Fredrik Åkesson (Opeth) Masterclass - GuitarMessenger.com
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"here it is slow" (still goes extremely fast)
this degree of awesome cannot be slowed down
Haha, reminds me of some old Malmsteen instructional video where the shows his playing "slow".
Cire Solrac hahah
XDDD
Thats it,I'm turning my guitar into a coffee table.
well, I don’t know about guitar but you SHOULD turn your amp into a coffee table, see the example below:
ruclips.net/video/CsvIciZmD38/видео.html
😆😂
😂😂😂😂 I know the feeling
Which is string-skipping, diminished, widdly-woo stuff...
Luca Grieman best shit ever
That is precisely what it is.
Watch me skip all the strings.... 💤
Put Frederick in a puffy shirt and dye his hair white and he’d look like a classical era composer. What a guitar wizard he is.
In a world filled with "shredders", Fredrik is more than just a well rehearsed technician, he is one of the few modern era guitarists with true style. So bloody fluid, but his phrasing and composition create solos that are musically important to the whole of the song. He's his own man, but if you crossed Yngwie with Allan Holdsworth and found a young apprentice to drink the potion, he might grow into a Wizard like Fredrik.
+captainflamson yeah man this guy is out of this world! agreed on that one
i would say that more than yngwei, i see a lot of john norum in his style... specially on the vibrato!
Add Jeff Beck, David Gilmore, and Joe Satriani tone and string bending magic.
dude
so aptly said! beautiful!
hes like a variation of michael romeo
This man needs waaaaaaaay more credit than he gets.
Like 10x more, he adds so much to Opeth once joined.
Amen
I mean, he is the virtuoso for the best band in the world, so...
"Last run is pretty tricky"
*Proceeds to play it perfectly at double the speed while he's laughing*
did i just see a BEND with his FUCKING PINKY????
Wessel van den Broek not really? ive seen alot of videos and i have rarely seen that before
He actually plays that Heir Apparent solo NORMALLY??! No tapping? Un-fucking-believable! Kirk Hammett got nothing on this guy!
As much as I love the Heir Apparent solo, that Nepenthe solo is nuts. Heir Apparent has hard stretches (especially legato that fast) but the string skipping with Nepenthe is ridiculous.
Yup,the guy is a monster guitarist,check out the stuff he did with Talisman,before he joined Opeth,albums like ''Humanimal'',''Life'' or ''Genesis'',of the best melodic hard-rock stuff from the 90's.Specially that synchronised bass/guitar shredding with Marcel Jacob(R.I.P.) is amazing.He was only 19,when Marcel Jacob discovered him and hired him for Talisman.
The fluency Frederik has in his playing is beyond this world. Those legato parts are killer! Really one of world's most underestimated players imho.. His melodic style sometimes reminds me of Marty Friedman. Both are focused on melody instead of speed and both of them would be insulted when called "shredders" ;-)
Also really like his contribution to the new Ghost album. Those solos are kind of "simple" and "poppy" compared to Opeth's proggressive style which is really out there but they hit the nail on the head, awesome 👌
Why does Fredrik look like Brendon Fraser with a wig?
Can’t be sure, but I think it’s because he has a similar looking face. But Fraser has short hair and Akesson has long hair. That’d be my guess.
I absolutely LOVE his vibrato, so perfect.
Shreddies with taste! So rare.
Welcome to Prog........ Pleb
"i am gonna play it slow now"
Plays 10x faster than what people can normally do 😁
Got to hang out with the Opeth band after the show at an Irish bar across the street from the venue. This guy was cool as hell.
What i love about Fredrik and Mikael is that they have those 2k€+ PRS guitars and they still tend to use their SE models the most when it comes to playing live. But yea PRS SE guitars are the best guitars in their price range.
i really like the fact that his prs se shows a lot of wear. shows that he actually plays it a lot
4:46 "Jajjemensan!"
He is damn good. He reminds me a lot of another great guitarist Michael Romeo of Symphony X. I'd love to see that duo. Opeth and Symphony X in one night.
Don Smith 2 of my all time favourite bands! Would be a dream!!
Just to be clear..He is doing bends with his pinky! haha I know I'm an amature, but damn this guy rocks!
Mmm, well... It's not like he's doing it all exclusively with his pinky. And I believe they're all just half bends?
@@Cr8Tron
Post-Haste answer!
Ive been playing for some time and still cant bend with my pinky because I have weak girl hands. I have no problem bending with my ring finger.
I like that Fredrik and Mikael have cheap signatures and actually play them live.
Hes so fucking humble, having been in both Arch Enemy and Opeth. Amazing. Sad about Peter's departure from Opeth, but Fredrik is more than worthy of taking up his post. Plus his shredder repertoire doesn't hurt either
When Peter left I was at first one of those ZOMG NO ONE CAN REPLACE PETER PETER 4 EVER guys but Fredrik shut me up reaaaaal quick.
i slowed the video down to 0.5 on the "slow" part and it's still too fast .-.
A true guitar master and yet so humble and low profile attitude. As Mikael said, he's one of the very best swedish guitarists these days.
Fucking badass! Opeth, best metal band of modern times in my opinion
+Zadkiel Fontecha BEST BAND OF ALL TIME!
Zadkiel Fontecha Amen
fucking beast of a player
1:04 Yes! Muting is always the trickiest part when tapping.
Wow. I need to learn the Hungarian scale.
This is absolutley incredible. What a gift!
"I'm gonna play it slowly!" - and I still can't get what's he's playing because it's too fast and complex!
Frederik could've easily passed an audition to play in Zappa's band a la Steve Vai and Mike Keneally. He can pretty much play anything and has his own incredibly unique style and tone too. Mikael struck gold with Frederik after Peter left....I hope he stays until the band finally calls it quits. Legend.
Heir Apperient's solo like egyptian sounds.
He plays some of the most intense licks on the guitar. I wish he was more famous for his playing. He is killer!
Im gonna be too ashamed to pick up my guitar for like years after this.
Soft spoken with the roar of a lion. So good.
When we finally got a real shredder in opeth they have to switch there style to prog rock 😫
Well i quit guitar again.
Hope you picked it back up :p
Love that Hungarian stuff, don't hear that scale a lot
He's slow is my fastest possible at this point :) This guy can't play 90 bpm, because he will fail or will forgive the pattern :)
Cool licks sir, I take it for my nearest 3 months of practice. (about 3 months I spent for other sweep-tapping licks)
Will be more helpful if messenger will make tabs and put it in video to display(bottom, corner, up, somewhere else). So everyone could stop the video and play pattern again and again.
His musical abilities are fueled by the power of his double chin.
He reminds me of a more portly Jason Newstead...Same hair and everything :P But fuck his looks, if I were gay I'd love this man...He is truly a master at writing singing and playing.
Why are you so mean towards your own countryman?
Nevals Civonaja Just a bit of banter from a fan.
Knugen av Swärje
Ok then. :)
and beer
He always reminded me of that one penguin from madagascar, except is an absolute badass at guitar.
7:30 having a bit of a skwisgar moment right there
that fucking 9 and 11 pedal tone on the descent of the hungarian lick is sick, and I kinda hate that I didn't think of that first
"i'll play it a little slower" still plays it insanely fast
I wanna be able to widdly-woo on guitar
A lotta people don't realize the trick behind arppegiated tapping is muting the strings perfectly... And it ain't easy.... You will always think you've nailed it... It takes a lot of time mate!
I saw him live with Arch Enemy and then live with Opeth (twice). Love his blues-influenced style.
“PELUCA , PELUCA!!!!”
Greetings From Chile
More than being technical.. He fucking sounds cool, Awesome guy.
I've seen people play that solo in Heir Apparent w/ tapping. Good to know how he actually plays it.
this is fucking impossible to play lol
I believe that Brendan Fraser should play you in Opeth - The Movie.
I'm still waiting for the slow part fredrik.
Akesson is using old-school study and discipline, and taking that mastery to write solos that fit like a glove into the tracks they've written. He's obviously tremendously talented, but he's also spent countless hours doing his scales and arpeggios with a metronome.
those inlays...
Just in case you didn't know, those are the inlays they use in most PRS guitars.
Maximilian Reilly-McDowell but..they're green!! anyways, it's nice to see the SE series getting some attention. pretty underrated guitars imo
I have his instructional videos and his solo Powers of Ten. The dude could melt faces, that's for sure.
Diminished and augmented to the 7th minor of the 19th major on the pentatonic isosceles triangle scale. Oh and palm muted. 🤯 Got it… hold my beer
remember kids Tapped with the pissed off Finger of honor
🖕
Just remember to do the tipping with the
🖕finger kids
Love that Beast looking PRS
"If I play that slow..." haha
"I'm gonna try to play..." Um yeah, I think you managed. Quite well in fact.
PRS which model is that?
Every time I see a closeup of his guitar I just want to clean it for him.
I've been at that tapping lick all day, I still can't play it fast while muting the other strings that aren't supposed to be played...How in the fuck can you play it that fast and mute the strings so well? What's the trick that I'm missing here?
+Master Exploder Correct. I always advise people to do this, but most find it hard because we all want to play it full speed yesterday. Even I can be guilty of it, but it's the #1 way to frustrate yourself. I have to always ask myself, "would you rather work on this for a few weeks and have it sound great, or try and play it full speed with poor mechanics where you'll always struggle to play it clean and consistent?"
+Dylan Neuens
I appreciate the advice guys, but it's not like this is my first rodeo.
Of course I start slow and play to a metronome...But I've been at this for over a month now, and I'm not getting any better at it. I can play it at about 75% of the speed he does it here, any faster than that and I start making mistakes and there is noise from the other strings.
IMHO it's even *more frustrating* to work so hard on it and doing it properly from the start, yet still not be able to get there after months of trying every day. I am not going to stop trying though :)
surgeyX Some techniques take a long time to build and master (sometimes years). I get frustrated with really challenging stuff, too. Even if I don't have the patience to get it 100%, it's at least something new to put in my toolbox.
Keep at it and you'll get it eventually, mate. Best of luck!
Guess what? I finally got it...Only took me ONE YEAR...But now I can play it without any noise and muting it perfectly.
Damn, I need thinner strings, those are huge bends on the Heir Apparent solo!
That’s utterly psychotic ,& scary Both the Taping & solos ridiculous wow
The best take away from this video is don't try and play Opeth if you're an amateur lol
He sounds like and explains stuff like Ritchie Blackmore.
Vilket jävla tempo på fingrarna. Här sitter jag i källaren och tycker jag är bra om jag lyckas få ett rent ljud ur guran😁jag är förvisso inte någon gitarrist. Men jag leker att jag är en🤣
7:01
Jajamensan!
Nepenthe is RIDICULOUSLY hard. Eff me
"Widdley-woo stuff" I have a learned a new technical term
He's my guitar hero.
When doing hammers I do keep my fingers curled and use only the finger tips to strike the string, however, for pull-offs I find it necessary to allow the tip joints to collapse as it seems to allow the fingers to be more relaxed, especially the ring and the pinky which share a tendon. Not sure if this is technically correct, but if I play pull-offs with perfectly curled fingers and keep the tip joints tensed so they don’t collapse, my hand feels stiff and I have difficulty playing legato passages, especially those which involve ring and pinky… any ideas?
Wow. Surprisingly melodic.
"7:02" "to reach those high notes" LOL
Dude looks like a Swedish version of Jimmy Pop from Bloodhound Gang OMFG.
Du och jag, baby ain't nothin' but däggdjur so let's do it like de do on the Kunskapskanalen, getting prog now!
he is combining alternate picking and legato perfectly.
Finally, we have found a thing fast enough which can escape from a black hole
A Fred's solo
I love how little distortion he's using. You can really "hear" his fingers.
What is the reason behind recording lesson of Heir Apparent solo ? I bet that no one ever have figured out how to play this impossible solo by watching a masterclas. Or any of his "shred" solos.
I think he got the specs of his guitar wrong its supposed to be a mahogany neck, as listed on the prs website.
hai I'm fredrick..
clicked like! ..
I'm a simple man who is an opeth fan..couldn't resist! 😀
All that time Frodo spent with the elves truly paid off.
Amazing guitarist!
Metal: where the oddest fuckers can be gods
Are you kidding me? I have an Opeth cd, and the guitar playing is Nothing like this. Is this guy new?
I came here in 2020 to learn about the widdly-woo
how can you have such low action but no buzzing on strings?
Even him playing the stuff slow is 100 times better than I'll ever be
"You can reach those "HIGH" notes" haha XD
The Marco pierre white of metal
This is an awesome class, it is very inspiring! I'm trying to learn those riff, it's been long that something motivated me like this video did.
I sooooo love this guitar. I have one in my collection
So much control!
Master of our ages
Wonder who taught this guy?
PLEASE NEVER FORGET THIS MAN WAS MELTING FACES IN ARCH ENEMY BEFORE OPETH!!!
Holy shit fredrik you are a beast! Absolutely amazing!
7:00 so you can reach those... HIGH notes.
Didn't he used to be in arch enemy as well?