Uploaded March 2024 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

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If there's one metal guitar method that will allow you to play to play complex rhythms and create better metal riffs, it's galloping.

This is a technique that combines alternate picking and palm muting. What makes galloping on guitar stand out is the timing.

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Here are the timestamps to the 3 exercises below:

00:00 - 00:53 - How learning to gallop will help you
00:54 - 02:53 - Basics of galloping
02:54 - 04:24 - Galloping exercise 1
04:26 - 05:32 - Galloping exercise 2
05:33 - 07:39 - Galloping exercise 3
07:40 - 10:39 - Additional tips
10:40 - What to do next

We hope this galloping on guitar helps you play and write some awesome metal riffs.

Let us know in the comments if you have any questions.

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