Rabea Massaad Full Guitar Masterclass
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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
- Recorded in late 2019, here's the legendary Rabea Massaad performing killer tracks from Grinding Gears and sharing his insight into navigating the fretboard, creating ambient tones, and much, much more.
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00:00 In the Face of the Nameless Performance
03:20 Grinding Gears Origin
05:06 Writing for a Gear Demo
07:09 Silo Prototypes
12:25 Limitations of Learning Technique Through Learning Songs
16:26 Scales and Modes Rabea Uses
19:14 Finding your Voice on the Guitar
20:49 Visualising the Fretboard
23:31 Writing Music for Different Projects
26:31 Pre-Internet vs. Post Internet Musician
31:34 What did Rabea do after studying music?
34:04 Intentionally writing or holding onto riffs until the right time
36:28 How to write riffs
40:11 What Rabea wishes he'd learned earlier
44:06 Creating Ambient Tones
48:35 Writing Transition Parts
52:14 Multi-genre guitarist vs. One genre guitarist
54:28 Brute Force Performance
Enjoy!
The more you hear of both Rabea Massaad’s music and his personality when he speaks… the more you realise that he is totally the real deal, and a lovely guy to boot.
I know Rabea (friend of a friend) and he’s genuinely the nicest guy
18:00 was such a relief for me cuz that’s exactly how I write dissonant-ish ambient stuff. “I have no idea what those chords are or if they work together harmonically in a progression but they sound cool to me so” 😂
Bea's on top of the wickedly sick technique game IMO. He's got such a grasp on a wide range of genres from classic virtuoso licks from the late 80's early 90's straight through Tool's 10,000 days into modern Djentemen thump. Absolutely brilliant.
Marvellous guitar player, one of the most imaginative out there. Met him in Andertons a couple of years ago and a very nice guy.
I couldn’t agree more!
As a guitarist, I focus on what other guitar players do on the fretboard. Simply because it’s a great learning experience and it may inspire new ideas.
That’s why this video is a delight to watch, when the camera is purely focused on the fretboard. Thank you.
Same here this is perfect content for guitarist
First time hearing "in the face of the nameless" and it was like your first time driving a long trip and on your way back it feels waaay shorter... the first listen was surreal and seemed like 5 minutes but going back and watching him play the song goes by so fast and it's frustrating since it's still surreal but I can't get lost in how long that first time felt 😂😂
I know EXACTLY what you mean! The first time was like a journey! I would love to be able to play like that man, such attitude and pure cool guitar playing. It's insane! 🤟🏻
I like how this entire masterclass could but summed up as "idk man, sometimes I do some stuff and it sounds pretty sick, so I just do that, and then sometimes, when I do stuff that isn't sick, I do something else"
Your picking? Just wow!?
Awesome!
The Darkness is such an incredible band. Sad that most people just view them as being gimmicky due to the falsetto singing, but when you listen they have such great songs and are great players.
Justin Hawkins Rides Again is a great channel! Check it out if you haven't. Any doubts about their musical credilibity go out the window when you realize the guys are just a bunch of music geeks.
How come you’re talking about the darkness? Was it mentioned in this masterclass, have I missed it somewhere?
@@Hutch500 12:50
@@Hutch500 he mentions them when talking about his influences
me too but their songs a basically g a d thats what threw me off
I remember sitting in and watching this masterclass (had to find it in my photos - sept '19) loved it.
This was awesome Bea! Great playing and I genuinely enjoy listening to your insight and approach.
Thank you for sharing these!
My pleasure, I'm glad you like them 😃
Great insightful video
Love this mans playing ...so fruitful.
Yeah man, it's so good, isn't it? 🤟🏻
Thank you for the upload.
You’re welcome. Hope you enjoyed it.
This is absolutely awesome, thank you 🙏🏻
You’re most welcome 😃
Such a lovely guy, and a monster player, any style he has it, big fan
insane skills.
Thanks for sharing this one with us, Matt!
You’re most welcome Mike. I hope you’re doing well 🤟🏻
Matt!!! Thank you for these amazing videos: from Tosin Abasi to Rabea Massaad. I will binge watching them on the weekend 🙂
You are very welcome, Noah. Enjoy your binge and let me know what you think 😃
Rabea you’re a BEAST!!! You got the chops
Absolutely! 🤟🏻
0:35 8:16 The slower singing solo parts is/are just divine! His note choices over the backing track are just perfect. I would have called this song "Symphony of Darkness". ;o)
Awesome view on rabea's thoughts and the way he approaches stuff!
Seems a really really down to earth likeable kind of guy 😁
Yeah man, we spoke for a little while after the event and he’s a decent guy. He even let me film Toska (his band) that evening which was awesome 🤟🏻
Best hair in the business
(@30:50) - I'm with you on that, buddy. I miss the time when bands were larger than life, and when the true, real rockstars existed... 🤘
Thank you for posting, much appreciated + subscribe.
You're most welcome. Thank you for the comment and the sub! 😃
When he plays some of his melodic/ambient stuff, I immediately see Cristina Scabbia singing with him.
Instantly google's 'christina Scabbia', realises it's the singer from Lacuna Coil and totally gets what you mean! 🤟🏻
@@Moakalatte 🤘
your honesty about limited theory knowledge just proves that...you don't need to know all the theory stuff to be an ace player...in fact it might be better not to know and just use your ear and creativeness .....! you come across as a great guy ....heres to you Rebea !
I took the exact same thing away from this masterclass too. As a non-theory based player, it was inspiring to know that it’s not essential to be ‘successful’.
It's always better to use your ear and creativity. Regardless of if you know theory or not. There is no true opposition there.
@@user-oy7gz5bf2h exactly. our minds love false dichotomies
This sounds absolutely amazing, is this an original? Beautiful.
yes it is. he said it. really good stuff
This intro is so sick and so fitting with what go about in ukrain!!! Insta headbang i have to go pick up my guitar now
This section is dope! 🤟1:53
This is literally my favourite part of this whole video! 🤟🏻🤟🏻
Grinding Gears Vol 3. -- The Mods. Nuff' said.
This was absolutely disgusting, I loved it.
Damn dude. That first track melted my fucking face off. Some of those riffs were heavy as fuck. Cradle of filth vibes
It’s awesome, isn’t it?
Cool video! I think you should link Rabeas channel in the description
Good shout. Done 🤟🏻
it's like that.
Awesome Masterclass 😎 that finish on the guitar though 😍 Is that a custom made guitar mate?
It’s his signature Chapman guitar 🤟🏻
@@Moakalatte Amazing guitar 🔥🤟
nice guy and great player, im a little confused: in one part he says that he doesn't know what chord he is playing, or what progression it is, it only sounds good so he plays it, but later he says that for him the important thing is to know the different types of chords maj7, dim, augmented, 13, add9 etc, Anyone understand better than me this approach?
I think he doesn't know immediately if it's an A, a C or a F, but he can surely feel the intervals. Different intervals have "colors" and even if you don't know what it is, your ears recognize the color. I hope that it will give you a beginning of the answer :)
Yes knowing shapes is incredibly helpful, so you might not be thinking from a pure theory standpoint of which chord goes best after another, but rather know 2-3 shapes that will be dissonant and build tension, or 2-3 shapes that resolve tension, etc.
Has he gained weight again? Nvtheless. Awesome video!
No, this is from 2019 but only recently uploaded. Glad you enjoyed it. Still some great insights 🤟🏻
joyofthedizzy
Death-trap music... 🤔💡
WHY are the questions cut out?? Frustrating.
It is frustrating but it’s because they didn’t have a roaming mic in the room so the questions couldn’t be heard clearly. I only know what the questions were because I made note of them when filming.
"Masterclass"? This was a simple panel with rough outline on guitar and doing guitar demos for YouTune, but where is the actual "guitar masterclass" that the title promised me?
Look at what he's playing and you might just learn something
He looks more like himself now hes piled the weight back on
Love the guy but i think John browne is way better.. no where near..
a guitar salesman doing a masterclass? why
Because he's one of the best prog guitarists alive today. Duh.
@@ileutur6863 delusional
Bea is a real recording and gigging muscian who happens to also do UA-cam and helps Andertons on the side. This approach is very common these days. Heck even major recording artists have done their fair share of UA-cam over the past 2yrs. He has great guitar skills, musical ideas and is popular within the guitar community. So why not 🤷♂️
@@djt6546 you clearly have no taste in music if you think his instrumentals are even remotely good songs
@@wesleygeofferson5171 ok troll
Sounds like a Mark Tremonti ripoff.
Rabea shreds guitar like Vladimir P shreds Ukraine. 💯✊
pls use emg pickups rabea you are the best !!