This was one of the best guitar lessons I’ve ever seen! I like to make exercises from difficult songs, but always found it hard due to the insane rhythmic figures like you mentioned. You did exactly that in addition to analyzing the theory behind the licks. I’m on Patreon already, but I would definitely purchase this type of content. Maybe a few lessons on songs that are good for certain techniques? If you have any content on that already, I would love to know. I just found your channel yesterday despite having the books for years. Best in the world!!!
Amazing lesson! Learning “Always with You, Always with Me” in the early days was a huge boost in my legato technique (especially playing legato rhythmically). That and “Speed Mechanics,” of course. Thank you, Maestro!
This is life changing advice Troy. I think the problem with many of us trying to learn the fast and complicated phrases of say shred guitar in the vein of Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen or Petrucci is that we are trying to nail not only the mechanics of it but also the rhythm that we put pressure on ourselves to take down both at the same time. What ensues typically is that we end up with a massive mental block that prevents us from going anywhere further with it. I guess both are different animals that should be mastered in order to see progress. Also, I don’t think I have ever seen you with a BC Rich before Troy. I know the brand is enjoying a great resurgence (I have a couple of Warlocks and a Stealth from 2010)
Glad this is connecting with you! Yes, it is vital to understand the process by which one can move forward with complex, advanced music. It's all about knowing where to put your attention, when and how much. Which is why coaching can be helpful, by demonstrating exactly how to best apply the principles "where the rubber meets the road." That BC Rich is the first new guitar I've ever bought, actually. Was in a Guitar Center a few months ago and played just about everthing on the wall. This turned out to be the best playing instrument there, IMO, at $1600. And it looks cool, too!
Rock on Troy , you re the best teacher i ever had , and learned so much about , with your books , and now here , since...hum...no i can't and won't tell it ...
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I'm sad Troy doesn't have hundreds of thousands of view. All he said and demonstrates is so much more helpful than all the gimmicky baloney out there on RUclips.
@@TroyStetinaMusic Sadly to get views on here you gotta cover the same trendy topic, if you come up with a well designed educative course that ignores the current trendy themes and tries to actually teach guitar properly, the algorithm will cast you to the forgotten depths of RUclips. Best you can do is actually build a big enough audience so you can set trends instead of following them, but this will take a long while. Hang in there !
Thanks for lesson. This Satch's legato Style is reason why it is almost impossoble to learn his songs from tabs or even notation. And yes- if i slow down it for 75%, it is still fast
The first time I saw difficult passages like this transcribed (@2:54), I thought it was the book editor(ig Hal Leonard) had paid a huge amount money to send over the best transciber of the world to the artist, and figure out the secrets of the guitar licks on the records played by legends...
Well, some of the transcribers are quite good. But transcribing is an art. And performing is a different art. And, no, Hal Leonard never paid huge amounts to any transcriber. I did one album and quickly figured out that I could either do a quick (and relatively poor job) and make a moderate income, or I could do a good job and make minimum wage. Because they paid by the page. So that was the first and last transcription I did!
@@TroyStetinaMusic Gosh...that hit pretty hard on my illusions. I thought (during the 90s) that the artist couldn't have their music badly transcribed. When I bought Countdown to Extinction from Megadeth transcribed, I found parts that didn't make sense for the fingers. I thought I was bad a guitar or Mustaine and Friedman were just too unreplicatable. Glad to know that even official transcription is not 100% accurate.
@@chinoisbase I bought that book too when I wanted to learn how to play that album as well. I'm no expert at transcribing or verifying how good transcriptions are but some parts I played through just didn't sound or feel right to me. A guitar teacher of mine once told me, ''you just can't trust tabs 100%''
Hadn't heard this tune until now. While Vai certainly does have great technique all the way around, including legato, yes it would appear that this "performance" is a bit overstated... first of all he isn't actually tracking the recorded version, he's mimicking a prior performance... like virtually all music videos. So if there was a bit of extra string noise anywhere, he'd just re-track that phrase cleanly. Very doable in that sense. In any case, with good string damping technique this kind of thing is very possible, overall, and if anyone can do it, I wouldn't be surprised he could. But at the same time, he let the cat out of the bag at 1:35, (ruclips.net/video/aMjmjXHJoPg/видео.html) There you can hear what sounds like a pick rack attack which isn't on the video. So yeah, not sure how much of this is 'real'. But I would not be surprised to see him do this live and for the most part nail it, although I would also expect a bit of occasional extra string noise here and there in a live performance. Even here, if one solo'ed the lead track, there is probably a bit of that which is masked in the mix by the otehr instruments.
Back in 1996 when i first bought your book
About melodic minor scales it really helps me a lot and still using all those licks and scales upto now
This was one of the best guitar lessons I’ve ever seen! I like to make exercises from difficult songs, but always found it hard due to the insane rhythmic figures like you mentioned. You did exactly that in addition to analyzing the theory behind the licks.
I’m on Patreon already, but I would definitely purchase this type of content. Maybe a few lessons on songs that are good for certain techniques? If you have any content on that already, I would love to know. I just found your channel yesterday despite having the books for years.
Best in the world!!!
Amazing lesson! Learning “Always with You, Always with Me” in the early days was a huge boost in my legato technique (especially playing legato rhythmically). That and “Speed Mechanics,” of course. Thank you, Maestro!
Awesome 👍 thanks for sharing
This is life changing advice Troy. I think the problem with many of us trying to learn the fast and complicated phrases of say shred guitar in the vein of Satriani, Vai, Malmsteen or Petrucci is that we are trying to nail not only the mechanics of it but also the rhythm that we put pressure on ourselves to take down both at the same time. What ensues typically is that we end up with a massive mental block that prevents us from going anywhere further with it. I guess both are different animals that should be mastered in order to see progress.
Also, I don’t think I have ever seen you with a BC Rich before Troy. I know the brand is enjoying a great resurgence (I have a couple of Warlocks and a Stealth from 2010)
Glad this is connecting with you! Yes, it is vital to understand the process by which one can move forward with complex, advanced music. It's all about knowing where to put your attention, when and how much. Which is why coaching can be helpful, by demonstrating exactly how to best apply the principles "where the rubber meets the road."
That BC Rich is the first new guitar I've ever bought, actually. Was in a Guitar Center a few months ago and played just about everthing on the wall. This turned out to be the best playing instrument there, IMO, at $1600. And it looks cool, too!
Rock on Troy , you re the best teacher i ever had , and learned so much about , with your books , and now here , since...hum...no i can't and won't tell it ...
Thank you
totally agree with you on the transcriptions
great job troy ,you are awesome guitar player
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I'm sad Troy doesn't have hundreds of thousands of view. All he said and demonstrates is so much more helpful than all the gimmicky baloney out there on RUclips.
I got to RUclips fairly late, and no good at promo. But some people get it. Please share!
@@TroyStetinaMusic Sadly to get views on here you gotta cover the same trendy topic, if you come up with a well designed educative course that ignores the current trendy themes and tries to actually teach guitar properly, the algorithm will cast you to the forgotten depths of RUclips. Best you can do is actually build a big enough audience so you can set trends instead of following them, but this will take a long while. Hang in there !
Troy you and Satch! Are Top Shelf No questions ! Best Teacher in the Planet. Troy!
You are the guitar teacher I always needed! You are so gifted, Troy.
Thank you Matthew. Glad you’re finding these videos helpful!
He's The Man
I have this book and still use the intro exercise as a warm up. Have not completed the book but it really helped my legato.
Cool, yeah there are some great tools in there
Thanks for lesson. This Satch's legato Style is reason why it is almost impossoble to learn his songs from tabs or even notation. And yes- if i slow down it for 75%, it is still fast
you're welcome! BTW the full lesson will be up on Patreon in March
Well explained!! 👏🏻
Thank you! 😃
more on Satriani and Vai please
awesome, thank you
You bet!
Fantastikkkkk 😮
The first time I saw difficult passages like this transcribed (@2:54), I thought it was the book editor(ig Hal Leonard) had paid a huge amount money to send over the best transciber of the world to the artist, and figure out the secrets of the guitar licks on the records played by legends...
Well, some of the transcribers are quite good. But transcribing is an art. And performing is a different art. And, no, Hal Leonard never paid huge amounts to any transcriber. I did one album and quickly figured out that I could either do a quick (and relatively poor job) and make a moderate income, or I could do a good job and make minimum wage. Because they paid by the page. So that was the first and last transcription I did!
@@TroyStetinaMusic Gosh...that hit pretty hard on my illusions. I thought (during the 90s) that the artist couldn't have their music badly transcribed. When I bought Countdown to Extinction from Megadeth transcribed, I found parts that didn't make sense for the fingers. I thought I was bad a guitar or Mustaine and Friedman were just too unreplicatable. Glad to know that even official transcription is not 100% accurate.
@@chinoisbase I bought that book too when I wanted to learn how to play that album as well. I'm no expert at transcribing or verifying how good transcriptions are but some parts I played through just didn't sound or feel right to me. A guitar teacher of mine once told me, ''you just can't trust tabs 100%''
@@vinaymulukutla358 I wished they could have said that in the forewords, but I guess that would'nt be good for sales, lol!
The Maximum of this Technique must be Knappsack by Steve Vai, correct?
Hadn't heard this tune until now. While Vai certainly does have great technique all the way around, including legato, yes it would appear that this "performance" is a bit overstated... first of all he isn't actually tracking the recorded version, he's mimicking a prior performance... like virtually all music videos. So if there was a bit of extra string noise anywhere, he'd just re-track that phrase cleanly. Very doable in that sense. In any case, with good string damping technique this kind of thing is very possible, overall, and if anyone can do it, I wouldn't be surprised he could. But at the same time, he let the cat out of the bag at 1:35, (ruclips.net/video/aMjmjXHJoPg/видео.html) There you can hear what sounds like a pick rack attack which isn't on the video. So yeah, not sure how much of this is 'real'. But I would not be surprised to see him do this live and for the most part nail it, although I would also expect a bit of occasional extra string noise here and there in a live performance. Even here, if one solo'ed the lead track, there is probably a bit of that which is masked in the mix by the otehr instruments.
It is also the idea which was great..it is the only Song I know in this legato Style, so I think it is ok that he done it
is that a key change every bar?
Well, in a sense, yeah… that’s what came to be called “pitch axis technique.” But it just written using accidentals
Bc rich😍
pointy😁