Jimmy Lardner-Brown is a guitarist, guitar teacher and writer from Sydney, Australia.

He is the lead guitarist for thrash/death metal band Killrazer, writes a regular shred/metal column for Australian Guitar Magazine and has won two national 'Best Guitarist' competitions.

In this website you'll find an archive of all Jimmy's 'Shredded Metal' guitar technique columns from Australian Guitar Magazine (including TAB and audio examples). These columns cover all aspects of shred and metal guitar such as scales, arpeggios, sweep picking, alternate picking, legato playing, string skipping, bending, exotic scales, tapping and more.

Also featured here are instructional video lessons from Australian Guitar Magazine. In these, Jimmy teaches and demonstrates all the basic scales, arpeggios, techniques, licks and theory needed to master the fundamentals of shred and metal lead playing.

As well as this, there are videos and downloads of Jimmy's own music and performances.

Jimmy endorses Ibanez Guitars and Dean Markley Strings.