Guitar practice for beginners (black metal)
I am going to start off with guitar practice tutorials for beginners. As experienced guitar player as I am, I can tell you lots of inside secrets in many different genres of guitar play. Let’s start off with the king of the guitar music, the Black Metal.
This guide is a step by step tutorial into the world of Black Metal guitar play and will definitely be a big eye-opener for many black metal beginners.
First step: Corpsepaint
Before you start your regular practice routine, the most important thing is to apply corpsepaint. First, start off with covering your whole face with white paint. Let it try a bit, and then draw sad face with black paint. Add some finishing touches like random lines over your face and maybe pentagram, 666 and few reversed crosses. If your corpsepaint doesn’t look like shown on figure 1.1, then smear the paint all over your face and say that you like Primitive Pagan Metal better anyway.
Fig 1.1: Correctly applied corpsepaint
Step two: Set up the sound
Pick up your guitar and connect it to amp. Turn the gain all the way up. Turn bass all the way down, treble up. Make sure it’s loud and screetching enough.
Step three: Play guitar
Strum one (or two if you are more advanced) string as fast as you can while looking grim and necro. You can change chords if you want to, as long as you don’t do them too often. For beginners, playing open string will do just fine and gives specially primitive, grim and evil sound to your music.
Additional tricks
To add more evilness into the music, scream as loud as you can with high pitched voice. This technique is known in black metal circles as “Vocals”. If your guitar playing doesn’t sound too good, then scream louder! If your hands get tired of constant picking, take a sip of beer, scream: “SATAN, GWAARRRRRR, SATAN!” or something in that direction, then stare at the wall for few seconds with grim face, say “GWARRHH” and continue playing.
That’s it. By following these directions, you should be up on the stage in no time, and let’s not forget the crazy parties at the backstage with chicks and booze! Although, black metal people don’t get too many chicks… But they are too grim anyway to want any, there will be lots of booze though!
