Music Theory for METAL (Beginner's Guide)

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[Bernthguitar]

A 30-day learning program with play-along exercises, guitar pro files, tabs, backing tracks, and much more - have fun 🤘

[amazingthingsfromaroundthe]

You can learn so much more by exploring all genre's of music not just 1 or 2. It's all music at it's core. Take things you can learn from pop and incorporate it into metal. Jazz and classical are almost metal anyways just without the high gain.

[rohitchaoji]

I think for genres like metal and punk, the attitude of not learning music theory still ends up working as long as you just practice your chops and use your own creativity. But it also is a bottleneck. I can't remember how many times I wrote a bunch of riffs, but had no idea how to put them together or good and proper transitions that would work. Just learning music theory at a basic to intermediate level elevated my songwriting by quite a lot because I was now comfortable fitting different pieces of music together without hours of trial and error.

[Ap-sznb]

I started playing guitar and had no lessons but trained myself by tabs from e.g. Metallica about 17 years ago. I cannot grasp the fact that nowadays there is so much info online which helps the starters. At my early days there was nothing but horribly wrong tabs and old-fashioned books. I have to admit that i am a bit jealous of the current generation 😁

[Viktor.Undead]

I have to say I barely understood much, I am familiar with some stuff not all but it makes sense how all of this can actually expand your mind and make you understand your instrument so much better

[PAULTHEWALLOFSOUND]

I'm totally self taught, started with chords, stuck with that for years lol, at 51 I'm starting to take my playing abit more seriously, so now working on scales, solo's. But when it comes to number's i have a condition abit like dyslexia, number's just won't sink in, i can't remember the name of this but i did a test with a psychologist who diagnosed me with this thing. So i play to my strengths my ears, looking at patterns because thats how i see everything on a neck, it's all patterns. My neighbour is trying to teach me how to read music, and tbh i just like to improvise, and sometimes a song will come out from that. It's how i learned R.A.T.M K.I.T.N.O was messing with drop D. I would say there is all sorts of ways to learn music. And mainly just enjoy what you can do, and things will happen.

[degreelobwedge]

Another super important reason for learning at least the minimum amount of music theory that you outlined in this video is that it gives you a language to understand and communicate musical concepts: Its so much easier to learn a song if you recognize the key or the scale its using and you have words you can use to explain your song ideas to your band mates.

[slimcastillo]

As an education graduate and a heavy metal enthusiast. I was fortunate to have studied music theory as part of our curriculum. It was really a milestone to My playing during the 90s we don't have youtube at that time and sometimes we would learn songs by ear. Oh yeah if you really want to improve your ear training learn to play the keyboards as well, it will be a big help. But Bernth's channel is a good refresher, especially with the proper pick positioning I grew up watching REH Videos but proper picking approach and theory weren't taught on those videos.

[stefanhalbritter]

Started today as a new Patreon member with the beginner music theory course (visualizing the fretboard).
After the 1st hour, I can finally SEE THE NOTES on the fretboard 🙌

Yes, I had some prior knowledge as an autodidact but never mastered the fretboard neither chord or scale theory in its details beside knowing the boxes and 3 NPs shapes.

Due to your exercises, it was a real boost today for years 🙌
It’s still a long way, many lessons to master but I can’t wait to make some cool improvisations on your 7th chord backing track in today’s released 2nd music theory course 🤤

Greetings from Germany, you are the guitar teacher I never had!
Stefan

[johnsurreal]

I'm a drummer but I love how you open up the concept. Your videos are very inspiring and well made, keep it up Sir!

[SludgyMuffler]

I've been playing bass and guitar for almost 20 years. But I've only ever learned riffs and a handful of songs from start to finish. When I played in a band the other members wrote my parts and I just learned them. It was well and good. I memorized my parts, practiced them relentlessly, and was never late to a practice or gig.
But now I want to explore music more in depth and get a better handle on it, especially since I just ordered my very first nine string.
Thank you, Bernth, for all the hard work you do in making these videos. I'm enjoying all of them so far and will more than likely join your Patreon once I'm back from this business trip. Metal forever!!

[fullpath]

You nailed it Bernth, I do feel like I am learning an endless number of "guitar exercises" I am sure "can" sound great, but whenever I practice arps, scales, triads 99% of it sounds like "twinkle twinkle little star" (maybe it's just me) I practice them anyway. I treat the exercises like steppingstones (did I mention endleess 🙂) I have to surpass to get to the inner guitar bad ass I know is there.

Unlike some of your Shredders (hello everybody 🙂) I know I need music theory in my brain. Music theory and I are working on our communication skills. I "understand" how it all fits together: circle of fifths, modes, scales, how they are divided (major, minor, melodic, harmonic) but I have yet to memorize chord-scale relationships, intervals (perfect fifth sure, but what was that other one???)

It is thanks to great YouTubers like yourself sharing the golden knowledge. I know half of the notes on the fretboard because of your guidance, (soon to know the remainder :-) I switched to fingerstyle almost 30 years ago, (when I tried to let go of the dream of being a shredder) tried some smaller super hard picks, (your suggestion, one is actually made of stone) spent two weeks with your picking exercises and I am already better than I ever was before with a pick. If I can just, no, WHEN I get through this chord- key- interval- scale relationship memorization hurdle; when I play I will be able to understand which note, notes, power chords, or chords are more or less likely candidates to be played next. Then, I WILL become a SHREDDER after all!!! ;-) Thank you Bernth.

[smolpickenergy]

My journey on guitar? Boi I took mad notes on this. This is exactly the information and direction I needed to get past this plateau. Right now I feel more like a football coach than an athlete and I think this info will get me away from noodling all the time. Thank you!

[jackmueller]

I subscribed, and you immediately said, "Yes, now you're finally one of us." Well played

[matiosmi]

When it comes to my relationship with music theory, it's a bit controversial but works for me: right now I'm recording myself whistling over backing tracks and "guitarising" that. I do have quite a solid foundation about scales & arpeggios, but I decided it's better to follow intuition and "learn yourself" from that perspective - over the past 8 years of guitar playing I realised that creating music step by step instead of in real time leads to choice paralysis with the technical options at hand and makes you more preoccupied how it looks on the fretboard rather than how it sounds.

But again, it's just my experience.

[creature]

Hey Bernth.

Seit einiger Zeit verfolge ich Deine Videos. Ich muss sagen, dass Ihr echt geilen Stuff produziert!

Gleichzeitig fühle ich mich selbst als Gitarrist eher mittelmäßig. Ich würde gern eines Tages euren harten Battles beitreten. Naja, ich übe fleißig weiter, durch Dich habe ich schon ein bisschen mehr gelernt.

Macht weiter so, Grüße von Deutschland nach Österreich! \m/

[_wve_]

This is exactly what I wanted in my life right now. Thank you so much Bernth ❤️

[johanlues]

Bernth i want more music, love the album, i was hooked sins the day you released it. Thanks for the great music... And the tips.

[brakpseudonimu]

Me learning intervals instead of checking tiktok on the toilet: Prrrt! Oh, that's a diminished 5th!

[fkkkkkenig]

So happy I found your channel man. Not sure if I'll ever be good enough to play for an audience, but I sure enjoy learning and playing for my own sake