Jamie Hunt
Jamie is a regular contributor to Guitar Techniques and Total Guitar magazines. He is also a Principal Lecturer in guitar and live performance at BIMM Bristol. Alongside this, he shares seven string guitar duties with Steve Smyth (ex-Testament, ex-Nevermore, Forbidden), in the modern thrash metal band One Machine. Additionally, Jamie is the UK brand ambassador for ESP guitars, where he creates product demos and delivers clinics across the UK and throughout the Scandinavian countries. More recently, he co-created the ESP School of Metal Guitar, where a team of versatile metal guitarists break down all things heavy.
Latest articles by Jamie Hunt
Weaponize your picking hand with this lesson in the bruising riffing style of Anthrax rhythm kingpin Scott Ian
By Jamie Hunt published
If you've got the time, this lesson'll whip your metal rhythm chops into shape. You might even call it a mosh pit-starter
Learn how Adam Jones forged his rhythmically audacious Tool riffing style
By Jamie Hunt published
We unpack the rhythmically complex metal style of Tool’s polymath guitarist, improving your timing and legato in the process
Everybody knows John Petrucci for his God-like shredding abilities, but the Dream Theater virtuoso’s next-level rhythm playing deserves more attention
By Jamie Hunt published
We examine the different approaches Petrucci takes for world-building with metal riffs – playing in different time signatures and executing them with on-point precision
Learn the brutal, evil-sounding rhythm style of Slayer's Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King
By Jamie Hunt published
Hell awaits in this lesson in the era-defining riffing style of thrash metal's most dynamic duo
Dimebag Darrell wrote the book on the art of shredding – but his rhythm style took metal riffing to a new level
By Jamie Hunt published
It's time to toss some melodic motifs into the meat grinder for a high-gain rhythm assault in the style of the late Pantera firebrand and Guitar World Columnist, Dimebag Darrell
James Hetfield is the undisputed master of metal rhythm guitar – and his downpicking will seriously test your abilities
By Jamie Hunt published
Get to grips with the Metallica frontman’s punishing palm-muting and chugging rhythms
‘Hammer-ons from nowhere’ can blow your guitar playing wide open
By Jamie Hunt published
This Greg Howe and Joe Satriani-favored technique will whip your hammer-ons, pull-offs, tapping, and muting into shape
Learn Iron Maiden’s galloping rhythm guitar style in a lesson that packs their triple-guitar approach into one
By Jamie Hunt published
This action-packed metal lesson will hone your palm-muting and cram Maiden’s triple-guitar approach into one all-action rhythm part
K.K. Downing and Glenn Tipton brought British steel to the world with Judas Priest – learn the secrets behind the metal gods’ seminal rhythm style
By Jamie Hunt published
Fall to your knees and repent if you please, it’s time to dial it back to Priest’s glory days with a lesson that’ll whip your eighth and 16th-note rhythm playing into shape
Tony Iommi gave birth to heavy metal – and learning his techniques will make you a better riff writer
By Jamie Hunt published
In this metal rhythm lesson, we take the art form back to the source, the Black Sabbath guitarist who launched a thousand riffs
Red Hot Chili Peppers survived 5 guitarist swaps, and each one shook up their sound. Here’s how the band’s guitar style evolved with each personnel shift – and what you can learn from them, too
By Jamie Hunt published
From Hillel Slovak to the second coming of John Frusciante, we trace the RHCP funk-rock sound through five guitarists
How to play Master of Puppets on guitar
By Jamie Hunt published
Learn the legendary Metallica riff that found a new lease of life on Stranger Things
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