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Josh Middleton

“String skipping can mimic sweep picking and cover a lot of ground”: Learn how to make your shred solos sound a whole lot more evil with this exclusive Josh Middleton video lesson

Josh Middleton.

Here in a lesson written bespoke for Total Guitar, Sylosis main man Josh Middleton presents five licks that’ll help you get shredding. Before you dive in with his tab, first take note of some broader concepts. 

To start, Josh is using the Phrygian dominant mode throughout. So what? Well, its exotic harmony is a great start point for various sub-genres of metal guitar, particularly melodic death metal and thrash. 

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