Kirk Hammet guitar solo ("In the style of" w/Kristofer Dahl)

Time to look at the style of this extremely popular heavy metal guitarist - no wonder, he is the lead guitarist of Metallica: Kirk Hammett.

Conveniently enough, this lesson comes right after the Masterclass "Hot Blues" lesson - because Kirk Hammett's style is in fact heavily inspired by blues. This lesson will mainly deal with Kirk's solo style from the Metallica "Black Album" and onwards . Mr Hammett himself claims his goal with his new solo approach was to get "a bit bluesier" - and the result was an effective blend of metal, blues and wah-wah driven madness.

In this lesson you will get a hang of some typical Kirk Hammet style licks, you should also follow my example and use these ideas to make your own "Metallica-style" improvisation over the backing track. All the licks covered here will work nicely in E minor (except where note otherwise) - E minor is the the most common heavy metal key, so learn it well.

Now let's take a trip to heavy metal land...
Full lesson (21 videos) available at www.guitarmasterclass.net

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Kirk
• Hammett
• Metallica
• guitar
• solo
• wah-wah
• heavy
• blues

[KmartGuitar]

of course. throw a wah pedal in anything and it'll automatically sound like kirk.

[ReebHound]

"um excuse me mister, you have a giant dildo on your headstock.

[BerkoGames]

0:48 - 0:49

Which song ?

[roryport]

You suck Kirk Can pull any better solo

Out of his ass at a moments notice- Lik Library is better because they know what they're doing

[MBvolcom92]

Kirk hammet is the worst lead guitarist ever!

[pivetlord13]

sounds nothing like kirk

[MrJoshiey]

I don't like the sound of his guitar, if he thinks that sounds good he has hearing problems!

[TheCelestialTeacup]

Give anyone who's been playing for roughly 3 years a wah pedal and they're instantly Kirk.

GIMME FUE, GIMME FAI, GIMME DABAJABAZAI!

[MrJoshiey]

@wiumiscool Opinions dude, I think that Kirk is THE coolest guitarist ever, I'm a hardcore Metallica fan so I'm obviously say that but I won't judge your opinion :P

[wiumiscool]

dont know about you guise but to me that was actually better playing than kirk himself. Now the metallica die hard fans are probabily gonna give hate comments

[b0njov1]

who else thinks that that lick at 0:48 sounds alot like a Dimebag Darrell lick?