonic legato sound cool and fresh But there's more! You'll also discover: Josh Middleton's (Sylosis) astonishing "legato arpeggio" style Greg Howe-style arpeggio runs and hammer-ons from nowhere Amazing sweep sequences in the style of Jason Becker and Jason Richardson The arpeggio, chromatic and pentatonic tapping approaches of Synyster Gates and Rusty Cooley Creative Guitar Technique You've Been Craving Creative Shred Guitar Exercises quickly helps you master the challenging techniques used by today's virtuoso guitarists, and presents them all in Chris Zoupa's hilariously irreverent teaching style that's loved by millions on YouTube. Open your ears to 100 incredible new possibilities in rock guitar soloing, but be warned... don't forget your safe word!
Master shredder Terry Syrek makes it easy to become a rock lead-guitar virtuoso. Discover monster chop-building exercises and the secret to mind-bending, super-fast, sweep-picking licks. Plus, make creative use of the pentatonic scale and other scales you wouldn't necessarily think of using. 48 pages. DVD running time: 60 minutes.
One of the huge challenges of rock and shred guitar is to avoid running up and down scales and arpeggios, playing predictable licks. Chris Zoupa shows you tons of different ways of varying scales and shred sequences to keep them surprising, exciting and unpredictable.
The diet that works faster and forever! SUPER SHRED Using the same principles—meal spacing, snacking, meal replacement and diet confusion—that made his SHRED a major #1 bestseller—Dr. Ian K. Smith has developed what dieters told him they needed: a quick-acting plan that is safe and easy to follow at home, at work, or on the road. SUPER SHRED It's a program with four week-long cycles: --Foundation, when you'll eat four meals and three snacks a day, start shedding pounds and set yourself up for success --Accelerate, when you'll kick it up and speed up weight loss --Shape, the toughest week in the program, and the one that will get your body back by keeping it guessing --Tenacious, a final sprint that cements your improved eating habits and melts off those last stubborn pounds The SHRED system never leaves you hungry. It's a completely new way to lose weight, stay slender, and feel fantastic about your body, mind and spirit! Includes more than 50 all-new recipes for meal replacing smoothies and soups!
Does it feel as if you’re fighting your body to lose even one pound—or just to maintain your current weight? Respected health and wellness expert and bestselling author Jillian Michaels has been there, too. So she consulted top experts in the field of metabolism and discovered that she’d inadvertently been abusing her endocrine system for years. After “fixing” her own metabolism, she decided to share what she learned by devising this simple, 3-phase plan that engages all the weight-loss hormones (including the friendly HGH, testosterone, DHEA; and the not-so-friendly: insulin, cortisol, and excess estrogen). In Master Your Metabolism, discover how to: • REMOVE “anti-nutrients” from your diet • RESTORE foods that speak directly to fat-burning genes • REBALANCE energy and your hormones for effortless weight loss Michaels offers a wealth of information throughout, including: shopping lists and online shopping resources, hormone-trigger food charts, how to eat “power nutrient” foods on a budget, smart strategies for eating out, quick and easy recipes, as well as mini-programs for addressing PMS, andropause, metabolic syndrome, PCOS, and menopause.
Learn to Write Devastating Drop Tuned Metal Guitar Riffs If you're ready to explore the art of riff writing in drop tuning, Metal guitar legend Chris Zoupa is here to set you straight. Drop-Tuned Riff Writing for Metal Guitar is your complete guidebook, map and compass to creating your own powerful rock riffery! In its hallowed pages, you'll find Zoupa's complete approach laid out - step by step - lovingly crafted to sharpen every area of your modern rock rhythm guitar skills. You'll discover hundreds of fun, creative and outlandish tools to improve your riff writing, performance, tone, speed and power! In fact, you'll be shown how to turn any fragment of an idea into a full-on rock symphony. Drop Tuned Guitar Wizardry - From Zero to Hero You'll start off by consolidating the basics of rock rhythm guitar before quickly moving on to discover the force of metal rhythm guitar. From chugging flat fingered power chords to major and minor triads, you'll work your way to suspended 2nds and 4ths, as well as other advanced chords like add9, 6 and "dropped voicing chords". You'll also discover versatile chord sequences and how to disguise them while adding harmony and texture. Next, you'll discover the art of single note riff writing and how to expand these first ideas into complete songs. Along the way you'll discover how to write in "odd" times like 5/4, 5/8 and 7/8 and really get creative with note placement and texture. In all, you'll discover over 130 exciting examples of Drop-Tuned Riff Writing. - Build perfect time with the heavy metal rhythm primer - Learn to chug, add basslines, harmonies and more - Discover essential chords fingered for drop tuned guitar - Learn to write your own riffs and turn them into full tracks - Easily play in cutting edge odd times like 5/4, 5/8 and 7/8 - Master chord sequence building and learn how to always pick the perfect sound From Exercises to Drop Tuned Riffs Drop-Tuned Riff Writing for Metal Guitar quickly helps you master the techniques used by today's virtuoso rhythm guitarists, and presents them all in Chris Zoupa's hilariously irreverent teaching style that's loved by millions on YouTube. Open your ears to over 130 incredible new approaches to writing music for drop tuned guitar. But be warned... you'll be a different player on the other side! Buy it now and take your drop tuned guitar playing to a whole new level.