EDIT* For the Shot In The Dark tunning. I said it correctly but on the diagram I marked the strings incorrect. Low E and A tune up 1/2 a step. DGBE tune Down 1/2 a step.
Jake and Warren DeMartini from Ratt were house mates in LA back before Jake landed the gig with Ozzy, and Warren has these monstrous hands, so Jake made it a point to really stretch out his hands, and even use his thumb to try to compete with him!
I find these ridiculous Jake E Lee stretches completely unnecessary. Yes, it may sound a little different (but better???) but not enough in the great scheme of things to make things so much more difficult to play, especially live. I believe he also had a hand in the Lay it down lick from Ratt which is played on the 5th position on the neck and as such requires a wide stretch to play. I play it in the first (open) position and to my ears it sounds better.
Not enough is done to honor Jake's influence on 80's guitar. I got to sit with him and talk to him before a Red Dragon Cartel show and he is so humble and kind. I switched from drums to guitar after seeing him on the Ultimate Sin Tour 8x
I was there in the 80s and remember reading about some of these very tricks and licks in guitar player magazine. Try to imagine learning these songs with all the nuances with only a cassette player, and maybe some tablature. No UA-cam or videos to show you step by step, no internet at all. We always knew we were playing a short cut version that wasn’t quite right, but only the most committed guitar geeks seemed to care or even notice. It was an era of true virtuosos that gave us Jake, Eddie, Via, Yngwie, etc. I truly believe that 90s grunge without leads at all was the result of frustrated players that felt it wasn’t humanly possible to keep evolving and compete with them. Man that was awesome to be alive back then.
Ya, I never learned to play it correctly or well enough to impress those who knew better. However, I played it well enough to impress a bar room full of drunks and that paid the bills back then. 🤘😄
When I really got into Jake's playing after hearing Bark At the Moon, it wasn't his incredible lead playing that hooked me, it was his absolutely unique approach to chords and chord voicings. I could tell that he was using common chords in different ways by playing different inversions and it gave his rhythms a very unique texture. I've spent a lifetime listening to his playing, into this day he never ceases to amaze me.
Get better Jake. Saw him on the Bark at the Moon and Ultimate sin tours and thought he was awesome. Influenced my playing to this day. Also held his own replacing Randy. Jake is his own man and player. God bless and recover soon 🙏🤘. Great video Robert. Keep up the great work
Great video sir! Jake is a HUGE influence on me. He’s a killer player and a good guy. I was lucky enough to see him play in Dallas Tx on the Bark at the Moon tour air the Texas Jam. He was at the top of his game. Jake deserves so much more recognition and respect.
I'm a drummer and always loved his playing. Just my opinion; but he would make a great addition to Cinderella in Jeff LaBar's spot... looks and playing!
My older brother taught me a lot of 80s stuff back in the late 80s/early 90s. The guitar magazines had a lot of the Jake correct way of playing these chords. His stuff was some oft the most challenging stuff to learn pre-internet/UA-cam.
I really enjoyed this video. Ultimate Sin was one of the first metal records I got as a kid in the 80s. I just gave it a spin recently and forgot how huge the guitar sounds on it. Those are some cool moves man.
Thanks for giving us a dive into the inner workings of Jake's playing. Makes me want to listen to those tunes again. Been a while since I've played them.
I have played a fake version of this for years... I had a friend send me the vid where Jake teaches it correctly and got that under my belt for a while as well but what was funny to me... I had a friend who would argue with me that my faked version was "closer than you think" and I kept telling him like... Dude I'm missing entire chord changes and just covering over the rhythm chugs for that very last bit of the intro... Jake e. Lee deserves way more credit than he gets usually when the topic of Ozzy guitarists comes up.
Jake is excellent. I remember when I first heard bark at the moon and the ultimate sin album. I loved and missed Randy... but I heard Jake and was blown away. Still am when I listen to it today. Gonna listen to it right now!
True story: “Jake: Yeah, the first thing he said was, Do you know how to play a guitar with a wang bar on it? And I said, Of course, anybody can play a guitar with a wang bar, but I don't like it. And he said, Well, why don't you think about using one? Because I don't think you can play some of these songs without one. And I said, I can. I'll show ya and after rehearsal he said, Yeah, fine, it sounds like you've got one, I don't care. As long as it sounds good you don't need to use one.” 😂🤣 I could understand Ozzy’s plight after just having Brad G on his right for several weeks (months?) so he was definitely sold on wang bars, then Jake comes along and plays the same way with NO bar! Mind blown 🤯
Well that explains why I could never get Shot In The Dark sounding right, when I used to play it back in the 80's 😂. And as for Bark At The Moon, it's a hard no from my hands on those stretches! 😀 PS, was lucky enough to see Jake live with Ozzy in '84, and him and Randy are definitely my favourite Ozzy guitar players.
I saw the Bark tour in Jacksonville Fl with Crue in tow. Motley’s First US tour and Shout just out. Best costumes of their career and just great. Then to be blown away by the solo that’s now preserved on the Salt Lake City VHS that made it to laser disk and DVD wished I caught the Ultimate Sin tour but have The Ultimate Ozzy on DVD (MTV did play this show on TV in ‘86! Those flurry of tapped harmonics at the beginning of the solo almost topped the “Thumb as the Nut extreme stretches” on Bark. ☮️ Dean
thank you for this Vid Robert!. I did not know about the weird tunning of shot in the dark. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Jake and his musical abilities as a guitar player.
Great video. Been learning those songs again since I picked up a Jake E Lee Charvel for a steal (shout out to Tone Shop Guitars in Dallas). What always struck me in his riff construction was the great blend between open strings ringing combined with the double stops. And the palm muting. And the harmonics. And the tone (gotta have a JB!) And ... and ... and ... I'm so glad he's getting some renewed appreciation and it's been so much fun going over all that material again. I saw him on the Ultimate Sin tour and his interpretation of Rhoads songs and Rhoads-style Sabbath songs steered me to Randy Rhoads and Black Sabbath in the peak of my teenage guitar-learning period.
Great video too. Instead of the crazy editing today where it shows each musician for Maybe 1-2 seconds, the cam stays on Jake for most of the solo Don’t forget to find the Lightning Strikes Again video lots of footage on Jake with that SG (dons Bibb to combat droll 🫠
@@gibsonfan159 I'm not actually sure about that. Jake actually has gone on record as having pretty small hands and was frustrated with Warren DiMartini because he had bigger hands. I know some of the stuff was played using thumb position like a cellist might utilize for their higher notes.
When is 80’s week? I was 16 to 25 years old during the 80’s started play in 76 got serous in 80 and watched the Metal Blocks on MTV either Fri or Sat night before Headbangers ball launched. VHS and cassette Star Licks and bootlegs. What a time to be alive!! ☮️
I seen Jake with Ozzy on your back in the day.Such a great guitarist.I love those crazy neck bends and man did he bend those necks.I surprised he never broke it
3:15 Jake is so right in saying that. I remember getting tabs in magazines for songs and some of the chord voicings don’t sound right…. I would always search for the correct chord myself. Great breakdown of this song. Thank you.
I haven't actually finished the 80's course yet, since I needed to get more speed practice in before getting the solos down, but this video alone deserves some support so signed up and ready to get riffing come the weekend! Cheers Robert
I remember reading an article at one time where Jake said that he and Warren Dimartini would have these little guitar competitions and try one-up each other. While trying to outplay Warren, he started doing solos where he would start stretching for these notes and eventually developed his technique from that.
I’m a drummer and I don’t know shit about guitar but the Bark at the Moon outro is one of my favorite riffs and I never get tired of it. Also, that “behind the nut” trick is wild! No idea you could do that.
Jake, one of the best ever, no ego, humble, a real musician, never been lucky enough, looking back at Ozzy shit about credits and money Jake deserved, and now, that has been shot, can't believe it, risked to be killed just like Dime. Love him, and his music, song writin', "A fine pink mist", it's an original incredible work, and all his stuff with Badlands is pure and raw art!
I have long observed that the most innovative rock guitar players began as frustrated pianists who couldn't bend notes on a piano (see EVH, Tony MacAlpine), but Jake is king of the lot IMHO. Dude carved his own path like no other, purposely steering away from whammy bar convention and finding fixed bridge techniques all his own, not to mention that wild thumb barring the high B and E string stuff. Thank you for this study and wishing Jake quick mending from that (let's call it what it is) assault on his life
Jake is a monster player. I could ape Rhoades and Van Halen licks a few years into playing electric, but after playing for over 25 years now, I still have to be on my A game to play the Jake stuff. Cheers!
The corse is great as always. I buy them all right when they come out. I have not been disappointed yet all have been great. Thank you for all the knowledge you have shared.
Awesome video i learned some new tricks now, never thought of pulling the e steing down behind the nut. I spent more time than necessary trying to get the harmonics as close as possi le with my whammy bar, which just didnt sound exactly right so thanks a ton!!
Shot in the Dark was the song that really hooked me into my lifelong love of hard rock/ hair metal music, whatever you want to call it. I was a 19 year old newbie just arrived to my Army unit in Germany in early '88. A soldier who had been there a long time took us under his wing, so to speak. He had Ozzy TUS tape, I was hooked. FWIW, I don't think Jake ever played anything but hardtails, I heard him say once he basically had no use for whammy bars. Both of his signature Charvels are hardtails.
Great video Robert. Jake is amazing. Would love to see you do one on Dave Meniketti and John Sykes. I think you're definitely the guy for the job. Keep up the good work. It is much appreciated
The 80s were definitely the greatest modern decade. I turned 18 in 1980, and just started college. And I was 28 at the end of that time period. Damn, I had SO MUCH FUN, back in the 80s, saw tons of amazing bands and thoroughly enjoyed life. This is a cool idea, Robert, thanks for putting it together.
The first time I saw the Ultimate Ozzy video I was floored by how he was playing. I couldn't see details but you could see the stretch. on the albums he also had zero qualms about using bonkers guitar tuning that you'd never guess. I was so glad to see Jake come out of retirement and do those Red Dragon Cartel tours and interviews and shed light on his playing.
I don't play guitar at all but hearing Jake play on the bark at the moon video I knew it was something special, saw ultimate sin tour at cow palace great show one of my favorite concerts
Even as a non-guitar player, I understand the majority of what you were teaching. Quite fascinating to watch as a Jake fan. Definitely satisfied my curiosity on what was going on in those albums.
His Badlands album was better than anything with Ozzy... The hard part is he got used like every guitarist between Randy Rhoads and Zakk Wylde... Your correct tho many of us used the trem for that solo but when I switched to my Telecaster I started doing it the right way .. But I was more of a Badlands fan than I was when he was with Ozzy...
Jake put so much seasoning in his stuff, ESPECIALLY bark at the moon. He takes a somewhat simple progression, and LITTERS it with all sorts of cool seasoning that separates ALL guitar players apart from the masters like himself. Epic. Intro. outtro. Everything. He's a friggin' genius. Hope he recovers well, too.
Every rock guitarist had their own version of BatM. Some were better than others, but literally 100% of them were wrong. 100% of the tabs and videos were wrong before Jake set the record straight. My rendition back in the day was decent but I knew it wasn't quite right. Jake tricked us indeed!
I have shaken hands with Jake and noticed his hands are the same size as mine. On the small side with short thumbs (his are smaller) and pinkies. Jake's thumbs are double jointed though! That allows him to stretch further and play with his thumb on the fretboard. He has said his thumb clamps down and want move.
The bar was very high in the 80s.... So many great guitarists ..... Jake definitely stood out and set a bar of his own.... I'll just finish by saying "Waiting for Darkness".... Enough said 😎
EDIT*
For the Shot In The Dark tunning. I said it correctly but on the diagram I marked the strings incorrect. Low E and A tune up 1/2 a step. DGBE tune Down 1/2 a step.
Jake and Warren DeMartini from Ratt were house mates in LA back before Jake landed the gig with Ozzy, and Warren has these monstrous hands, so Jake made it a point to really stretch out his hands, and even use his thumb to try to compete with him!
HA! I thought you did, but then I was like, maybe I misunderstood what you said. Lol
I was very confused by this diagram. Now I get it!
I find these ridiculous Jake E Lee stretches completely unnecessary. Yes, it may sound a little different (but better???) but not enough in the great scheme of things to make things so much more difficult to play, especially live. I believe he also had a hand in the Lay it down lick from Ratt which is played on the 5th position on the neck and as such requires a wide stretch to play. I play it in the first (open) position and to my ears it sounds better.
Ironic!
Not enough is done to honor Jake's influence on 80's guitar. I got to sit with him and talk to him before a Red Dragon Cartel show and he is so humble and kind. I switched from drums to guitar after seeing him on the Ultimate Sin Tour 8x
He likes those long stretchy chords. The Badlands song Dusk is a good example of this. Absolutely love Jake’s Playing, phenomenal.
I was there in the 80s and remember reading about some of these very tricks and licks in guitar player magazine. Try to imagine learning these songs with all the nuances with only a cassette player, and maybe some tablature. No UA-cam or videos to show you step by step, no internet at all. We always knew we were playing a short cut version that wasn’t quite right, but only the most committed guitar geeks seemed to care or even notice. It was an era of true virtuosos that gave us Jake, Eddie, Via, Yngwie, etc. I truly believe that 90s grunge without leads at all was the result of frustrated players that felt it wasn’t humanly possible to keep evolving and compete with them. Man that was awesome to be alive back then.
I remember those days.
Ya, I never learned to play it correctly or well enough to impress those who knew better. However, I played it well enough to impress a bar room full of drunks and that paid the bills back then. 🤘😄
When I really got into Jake's playing after hearing Bark At the Moon, it wasn't his incredible lead playing that hooked me, it was his absolutely unique approach to chords and chord voicings. I could tell that he was using common chords in different ways by playing different inversions and it gave his rhythms a very unique texture.
I've spent a lifetime listening to his playing, into this day he never ceases to amaze me.
Get better Jake. Saw him on the Bark at the Moon and Ultimate sin tours and thought he was awesome. Influenced my playing to this day. Also held his own replacing Randy. Jake is his own man and player. God bless and recover soon 🙏🤘. Great video Robert. Keep up the great work
Bark at the tendinitis
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Jake is the reason I switched from bass to guitar. Jake is the reason I have self esteem issues. 😊
Jake is the reason I picked up the bass! 😂
at 72, i concur.same as seeing Danny Gatton, The Hellecasters , Jeff Beck, Al DiMeola and friend Albert Lee❤
Pick up the guitar and be you... Jake never wanted to be anyone but himself. You just got a work at being you. DON'T stop playing bass too.
Thanks, Jake deserves ALL the love! He's so amazing and such a nice guy to meet in person.
Great video!
I love these secret playing tips are finally becoming known to us regular joes, thanks to youtubers like you. 👊
Great video sir! Jake is a HUGE influence on me. He’s a killer player and a good guy. I was lucky enough to see him play in Dallas Tx on the Bark at the Moon tour air the Texas Jam. He was at the top of his game. Jake deserves so much more recognition and respect.
Currently on a Jake E Lee kick atm so this is perfect timing!
Jakes the reason i play guitar still amazing and hope he soon start playing onstage again , support from Puerto Rico
Jake was ozzy's loss!!! Great player!!
I liked him better than I do Randy'
Ozzy tricked him
I'm a drummer and always loved his playing. Just my opinion; but he would make a great addition to Cinderella in Jeff LaBar's spot... looks and playing!
Badlands would suit him better...(!!)@@lockedandloadedsigns4424
@yakfishin4912 Me too...always preferred him to Randy and Zakk
Early Christmas gift, when my favourite YT guitarist talks about my favourite guitar hero!
Much love to all and a quick and full recovery to Jake!
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥
All my Brothers in Jake
🤘🤠🤘
My older brother taught me a lot of 80s stuff back in the late 80s/early 90s. The guitar magazines had a lot of the Jake correct way of playing these chords. His stuff was some oft the most challenging stuff to learn pre-internet/UA-cam.
What a cool cat, surprisingly tricky when you dive into the nuances of his playing
Great video . Jake E Lee is awesome. I often find myself playing Killer of Giants, my favorite tune off that album.
I really enjoyed this video. Ultimate Sin was one of the first metal records I got as a kid in the 80s. I just gave it a spin recently and forgot how huge the guitar sounds on it. Those are some cool moves man.
Prayers for Jake!🙏🙏🙏 phenomenal Artist🙏
Thank you for featuring Jake, ROBERT👍👍
Thanks for the discount, just enrolled⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thanks for giving us a dive into the inner workings of Jake's playing. Makes me want to listen to those tunes again. Been a while since I've played them.
I love Jake's playing
I have played a fake version of this for years... I had a friend send me the vid where Jake teaches it correctly and got that under my belt for a while as well but what was funny to me... I had a friend who would argue with me that my faked version was "closer than you think" and I kept telling him like... Dude I'm missing entire chord changes and just covering over the rhythm chugs for that very last bit of the intro... Jake e. Lee deserves way more credit than he gets usually when the topic of Ozzy guitarists comes up.
@joeydurant6267 well when other Ozzy guitarist comes up, Jake is phenomenal! But RR
Is the king.
Jake is excellent. I remember when I first heard bark at the moon and the ultimate sin album. I loved and missed Randy... but I heard Jake and was blown away. Still am when I listen to it today. Gonna listen to it right now!
That ''Shot'' tuning finally addresses why the original Guitar World (I think) tab was so hard to try to play! Thanks Rob!
Jake E. Lee is one of my favorite shredders. He is a magnificent guitarist.
Great video! Your videos always get me in the mood to play guitar! Love it!🔥🔥🔥
Your 80s course and this 80s series is the best. More please.
Always fond of this playing since first hearing him on bark at the moon. Super under rated and has a lot of really unique and dynamic riffs.
You are awesome dude, thanks for sharing all these tips with us 🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🎸🎸🎸
Excellent Thank You !! I never thought about bending "horizontally" behind the nut ! ! ! Such a cool trick !!
True story: “Jake: Yeah, the first thing he said was, Do you know how to play a guitar with a wang bar on it? And I said, Of course, anybody can play a guitar with a wang bar, but I don't like it. And he said, Well, why don't you think about using one? Because I don't think you can play some of these songs without one. And I said, I can. I'll show ya and after rehearsal he said, Yeah, fine, it sounds like you've got one, I don't care. As long as it sounds good you don't need to use one.” 😂🤣 I could understand Ozzy’s plight after just having Brad G on his right for several weeks (months?) so he was definitely sold on wang bars, then Jake comes along and plays the same way with NO bar! Mind blown 🤯
Well that explains why I could never get Shot In The Dark sounding right, when I used to play it back in the 80's 😂. And as for Bark At The Moon, it's a hard no from my hands on those stretches! 😀
PS, was lucky enough to see Jake live with Ozzy in '84, and him and Randy are definitely my favourite Ozzy guitar players.
I saw the Bark tour in Jacksonville Fl with Crue in tow. Motley’s First US tour and Shout just out. Best costumes of their career and just great. Then to be blown away by the solo that’s now preserved on the Salt Lake City VHS that made it to laser disk and DVD wished I caught the Ultimate Sin tour but have The Ultimate Ozzy on DVD (MTV did play this show on TV in ‘86! Those flurry of tapped harmonics at the beginning of the solo almost topped the “Thumb as the Nut extreme stretches” on Bark. ☮️ Dean
thank you for this Vid Robert!. I did not know about the weird tunning of shot in the dark. I have a great deal of respect and admiration for Jake and his musical abilities as a guitar player.
Great video. Been learning those songs again since I picked up a Jake E Lee Charvel for a steal (shout out to Tone Shop Guitars in Dallas). What always struck me in his riff construction was the great blend between open strings ringing combined with the double stops. And the palm muting. And the harmonics. And the tone (gotta have a JB!) And ... and ... and ... I'm so glad he's getting some renewed appreciation and it's been so much fun going over all that material again. I saw him on the Ultimate Sin tour and his interpretation of Rhoads songs and Rhoads-style Sabbath songs steered me to Randy Rhoads and Black Sabbath in the peak of my teenage guitar-learning period.
Really great points and excellent explanations. Subbed!
Bark at the Moon solo is one of the best…gets me goin every time
Great video too. Instead of the crazy editing today where it shows each musician for Maybe 1-2 seconds, the cam stays on Jake for most of the solo Don’t forget to find the Lightning Strikes Again video lots of footage on Jake with that SG (dons Bibb to combat droll 🫠
Face it, we ain't Jake. Just play it the easy way 99% of people won't notice and life's too short. But still a cool video. Love Jake.
I attempted some of his solos and quickly realized I'm just not built correctly to play them properly. Thankfully Rhoads had smaller hands.
@@gibsonfan159 I'm not actually sure about that. Jake actually has gone on record as having pretty small hands and was frustrated with Warren DiMartini because he had bigger hands. I know some of the stuff was played using thumb position like a cellist might utilize for their higher notes.
@@gibsonfan159 hahaha, yes, Jake is a monster 🤘
@@SlimeyGuitarStrings it's the stretches he can do thought. Incredible.
If Zakk Wylde can mangle Randy Rhoads and Jake E Lee’s parts why can’t I?
I love 80’s week
When is 80’s week? I was 16 to 25 years old during the 80’s started play in 76 got serous in 80 and watched the Metal Blocks on MTV either Fri or Sat night before Headbangers ball launched. VHS and cassette Star Licks and bootlegs. What a time to be alive!! ☮️
I seen Jake with Ozzy on your back in the day.Such a great guitarist.I love those crazy neck bends and man did he bend those necks.I surprised he never broke it
Thanks, you answered so many questions I had 🤘
Can't wait to try it
Thank you
3:15 Jake is so right in saying that. I remember getting tabs in magazines for songs and some of the chord voicings don’t sound right…. I would always search for the correct chord myself. Great breakdown of this song. Thank you.
I haven't actually finished the 80's course yet, since I needed to get more speed practice in before getting the solos down, but this video alone deserves some support so signed up and ready to get riffing come the weekend! Cheers Robert
I remember reading an article at one time where Jake said that he and Warren Dimartini would have these little guitar competitions and try one-up each other. While trying to outplay Warren, he started doing solos where he would start stretching for these notes and eventually developed his technique from that.
I’m a drummer and I don’t know shit about guitar but the Bark at the Moon outro is one of my favorite riffs and I never get tired of it. Also, that “behind the nut” trick is wild! No idea you could do that.
Jake, one of the best ever, no ego, humble, a real musician, never been lucky enough, looking back at Ozzy shit about credits and money Jake deserved, and now, that has been shot, can't believe it, risked to be killed just like Dime.
Love him, and his music, song writin', "A fine pink mist", it's an original incredible work, and all his stuff with Badlands is pure and raw art!
Thank you man. Awesome video!
I have long observed that the most innovative rock guitar players began as frustrated pianists who couldn't bend notes on a piano (see EVH, Tony MacAlpine), but Jake is king of the lot IMHO. Dude carved his own path like no other, purposely steering away from whammy bar convention and finding fixed bridge techniques all his own, not to mention that wild thumb barring the high B and E string stuff.
Thank you for this study and wishing Jake quick mending from that (let's call it what it is) assault on his life
Love the Jake. One of my all time favs.
Jake is a monster player. I could ape Rhoades and Van Halen licks a few years into playing electric, but after playing for over 25 years now, I still have to be on my A game to play the Jake stuff.
Cheers!
mean street intro?
come on man i love jake but calling eds stuff easy?
@@TheAgentAssassin fair point. I didn't mean that everything Edward did was easy, just song for song, Jake had me half assing it far more.
Cheers!
Thanks for the fantastic vid! Jake has never had enough coverage.
Great lesson! I learned Bark at the moon years ago without the aid of UA-cam or even Tab, and I had it all wrong, lol! Thanks for enlightening me!
I love Jake, he’s a monster player! He’ll always be in my top ten. Cheers!
The corse is great as always. I buy them all right when they come out. I have not been disappointed yet all have been great. Thank you for all the knowledge you have shared.
Dude that means a lot thank you.
Awesome video i learned some new tricks now, never thought of pulling the e steing down behind the nut. I spent more time than necessary trying to get the harmonics as close as possi le with my whammy bar, which just didnt sound exactly right so thanks a ton!!
Got to see him on Bark at the moon and Ultimate Sin tours..great live.
Shot in the Dark was the song that really hooked me into my lifelong love of hard rock/ hair metal music, whatever you want to call it. I was a 19 year old newbie just arrived to my Army unit in Germany in early '88. A soldier who had been there a long time took us under his wing, so to speak. He had Ozzy TUS tape, I was hooked. FWIW, I don't think Jake ever played anything but hardtails, I heard him say once he basically had no use for whammy bars. Both of his signature Charvels are hardtails.
Thanks for all the info about Jake. I had no idea!
His chords and phrasing on the ultimate sin album are so interesting. He creates such a unique mood and feeling .
That's Creativity..Dude is is a badass Journey to the centere of eternity...🔥🔥.Heal and Rest up Jake...
Great video Robert. Jake is amazing. Would love to see you do one on Dave Meniketti and John Sykes. I think you're definitely the guy for the job. Keep up the good work. It is much appreciated
Yeah awesome course! I bought it yesterday!! Love the Jake section! 💯🔥🙌
Thank you!
As an added bonus those big stretches just happen to look badass too
best video ever !!! Thanks Bob
The 80s were definitely the greatest modern decade. I turned 18 in 1980, and just started college. And I was 28 at the end of that time period. Damn, I had SO MUCH FUN, back in the 80s, saw tons of amazing bands and thoroughly enjoyed life.
This is a cool idea, Robert, thanks for putting it together.
GREAT lesson 🤟🏻
The first time I saw the Ultimate Ozzy video I was floored by how he was playing. I couldn't see details but you could see the stretch. on the albums he also had zero qualms about using bonkers guitar tuning that you'd never guess. I was so glad to see Jake come out of retirement and do those Red Dragon Cartel tours and interviews and shed light on his playing.
The “shot in the dark “
thing is great!
Dude! Great vid! So you're doing it! Run it Holmes! Killer INFO!
I saw Jake in concert with Ozzy and can say with confidence Jake E Lee is one of my favorite guitarist of all time.
Also loved Badlands!
Jake E Lee is a slick player!
I love using open strings it gives you the chance to jump over to another section of the neck while ringing out a note forever.
I don't play guitar at all but hearing Jake play on the bark at the moon video I knew it was something special, saw ultimate sin tour at cow palace great show one of my favorite concerts
Those headstock bends are pure genius 🤯
Jake is my favorite 80's guitar player
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Jake is awesome. He plays my favorite intro for any metal song, Killer of Giants!
Even as a non-guitar player, I understand the majority of what you were teaching. Quite fascinating to watch as a Jake fan. Definitely satisfied my curiosity on what was going on in those albums.
His Badlands album was better than anything with Ozzy... The hard part is he got used like every guitarist between Randy Rhoads and Zakk Wylde...
Your correct tho many of us used the trem for that solo but when I switched to my Telecaster I started doing it the right way .. But I was more of a Badlands fan than I was when he was with Ozzy...
The first Badlands record was amazing. It's a shame it won't ever be on streaming.
Badlands first album is fucking awesome
Dear God. thank You so much for creating Jake E. Lee! Guy is just such a BADASS guitar player!!!
My first concert was Ozzy for Bark at the Moon tour in 83 or 84 in Paris. Jake shocked me.
Jake is one of a kind. Wish he had more opportunities to shine as a songwriter for more notable bands over the course of his career.
Cool stuff man thanks a lot
Love Jake E Lee! One of my favorite guitar players with Ozzy.
my favorite guitar Hero
Jake put so much seasoning in his stuff, ESPECIALLY bark at the moon. He takes a somewhat simple progression, and LITTERS it with all sorts of cool seasoning that separates ALL guitar players apart from the masters like himself. Epic. Intro. outtro. Everything. He's a friggin' genius. Hope he recovers well, too.
Ozzy really knew how to find the special ones.👍🎸🔥🤘
I just recently discovered Jake, hope he is recovering, and yes he is one of the best for definitely sure!
Great informative video!
I prefer Jake's style over all other Ozzy guitarists. I like that angry sounding pick attack. Great stage presence too.
Randy Rhoads, Warren demartini and Jake E Lee are perhaps my favs in the rock / metal realm.....
So many other greats...could go on forever !!!
Every rock guitarist had their own version of BatM. Some were better than others, but literally 100% of them were wrong. 100% of the tabs and videos were wrong before Jake set the record straight. My rendition back in the day was decent but I knew it wasn't quite right. Jake tricked us indeed!
Why didn't they just ask Ozzy how to play it? He said he wrote all of the music and lyrics for every song on the Bark at the Moon album. 🤣
@@machupikachu1085im sure sharon had a big influence on ozzy when she showed him how to play the fast solo licks
@@64siskat96 LOL good point!
I have to try that tuning its pretty awesome sounding i always thought jake used a whammy also good info thanks
I have shaken hands with Jake and noticed his hands are the same size as mine. On the small side with short thumbs (his are smaller) and pinkies. Jake's thumbs are double jointed though! That allows him to stretch further and play with his thumb on the fretboard. He has said his thumb clamps down and want move.
Red Dragon Cartel. The latest band from Jake kicks ASS!!
YES!
The bar was very high in the 80s.... So many great guitarists ..... Jake definitely stood out and set a bar of his own.... I'll just finish by saying "Waiting for Darkness".... Enough said 😎
God bless Jake. One of the most authentic people in the music biz. Wish him the absolute best
That Charvel is wicked as hell.
Lee did some amazing stuff on Bark at the Moon, my favourite Ozzy solo album. Truth be told, Lee is my favourite Ozzy guitarist.
Cool guitars on this vid🤘