Black Metal Guitar Mastery (Udemy.com)
Master Your Playing
Created by: Dev Gohil
Last updated February 2023
What you will learn
- To be able to build the technique to effectively play Black Metal
- Master Tremolo Picking
- To identify areas of weakness in playing
- Exercises with proven results
- Help develop songwriting abilities
How it compares
Against the other 183 rated Udemy courses in Guitar on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.9 out of 5higher than 95% of them
- Reviews172#92 of 184 by number of reviews
- Length1 hourshorter than 92% of them
- Last updatedFebruary 2023more recently than 72% of them
Course Description
The long-awaited course by Black Metal Youtuber Dev Gohil is here to help every Metal musician looking to improve their playing and technique. This has been developed to push, inspire and help the guitarist progress through riffs used and designed by Dev Gohil with the goal to improve playing, in a short period of time.
Start off slowly by building good fundamental technique and learning how to build crushing chords and riffs. You will slowly move on and learn more of the secrets and skills to master tremolo picking, learn new chords for your repertoire all in the goal to absolutely nail the techniques needed for Black Metal and more.
*If you are struggling with*
Picking Technique
Palm Muting
Tremolo Picking
Chords
Playing Speed
Chord Changes
Inspiration
Utilising Two Guitars
Playing In Time
Songwriting
This course will help.
Dev's comments: 'You will be challenged, you will have to push, and you will learn and improve if you follow the steps. All these riffs are a development of over a decade of Black Metal playing condensed into a short, approachable course. You'll learn lots of new techniques but most importantly, ways to implement them into your own writing. There is no better place to learn and build Black Metal guitar technique. This is the first of many courses and I'm excited to share this knowledge to the future generations of musicians.'
Instructor Details
- 4.9 Rating
172 Reviews
Dev Gohil
Dev Gohil is a Black Metal Musician and Youtuber offering premium Extreme Metal Content. Dev has been performing, touring and recording Metal music for over a decade and has been sharing his knowledge with the world teaching students
Dev currently plays in Ereskigal, runs a solo project and played and performed in the bands:
Premature Birth, Domitorem, Aeternum, Szum, Cursed Be Thy Flesh, Diabolis Incarnate, Detention
Notable musicians he has worked with:
Snorre Ruch (Thorns), V.Einride (Whoredom Rife), Tjalve (ex-1349/Pantheon I/Svartelder)
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Reviews
By Lewis Wood on 2/15/2026
The course is very good, I am looking forward to working on these exercises and following the videos instruction over the next few months to build my guitar techniques in the various riff types that are part of Black Metal. I recommend Dev Gohil courses, and YT channel. He has my favourite Black Metal instruction materials. He is a cool bloke also. I initially rated it a 4 due to the fact the videos are not downloadable. But further reflection I updated it to 5, the reason was that the price is cheaper than a single lesson (39 AUD for 30 mins at local music store). So considering that it is very good value.
By Marin Buljan on 1/15/2026
From all the courses I've been going through, this one is far far the best! Not just for BM, but it teaches you crucial techniques for any type of music (rhythm, correct timing) and most importantly, slow approach at first. Also, it has simple structure and only 10 lessons but all are musically applicable. For sure is good that prior to that student learns music theory like intervals, how chords are made and chords shapes. For me its easy to follow form this perspective. Advice, start really slow as Dev said. That most common mistake for all of us I think. Will buy 2nd course for sure. Plus guy is really good teacher!
By Steve on 7/7/2025
This guy seems like a typical black metal musician: Very talented and super nice. Haha. Where he breaks expectation is by being a very good teacher as well. His progression is easy to follow, tricky to master, as it should be. I can see myself getting better, faster and more proficient with each level I focus on. It's exciting I could not ask for more. Thanks so much Dev.
By Daniel Violante on 2/2/2025
Great course! Very well explained all of the lessos, shows you what to do and how. I will love to have more courses from you, mainly showing more tremolo picking and more chords and some black metal theory on how to make a full songs. Thank you!
By Victor Temnograd on 11/24/2023
I was planning to finish the course before reviewing but I'm only on the second lesson and I've already improved my playing. Big improvement in strumming & chord changes after a couple of day's on the second lesson. Thanks Dev!
By Afra R on 8/23/2023
My playing is MUCH more consistent and clean after having gone through the lessons and making practice routines out of the exercises. The exercises are so varied that the techniques you learn can be used for any style of metal, not just BM. Something Dev does really well is providing you with the motivation you need to really push yourself to play fast, clean, and fierce. Highly recommended for intermediate-level and above guitarists, though beginners could definitely benefit as well by playing the exercises at lower tempos. Really looking forward to future courses.
By Alyxander Ashwood on 6/29/2023
iv been watching this guy for ages i practically learned how to play black metal from him. iv been playing for 12 years, and now im in a black metal band and play guitar and vocals. I deffently recommend buying his corse because im learning more then his youtube videos!!!!
By Marius Stewart on 6/24/2023
The instructions come short and to the point, what makes me appreciate his art of teaching. I assume most sections will be easy to pick up for intermediate (or just the more experienced) players - probably makes it perfect for beginners - yet those last bunch, yes, I am looking at you Part IX, are quite the challenge for me ... Overall great fun, good riffs with proper technique to improve on! The resources work and sound great, too.
By Babis on 2/4/2023
Tons of gathered experiense in 10 short courses! From technical point of view it addresses to all metalheads! In all levels it has something to say. Bigest advantage than youtube videos, is that it gives a clear guidline about how can you build up speed and "clean" aggressive playing in various types of riffs Other heavy - metalers may find out what is the difference in black metal concerning chord progression and feeling, and of course NO SOLOS!!!
By Adam on 1/12/2023
Great coarse so far, the backing tracks great and having the riffs steadily increase in difficulty is very helpful for finding what i need to practice
Quality Score
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Overall Score : 98 / 100






