Warming up Exercises
Start at 120 BPM and increase the tempos as you feel better each time.
1) Chromatic exercise from E 6th bass string.
(DOWN- UP PICKING)
With bar from fifth fret. Move the bar at fourth, third, second and first fret as you feel better at each time.
(DOWN- UP PICKING)
From 1st E string.
(DOWN- UP PICKING)
Clean arpeggiated chords
2) Clean chords from “Circle of Pain” song, from Sweet Vengeance album. With alternate picking (DOWN- UP PICKING) Make sure you pick the fourth note as a down pick.
3) Clean chords end theme of “The Glow of the Setting Sun” song from Sweet Vengeance album. Hybrid Picking (use pick and fingers at the same time a-la Jimmy Page from Led Zeppelin, an example would be Stairway to Heaven intro clean theme intro.
4) Clean Chords on ”Wearing a Martyrs Crown” behind lead title track song.
Uses alternate picking.
Riffing
5) “Wearing a Martyrs Crown” title track. Intro, verse, and chorus riffs.
Alternate and down picking.
Lead Jam
6) Lead guitar jam on E minor scale and E pentatonic blues scale.
P.S. Nightrage is tuned on standard C tuning, 2 whole steps down from normal tuning. From bottom E bass string.
C F A# D# G C
