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Jeff Loomis has established himself as one of the great heavy metal shredders with a long career as Nevermore axeman and recently with his excellent solo album release “Zero Order Phase“. Rock House Method have created an instructional DVD that encapsulates Jeff’s astonishing fretboard dexterity and somehow crammed all of this into a 2 DVD set. The great thing about Rock House Method DVD’s is they include ipod ready versions of the instruction videos on the DVD so you don’t have to do any compressing yourself. This DVD also includes the TAB for all the examples as a PDF rather than a hard copy, this means you can easily print out the examples if you want.

DVD 1 covers the Harmonic Minor Scale, The Whole Tone Scale, Diminished Scale and Arpeggios and the Lydian Dominant b2 scale. Each of these examples is put into context using licks and riffs taken from one of Jeff’s tracks which helps players not only see how the scales and arpeggios can be used in a solo but provide building blocks and inspiration to create your own. Jeff also introduces his incredible sweep picking technique and adds tapped arpeggios into the mix too. Just a note Jeff plays a 24 fret 7-String guitar (his signature Schecter) so some of these examples aren’t possible if you have a 22 fret 6-String guitar, but you can always shift them down 2 frets and miss the bottom string, and the 7-String usage is pretty sparse.

DVD 2 mainly concentrates on Arpeggio pattern and complete solos from various Loomis tracks such as “Jato Unit” and “Miles Of Machines” from his solo album and those solos alone should keep you going for a long time with just about every technique in the DVD covered in the solos!

If you are a rock or heavy metal guitar player who wants to take their playing to the next level this is a fantastic set of DVD’s, there is enough material in this release to help you work on various techniques and picking speed for years. Most guitarists will never achieve the kind of virtuosic skill level of Jeff Loomis but at least you can apply the techniques that he uses in your own music. This is a colossal release for Rock House Method which will appeal to a lot of guitarists and Rock House now offer their catalogue as an On Demand service making it even easier to get instructional videos direct to your computer!

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