Riff of The Day – Enter Sandman by Metallica

My name is Dan Sandman and the first song I ever performed live was Enter Sandman by Metallica. Today’s riff is the classic clean intro riff which uses the flattened fifth interval (Bb in the key of E) to great affect. The flattened fifth has often been used in heavy metal ever since Black Sabbath [...]

Dan’s Cool Warm Up Exercise and Youtube Video

Why not have a go at this fun and enjoyable technical exercise I created at the beginning of the week. It is quite a finger stretcher so make sure you take it take slowly to start with and be careful not to strain your fingers. When I play this exercise I’m thinking 1, 2, 4 [...]

Me Playing Heavy Metal

I thought it was time I put up some footage of me playing a heavy metal riff involving some palm muting and power chords. This short video relates back to the heavy metal guitar lessons I put up a while ago including warm-ups, technical exercises and some killer riffs. I hope you enjoy the clip and [...]

Some Killer Riffs

Today’s lesson is aimed at those who like to rock, those who like to rock hard, those who like to rock hard and heavy like a real heavy thing. For these to work best I recommend turning up your amp gain to braking point until it saturates the living life out of your speaker cabinet. Practice sitting [...]

Second Guitar Lesson On-line

Okay, so the second guitar lesson is for advanced electric guitar players. Ready-up your picking hands for some intense warm up exercises and practice improving you alternative picking before playing some technical heavy metal. By providing a guitar lesson on every weekday; Jamtastic is slowly on its way to becoming the best guitar blog – ever!