Using a bow, E bow, paper bridge, chopstick trills, spoon bridge, And gimmicky techniques which look cool, not necessarily sounding too different like playing with teeth, playing behind the back.. They even forgot some basic techniques like simple fingerpicking, bending, trem picking, whammy dives, whammy vibratos, simple harmonics.. i mean you could say those aren't difficult techniques but c'mon they had open chords there.. Also Jordan Rudess has recently been doing this thing on his instagram where he plays keys with right hand, and legato guitar with his left both playing in unison.. i thought thats so cool..
That list included a lot of trivial stuff while completely missing these : 1. "Trampolinig Oz Fox Stryper" - and give credit to Oz Fox from Stryper since I haven't seen anyone else use this technique 2. Cascade Harmonics (do pull-offs with two fingers while lightly touching and sliding one fingers in the pickup area) 3. Using the fretting hand to finger a harmonic near the 3rd fret of the lowest (thickest!) string and then pressing down the note and bending it - not sure of the name of this technique or who does it, but I think Adam D of Killswitch Engage must use it. 4. Bending behind the nut 5. Pedal tone riffs - eg; Parkway Drive - "Idols and Anchors" 6. Unison Bends - intro of Run To The Hills by Iron Maiden
I'm really glad you didn't reshoot the video because of the sound issue with the original. Your true and honest REACTIONS to the different techniques is what made this video so good. One of my biggest pet peeves with RUclips content is when the creator titles the video "Joe reacts to XYZ" and the video is a scripted critique of 'XYZ'. A review or critique is NOT a reaction, it's the exact opposite. A review is a thoughtful analysis of the subject matter while a reaction is an emotional, visceral response. The way each of the 30 'techniques' triggered a different reaction from you made this video so fantastic.
I thought economy picking was using the least amount of pick hand movement kinda like yngwie does u can barely see his pick hand moving far from string to string n minimal movement lol Crazy! Good stuff brother
Joe Satriani wrote a series of columns for Guitar Player Magazine (I believe) in the 80s which later was published as a book. In one of these columns he explains different whammy bar techniques, one of which he calls "lizard down the throat". I think he invented the term. Btw you can hear him using it in the song Ice 9 from the Surfing album.
what about the "drill on guitar" technique like Eddie VH does on the intro to 'poundcake'? and that 'pick scrape' up and down the strings...both seem easy enough but are they? ;-)
During sweep picking you mentioned that the guitar you had on your hand isn't the right one for it.. that's an interesting topic i think.. would love to see a video where you talk about which guitars/what kinda guitars would be appropriate for different techniques.. I've always had a strat style guitar, and have recently got a les paul style guitar.. and I've always found many techniques like sweep picking and more 'shred-style' techniques aren't very easy on the strat style.. so it makes me wonder if getting a different style guitar would open different doors..
@@USMarine75 I was going to say something similar - but bear in mind the Strat Style shredder guitars were usually something like an Ibanez with hyper flat fretboards which is what you really need when you're sweeping at full speed - you don't want to be moving your right hand over a hill at the same time as synchronising with your left at 30 notes per second :). I put a very flat aftermarket neck on my cheap Strat copy to get a very creditable shredder. I remember playing a late '70s Strat in a shop once, it must have had a 9.5" radius or less - it was insane (and, to me, unplayable) - same with most Teles. Maybe Mreenal's Strat is like that which would be a tough shred... To answer the question - yes, different guitars lead you down different paths, you find certain things become easier & you gravitate to them.
@@USMarine75 yes there are always outliers and people who kinda break the 'norm'.. Yngwie Malmsteen & Dave Murray & Janick Gers come to mind for strat style & Slash for Les Paul..
@@michaelcottle6270 Yes its a revelation that I'm just realising much more recently.. I used to believe that all guitars are the same and we can play anything on any guitar, but it doesn't seem to be the case.. an interesting hypothesis i have is that not only does a player make modifications on the guitar, but also the guitar makes modifications on the player's style over the years, especially more so ij our formative years when we are more open to influences.. PS i think my guitar fretboard is 12 radius (Peavey Raptor.Exp).. I couldn't find the exact specs for this particular guitar, but Peavey has another model called Raptor Plus so I'm guessing it must be the modern equivalent of it..
This video is so refreshing, it's like sometimes we forget that every guitarist is different. I mean, everyone have their weakeness and other stuff that they shine. The best minding is to play what you like and let the music bring you joy, it's not a competition, dont put too much pressure on yourself if you're not able to play all these techniques!
Just remember, until you learn Travis picking you have to try and sleep every night knowing you are being shredded by Mary Spender. Me too brother. Lol.
Yup came in to say the same thing. It was on an old Guitar World lesson IIRC. He was demonstrating a bunch of different whammy techniques and that was one.
i saw whitesnake last year and reb beach and joel hoekstra displayed basically that entire list in a mindblowing way. the craziest 8 finger tapping licks i have ever seen
I don't call it joint shifting. I grab the B and E with ring finger, at the same time I grab the G and D string with pointer finger, I have the middle finger to work the open E and A strings.. I do entire solo in that formation sliding up or down the neck, but, you gotta lift on the slide or you'll hear it. Never named it just did it for years and Steve and I are the same age. There's so many ways to pick the strings and bending harms., bar work, all increase it's sound and affects. You're not doing one finger two strings, it's two fingers four strings.
Been a huge Beck fan since the 70's. Early in my playing days, I remember being blown away when I learned many of the things he was doing were not done with a slide. He used a tremolo as a violinist might use a bow.. May he rest in peace..
The 1 (IMHO) most important technique to learn and continuously employ all through our musical travels is "EAR TRAINING" !!! Learning to use your ears to know when your in tune or out & just knowing when something sounds musical is so important!! Using your ears to learn songs instead of relying on tabs to get all the nuances of a particular musician's style is so important in mastering any other technique you can think of !! Just thought I'd throw that out there !! Great video !!!
@@RolandSpecialSauce very true in most cases , but I have played / listened to other musicians who have been playing for years and still haven't quite mastered the technique. Bless their hearts !!
You are such a humble man. I truly enjoy watching your vids Brother. Im in the clean/acoustic phase right now. At 55, I never thought I would be dropping dirty for clean as a pass time. It is truly illuminating.
Nzinn73 Greg is great. Danny Gatton had one of the best overall right hand technique I've seen. Flat pick , middle, ring, pinky. I didn't find pick harmonics that hard, what gave me the hardest time was rest strokes on electric becuz my middle finger is a lot longer than my index. Eventually it got easier but was always easier with just index finger like Jamerson or Bruce.
Go watch Jeff Beck live at Ronnie Scotts for a bunch of techniques and Adrian Belew ...they're both exceptionally unique seen them both front row and they were stunning
Brad Gillis is a wammy master. I've always admired his control and ability to construct solos with it. The solo from the song Sentimental Street always got me, it's SO difficult to get it exactly like he does it.
I remember when I really desperately wanted to learn alternate picking, I remember I spent like a whole week just doing nothing but learning alternate picking, it was so satisfying being able to do that and pinch harmonics with relative ease. Guitar is such an endless skill it's cool passing those milestones and tracking your progress, just need to get good at tapping! Love your videos and the authenticity of them, and you're a great player too.
After finally learning to do a pinch harmonic (I always think of the part by ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons La'Grange) I developed a technique where I can flange an entire chord! I also will bend the chord pattern afterward to make something different sounding. Ascending leads is one of the harder things to develop compared to descending notes or patterns. Yngwie burns on ascending leads and sometimes relies on single string picking patterns to utilize speed picking or more notes within a measure. He has truly mastered it. One other technique I still cannot do well is, string skipping! Grrrr. The best and most difficult example I can think of is EVH in part of the lead from VH1 I'm The One!!! I was impressed with how quickly you were able to adapt nearly everything you talked about pretty fluidly. Definitely make some time to get a true classical at some point. The neck profile is wider, and a great way to practice some acoustic techniques and develop your stretching. Rock on Robert, and well done!
I have used "Lizard Down The Throat" before - as far as I can recall, I picked it up from a magazine article probably in the 90s, about/with Steve Vai... (Though it could have been Joe Satriani!) I am not a particularly technically accomplished guitarist at the best of times, but it is sweep picking that really kills me!
I like that you keep your mistakes in your videos. Reminds everyone that its ok. Whilst yt and such are fantastic for learning but people get discouraged with all the "perfection" and heavily editted players/teacher etc.
When you were doing the elephant sound and then mentioned the Joe Satriani version of it. Back in the 90's I bought Satriani's time machine music book. They explained how to do it and called it "lizard down the throat"
Shawn Lane- sequencing; Danny Gatton, Steve Trovato- hybrid picking. There's no mention of "string skipping" or "2-note harmonizing." E.g. "Hotel California" solo. Near the end of the solo, "Felder" and "Walsh" harmonize together. One guitar player CAN do the harmonizing. I do it, and I'm just a medium level player. I think GUTHRIE GOVAN knows all these techniques- he's NOT from this planet!
About 80% of this list is made of guitar dynamics rather than techniques...granted a few were mentioned but percussive strumming, thumping, selective picking, BENDING, like actual techniques that take years of effort just miraculously didn't make this list. I feel like this was created by some dude that doesn't even play guitar haha
Joel Hoekstra punches extra tough because in addition to being one of the greatest... he's also just a nice guy. Like, I can't even find a guilty-pleasure solace or enjoyment in hating him... I can't find cover in saying, "Well, sure he's amazing, but he's a total jerk." Nope. Dude is just aces all around.
One of the coolest uses of violining is by Alex Lifeson towards the beginning of Rush's Xanadu from their Fairwell to Kings album. The melody is beauitful.
He actually uses a volume pedal for the Xanadu intro (and the La Villa Strangiato intro & opening to solo). I learned guitar to Rush records in the 80's and was an Alex Lifeson fanatic, I saw him play the Xanadu intro from the 3rd row in 1983 and bought a volume pedal the following week. You can use the volume knob, but it sounds more accurate w a foot pedal, just sayin!
The Lizard down the throat I encountered first in the Satriani tab book of Surfing with the Alien in 1988. In Ice 9, around the 60th mesure, notes says that it's Joe who christened the technique.
Lizard Down The Throat came out of the song Ice 9 on Satch’s Surfing With The Alien record. 😎 I remember seeing it in the transcription as a kid and going “uh what?”. 😂
Your guitar sound was great. I like hearing picks hitting strings whenever I'm learning guitar stuff. It helps. Not being sarcastic. As for hybrid picking, Vinnie Moore is one of my favorites.
Hardest things??? Eddie's perfect tapping, pull offs to open strings, pick slides, tremelo picking....etc Yngwie's sweep picking, lighting fast scaler runs... SRV's killer vibrato and blues runs.... Paul Gilbert's string skipping and overall technical genius..... Jason Beckers arpeggio insanity and lightning fast scaler runs.... Nuno Bettencourts funk....
As a (mostly) classically-trained bass player who played upright bass for 20+ years, both "sideways vibrato" and "thumb stretching" are pretty much standard techniques. As far as "sideways vibrato," It's pretty common with all the instruments of the string orchestra, since they don't have frets to limit the microtonal motion; You are literally rocking back and forth between pitches with the ends of your fingers. The lack of frets allows you to have way more flexibility for lots of different types of vibrato marked out in scores. The "Thumb fretting" thing is more specific to low strings (Cello and Bass) as it's a super PITA to properly execute high-register passages without a bit of a "guide," which is to say your thumb provides a bit of an "anchor" so your other fingers can achieve a melodic line in a very high register while falling back on the thumbed pitch; almost like a capo or barre chord lets you determine what the "open string pitch" is. Granted this particular technique is rooted in the fact that Cello and Bass are played with the fingerboard going up and down 90 degrees to your fingering hand, and also that you've gat a gigantic wooden box without cutouts to deal with, so you pretty much have to employ it in the upper register (if you ever even play there in a score). Cool to see Jake employ this, I never knew he did!
I gotta say I really like the contrast between Robert's musical background and his personality. I mean, he clearly grew up with 80's hard rock where there was generally a lot of boastfulness and cockiness (no matter what role in the band) and just sheer shallowness. He's the total opposite of that as he seems like a well-adjusted, nice and very down-to-earth kind of dude, so yeah, major kudos to his family (and himself) for raising him the way he turned out to be. This, to me, is very rock 'n' roll 🤘
Actually, the "Lizard down the Throat" Lick is a Satriani Thang, that he did either on the Not Of This Earth Album, or the Surfing With The Alien Album!!! It was so long ago that I don't remember!!! 😃😃😃❤❤❤ OH, and the 3 note per string Pentatonics is probably the Easiest and Most Logical way to get into the Holdsworth Wide Stretch Interval Stuff!!! 😜🤪😝😄😄😄❤❤❤
Bang on, Sweeps! Guitar for the Practical Musician described this in an interview with Joe which was based around the “Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing” tab.
I gotta agree. I love hibernation and most of the amboy dukes stuff. But I got to put a word in for jimi as well. Listen closely to third stone from the sun comes to mind but there are many.
Not about this video per se, but just gotta say from having recently watched different vids of yours from a few years apart, it's amazing how good you've gotten at interacting with us audience members through the camera. Totally comfortable etc. Really cool to see.
Nice! Finally something to work with. I hate when I go to learn a song on RUclips and the creator is like, this is how you do a G chord... Edit: my pinch harmonics came naturally oddly enough.
My drummer's pinch harmonics cane naturally to him too after way less time of playing than I. I'm a bit jealous but it's just true that it comes naturally to some people and not others. I'm still working on them and after 14 years of playing I still miss them a lot.
My guitarist taught me the violining technique over 25 years ago. It's a legit name for what guitarists today call volume swells. I guess the names are interchangeable.
I didn't check the article, but I imagine quarter tones might come into play between the minor and major 3rd and a minor and major seventh in bluesy stuff. Like Neal Schon's Solo in Lights.
I'm not taking a shot or throwing shade, because you're an excellent guitarist and Im 60 and struggle every day, but it's kinda comforting to someone as yourself admit that they can't do it all! If all I did was practice steel guitar licks on a tele, I'd never learn 'em while you would nail a dozen licks in a day! Thanks for an awesome video!!!
Yeah that first technique I picked up from a Brad Gillis video don't remember what he calls it but he does it in his solo on "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"
Very nice coverage mate, the sound quality did not affect my enjoyment in anyway 😁. Like yourself I began to learn Travis picking about eight years ago and almost stored it then moved onto stupid blues 😂 Like deployed 👍 😎🎙🎸✅️
The most awesome display EVER actually . Nobody has ever done that in the history of the world . Eddie's " Woman in Love" intro was way way way ahead of it's time also .
definitely heard of gargle and violining as techniques back in the 90s in guitar magazzines. (not just guitar world either, UK magazines too) one i would add is for acoustic.. adding a walking bassline beneath a melody.
very comprehensive and honest revelations of many techniques with explanations within your own limitations(which you honestly admitted unlike many youtubers) make this a gem of a video for any upcoming guitar player who wants improvement in their playing whichever level. 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
What techniques did they leave out? The def forgot Trills.
Using a bow, E bow, paper bridge, chopstick trills, spoon bridge,
And gimmicky techniques which look cool, not necessarily sounding too different like playing with teeth, playing behind the back..
They even forgot some basic techniques like simple fingerpicking, bending, trem picking, whammy dives, whammy vibratos, simple harmonics.. i mean you could say those aren't difficult techniques but c'mon they had open chords there..
Also Jordan Rudess has recently been doing this thing on his instagram where he plays keys with right hand, and legato guitar with his left both playing in unison.. i thought thats so cool..
Slide guitar
The Iommi long slide, sort of limited to one man.
Chris Arp fitting all of these in one song
Rake picking.
The hardest thing to do on guitar? Make money.
It might be harder to stop buying them with the money I haven't made?
So true! 😁
Making money may be easier to achieve than getting girls
Lol chuuuurch
You can make money? I've only lost money my whole life.
That list included a lot of trivial stuff while completely missing these :
1. "Trampolinig Oz Fox Stryper" - and give credit to Oz Fox from Stryper since I haven't seen anyone else use this technique
2. Cascade Harmonics (do pull-offs with two fingers while lightly touching and sliding one fingers in the pickup area)
3. Using the fretting hand to finger a harmonic near the 3rd fret of the lowest (thickest!) string and then pressing down the note and bending it - not sure of the name of this technique or who does it, but I think Adam D of Killswitch Engage must use it.
4. Bending behind the nut
5. Pedal tone riffs - eg; Parkway Drive - "Idols and Anchors"
6. Unison Bends - intro of Run To The Hills by Iron Maiden
I'm really glad you didn't reshoot the video because of the sound issue with the original. Your true and honest REACTIONS to the different techniques is what made this video so good. One of my biggest pet peeves with RUclips content is when the creator titles the video "Joe reacts to XYZ" and the video is a scripted critique of 'XYZ'. A review or critique is NOT a reaction, it's the exact opposite. A review is a thoughtful analysis of the subject matter while a reaction is an emotional, visceral response. The way each of the 30 'techniques' triggered a different reaction from you made this video so fantastic.
I thought economy picking was using the least amount of pick hand movement kinda like yngwie does u can barely see his pick hand moving far from string to string n minimal movement lol Crazy! Good stuff brother
Techniques like 4NPS is left out, Also Crossknit picking is not covered.
The audio sounds fine and I dig catching your spontaneous reactions. Seriously, a nice video that I’ll enjoy watching again!
Joe Satriani wrote a series of columns for Guitar Player Magazine (I believe) in the 80s which later was published as a book. In one of these columns he explains different whammy bar techniques, one of which he calls "lizard down the throat". I think he invented the term. Btw you can hear him using it in the song Ice 9 from the Surfing album.
Yup satch coined it.
Yep remember this and knew someone (you) in the comments would mention this!
that's right and is why i knew this some what obscure term.
The book Joe Satriani published with all the columns from guitar player is called “Guitar Secrets”.
@@shanepomeroy5608 Thankyou 🙂
They forgot the Stone face technique "not making faces while playing guitar" it's the hardest one.
... especially when using a wah wah
Remember Carlos"you should be making a lot of faces when you play", if you're not, well, you should....😮
what about the "drill on guitar" technique like Eddie VH does on the intro to 'poundcake'? and that 'pick scrape' up and down the strings...both seem easy enough but are they? ;-)
Lizard Down The Throat was used by Satch in Ice 9.
Trim Gargles? I dated a girl with those. Married her. You don’t let a girl with trim gargles get away.
Dude, check out that 70s song Midnight At The Oasis. Amos Garrett tracked that whole thing live, bending 3 strings at once. Just f-ing insane,
Will do!
During sweep picking you mentioned that the guitar you had on your hand isn't the right one for it.. that's an interesting topic i think.. would love to see a video where you talk about which guitars/what kinda guitars would be appropriate for different techniques.. I've always had a strat style guitar, and have recently got a les paul style guitar.. and I've always found many techniques like sweep picking and more 'shred-style' techniques aren't very easy on the strat style.. so it makes me wonder if getting a different style guitar would open different doors..
This is a great topic that I'd love to see Robert cover.
Weird because there’s a ton of shred guitarists that play Strat style guitars and few that play LP style.
@@USMarine75 I was going to say something similar - but bear in mind the Strat Style shredder guitars were usually something like an Ibanez with hyper flat fretboards which is what you really need when you're sweeping at full speed - you don't want to be moving your right hand over a hill at the same time as synchronising with your left at 30 notes per second :). I put a very flat aftermarket neck on my cheap Strat copy to get a very creditable shredder. I remember playing a late '70s Strat in a shop once, it must have had a 9.5" radius or less - it was insane (and, to me, unplayable) - same with most Teles. Maybe Mreenal's Strat is like that which would be a tough shred... To answer the question - yes, different guitars lead you down different paths, you find certain things become easier & you gravitate to them.
@@USMarine75 yes there are always outliers and people who kinda break the 'norm'.. Yngwie Malmsteen & Dave Murray & Janick Gers come to mind for strat style & Slash for Les Paul..
@@michaelcottle6270 Yes its a revelation that I'm just realising much more recently.. I used to believe that all guitars are the same and we can play anything on any guitar, but it doesn't seem to be the case.. an interesting hypothesis i have is that not only does a player make modifications on the guitar, but also the guitar makes modifications on the player's style over the years, especially more so ij our formative years when we are more open to influences..
PS i think my guitar fretboard is 12 radius (Peavey Raptor.Exp).. I couldn't find the exact specs for this particular guitar, but Peavey has another model called Raptor Plus so I'm guessing it must be the modern equivalent of it..
This video is so refreshing, it's like sometimes we forget that every guitarist is different. I mean, everyone have their weakeness and other stuff that they shine. The best minding is to play what you like and let the music bring you joy, it's not a competition, dont put too much pressure on yourself if you're not able to play all these techniques!
Agreed
Most people don’t like a song because it’s hard to play,simple but inspired makes much better music
George Lynch has some awesome solos!
Just remember, until you learn Travis picking you have to try and sleep every night knowing you are being shredded by Mary Spender. Me too brother. Lol.
LOL! Mary is kicking my ass!
Satriani himself actually calls that lick the "lizard down the throat".
Thats amazing I've never heard that before.
Yup came in to say the same thing. It was on an old Guitar World lesson IIRC. He was demonstrating a bunch of different whammy techniques and that was one.
The hardest technique for me so far is the one where you hold down the strings on the fretboard then hit them with the pick. 😅
The 30 most difficult techniques are,, all Jeff Beck's!
Any questions? 😁🎸
Thanks for showing us the 30 most difficult guitar techniques. I think I can do 3 of them 😀
i saw whitesnake last year and reb beach and joel hoekstra displayed basically that entire list in a mindblowing way. the craziest 8 finger tapping licks i have ever seen
The hardest technique is playing it fast and accurate without making mistakes.
or even slow and accurate.
I don't call it joint shifting. I grab the B and E with ring finger, at the same time I grab the G and D string with pointer finger, I have the middle finger to work the open E and A strings.. I do entire solo in that formation sliding up or down the neck, but, you gotta lift on the slide or you'll hear it.
Never named it just did it for years and Steve and I are the same age. There's so many ways to pick the strings and bending harms., bar work, all increase it's sound and affects.
You're not doing one finger two strings, it's two fingers four strings.
Been a huge Beck fan since the 70's. Early in my playing days, I remember being blown away when I learned many of the things he was doing were not done with a slide. He used a tremolo as a violinist might use a bow..
May he rest in peace..
Jeff Beck used all of these effortlessly, he was the master of the whammy bar.
And his wasn't totally floating either.
Not all of them. Hybrid picking for example isn't something he did. He would need to use a pick in the first place.
The 1 (IMHO) most important technique to learn and continuously employ all through our musical travels is "EAR TRAINING" !!! Learning to use your ears to know when your in tune or out & just knowing when something sounds musical is so important!! Using your ears to learn songs instead of relying on tabs to get all the nuances of a particular musician's style is so important in mastering any other technique you can think of !! Just thought I'd throw that out there !! Great video !!!
I think that just comes with time though. Your ears tend to become trained automatically the longer you play.
@@RolandSpecialSauce very true in most cases , but I have played / listened to other musicians who have been playing for years and still haven't quite mastered the technique. Bless their hearts !!
Lizard down the throat is a Joe Satriani thing from Surfing. There was a guitar mag article on the technique in the early 90's
You are such a humble man. I truly enjoy watching your vids Brother. Im in the clean/acoustic phase right now. At 55, I never thought I would be dropping dirty for clean as a pass time. It is truly illuminating.
Greg Koch has one of the best hybrid picking techniques and sounds I've ever heard.
Yes. He has it worked out. I really think if Danny gatton was alive. With today’s equipment. He would have leaned to tone of Koch
Along with chicken pickin chord bending Travis picking and EVERYTHING ELSE!! I would put the Mansquatch toe to toe with ANY guitarist
Nzinn73 Greg is great. Danny Gatton had one of the best overall right hand technique I've seen. Flat pick , middle, ring, pinky. I didn't find pick harmonics that hard, what gave me the hardest time was rest strokes on electric becuz my middle finger is a lot longer than my index. Eventually it got easier but was always easier with just index finger like Jamerson or Bruce.
Go watch Jeff Beck live at Ronnie Scotts for a bunch of techniques and Adrian Belew ...they're both exceptionally unique seen them both front row and they were stunning
Belew is probably the most entertaining guitarist I've seen live
Brad Gillis is a wammy master. I've always admired his control and ability to construct solos with it. The solo from the song Sentimental Street always got me, it's SO difficult to get it exactly like he does it.
His Kahler (Floyd?I think he was a Kahler guy at the time..)flutter (Dont tell; me you love me) was the first thing i thought of at 1:48 trim gargles.
The NIGHTRANGER duo have many excellent solos. To me they need to be near TOP 10 of my generation of players.
Agreed…that’s my favorite solo from Brad.
I remember when I really desperately wanted to learn alternate picking, I remember I spent like a whole week just doing nothing but learning alternate picking, it was so satisfying being able to do that and pinch harmonics with relative ease. Guitar is such an endless skill it's cool passing those milestones and tracking your progress, just need to get good at tapping! Love your videos and the authenticity of them, and you're a great player too.
Sideways vibrato is basically what I learned when I studied classical guitar. Ngl rock vibrato is hard for me to do, like SRV vibrato..can't do it.
After finally learning to do a pinch harmonic (I always think of the part by ZZ Tops Billy Gibbons La'Grange) I developed a technique where I can flange an entire chord! I also will bend the chord pattern afterward to make something different sounding. Ascending leads is one of the harder things to develop compared to descending notes or patterns. Yngwie burns on ascending leads and sometimes relies on single string picking patterns to utilize speed picking or more notes within a measure. He has truly mastered it. One other technique I still cannot do well is, string skipping! Grrrr. The best and most difficult example I can think of is EVH in part of the lead from VH1 I'm The One!!! I was impressed with how quickly you were able to adapt nearly everything you talked about pretty fluidly. Definitely make some time to get a true classical at some point. The neck profile is wider, and a great way to practice some acoustic techniques and develop your stretching. Rock on Robert, and well done!
Glad to see rasgueado (#14) on here. I think even more difficult is the alzapua technique...also from flamenco.
trim gargles shoud be on someones Only Fans page
Hadn’t heard the term “Lizard down the throat “ but have used the slide up /dive bomb technique.
Definitely from the Vai/Satch school.
Satch/Vai School!
I have used "Lizard Down The Throat" before - as far as I can recall, I picked it up from a magazine article probably in the 90s, about/with Steve Vai... (Though it could have been Joe Satriani!) I am not a particularly technically accomplished guitarist at the best of times, but it is sweep picking that really kills me!
Satriani 🎸!
I like that you keep your mistakes in your videos. Reminds everyone that its ok. Whilst yt and such are fantastic for learning but people get discouraged with all the "perfection" and heavily editted players/teacher etc.
Controlled feedback = Ted Nugent's song Hibernation ...
When you were doing the elephant sound and then mentioned the Joe Satriani version of it. Back in the 90's I bought Satriani's time machine music book. They explained how to do it and called it "lizard down the throat"
Shawn Lane- sequencing; Danny Gatton, Steve Trovato- hybrid picking. There's no mention of "string skipping" or "2-note harmonizing." E.g. "Hotel California" solo. Near the end of the solo, "Felder" and "Walsh" harmonize together. One guitar player CAN do the harmonizing. I do it, and I'm just a medium level player. I think GUTHRIE GOVAN knows all these techniques- he's NOT from this planet!
About 80% of this list is made of guitar dynamics rather than techniques...granted a few were mentioned but percussive strumming, thumping, selective picking, BENDING, like actual techniques that take years of effort just miraculously didn't make this list. I feel like this was created by some dude that doesn't even play guitar haha
Joel Hoekstra punches extra tough because in addition to being one of the greatest... he's also just a nice guy. Like, I can't even find a guilty-pleasure solace or enjoyment in hating him... I can't find cover in saying, "Well, sure he's amazing, but he's a total jerk."
Nope. Dude is just aces all around.
The most common 30 problems I notice when I play with shredders are rhythm guitar related.
MOST DIFFICULT TECHNIQUE MISSED - TURNING THE TUNING PAGES IN REAL TIME as part of the melody (a la Adrian Legg)
One of the coolest uses of violining is by Alex Lifeson towards the beginning of Rush's Xanadu from their Fairwell to Kings album. The melody is beauitful.
He actually uses a volume pedal for the Xanadu intro (and the La Villa Strangiato intro & opening to solo). I learned guitar to Rush records in the 80's and was an Alex Lifeson fanatic, I saw him play the Xanadu intro from the 3rd row in 1983 and bought a volume pedal the following week.
You can use the volume knob, but it sounds more accurate w a foot pedal, just sayin!
Robert Baker “plays Eddie and Nuno tapping perfectly”
Also Robert Baker “I never really got good at tapping”
The Lizard down the throat I encountered first in the Satriani tab book of Surfing with the Alien in 1988. In Ice 9, around the 60th mesure, notes says that it's Joe who christened the technique.
Lizard Down The Throat came out of the song Ice 9 on Satch’s Surfing With The Alien record. 😎 I remember seeing it in the transcription as a kid and going “uh what?”. 😂
Lizzard Down The Throat term was coined by Satriani in his Tab book for Surfing With The Alien. But he does it on the Low E String.🙃
Besides being a great player, you’re actually pretty funny!✌️🤪🎸🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵
I like the sound just from the camera mic. It's how I learned, by people showing me licks live, without "incredible audio."
Lizard down the throat: The breakdown solo in Ice 9 by Joe Satriani. (On the record, it's backwards too.)
The hardest BY FAR for me its hammers from nowhwere and alan holdsworth legato style playing. That shit is Big balls stuff
Everytime Vai does something new the rest of us are all like dude.....stop getting better, well never catch up to you 😭
I was doing the "Lizard" sound back in '86 when I bought my Ibanez Roadstar II. It was my first guitar with a tremolo bar.
Your guitar sound was great. I like hearing picks hitting strings whenever I'm learning guitar stuff. It helps. Not being sarcastic.
As for hybrid picking, Vinnie Moore is one of my favorites.
Hardest things???
Eddie's perfect tapping, pull offs to open strings, pick slides, tremelo picking....etc
Yngwie's sweep picking, lighting fast scaler runs...
SRV's killer vibrato and blues runs....
Paul Gilbert's string skipping and overall technical genius.....
Jason Beckers arpeggio insanity and lightning fast scaler runs....
Nuno Bettencourts funk....
NOBODY can tapp like Buckethead. Actually not many can do the things he does with a Guitar.
Cross Picking - by far the hardest plectrum style technique and missing from this list.
Brad Gillus of night ranger is the lizard god but they called it scooping in my day. Great stuff.
Lizard down the throat is a legit name for that technique. I first read about it in one of the UK guitar mags like 20 years ago.
"You know what... I like... DISTORTION!"
True story!
The “lizard down the throat” term and technique comes directly from Joe Satriani which he first used on the song Ice 9
No thumping?
As a (mostly) classically-trained bass player who played upright bass for 20+ years, both "sideways vibrato" and "thumb stretching" are pretty much standard techniques.
As far as "sideways vibrato," It's pretty common with all the instruments of the string orchestra, since they don't have frets to limit the microtonal motion; You are literally rocking back and forth between pitches with the ends of your fingers. The lack of frets allows you to have way more flexibility for lots of different types of vibrato marked out in scores.
The "Thumb fretting" thing is more specific to low strings (Cello and Bass) as it's a super PITA to properly execute high-register passages without a bit of a "guide,"
which is to say your thumb provides a bit of an "anchor" so your other fingers can achieve a melodic line in a very high register while falling back on the thumbed pitch; almost like a capo or barre chord lets you determine what the "open string pitch" is.
Granted this particular technique is rooted in the fact that Cello and Bass are played with the fingerboard going up and down 90 degrees to your fingering hand, and also that you've gat a gigantic wooden box without cutouts to deal with, so you pretty much have to employ it in the upper register (if you ever even play there in a score).
Cool to see Jake employ this, I never knew he did!
Yep I've heard to this referred to as 'Classical Vibrato' which it really should be called. This to me is difficult especially with chords!
"Lizard Down The Throat" technique? Let me run that by the Mrs. 😝😝
Pinch harmonics weren't that hard for me. I had to find the sweet spot between the pickups, otherwise not really a problem for me.
Derek Trucks' microtonal playing is so good.
I gotta say I really like the contrast between Robert's musical background and his personality.
I mean, he clearly grew up with 80's hard rock where there was generally a lot of boastfulness and cockiness (no matter what role in the band) and just sheer shallowness.
He's the total opposite of that as he seems like a well-adjusted, nice and very down-to-earth kind of dude, so yeah, major kudos to his family (and himself) for raising him the way he turned out to be.
This, to me, is very rock 'n' roll 🤘
I'll learn how to travis pick with you bro! Loved the video as always. It made me re-evaluate wtf I'm doing with guitar 😂
Let's do this thang!
Satriani, Ice 9 solo has the "Lizard down the throat". Satch at one point even gave it that name.
Control feedback Ted Nugent is the king listen to double live Gonzo
I can do 3 of them. Maybe 2. ;)
Travis Picking Hell == The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel. Spent months working that up and never could get it fast enough. Incredible skill builder.
They should’ve just said to listen to Fair Warning.
I keep working on that ‘sounding halfway decent’ technique. Still haven’t got it down.
Would octave tapping be a technique? First heard it from Nuno.
Actually, the "Lizard down the Throat" Lick is a Satriani Thang, that he did either on the Not Of This Earth Album, or the Surfing With The Alien Album!!! It was so long ago that I don't remember!!! 😃😃😃❤❤❤ OH, and the 3 note per string Pentatonics is probably the Easiest and Most Logical way to get into the Holdsworth Wide Stretch Interval Stuff!!! 😜🤪😝😄😄😄❤❤❤
EXACTLY 💯 Pct TRUE BROTHER 🎸!!
Aldo Nova first album is pinch harmonic nirvanas......
So cool, just hanging out with Robert, talking about hard things to do on guitar.
The audio sounded fine on my phone, by the way.
I first heard the lizard throat thing from a satriani article back in 89. Might have been guitar for practicing musican magazine.
Bang on, Sweeps! Guitar for the Practical Musician described this in an interview with Joe which was based around the “Mystical Potato Head Groove Thing” tab.
Ted nugent..king of controlled feed back
I gotta agree. I love hibernation and most of the amboy dukes stuff. But I got to put a word in for jimi as well. Listen closely to third stone from the sun comes to mind but there are many.
Not about this video per se, but just gotta say from having recently watched different vids of yours from a few years apart, it's amazing how good you've gotten at interacting with us audience members through the camera. Totally comfortable etc. Really cool to see.
I hate the acoustic slap pop crap . So tired of hearing it .
Playing anything Jeff Beck does is the hardest guitar technique.
Is playing in the pocket a technique? Because I'm finding it very difficult, and it makes all the difference in the world.
Nice! Finally something to work with. I hate when I go to learn a song on RUclips and the creator is like, this is how you do a G chord...
Edit: my pinch harmonics came naturally oddly enough.
My drummer's pinch harmonics cane naturally to him too after way less time of playing than I. I'm a bit jealous but it's just true that it comes naturally to some people and not others. I'm still working on them and after 14 years of playing I still miss them a lot.
My guitarist taught me the violining technique over 25 years ago. It's a legit name for what guitarists today call volume swells. I guess the names are interchangeable.
I didn't check the article, but I imagine quarter tones might come into play between the minor and major 3rd and a minor and major seventh in bluesy stuff.
Like Neal Schon's Solo in Lights.
Nuno just said to hold his beer and Rise!
I'm not taking a shot or throwing shade, because you're an excellent guitarist and Im 60 and struggle every day, but it's kinda comforting to someone as yourself admit that they can't do it all! If all I did was practice steel guitar licks on a tele, I'd never learn 'em while you would nail a dozen licks in a day! Thanks for an awesome video!!!
Yeah that first technique I picked up from a Brad Gillis video don't remember what he calls it but he does it in his solo on "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"
Very nice coverage mate, the sound quality did not affect my enjoyment in anyway 😁. Like yourself I began to learn Travis picking about eight years ago and almost stored it then moved onto stupid blues 😂
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Mean Street intro has great tapped harmonics right? I find triple or more string skipping tough.
The most awesome display EVER actually . Nobody has ever done that in the history of the world . Eddie's " Woman in Love" intro was way way way ahead of it's time also .
definitely heard of gargle and violining as techniques back in the 90s in guitar magazzines. (not just guitar world either, UK magazines too) one i would add is for acoustic.. adding a walking bassline beneath a melody.
I can do economic picking but I can't do alternate it's sad because the alternate has a unique attack sound
very comprehensive and honest revelations of many techniques with explanations within your own limitations(which you honestly admitted unlike many youtubers) make this a gem of a video for any upcoming guitar player who wants improvement in their playing whichever level. 👌👌👌👌👌👌👌🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟🤟
Frank Gambale is the king of economy picking.