Creeping Death Guitar Solo Lesson - Metallica

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In this guitar lesson video series, I will demonstrate how to play the epic thrash metal classic "Creeping Death" by Metallica.

The song starts with some epic metal stylings creating a huge and suspenseful sound. Over that part we have some harmony guitar lines start to "creep" in. Hehe...

I will show you the bottom harmony part in this video lesson. From there we will play a short power chord sequence that sets up the main rapid down picked riff of the song.

Performing this main riff is no easy feat. James Hetfield has always been known as having perhaps the greatest picking hand in all of metal. At least when it comes to fast and tight muted down strokes, which are a staple of most forms of metal guitar.

Achieving the speed required to perform this riff up to speed can be quite the challenge. One good thing though is that the riff has an ending that consists of a little legato lick played in the left hand. As short as that little legato lick is, it gives your picking hand a decent enough amount of time to recover before having to perform the fast down-strokes again.

It's amazing how such a quick little picking pause can completely change how challenging the riff is to play. The hardest aspect of this fast down-stroked muted style found in most metal is when you have to continue to play it for an extended period of time. It is a lot easier to keep your technique together in short bursts.

James Hetfield has one of those right hands that would allow him to probably play this riff for 3 hours straight. The reason he can do that is because he keeps his picking hand extremely relaxed. That is the key to mastering this style of rhythm.

In this second video lesson I will demonstrate all the remaining chords and riffs found in the song. All-in-all they are much easier to perform than the main riff.

In the third lesson I will tackle Kirk Hammett's acrobatic guitar solo note-for-note. There are some nice melodies found within all the hyper-speed guitar licks. I will be teaching the solo phrase-by-phrase which I feel is the best way to learn. Each individual phrase will give you a nice little workout I am sure.

Have Fun!

Carl..