You seriously have the best Tool tutorials on RUclips! You don't drag them out too long, you get to the point, and you break it down to a perfect level of understanding. When I first heard of Tool, I was like these songs are going to take me forever to learn but really about 30 minutes tops. Thanks for posting and helping me out. Keep up the good work. :)
When I met Adam Jones, he told me that the random squeals made by pick scraping are done by first taking the side of your pick and grinding a little hole into the side of the pick by rubbing the side of your pick back and forth across your top E string until it wears a little hole into the edge of the pick (he spent about 3 seconds doing it when he demonstrated). Then you take the little burrs and that hole that are eaten into the side of your pick and scrape it across the strings slowly. You'll find it matches the tone much more closely than just scraping the dull side of a new pick across the strings like that. The notes are more separate, getting plucked by the individual little burrs on the pick. they don't blend together as much.
So many little things we learn from you that you will just not find ANYWHERE else! Those little things are what really make the difference IMO! Great stuff man!
+axeofcreation Definitely awesome. I've gotten so many tricks and licks from you and Corey Hunter(the Stoner Rock tutorial guy) and it's added a lot to my playing. Great job.
Decided to finally learn some Tool tunes to go with the rest of the repertoire, and happily stumbled upon your site. Kudos to being a great teacher, I look forward to many more lessons.
Love all your Tool vids!! You make it seem possible for beginners to actually play this stuff. I'm sure these are a lot of work but I hope to see every Tool song eventually, especially Parabol/Parabola. Thanks again for your hard work.
I just finished watching all of your tool videos and I have to say, they are by far the best lessons for tool on youtube. Sure I could just read the music and learn it but, I really enjoyed the way you dove into some of Adams technique and some of his time signatures. Simply fantastic, well thought out. Loved every minute of them!
I have been a fan of tool since I bought Undertow when i was 16, Wow, that was a while ago huh? lol. I really only got into playing about a year or so ago. I got a $25 acoustic from a flea market and proceeded to "play", I'm not a big fan of lessons, because I always wanted my own "sound". But to me, Adam Jones is it, he sounds like no one else out there. I take in everything I can from everything you put out, and not just the Tool songs. You are very talented, I have been subbed since i stumbled onto your channel like a week after I bought my guitar. Sorry if I ramble. Keep it up as long as you have the drive to do so, you are the one "teacher" I can listen to, besides that, I dont see anyone else showing Jones style. And besides that, you just know waaaaay to much to keep it all in your head for yourself, your dome might explode. But sincerely, thank you very much
this might be my favorite Tool song to play. Hard to say I like one more than the other, but like you said: "this song really will show you a lot of Adam's techniques and style of playing" Thanks
Really glad I found you man, great tutorials, easy to understand, and you throw some techniques in there too for everyone. Thank you for always posting great content.
I love when you provide a play through of the song, I like to just watch the play through with the tabs and if I want more in depth instruction I can watch the video and get that. It'd be awesome if you could do a play through for all the lessons if it's not too much of a hassle for you to do.
Love the band and thoroughly enjoy your write-ups and demos. Been playing for a bit myself. I appreciate watching your methods and comparing / contrasting the song walkthroughs. Thanks.
Love your vids bro. I get most of the songs I play down by ear, but you hook me up with some parts that I can't quite pick out. Excellent teacher as well. Keep it up man.
I can see your left hand, but I just find it helps, especially as someone who is really new to it, to get the full picture. It's appreciated that you do these tutorials for us, it was just a friendly suggestion.
The VGS guitar came with the Evertune installed. But the installation would run you about $300-500. Depending on the installer. I was looking into one for my schecter and the quote was around $400. ESP, Mayones, Chapman and a few others have Evertune as a option now.
Thank you. In all honesty, I will not be doing an Opiate lesson. There's about two riffs in the entire tracks. If you're really having a hard time with it you can schedule a lesson with me. We can easily get through it together!
I've been guitaring for about 5 years now, am getting somewhere on classical fingerstyle without structure (self taught plus video lessons), but what I really want is to get Adam Jones' stuff. I've got an Ibanez RG, so I won't be matching the right tone, something that's been a block to my muse (yeah, should've gotten a Gibson), but who knows, maybe it'll sound cool in a Jones/Satriani way..! Well, my point is that even with the great tabs at Tabpro, I haven't really gotten my feet under me on this path. Your videos are spot on and I'm looking forward to having a real shot at this, at last. Thanks much!
Love it thanks. Been playing a few months and already playing the intro off this tutorial. I need to learn more of the chords. Still I'm following pretty well considering my limited experience.
I actually use Cleartone at the moment. They've just been through a pretty abusive month of playing. I like the way they sound (and last) better than Elixirs.
Im lesrning this ive only been playing for a year amd a half now I've figured out in the chorus i used that d5 chord you kniw the 2 and open it soubds pretty nice tooo for any beginners too who might be having troubles with that movement
Fantastic lesson again dude. I'm loving the choice of tool songs at the moment, Pushit and Stinkfist are my favourites. I was wondering if you like Karnivool and if you could do a one off lesson on some of their music. Its cool if that's not what you'd like though, I'll still enjoy everything you put up!
Hey! You make amazing lessons. And I love your guitar. Can you please tell me what make is it? Also please do a video on best les paul alternatives. Thanks
Awesome page! Thanks for the walkthrough. Cant wait to check out more. At the end of this video you mention a link for a playthrough. I dont see it in the description. Can you provide that? Again, appreciate the time you've spent doing this.
i just found the zip file with all the tool tabs. you are a a blessing sir! i have a few questions and maybe a suggestion for a lesson. im sure you get those all the time but would like to ask a few things. i'll pay you! lol love your lessons! thanks again!
I would love it if you could do a lesson on Opiate i've been trying to get it down and the guitar is so shallow in the original recording every tab i find is different, and every live video i watch of Tool playing Adam is never really on film everyone seems to zoom in on maynard or danny. I'm sure we would all appreciate it.
Axeofcreation, can you explain in more detail the section at 4.31 with the open d power chord? you mention, power chord, full power chord etc. Not sure what that means - newbie here trying to learn from your awesome video! Thanks
Good vid thx though it seems to lack some details, like the full tone bend in the main riff and the not so noticeable bend of d on the a string, also in the main riff.
Ummm just a tad off topic, but I gotta ask. Where can I get that artwork behind you? The girl in black in white.... Other than that thank you for the primo top of the line tutorials. You're a great teacher.
Instead of fretting the octave D on the A string, 5th fret, you need to be hitting the D on the D string, itself. This riff is very similar to Aenima’s main riff.
This was great, I been tryin to find out about "bass guitar ear training" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Peynharlotte Acoustic Smasher - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my partner got cool results with it.
Hey, could you possibly tell me a great setup for my cheap fender frontman 15g amp? I have it set up with 10 gain, 10 treble, bass, and middle. What would be a better, cleaner setup?
Not bad, the middle bit is a bit iffy as rather than playing chords off the A string he sticks to rocking that D string, playing the chords higher up the neck, to get the beefy sound. Also penultimate 2/3/2 hammer on/ off of outro chorus is actually played 14/15/14 sliding down to 10. It’s subtle but if you listen to song that one bit is played an octave higher….everyone misses this little nuance.
Hey AoC.. did you by any chance remove the playthrough of this from your site? Getting the old "404 - page not found" error message! Thanks for all of the great work!
You seriously have the best Tool tutorials on RUclips! You don't drag them out too long, you get to the point, and you break it down to a perfect level of understanding. When I first heard of Tool, I was like these songs are going to take me forever to learn but really about 30 minutes tops. Thanks for posting and helping me out. Keep up the good work. :)
When I met Adam Jones, he told me that the random squeals made by pick scraping are done by first taking the side of your pick and grinding a little hole into the side of the pick by rubbing the side of your pick back and forth across your top E string until it wears a little hole into the edge of the pick (he spent about 3 seconds doing it when he demonstrated). Then you take the little burrs and that hole that are eaten into the side of your pick and scrape it across the strings slowly. You'll find it matches the tone much more closely than just scraping the dull side of a new pick across the strings like that. The notes are more separate, getting plucked by the individual little burrs on the pick. they don't blend together as much.
Interesting. Thanks for sharing.
wow cool
Awesome!
Which pick was he using?
@@prasannasayami1351 I don't remember, I've done it with Dunlop.
That bridge, or whatever it's called, that you play about the 8:30 mark is just killer. I'm not a huge Tool fan, but that riff is one of my favorites.
So many little things we learn from you that you will just not find ANYWHERE else! Those little things are what really make the difference IMO! Great stuff man!
Much appreciated!
gnovincejr2 I agree 100%...I second that notion,.. they call them BELLS and WHISTLES for just that reason!!!
Big Karnivool fan. I enjoy what they do.
just thought id drop you a comment saying your tutorials are perfect man keep doing what your doing man your awesome bro.
+Matthew Heathcote much appreciated
+axeofcreation Definitely awesome. I've gotten so many tricks and licks from you and Corey Hunter(the Stoner Rock tutorial guy) and it's added a lot to my playing. Great job.
Decided to finally learn some Tool tunes to go with the rest of the repertoire, and happily stumbled upon your site. Kudos to being a great teacher, I look forward to many more lessons.
Love all your Tool vids!! You make it seem possible for beginners to actually play this stuff. I'm sure these are a lot of work but I hope to see every Tool song eventually, especially Parabol/Parabola. Thanks again for your hard work.
Fantastic! Great easy to follow video. Especially if you already have the basic idea down. The chord variation suggestions are spot on 👍
I know that map! Behind you is the map to Legend of Zelda. That is awesome. Thank you for the excellent lessons.
I just finished watching all of your tool videos and I have to say, they are by far the best lessons for tool on youtube.
Sure I could just read the music and learn it but, I really enjoyed the way you dove into some of Adams technique and some of his time signatures. Simply fantastic, well thought out. Loved every minute of them!
I have been a fan of tool since I bought Undertow when i was 16, Wow, that was a while ago huh? lol. I really only got into playing about a year or so ago. I got a $25 acoustic from a flea market and proceeded to "play", I'm not a big fan of lessons, because I always wanted my own "sound". But to me, Adam Jones is it, he sounds like no one else out there. I take in everything I can from everything you put out, and not just the Tool songs. You are very talented, I have been subbed since i stumbled onto your channel like a week after I bought my guitar. Sorry if I ramble. Keep it up as long as you have the drive to do so, you are the one "teacher" I can listen to, besides that, I dont see anyone else showing Jones style. And besides that, you just know waaaaay to much to keep it all in your head for yourself, your dome might explode. But sincerely, thank you very much
You are a blessing man Tool is my absolute favorite band and your tutorials are perfect! Thanks for being awesome lol
this might be my favorite Tool song to play. Hard to say I like one more than the other, but like you said: "this song really will show you a lot of Adam's techniques and style of playing" Thanks
Really glad I found you man, great tutorials, easy to understand, and you throw some techniques in there too for everyone. Thank you for always posting great content.
I love when you provide a play through of the song, I like to just watch the play through with the tabs and if I want more in depth instruction I can watch the video and get that. It'd be awesome if you could do a play through for all the lessons if it's not too much of a hassle for you to do.
I can play this now. Dude, thanks a ton for making these amazing tool lessons!
Love the band and thoroughly enjoy your write-ups and demos. Been playing for a bit myself. I appreciate watching your methods and comparing / contrasting the song walkthroughs. Thanks.
Love your vids bro. I get most of the songs I play down by ear, but you hook me up with some parts that I can't quite pick out. Excellent teacher as well. Keep it up man.
Very good lesson bro, impressive! You were very thorough, and explained everything in a way that even I could understand. Appreciate it!
I can see your left hand, but I just find it helps, especially as someone who is really new to it, to get the full picture. It's appreciated that you do these tutorials for us, it was just a friendly suggestion.
Adam Jones finds the coolest riffs in drop d!
Perfect tutorial brotha! Simple, informative and straight to the point!
Thank you
The VGS guitar came with the Evertune installed. But the installation would run you about $300-500. Depending on the installer. I was looking into one for my schecter and the quote was around $400. ESP, Mayones, Chapman and a few others have Evertune as a option now.
i was able to get the bass notes by ear and you perfected everything else! Props.
Gah, you always upload the one's I already know how to play! Bet it will be a top of the line lesson though. Keep it up Greg
My go too man for any of my tool songs I learn, appreciate the content thanks!
Yes!!!!!! Going to get my guitar ready soon. Love your stuff man:-D ThX a Ton!!!!!!!!!!
I was pleased to see thats its you instructing this lesson. No disrespect to anyone but some of the instructors online are just all over the place....
I love this channel. ive always have. you deserve more subs
Much appreciated! It's a steady climb up and I'll take that.
Thank you. In all honesty, I will not be doing an Opiate lesson. There's about two riffs in the entire tracks. If you're really having a hard time with it you can schedule a lesson with me. We can easily get through it together!
Thanks for these lessons. I'm in a tribute band and one of the bands we cover is Tool.
The reason I started making guitar lessons been a fan for years keep making great content brother!
Thanks! Will do!
All of your tuts. are amazing bro. You've helped me so much. Thank you!
I've been guitaring for about 5 years now, am getting somewhere on classical fingerstyle without structure (self taught plus video lessons), but what I really want is to get Adam Jones' stuff. I've got an Ibanez RG, so I won't be matching the right tone, something that's been a block to my muse (yeah, should've gotten a Gibson), but who knows, maybe it'll sound cool in a Jones/Satriani way..! Well, my point is that even with the great tabs at Tabpro, I haven't really gotten my feet under me on this path. Your videos are spot on and I'm looking forward to having a real shot at this, at last. Thanks much!
Thank you! Don't let the model of guitar trick you into believing you can get the right tone. Majority of the tone comes from the amp. Best of luck!
Love it thanks. Been playing a few months and already playing the intro off this tutorial. I need to learn more of the chords. Still I'm following pretty well considering my limited experience.
Thanks for that middle part. My band is covering this and that was a big help!!
Hell yeah it is!
I actually use Cleartone at the moment. They've just been through a pretty abusive month of playing. I like the way they sound (and last) better than Elixirs.
great lesson man, glad i found your channel, brilliant tool lessons, thanx so much!
Im lesrning this ive only been playing for a year amd a half now I've figured out in the chorus i used that d5 chord you kniw the 2 and open it soubds pretty nice tooo for any beginners too who might be having troubles with that movement
Fantastic lesson again dude. I'm loving the choice of tool songs at the moment, Pushit and Stinkfist are my favourites. I was wondering if you like Karnivool and if you could do a one off lesson on some of their music. Its cool if that's not what you'd like though, I'll still enjoy everything you put up!
Love this song! he does like 1 normal bend and 2nd bend changes and then back to normal and the fourth bend is higher if you listen really close. : )
love ur your lessons..
i just signed up on your patreon.
keep making TOOL vids and ill keep watching and learning :)
Right on man! Thanx! Stinkfist is one of my fav Tool songs; I played with the tab a bit, this is awesome to see it explained in detail. \m/ \m/
Hey! You make amazing lessons. And I love your guitar. Can you please tell me what make is it? Also please do a video on best les paul alternatives. Thanks
Awesome page! Thanks for the walkthrough. Cant wait to check out more. At the end of this video you mention a link for a playthrough. I dont see it in the description. Can you provide that?
Again, appreciate the time you've spent doing this.
U are a master esp with jones style i havnt seen u do "Hush" that'd be a nice lil jam to learn just subbed keep it up
Very well done mate.
i just found the zip file with all the tool tabs. you are a a blessing sir! i have a few questions and maybe a suggestion for a lesson. im sure you get those all the time but would like to ask a few things. i'll pay you! lol love your lessons! thanks again!
Feel free to send me an email and I am available for skype lessons.
Awesome lesson!... thanks for sharing, you are a great teacher.
Awesome! I was going to request this one!
Thank You!!! For your Great Lessons!!!
I would love to see your live performances. Either the Tool covers or your own work. Also, have you ever thought about doing any Mastodon lessons?
Oh happy day!
Thank you for uploading these :D
Big thanks for video you do a great job at explaining
I dont wanna sound like forrest gump here, but you have a way of explainin things so that i can undahstand them
You should think about doing some 'A Perfect Circle' when you get bored or too stretched out on 'Tool' lessons.
Recently started a tool cover band and these vids have been such a great help, thanks man, also chancing my arm with this request, Third eye ??
Great lesson,thank you !
Great lesson! How does Adam do the harmonic feedback starting @ 0:12 at the beginning of the song and again at 2:52 in the interlude before the solo?
He's using a wah which feeds his delay pedal, which through his overdrive pedal creates that sound.
You are really good at guitar dude.
wicked lesson, thanks man muchos appreciated!
I would love it if you could do a lesson on Opiate i've been trying to get it down and the guitar is so shallow in the original recording every tab i find is different, and every live video i watch of Tool playing Adam is never really on film everyone seems to zoom in on maynard or danny. I'm sure we would all appreciate it.
Great lesson dude
The studio version of this song is easy. What is really difficult is the extended part that they play live.
Axeofcreation, can you explain in more detail the section at 4.31 with the open d power chord? you mention, power chord, full power chord etc. Not sure what that means - newbie here trying to learn from your awesome video! Thanks
Hey Man, Absolutely love your Tool lessons. Can you please do one on Sober? :)
Men, you are really great... ALL nice videos, i personally liked Rosetta Stoned... Greeting froms Argentina..
TOOL!!!
Your channel is amazing thanx
Excelent lesson as usually! dont have in mind Right in two?
Regards!
dude your the best
Good vid thx though it seems to lack some details, like the full tone bend in the main riff and the not so noticeable bend of d on the a string, also in the main riff.
Ummm just a tad off topic, but I gotta ask. Where can I get that artwork behind you? The girl in black in white.... Other than that thank you for the primo top of the line tutorials. You're a great teacher.
Instead of fretting the octave D on the A string, 5th fret, you need to be hitting the D on the D string, itself.
This riff is very similar to Aenima’s main riff.
thanks dude, good job
Great lesson only complaint is the camera angle could show more of the guitar in the frame.
Yes. What about it?
Awesome!!
There's no complex picking (right hand) motion going on. Can you not see my left hand?
Thanks and Nice Job!
thanks bud :) appreciate it! - humble af
I need one of those adamantium towers that Petrucci uses. It's the only thing strong enough to withstand his beefiness.
Great lesson, Greg, thanks! Does anybody have a decent backing track with vocals for the song? I would appreciate it if somebody shared.
Have you watched my Pushit lesson?
Thaanks a lot man!
The video box gets down to the fretboard but nothing south of that. Great lesson anyway!
Great lesson man! But on an unrelated note is that the map for the original Zelda game?
yep, its Zelda :D
PARABOLA! PARABOLA! PARABOLA! PARABOLA! PARABOLA! PLEASE :´)
agreed, Parabola is necessary.
This was great, I been tryin to find out about "bass guitar ear training" for a while now, and I think this has helped. You ever tried - Peynharlotte Acoustic Smasher - (should be on google have a look ) ? Ive heard some interesting things about it and my partner got cool results with it.
Thanks!
I know. Little slip there. Sometime you get ahead of yourself when recording these lesson. I was anticipating the chords later in the song.
Dang, this is good.
Cool video
Hey, could you possibly tell me a great setup for my cheap fender frontman 15g amp? I have it set up with 10 gain, 10 treble, bass, and middle. What would be a better, cleaner setup?
what do you use to get your delay. on your other vids like schism it sounds sick. thanks :)
I would love to actually see the neck of the guitar. I can really tell what notes you are using and I haven't memorized all the chords yet.
Not bad, the middle bit is a bit iffy as rather than playing chords off the A string he sticks to rocking that D string, playing the chords higher up the neck, to get the beefy sound. Also penultimate 2/3/2 hammer on/ off of outro chorus is actually played 14/15/14 sliding down to 10. It’s subtle but if you listen to song that one bit is played an octave higher….everyone misses this little nuance.
The Pot is a great all around Tool intro song.
Hey AoC.. did you by any chance remove the playthrough of this from your site? Getting the old "404 - page not found" error message! Thanks for all of the great work!
nevermind, I wasn't logged in !!
Okay but how do you get that wail in the beginning of the song?