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Whole tone
shred licks
shred licks
Whole Tone Shred Licks
Three whole tone licks for that unsettling, horror-movie sound in your solos. Free tab pack included.
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Andy Muller Guitar
Thrash riffs, dual harmonies and melodic shred, broken down so you can play them. Free lessons on YouTube, free tabs here, and the occasional dispatch from the KillScythe stage.
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Theory is a tool,
Theory is a tool,
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To me, music theory is a shortcut to the sounds you love hearing, not a strict set of rules for the guitar. Always keep working on your technique and your theory, but never at the cost of the weird, quirky parts of your playing. Some of the most famous guitarists in metal have unconventional technique and strange note choices, and that's exactly what makes them stand out.
You probably learn from lots of teachers, so I don't try to give you a full course on every scale. Each lesson gives you the most important bits: how to pull the sound you want out of a scale. No pre-reading, no homework first. Pick the concept you want to learn and jump straight in.
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Whole Tone Shred Licks
3 licks · PDF tab pack · standard tuning
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About
Who's Andy?
I'm a metal guitarist from Perth, Scotland. I've been playing since 2003, studied at the Academy of Music and Sound in Edinburgh, and founded the thrash band KillScythe.
I grew up listening to the classic 80s Bay Area bands, and later developed a love for hair metal and 80s rock. Combine that with newer bands like Trivium, Sylosis and Revocation, and you get my style: heavy but chordy riffs.
Like Whitesnake playing at 200bpm.
Tight rhythm playing, dual harmonies and melodic shred are what I'm all about, and Andy Muller Guitar is where I break it down so you can play it too.
GUITARS
Jackson Rhodes & King V · Charvel So-Cal & DK
AMP
EVH 5150III 50W + Tube Screamer
TUNINGS
Standard, E-flat, D standard
The band
KillScythe
Thrash from Perth, formed in 2025. Songs about history, Lovecraft and ancient warfare, with twin-guitar harmonies front and centre. The self-titled EP, featuring "Byzantium Burning" and "Dreaming a Darker Dimension", is out now on vinyl, CD and digital.
