I know this was 4 years ago, but that’s where a lot of ideas come from exercises and practice, they have riffs that are similar to all of these little exercises he just showed, which proves a lot of ideas come from these exercises. John Petrucci, Steve Vai, so many guys have said the same thing, the fact that you came up with something like this on your own is a good thing. And yes I realize you may not have been serious and just saying that as a way of saying marks just that good and he is, but I wanted to say this in case you were in fact serious.
@@Pughhead can you give a time stamp by any chance? I’ve listened to the song thousands of times at this point and I can’t think of where it is in the bridge, much less the rest of the song
I have been practising for years trying to find a way to complete an exercise like the 8-12 fret legato phrase in the last bar. My little finger is simply too short. It's somewhat possible while seated with my hand arched in an impractical way, but as soon as you stand up, gone. Not a chance would I play that live. I'm a teacher myself & am always aware of the physical limitations of my students. Some things some people sinply can't do. I don't expect my slightly overweight student who's been lifting things all his life to be able to play complex chord arrangements & arpeggios because his fingers are like sausages. And I don't expect my 10 year-old child student to be able to bend a whole tone without months and months of practise & strength building exercises.
+Daniel West ok. I get knowing your limitations, but I'm curious as to what the point of this comment was? He said probably half a dozen times that the skill-building here isn't specific to this series of notes and intervals, but about strengthening and evening our legato playing, and that this sequence just made musical sense to him. You can achieve the same thing by using smaller stretches or different hand/finger positioning - he just used this example as a vehicle to convey the practice idea.
+Daniel West i know it doesn't look as cool, but raise your strap on your guitar higher towards your chest, you will get much more reach as if you were sitting down.
+Daniel West This is a very good comment, it's always good to know what you can and can't do, and always strive for just a bit more. Not to mention some limitations due to our anatomy can always be utilized as advantages in other guitar playing situations. If you have been practicing for a long time you've probably already tried these, but as a reference to anyone who might read this, you can increase your stretch by playing with a foot stool on the foot under your fretting hand and playing with your thumb behind the neck and no other part of the hand touching it.
So if someBuddy wanted to run this ...my life like a god ...what would he have done when I turned my back ...and in a child-ish way said somebody is getting...phuct
fucking fantastic player
Coming from a fucking fantastic player himself!
look who's talking
that first legato exercise sounds so tool-ish soo good
I knew id find you here -Steven
+SupaStevioIsBeast hey babygirl
A Tool/Periphery tour would make my life.
I can't say I listen to Periphery but I dig a lot of what Mark is showing and can respect sort of what he's doing differently from the pack
Probably the best Holcomb lesson yet.
I feel bad knowing that I wrote a riff exactly like that first practice, only to find out that Mark does it as a practice... :\
wrote ?
+Ericson Capone It's not the riff that matters, it's what you make of it
+Ericson Capone It's not the riff that matters, it's what you make of it
doesnt mean that it doesnt sound cool
I know this was 4 years ago, but that’s where a lot of ideas come from exercises and practice, they have riffs that are similar to all of these little exercises he just showed, which proves a lot of ideas come from these exercises. John Petrucci, Steve Vai, so many guys have said the same thing, the fact that you came up with something like this on your own is a good thing. And yes I realize you may not have been serious and just saying that as a way of saying marks just that good and he is, but I wanted to say this in case you were in fact serious.
Just stumbled across this. This has already helped me immensely!
Why are his warmups cooler than any riff I could write?
To be honest I'd listen to these exercises if he made them songs. That 3rd exercise sounds amazing
Great practice exercises!
Brilliant, and it sounds awesome! time to build up my speed and play about with this.
that should be a damn periphery song
He kinda sounds like Nicolas Cage sometimes
+BolFelix dude, i was thinking he sounded familiar to SOMEONE for years! hahaha you got it ! xD
+BolFelix i always thought he reminded me of paul gilbert, personality wise.
@@shadybrain3424 Or maybe Paul Gilbert reminds you of Nicolas Cage..
He has a bit lower and hoarse voice
come on dude dont ruin mark for me
hard to see how he's doing the exercise. would like to have seen a close up of the work
Hearing it slowed down makes me think of Adam Jones style :B\m/
my old band and I wrote a song called trapped in a Nicholas Cage
Why hasn't he turned these exercises into a song they sound so beautiful
maybe this excercise will apply on peri-phery V : Hail Mark
He has, look up a song called The Bad Thing.
@@Pughhead these are in The Bad Thing? I‘ve never heard them anywhere in that song
@@MarkToast99 He uses the excercise in the bridge.
@@Pughhead can you give a time stamp by any chance? I’ve listened to the song thousands of times at this point and I can’t think of where it is in the bridge, much less the rest of the song
all the feels
cant even pay attention to the lesson because that fucking guitar
is so beautiful! Damn i want one!
then ill be able to play just like Mark!
If you cant play it on a piece of shit you cant play it on a prs
+Alex Dattel I think he meant sound like Mark Holcomb
+Alex Dattel I think he meant sound like Mark Holcomb
Alex Dattel I think he was joking
I can't believe I watched the entire Nike Oregon Ad before this vid.
:D
I have been practising for years trying to find a way to complete an exercise like the 8-12 fret legato phrase in the last bar. My little finger is simply too short. It's somewhat possible while seated with my hand arched in an impractical way, but as soon as you stand up, gone. Not a chance would I play that live. I'm a teacher myself & am always aware of the physical limitations of my students. Some things some people sinply can't do. I don't expect my slightly overweight student who's been lifting things all his life to be able to play complex chord arrangements & arpeggios because his fingers are like sausages. And I don't expect my 10 year-old child student to be able to bend a whole tone without months and months of practise & strength building exercises.
+Daniel West ok. I get knowing your limitations, but I'm curious as to what the point of this comment was? He said probably half a dozen times that the skill-building here isn't specific to this series of notes and intervals, but about strengthening and evening our legato playing, and that this sequence just made musical sense to him. You can achieve the same thing by using smaller stretches or different hand/finger positioning - he just used this example as a vehicle to convey the practice idea.
J Har
My point wasn't to criticise him, but to show the limitations of certain guitarists. It was an observation, a personal anecdote.
+Daniel West i know it doesn't look as cool, but raise your strap on your guitar higher towards your chest, you will get much more reach as if you were sitting down.
+Daniel West This is a very good comment, it's always good to know what you can and can't do, and always strive for just a bit more. Not to mention some limitations due to our anatomy can always be utilized as advantages in other guitar playing situations.
If you have been practicing for a long time you've probably already tried these, but as a reference to anyone who might read this, you can increase your stretch by playing with a foot stool on the foot under your fretting hand and playing with your thumb behind the neck and no other part of the hand touching it.
+Vd Child check out shawn lane
you count the first example as 1+a 2+a 3+a 1+a 2+a 3+a and so on.
in case anyone was confused with his explanation
Does anybody know what brand his jacket is? that shit looks badass.
Sexy PRS. Nice exercises !
You can tell they play over a click a lot because he's really accurate.
Drop C tuning?
MarkToast yes. not super important though it still sounds cool in drop d
This guy.. Sooo gooood!
These excercises need to be made into songs.
Holcomb Mania? As in Hulkamania? And his name is Mark!
spider walking, like violin players use?
Wasn't there a vid where he did Pale Aura? Can't believe I can't find it, that song is a bastard to play by ear
+Mac his jamup video
wtfareyousmoking No I found it; the one in this series called 'using chord ideas to make songs' or something like that, it's near the end of the video
Man his exercises sound better than my best compositions lmao
Song in the beginning? Thanks
Polyrhythm for legato exercise.
Shieet is hard.
Holcomb-Mania. Original
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can someone share the tone settings??
An AxeFX I believe. All the Periphery guys have their patches up for download on the fractal site.
thanks... :)
intro song??
+Kyle B Omega by Periphery
Which tunning is he using ?
+Aditya Dabholkar drop c I think
They usually are in drop a
they don't use the traditional 'drop a' tuning they just drop the bottom C string to A in drop C tuning and calls it drop A for some reason
Jake Weiszhaar they usually play in drop c.
Aditya Dabholkar
6 string: Drop C
7 string: Drop G#
tasty.
tABS????
+Chris Morrison
www.guitarworld.com/holcomb-mania-mark-holcomb-creative-legato-exercises-odd-meters-video/25434
sounds a bit like tool niie!
I dont know, but is anyone else annoyed by the noise gate they use for the speech?
It's actually gotten less extreme over the years. The "uhs" and "uhms" were djent as fuck back in 2013
Is he in drop D or wtf?
theScytheofGod sounds like drop C bro
Damned.
So if someBuddy wanted to run this ...my life like a god ...what would he have done when I turned my back ...and in a child-ish way said somebody is getting...phuct