As a fellow Petrucci student, I love to see players like you who took what he did and expand upon it, and create your own voice with it. You're an inspiration for the future generations, Jason.
Sanno Ryujin thanks for the story dude but Petrucci took influence from Gilbert. This little lick Jason did has more of a Gilbert vibe. I know from conversations that Jason was also influenced by Gilbert, Becker and many others.
DiamondLifer have you ever listened to Petrucci's solo album? It's replete with arpeggios, triplets and alternated arpeggios like this one. I don't deny this has some similarities but Jason has said Petrucci and Alex Laiho are his number one influences.
DiamondLifer I get your thought process,but if we go with that mindset then we have to look at John Petrucci’s influences then to their influences and to their influences’ influences and on and on and on. But if Jason Richardson didn’t listen to whoever that person is,it doesn’t matter. And if it happens to sound like that person then it’s coincidence rather than influence.
Picking perfection, I think Jason Richardson has one of the best picking techniques imo, that's why he can play super clean at high speed. Thanks for the lesson. Just bought many things from your website.
@@yokisullivan8647 It's a shame Jackie isn't more well known. He is insanely good, and I think his music is more dynamic than JR. Both monster players no doubt.
His picking efficiency has always been the most impressive thing to me about his playing. Yeah the fretting hand is important too, but for me the picking hand is always the most important
I remember seeing that dude when he was still a teenager playing for All Shall Perish in a small place in Belgium. I had my face 30cm away from his guitar, it was amazing to say the least.
You have Petrucci to thank for all of these new guitar gods we've been blessed with over the past 10 years or so. JR is for sure one of those in my age bracket who got hooked on playing guitar music like this from Dream Theater's Train of Thought from 2003, best album ever!!!
This video is treasure , listen to everything he says carefully its the best video to learn to improve your playing . Jason breaksdown his technique he uses
"this is the lick slow" Proceed with 200 BPM... WTF!? Dude is an animal! I will NEVER be at this level. Bravo for you! Love hearing this kind of stuff! He makes John Petrucci seem slow.
@@pzdipuing John Petrucci is one of my favourite guitarists but the way his fanboys react to anybody complimenting Jason Richardsons chops is entertaining
Jason, you speed pick with your elbow when you alternate pick. Not that there's anything wrong with it. Your one of the best technical shredders I've ever seen. I hope to hear great things from you with all that remains! Keep doing what you do bro! Cheers!
Chris Marts Definitely does pick the faster runs with his elbow. I think it’s easier for some people to develop their picking technique that way for faster stuff. Pretty sure Rusty Cooley has a similar picking technique.
Yeah because I've tried this by myself, moving wrist at that high speed is kind pointless and so many chances to lose control and chance to hit other notes where at high speed if you move you elbow you are almost doing up pick and down pick but with minimum hand wrist movements so that will eliminate the chances of hitting other strings.
So awesome how he has his own signature Ernie Ball but he still has the JP Majesty in rotation. Such a killer guitar - I wish Guitar World wouldn't choose crappy gear for these great guitars though
Thank you Jason, there was tons of useful information in there but I’ve been doing concrete for 20 years not sure if my hands can take the strain of all of that super fast stuff but I will definitely work on it. Keep on being the guitar god that you are brother!!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Sounds better and tasty when slowed, his original pace is flash fast to even listen to it and to really appreciate the tone of the licks but instead we appreciate the pace and speed of his lightning fast appregiozzz
For all the people saying "slow?" and such, if you're having trouble distinguishing the notes use the playback speed function in the settings of the video player. You should all know this by know, being guitar players, but just in case anyone doesn't know.
All movement is coming from the wrist? I've always been told that I should use my forearm to pick because when picking with the wirst you use your lower arm (smaller) muscles and with forearm picking you use your upperarm (bigger) muscles.
I wanted to share some words of advice because I took away some misinformation from this video, and just corrected myself. For one, your picking hand does not need to be nearly as flat as his. There are multiple ways to accomplish the same goal. The monkey fist thing is totally a matter of preference. I use a taller shape that looks more like the Troy Grady ergonomic mouse idea. This won't hinder your speed. Secondly, he incorrectly says that he is picking all from the wrist when Jason's style very prominently uses elbow motion. If you try to use all wrist, your angle of approach is going to change instead of thinking of your hand like a tool on the end of your arm that you can move by extending and not just pivoting.
I’m attempting change my picking technique to what is being discussed here however I find my top finger joints rub into the strings. Any thoughts or feedback on how to mitigate this?
Bummer. I have a major wrist injury from industrial work accident 15 years ago that almost ripped my whole arm off (spooling large cable) I can’t play like I used to, so using the forearm is all I can do.
I once saw a man who lost both arms 8n an electrocution accident. He relearned how to play guitar with his feet. I'm sure it's not the same for you, but I don't think it's not possible now because of your accident. Keep on shredding bro
How do you mute the high E string when you go up again? My palm mute is really good, but the e string always rings when i go up. I guess i have to do it with my left pinky, but it feels weird, since my pinky has to go to the G string.
i have a question and pls answer me if you can. He says that we dont want to pick with the forearm but at 2:10 he clearly picks with the forearm. What should we do after all??
Guitar world why the hell did you use such a crappy noise suppressor for his vocal track. The attack of it is completely off and makes it sound chopped and poorly edited
It's not so much the delay, it actually just is pretty sloppy in general. Good to know Jason is actually human after all! Not knocking him at all, he's one of the most technically proficient guitarists on the planet and normally never misses a note, i'm a huge fan. He does miss alot of notes when he speeds it up here though and the timing gets a bit wonky too, if you slow the audio down a bit its extremely noticeable. Regardless he's one of the few people on the planet who could even attempt something like this at these speeds so s'all good.
Why do many players record with alternate picking and play live with economy picking? Why not record with economy aswell? I’m wandering this genuinely, thanks!
So in slow motion he shows us a 35 second riff, then he plays the whole riff in 2.4 seconds. I have a tip for Jason: Go attach a mini fire extinguisher to the back of that guitar.
@@isaacfayman No he announced this one a while back but its just now coming out for sale, there's also the sterling (cheaper) version coming out as well.
@@ryanschindler923 no man, look up on Internet, the one is going to be his signature or he has is a EBMM cutlass model in a 7 string form similar to JP 15 buckeye burl top but this is a majesty lol, that's ain't his signature.
I have been playing for 3 years now but I understand how he reached this level ....... practicing scales , solos , picking and techniques like hammer on and pull offs for a quite long time , people like him focused all their time and effort into perfecting their music and polishing their techniques , as well as of course their uniqueness , intellect and talent . if you read about Zakke Wylde , he practiced for 12 hours a day !! that's of course requires a tremendous amount of dedication and effort . the key is practicing , getting out of your comfort zone in playing and developing muscle memory to reach beyond human capabilities , and that's of course very possible .
@@alaaobaid3363 "...and that's of course very possible." The last part, or the part about 12-hour-a-day practice? Maybe. If you don't have to WORK for a living. So listen up kids: If you wanna get this good, ya better get your practicing in while you're still livin at home!
Thanks for giving a picking video, i struggle alot with how to keep my alternate picking through sweeps into scale runs. After watching this video i see that i cant keep 1 picking style for all sonic assault shredding. And that is my answer to a decade long inconvenience ive had.
It definitely wasn’t a waste of talent He just wasn’t able to full let out what he wanted His solos and melodies were still extremely well written in ashes to ashes just not as vast as his solo album
"Now I am going to 'TRY' to play it faster"- joke of the year, by Jason Richardson.
I was shocked after he played it fast!!!
He is amazing 🙌
When he was explaining it, I thought he was playing it fast...🎸 then WTF.😳
@@donprater6944 same 😢
It to be honest even if he did make any mistakes, we wouldn’t notice as he’s playing it so fast, you can hardly hear the notes he’s actually playing
As a fellow Petrucci student, I love to see players like you who took what he did and expand upon it, and create your own voice with it. You're an inspiration for the future generations, Jason.
Don’t you mean Paul Gilbert?
@@DiamondLifer ...No dude, I mean Petrucci, his #1 influence growing up as he said in an interview.
Sanno Ryujin thanks for the story dude but Petrucci took influence from Gilbert. This little lick Jason did has more of a Gilbert vibe. I know from conversations that Jason was also influenced by Gilbert, Becker and many others.
DiamondLifer have you ever listened to Petrucci's solo album? It's replete with arpeggios, triplets and alternated arpeggios like this one. I don't deny this has some similarities but Jason has said Petrucci and Alex Laiho are his number one influences.
DiamondLifer I get your thought process,but if we go with that mindset then we have to look at John Petrucci’s influences then to their influences and to their influences’ influences and on and on and on. But if Jason Richardson didn’t listen to whoever that person is,it doesn’t matter. And if it happens to sound like that person then it’s coincidence rather than influence.
jason: this is it slow
me: throwing my guitar in the trash
Thank you for the lesson, I can now play this perfectly.
Michael Frost how the fuck can you do this? How can you be so good?
@Andrei Cucu that’s not a joke! I just want to know how to be efficient enough in training to have this technique
@Andrei Cucu r/wooshception
This is funny
@@evanho4538 i know right 😂😂😂😂
"Now I'm going to play it SLOW"
*plays 100 notes in 10 seconds*
way more probably
Picking perfection, I think Jason Richardson has one of the best picking techniques imo, that's why he can play super clean at high speed. Thanks for the lesson. Just bought many things from your website.
Bro, u probably wanna check Jacky Vincent out too, his speed picking is also clean and pretty fast.
@@yokisullivan8647 It's a shame Jackie isn't more well known. He is insanely good, and I think his music is more dynamic than JR. Both monster players no doubt.
If only he hadn't left FIR, i know he deserves better metal bands than FIR, but at least he'd still be well known, if he were still in FIR.
Guthrie govans technique is ridiculous as well.
2:00 SLOW???????????
Slow for Jason haha
Dude I see ure profile on every guitar related video it's crazy
@@zigguratdemetrius5984 hell yeah
@@hler7576 yap
You can always slow RUclips down.
His picking efficiency has always been the most impressive thing to me about his playing. Yeah the fretting hand is important too, but for me the picking hand is always the most important
Would love to see JR and Troy Grady breaking down his ultra high speed picking action
yes, please!
Master Exploder who’s sloppy? JR or Troy Grady?
Yes
@Master Exploder I think it sounds sloppy because of the editing, there's no noise gate onto it.
@bhauger1 yup. Looks a lot like Rusty Cooley hyper speed technique.
Jason has became one of my favs recently since watching the live show video on YT of him and his drummer buddy ...just really blew me away
I remember seeing that dude when he was still a teenager playing for All Shall Perish in a small place in Belgium. I had my face 30cm away from his guitar, it was amazing to say the least.
You have Petrucci to thank for all of these new guitar gods we've been blessed with over the past 10 years or so. JR is for sure one of those in my age bracket who got hooked on playing guitar music like this from Dream Theater's Train of Thought from 2003, best album ever!!!
This video is treasure , listen to everything he says carefully its the best video to learn to improve your playing . Jason breaksdown his technique he uses
"this is the lick slow" Proceed with 200 BPM... WTF!? Dude is an animal! I will NEVER be at this level. Bravo for you! Love hearing this kind of stuff! He makes John Petrucci seem slow.
Dont limit yourself dude :o
becos of john petruci he is who he is now you piece of shithead
@@pzdipuing be nice
@@pzdipuing John Petrucci is one of my favourite guitarists but the way his fanboys react to anybody complimenting Jason Richardsons chops is entertaining
Whether you can or you can't. You're right. Change your attitude and you can do anything.
This dude sounds like Ben Shapiro arguing with you about music theory
My licks doesn't care about your feelings
he's not a dude . you're a dude . he's a man
Shapiro is actually a classically trained violinist. And I also heard some uncorroborated rumor that his wife is a doctor. Ben's not Jason's.
@@nathanh869 Dude, Ben's wife being a doctor was supposed to be a secret!
Jason Richardson destroys Rolling Stone Magazine with facts and logic.
Jason - now I’m gonna play it slow
His fingers - YES
Love Jason Richardsons advice!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Literally one of the best guitar tutor in RUclips
He's quite good at guitar.
I just laughed way to much at your comment. Nice to see a compliment that's not an exaggeration.
"Quite good at guitar"
What are u tryin to say kid?
@@kvoartr9963 That he is quite a good guitarist?
@@ChilisauLP a comment full of dissapointment
A competent guitar player, one could say.
Hardest part has always been muting the strings that aren't played. Requires so much practice.
Neah ur brain will make you do it, if u r conscious enough, just spend ample amount of time wid ur guitar!
@Nick Bjelopetrovich wut?
He looks so different now from when he was still playing in the NBA.
I know man! He was really a black athletic guy back then and dunks like crazy! Now he looks like a guitar nerd who doesn't leave his room! 😂
he got older
Amazing how he managed to change is skin color and height...
One of the best dunkers ever and one of the fastest shredders I've ever heard. There has to be something to that name.
Jason, you speed pick with your elbow when you alternate pick. Not that there's anything wrong with it. Your one of the best technical shredders I've ever seen. I hope to hear great things from you with all that remains! Keep doing what you do bro! Cheers!
Chris Marts Definitely does pick the faster runs with his elbow. I think it’s easier for some people to develop their picking technique that way for faster stuff. Pretty sure Rusty Cooley has a similar picking technique.
Robert Rosenbrook I do it too.
Chris Marts same hahaha
Yeah because I've tried this by myself, moving wrist at that high speed is kind pointless and so many chances to lose control and chance to hit other notes where at high speed if you move you elbow you are almost doing up pick and down pick but with minimum hand wrist movements so that will eliminate the chances of hitting other strings.
Ranajoy Shil it's really hard to pick super fast without using your elbow a little. John petrucci does it alot
JR is the most sound in technique guitar player of this genre (bold words). Thank you for your clarification on palm muting!!!
HeRe iT Is SloW. Oh okay.
I'm very surprised to see no one mentioned about how this video is FROM THE FUTURE!! August 2019...
Some pretty useful tips here, thanks for sharing
Brilliant tactician of technique - you've got to perfect that flexible approach all the time!
The second half of this video with the tips about right hand technique is extremely useful
So awesome how he has his own signature Ernie Ball but he still has the JP Majesty in rotation. Such a killer guitar - I wish Guitar World wouldn't choose crappy gear for these great guitars though
I'm a simple man. I see Jason, I click.
I'm a simple man. I like incredible, dark-haired guitarists and breakfast food.
Pretty much
I see you in every video i watch 🤨
Hey it’s you I saw you on Rudy Ayoub’s channel
The Majesty is a beautiful fiddle, but I’m really digging his sig cutlass. I need it!
I wish he had it here.
I think these videos are recorded quite a while ago, he only had a prototype back then
Tim Henson = Every guitarist's worse nightmare
Jason = Tim Henson's worse nightmare
Thanks for the videos Jason and Guitar World, they help me a lot with my practice! another extremly helpfull video, please make some more of them! :)
2:33 economy picking
2:57
3:12 alternate picking
Finally a good recommendation from RUclips
Thank you Jason, there was tons of useful information in there but I’ve been doing concrete for 20 years not sure if my hands can take the strain of all of that super fast stuff but I will definitely work on it. Keep on being the guitar god that you are brother!!! 🤘🏼🤘🏼
Sounds better and tasty when slowed, his original pace is flash fast to even listen to it and to really appreciate the tone of the licks but instead we appreciate the pace and speed of his lightning fast appregiozzz
Monster guitar player!!!...🤙😎🤘
Great points dude👍👍
How long did it take you to fully develop your right hand, where you felt totally comfortable with improvisation🤔
Months or years.
An entire company for guitar, and no one thought to get this man a better cable?
For all the people saying "slow?" and such, if you're having trouble distinguishing the notes use the playback speed function in the settings of the video player. You should all know this by know, being guitar players, but just in case anyone doesn't know.
It sounds absolutely beautiful really slow. It sounds like noise really fast.
The way you can tell his timing is incredible is because when he slows down the riff, there’s a perfect harmony from the delay repeats coming through.
He's incredible, god damn. His "slow" pass through the section is tough for me at that speed haha
Jason: "Now I am going to try to play it faster
Me: Was that the slow part?
He says he doesn't pick from his forearm, but when he goes super fast alternate picking, it looks like the motion is coming from his elbow?
I cAn't play as fast as his ...SLOW...great run. And now I have to learn how to sing. Thanks for showing your Amazing Technique.
Cool stuff!
JR - into a run that literally can't be economy picked
Rick Graham - hold my beer 🍺
Met him outside of a Periphery show at the Wiltern in LA by the parking structure.
Hello, im on justins guitar beginner course grade 1 (almost done). Any tip for doing this? Seems not so complicated
All movement is coming from the wrist? I've always been told that I should use my forearm to pick because when picking with the wirst you use your lower arm (smaller) muscles and with forearm picking you use your upperarm (bigger) muscles.
I wanted to share some words of advice because I took away some misinformation from this video, and just corrected myself.
For one, your picking hand does not need to be nearly as flat as his. There are multiple ways to accomplish the same goal. The monkey fist thing is totally a matter of preference. I use a taller shape that looks more like the Troy Grady ergonomic mouse idea. This won't hinder your speed.
Secondly, he incorrectly says that he is picking all from the wrist when Jason's style very prominently uses elbow motion. If you try to use all wrist, your angle of approach is going to change instead of thinking of your hand like a tool on the end of your arm that you can move by extending and not just pivoting.
When you can play inhumanely fast arps, that youll just reveal casually your secret technique in picking perfectly.
This is value, thank you!
Good job Jason..👏Thanks🙏 Warm cheers 😊 God bless 🙏🎸🎶
I’m attempting change my picking technique to what is being discussed here however I find my top finger joints rub into the strings. Any thoughts or feedback on how to mitigate this?
Bummer. I have a major wrist injury from industrial work accident 15 years ago that almost ripped my whole arm off (spooling large cable) I can’t play like I used to, so using the forearm is all I can do.
I once saw a man who lost both arms 8n an electrocution accident. He relearned how to play guitar with his feet. I'm sure it's not the same for you, but I don't think it's not possible now because of your accident. Keep on shredding bro
Very Useful info
How do you mute the high E string when you go up again? My palm mute is really good, but the e string always rings when i go up. I guess i have to do it with my left pinky, but it feels weird, since my pinky has to go to the G string.
i have a question and pls answer me if you can. He says that we dont want to pick with the forearm but at 2:10 he clearly picks with the forearm. What should we do after all??
Go to the video options, select .5 speed and then listen to the fast part. He gets about 60% of it right.
So freaking FAST !!!👍
This started as a lesson and then went to a "betcha can't play this" really fast
Guitar world why the hell did you use such a crappy noise suppressor for his vocal track. The attack of it is completely off and makes it sound chopped and poorly edited
Watson Delmick they’ve been doing that lately.
@@JohnsJustSaiyan that's too bad, I know which channel I wont be subscribing to
@@saucybaka4439 You're sure showing them
@@jakel7213 you bet
Great video!
Came for guitar tips, leaving without my guitar because I smashed it.
Reaaally wish we could’ve gotten a zoom when he showed how he holds the pick.
Delay is making it sound kinda sloppy.
It's not so much the delay, it actually just is pretty sloppy in general. Good to know Jason is actually human after all! Not knocking him at all, he's one of the most technically proficient guitarists on the planet and normally never misses a note, i'm a huge fan. He does miss alot of notes when he speeds it up here though and the timing gets a bit wonky too, if you slow the audio down a bit its extremely noticeable.
Regardless he's one of the few people on the planet who could even attempt something like this at these speeds so s'all good.
if you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly
Eventually. Yes.
John Anthony Bernardo what? No
SACRILEGIOUS
ah-MAzing
I need to know how Jason mute string when sweeping
Wow that's great! What kind of pickups are in his guitar?
Well, he's playing a EBMM JP Majesty, so what's in them...? DiMarzio DreamCatcher & RainMaker, I believe? Yes
Why do many players record with alternate picking and play live with economy picking? Why not record with economy aswell? I’m wandering this genuinely, thanks!
It can be easier in some cases to economy pick fast runs if you can, but alternate picking may make each note pop out a little more
If I could pick as fast as he does "slow" i would be very proud of myself.
So in slow motion he shows us a 35 second riff, then he plays the whole riff in 2.4 seconds. I have a tip for Jason: Go attach a mini fire extinguisher to the back of that guitar.
Oh wow thanks i am perfect at picking now
Leaving 1:28 as a time stamp for myself
That was great, cheers!
Anyone know what guitar that is? Never seen that music man before
thats his signature model
Ryan Schindler I know he has a new one coming out right? Is the one in the vid for sale still?
@@isaacfayman No he announced this one a while back but its just now coming out for sale, there's also the sterling (cheaper) version coming out as well.
Custom made majesty bro! Only one exists.
@@ryanschindler923 no man, look up on Internet, the one is going to be his signature or he has is a EBMM cutlass model in a 7 string form similar to JP 15 buckeye burl top but this is a majesty lol, that's ain't his signature.
If you can get what he’s showing here, it’ll literally make a massive improvement in your playing, some of which will happen immediately.
Amazing
Sounds so much better slow.
which delay pedal and delay type do you use
This dude is awesome \m/
Guy's insanely good. I wonder how the All That Remains spot is going..?
That's what I've been doing wrong cause I'm ok with the first couple of strings then my palm moves of the low string causing noise
Ffs palm muting seems like it’s going to be a problem but I’m still trying to figure out how to make my guitar sound like something ?!?! Help !!
Nice watch.
How you train your finger ?
Amazing player....
After watching this, I have perfected the art of quitting guitar
Peace out.
Do you ever practice slow???? How does he do that? I'm like 5 years in guitar and haven't achieve any speed a solo has
I have been playing for 3 years now but I understand how he reached this level ....... practicing scales , solos , picking and techniques like hammer on and pull offs for a quite long time , people like him focused all their time and effort into perfecting their music and polishing their techniques , as well as of course their uniqueness , intellect and talent .
if you read about Zakke Wylde , he practiced for 12 hours a day !! that's of course requires a tremendous amount of dedication and effort .
the key is practicing , getting out of your comfort zone in playing and developing muscle memory to reach beyond human capabilities , and that's of course very possible .
@@alaaobaid3363 "...and that's of course very possible." The last part, or the part about 12-hour-a-day practice? Maybe. If you don't have to WORK for a living. So listen up kids: If you wanna get this good, ya better get your practicing in while you're still livin at home!
I learned absolutely nothing about picking economy. But goddamn did I get a hell of a show 😳
Thanks for giving a picking video, i struggle alot with how to keep my alternate picking through sweeps into scale runs.
After watching this video i see that i cant keep 1 picking style for all sonic assault shredding.
And that is my answer to a decade long inconvenience ive had.
"Hey I haven't seen this guy in a while I remember him being really good and informative!" hits 2:00..."Oh yeah thats right fuck this guy."
Jason's slow is my fast
Anyone remember when he played for Chelsea Grin? What a waste of talent that was.
It definitely wasn’t a waste of talent
He just wasn’t able to full let out what he wanted
His solos and melodies were still extremely well written in ashes to ashes just not as vast as his solo album
Ashes to Ashes was the best material CG ever made because of Jason.
THANKS.
The jason's voice is so Funmy xD ❤️
"Here's what it looks like slow" *Proceeds to play at mach 10*