How Do You Play Death Metal Guitar?
• Learn basic guitar skills. Power chords, hammer-ons and pull-offs, harmonics, and other basic skills are needed to play any genre of music, not just death metal. • Listen to some death metal. Google “death metal bands” and see what you come up with. Make sure the lyrics don’t offend you before trying to learn death metal. • Find a “slower” song to learn at first. Before you run off buying equipment to play, try learning a song or two. A good place to start is Cannibal Corpse’s “Infinite Misery.” • Examine the options of death metal you have. There’s technical death metal, which is more complex. Melodic death metal includes more melody then an all out assault of sound. • Get equipment for the job. A good distortion pedal is necessary, and an overdrive pedal is good too. Make sure your amp sounds good with death metal. You don’t need an entire stack, but waging a metal war on a little 8-watt practice amp is a bad idea. • Adjust your guitar, amp, and effects settings. This isn’t a hard
