German Schauss’s Serious Shred: Advanced Techniques features shred maestro German Schauss teaching advanced lessons on whammy bar technique, speed picking, sweeping, tapping, modal interchange, exotic scales, and phrasing. With exercises to improve sense of time, right-hand technique, and left-hand prowess, guitarists are taught how to transfer the music from the mind onto the fingers.

Tobias Hurwitz’s Serious Shred: Advanced Chords shares advanced lessons on chord progressions, covering concepts such as root-4 voicings, altered dominant chords, extended intervals beyond the octave, and more. Hurwitz will take your technique and soloing chops to new altitudes with his easy-to-understand demonstrations of these advanced concepts.

Jared Meeker’s Serious Shred: Essential Concepts accomplished shredder Jared Meeker shares basic lessons on right-hand technique, phrase construction, rhythms, improvising, and playing patterns. Technique and solo chops of advancing guitarists are challenged to reach next-level playing with new concepts like expanded fingerings, how to use scales and modes in a musical context, fingerstyle playing, strumming, and more.

Glenn Riley’s Serious Shred: Essential Techniques features renowned guitarist and educator Glenn Riley teaching the essential elements to becoming a great shredder. Riley shares techniques like bending, vibrato, tremolo, tapping, pinch harmonics, sweep picking, legato playing, fingerstyle, and more. Riley guides guitarist in a fast yet easy-to-understand method to create a foundation for masterful shred playing.

Dave Martone’s Serious Shred: Advanced Scales contains the essential scales that lead to broader a vocabulary and improved playing using boxes (or shapes), formulas, and patterns. Learn about connecting boxes, modes, blues scales, modal interchange, three-string patterns, and creative ways to use pentatonic scales. Martone provides exercises that span the entire fretboard for every scale covered.

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