Someone said it before on a different Tool lesson of yours, but your attitude towards teaching is great, you tell people to play it however you want, you are a musician and it's your guitar.
im intermediate so i just keep forgetting which part comes next which is odd because i’ve listened to vicarious at least 4000 times. I just get dumb when i play
I’ve been playing for 3 years and within the first 6 months I tried playing this song, and could get all the way through until that VERY LAST riff at the end, last night I was finally able to conquer it. Thanks Greg for these videos, I probably wouldn’t be playing guitar today if I didn’t learn Tool from you so early in my playing
I've struggled learning full Tool songs because of all the variations and always found it tough getting it right. These videos have helped me nail these songs and faster than I ever thought I could. So 11 years later, thank you for these amazing videos 🙏
Thank you for putting out this vid. I figured out all the parts of the intro riff, but I didn't exactly know the pattern and how many time I needed to do certain parts. This helped a lot.
I've to thank you for this channel. I've owned a guitar for 20 years but not really played much in the past 18. I picked it up during covid and thru this channel I am by far the best I have ever been. I was terrible in high school but could play some basic chords and Doors Songs. Even though I only play Tool songs, I can play entire songs for the first time in my life ( !! ) and its awesome to pick up a new skill like this at 37. And it actually feels easy.
@anidemolimacnauj Lesson transcriptions can be found on my site axeofcreation(dot)com. Once you log in there will be a download link under the description.
Thanks dude, awesome video. Never appreciated how awesome the guitar was in the chorus until watching this video, always overlooked in favour of riff 2 and didn't really notice because of the singing. Amazing.
I've been a TOOL fan since the early 2000s and recently i picked up learning guitar. I've always wanted to but never had the guts to try it. Now after 3 months of watching youtube & justinguitar beginner courses i've found myself watching your videos. Thank you so much for these videos! i'm learning a ton and having a blast while doing it. As i'm quite new, i find it difficult to match the tones from your videos, could you perhaps make a beginner friendly video on how to use an amplifier? I've messed around with gain / treble / bass and there are hundreds of effects on this thing i have but i don't know where to start.
If Tool were to ever need a replacement guitarist, I'd be pretty stoked if they chose you. You're killer at guitar man, you taught and covered this song perfectly.
WOW! I sit around watching videos of covers and "learn to play"'s all day while looking up tabs and what not to learn how to play songs. Usually I have to take a little from everywhere to get the sound from the song, but this is by far the best guitar teaching video I have seen, and Ive seen thousands. Thank you for your time to put this up. I love Tool and I love this song, been trying to get it just right for awhile and your video explained it perfectly.
I think Vicarious is a GREAT song. It's very fun to listen to. The riff is very catchy. Yet, from your explanation, I realize there are many little detail that I don't realize it's there. And this is ONLY the guitar part. I don't know about bass and drum part. I bet it will be as complex as the guitar part. Thank you for this video lesson.
Thanks alot ! This is my favorite tool song and I had forgotten how to play it but its all coming back to me thanks to you ! Keep playing and teaching youre amazing at both!
LOL I remember being just a fledgling with my new SG soming to your videos my first year playing in 2013....Getting frustrated..I thought you moved too fast but really I just didn't know the basics of guitar yet. Fast forward 7 years later. I've learned how to shred scales up and down the neck and compose my own riffs. Now going though your videos is the perfect pace. Thanks for helping me learn my favorite songs!
You are very professional and I love learning from your videos! It would take me so much longer to learn these things by ear, it saves a lot of time when you got gigs on the calendar and tool songs to learn :) \m/
@axeofcreation thank you for showing respect and go for the check. i like your videos cause explaination is really needed rather than only showing stuff to realize whats going on there. btw im drummer but thanks to you i can play this song on guitar now and i like it much :)
Thanks for the lesson. It was fun watching you play the whole thing straight through. It helps understand the parts better than just looking at the tabs.
Amazing video. I just discovered this video yesterday and now you have taught me to play my all time favorite songs on guitar in under a day, thanks a million.
The opening riff is super easy to memorize when you break it up into it’s time signatures and changes. Think of the rhythm as 3/4 for the first three notes, 3/4 again for the second 3 notes, then 4/4 for the final four notes.
It's tough. Your gonna have to try multiple takes and listen back. Or open up garageband (or any DAW) and import the mp3 then record your playback (and sync the video).
Excellent video, thanks! You really helped me out with the timing of the second part of the chorus, saying it's in 4/4 with the progression on the upbeat. Couldn't figure it out and thus couldn't 'feel' it. But now I do!
I've recently switched amps. I had the Peavey Vypyr 120 but I'm now using the Line 6 HD Pro. I don't mean this as a jape to your amp but I'm not a fan of Marshall amps (for metal). They've always lacked what I was looking for. That being said your using your Digitech for your distortion (or should be). Try to aim for the prototypical "scooped" sound. That should give you a good foundation for you to tweak to your liking.
@PeachesAndSkeet The coolest concept they implement in that song is the main riff and how the meter changes 9-8-7. The different polymeter and swing feel in the breakdown can be tricky if your unfamiliar with it. Thanks!
Really good lesson. I was just checking things out for later. Gotta finish holy diver kill switch version. Got the solo today after a desperate search for a decent tab. Finally found a video of them playing it zoomed in. Anyone else have trouble on that last lick before the harmony? Timing really pushed my buttons. This is definitely on my learn list, should have done it a long time ago. Finally thought of some things to learn, I was starting to feel stale. Great lesson, definitely coming back later.
@coumminesence Actually, your missing my point. (For me personally) I don't care where Jones or anyone else plays something. So instead of saying Im wrong what I want to hear is that 'you' prefer the tone/timbre of another position. Thanks! Happy new year!
This is an amazing video! Having the sections in text on screen are a real help. Subscribed as you've got some other good videos, keep up the good work!
@atomiicx Absolutely! People can get so picky over the tiniest details. I don't think they realize, as you said, all the nuances and variations that go on.
@axeofcreation I agree, while they are accurate most of the time - there are some parts of certain songs i cant get the rhythm down on. Cheers for the videos man, they're amazing!
Man - you are a God...SO useful. One of the very best lessons I've seen on UA-cam. Great playing. Thanks +++ for taking the time to do this for all us Tool fans. Cheers, Steve
@chuzzman42 The perfect example is the solo for Stinkfist. I used to play it in 3rd position. I liked how raw and aggressive it sounded BUT Jones' plays it up in 14 position on the lower strings. I tend to use heavy string gauge so if I play exactly how Jones play it sounds way to low and loses it's rich vocal quality you get playing in a higher position, so I'll play it in 9th position. Sounds great. Now to say that's "wrong" because it's not where Jones plays it? No.
dude you sound is awesome don't stop making these video ,your a hell of a guitar instructor you are making a lot of these kids happy, you just have to read there post and you know , im not a kid im 54 year old i own a PRS guitar, but i love the tool sound!! , good luck guy and keep the videos coming! =)
Excellent video! This song has so many little nuances to each part that its hard to pick up on them. I KNEW there was a reason that chorus was throwing me so bad because if it was in one time signature it shouldn't have been so difficult. The way you explained the 4/4 feel is really what made that transition from 6/8 to 4/4 to 6/8 again smooth. Great job.
@axeofcreation hehe indeed i checked nearly all of your lessons last night.... really nice work... especially the tool stuff but all the other stuff is really informativ... and ... glad you like the old stuff from hettfield + co. please keep going on to make new stuff especcialy on scales thats to part im still not through. thx. greets from austria
I went from thinking "this probably wont happen" to 'Achievement Unlocked'
Thanks!
Someone said it before on a different Tool lesson of yours, but your attitude towards teaching is great, you tell people to play it however you want, you are a musician and it's your guitar.
it only took about a month but i can finally play this goddamn song! thanks man
Jeff Mntgudo "only a month" :p
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it's harder than it sounds.
The whole song or the opening riff?
i'd say it sounds harder than it is to play
as a beginner i find the opening eassy and the rest impossible
im intermediate so i just keep forgetting which part comes next which is odd because i’ve listened to vicarious at least 4000 times. I just get dumb when i play
tbh its pretty easy until about half way through for me. only been playing 6 months.
this song is so badass.. still makes me well up a bit near the end. lyrics are amazing too
GAY
Scottyin AUS Fuck you
Yo we got the same name lol
I’ve been playing for 3 years and within the first 6 months I tried playing this song, and could get all the way through until that VERY LAST riff at the end, last night I was finally able to conquer it. Thanks Greg for these videos, I probably wouldn’t be playing guitar today if I didn’t learn Tool from you so early in my playing
That's what it's all about! Thank you so much for sharing!!
Same bro! The real AOC changed my life 🤘🏼
Too good bro too good ! loved the way you broke the parts up explained them individually and then put everything together in the end! perfect !!!
I've struggled learning full Tool songs because of all the variations and always found it tough getting it right. These videos have helped me nail these songs and faster than I ever thought I could. So 11 years later, thank you for these amazing videos 🙏
Ridiculously awesome! Jones would be proud.
It's just so fucking long and complicated and has these odd time signatures all over the place. Its harder than eruption omg I love it
Great lesson, perfect pace, and the recap at the end is brilliant. Thanks a million for sharing your skills for us TOOL/Adam Jones fans.
Thank you for putting out this vid. I figured out all the parts of the intro riff, but I didn't exactly know the pattern and how many time I needed to do certain parts. This helped a lot.
man everytime I forget the tabs to a song I come back to your tutorials and everytime I'm amazed, we are so f-ing lucky to have you!
I've to thank you for this channel. I've owned a guitar for 20 years but not really played much in the past 18. I picked it up during covid and thru this channel I am by far the best I have ever been. I was terrible in high school but could play some basic chords and Doors Songs.
Even though I only play Tool songs, I can play entire songs for the first time in my life ( !! ) and its awesome to pick up a new skill like this at 37. And it actually feels easy.
Excellent video for intermediate and advanced players. Nice, quick and clear walk through without any time consuming chitchat.
@anidemolimacnauj Lesson transcriptions can be found on my site axeofcreation(dot)com. Once you log in there will be a download link under the description.
8 years later. Thank you!
I never realized how many different sections this song had, well done.
Thanks dude, awesome video. Never appreciated how awesome the guitar was in the chorus until watching this video, always overlooked in favour of riff 2 and didn't really notice because of the singing. Amazing.
I've been a TOOL fan since the early 2000s and recently i picked up learning guitar. I've always wanted to but never had the guts to try it. Now after 3 months of watching youtube & justinguitar beginner courses i've found myself watching your videos.
Thank you so much for these videos! i'm learning a ton and having a blast while doing it.
As i'm quite new, i find it difficult to match the tones from your videos, could you perhaps make a beginner friendly video on how to use an amplifier?
I've messed around with gain / treble / bass and there are hundreds of effects on this thing i have but i don't know where to start.
i love justinguitar !
Hey there are plenty of videos on amps and effects. Hopefully by now you've found them.
Excellent lesson! I was struggling to find the patterns in it, thank you for the great explanation
Thanks, i watch this video every single day. Awesome! He makes it sound simple... I'll get there. Tool "Vicarious" is the best song ever !
If Tool were to ever need a replacement guitarist, I'd be pretty stoked if they chose you. You're killer at guitar man, you taught and covered this song perfectly.
WOW! I sit around watching videos of covers and "learn to play"'s all day while looking up tabs and what not to learn how to play songs. Usually I have to take a little from everywhere to get the sound from the song, but this is by far the best guitar teaching video I have seen, and Ive seen thousands. Thank you for your time to put this up. I love Tool and I love this song, been trying to get it just right for awhile and your video explained it perfectly.
I think Vicarious is a GREAT song. It's very fun to listen to. The riff is very catchy. Yet, from your explanation, I realize there are many little detail that I don't realize it's there. And this is ONLY the guitar part. I don't know about bass and drum part. I bet it will be as complex as the guitar part. Thank you for this video lesson.
I just realized Adam Jones comprised these riffs from the same notes as Smoke on the Water lol
Bruh it is in many songs - heavy riff from schism
Also Jambi, Rosetta Stones, The Grudge.. all over their catalogue man
the ol tried and true 0 3 5
SLAYER
Also Pneuma
awesome lesson man!
@77TOOLarmy Thanks man! No worries though. I'm glad I can help. It's definitely in the que of videos.
@Ikerus0 thanks a lot! I appreciate it. I'm glad my videos can help.
You can find the tab on my site axeofcreation/com. There will be a link in the video description (once your logged in). Thanks so much!
Dude, you are the freakin' MAN. This is how all guitar tutorials should be. Would love to see "The Grudge."
this song is a master peace i was hesitant to play it till i seen this video. great break down. now im jamming
Thank you so much for the Tool tutorials!! I'm a beginner, but thanks to you, I have a couple of Tool songs in the works.
Love this song and it sounds hard, but when I picked up the guitar and saw this lesson I could´nt bealive that it was this easy to learn! Thank you!
Thanks alot ! This is my favorite tool song and I had forgotten how to play it but its all coming back to me thanks to you ! Keep playing and teaching youre amazing at both!
LOL I remember being just a fledgling with my new SG soming to your videos my first year playing in 2013....Getting frustrated..I thought you moved too fast but really I just didn't know the basics of guitar yet. Fast forward 7 years later. I've learned how to shred scales up and down the neck and compose my own riffs. Now going though your videos is the perfect pace. Thanks for helping me learn my favorite songs!
Axe of Creation has to be the best guitar tutorial on you tube, thanks for being precise!
Subscribed instantly, thanks for this incredible lesson.
Thank you and welcome!
You're welcome
You are very professional and I love learning from your videos! It would take me so much longer to learn these things by ear, it saves a lot of time when you got gigs on the calendar and tool songs to learn :) \m/
yeah, transcriptions are on my site axeofcreation/com. once you log in there will be a link under the video description
Some of the best guitar teaching I've seen on youtube, love your work.
The climax riffs at the end are so bad ass. Great job!
@axeofcreation thank you for showing respect and go for the check. i like your videos cause explaination is really needed rather than only showing stuff to realize whats going on there. btw im drummer but thanks to you i can play this song on guitar now and i like it much :)
@MetalEngulfer yes. all transcriptions can be found on my site axeofcreation/com
Thanks for the lesson. It was fun watching you play the whole thing straight through. It helps understand the parts better than just looking at the tabs.
@77TOOLarmy thank you, much appreciated!!
It's comfortable. Sounds good. Well built. Had some minor intonation issues but never corrected them. Definitely worth the investment
wow great tone of that guitar. Cool lesson too
@koker0 Great! I've received a lot of requests for The Pot so I will most likely add that. Thanks!
Amazing video. I just discovered this video yesterday and now you have taught me to play my all time favorite songs on guitar in under a day, thanks a million.
Fun song to learn, this helped me clear up a couple parts, thanks
agreed with scot marq down there...great teaching man. Very easy to follow...very efficient teaching!! thanks man!!
The opening riff is super easy to memorize when you break it up into it’s time signatures and changes. Think of the rhythm as 3/4 for the first three notes, 3/4 again for the second 3 notes, then 4/4 for the final four notes.
It's tough. Your gonna have to try multiple takes and listen back. Or open up garageband (or any DAW) and import the mp3 then record your playback (and sync the video).
Thank you so much! I love this music! greetings from Brazil.
That's what I like about Adam Jones is all the subtle variations and volume changes.
my new hero! thank you for all these videos
Excellent video, thanks! You really helped me out with the timing of the second part of the chorus, saying it's in 4/4 with the progression on the upbeat. Couldn't figure it out and thus couldn't 'feel' it. But now I do!
Thank you so much. I finally got around to learning this one after Invincible...which is a monster of memorization.
great tutorial for this tune dude!! helped out alot, thanks again!
I've recently switched amps. I had the Peavey Vypyr 120 but I'm now using the Line 6 HD Pro. I don't mean this as a jape to your amp but I'm not a fan of Marshall amps (for metal). They've always lacked what I was looking for. That being said your using your Digitech for your distortion (or should be). Try to aim for the prototypical "scooped" sound. That should give you a good foundation for you to tweak to your liking.
@PeachesAndSkeet The coolest concept they implement in that song is the main riff and how the meter changes 9-8-7. The different polymeter and swing feel in the breakdown can be tricky if your unfamiliar with it. Thanks!
Really good lesson. I was just checking things out for later. Gotta finish holy diver kill switch version. Got the solo today after a desperate search for a decent tab. Finally found a video of them playing it zoomed in. Anyone else have trouble on that last lick before the harmony? Timing really pushed my buttons. This is definitely on my learn list, should have done it a long time ago. Finally thought of some things to learn, I was starting to feel stale. Great lesson, definitely coming back later.
fuck yea i mastered the song in three days with this video. thanks
Awesome job, very clear, and shown the full song at the end was brilliant 🤘🤘🤘
beautiful axe! really diggin the opal.
fisrt tool song done !!!!! thanks a lot Axeofcreation .!!!!!! thanks a ton !!!!!
@TheBloodcult It's an Agile Les Paul replica. Not sure of the exact model.
Thanks so much! Glad it helped, it's a really great track to jam on.
@coumminesence Actually, your missing my point. (For me personally) I don't care where Jones or anyone else plays something. So instead of saying Im wrong what I want to hear is that 'you' prefer the tone/timbre of another position. Thanks! Happy new year!
Thanks man, very helpful and it takes a while to get the timing right
The intro is really frustrating at first but golly when you get it down it is the most fun riff in the WORLD! :D Thanks so much friend!
This is an amazing video! Having the sections in text on screen are a real help. Subscribed as you've got some other good videos, keep up the good work!
@venom146 Pretty sure but I can check it again. Though if thats what you hear and like the sound off then rock it
@atomiicx Absolutely! People can get so picky over the tiniest details. I don't think they realize, as you said, all the nuances and variations that go on.
Dude you are the boss! Loved your video! You're an incredible musician
6:46 love that! Sounds good!
Hell Yeah!! Killer Lesson , thanks for taking the time!!!!
@axeofcreation I agree, while they are accurate most of the time - there are some parts of certain songs i cant get the rhythm down on. Cheers for the videos man, they're amazing!
This song is so much fun to play. Great lesson. Thank you so much!
Thank you for posting this. I've had some trouble breaking this down from reading tabs.
wow one of the best lessons i ve seen on youtube !!
great job man...very helpful lesson...im lovin the sound of that Agile too...been thinkin about gettin one!!
Man - you are a God...SO useful. One of the very best lessons I've seen on UA-cam. Great playing. Thanks +++ for taking the time to do this for all us Tool fans.
Cheers,
Steve
Several videos on...your tone still gets me...everytime. 😂
@chuzzman42 The perfect example is the solo for Stinkfist. I used to play it in 3rd position. I liked how raw and aggressive it sounded BUT Jones' plays it up in 14 position on the lower strings. I tend to use heavy string gauge so if I play exactly how Jones play it sounds way to low and loses it's rich vocal quality you get playing in a higher position, so I'll play it in 9th position. Sounds great. Now to say that's "wrong" because it's not where Jones plays it? No.
Do you have a recomendation for the deizel vh4 pedal? I know this is off topic
I mean do you recommend
you're great dude! this video is very helpful, cuz i don't get very good guitar tabs i most like to see how the songs goes
dude you sound is awesome don't stop making these video ,your a hell of a guitar instructor you are making a lot of these kids happy, you just have to read there post and you know , im not a kid im 54 year old i own a PRS guitar, but i love the tool sound!! , good luck guy and keep the videos coming! =)
Man your tone is awesome, best tool covers by far🤘🤘
thanks for your patience dude!!!... just awesome!! thanks a lot axe!!!!
watched, learned, so much love.
Great teacher man! Thank you, was struggling with a couple nuances.
@eterpr Awesome!! I hope you dig the album....I get that a lot but unfortunately I haven't been to PR...
@NotoriusWhitey It plays and sound pretty good. For it's price range it's an excellent replica.
Excellent video! This song has so many little nuances to each part that its hard to pick up on them. I KNEW there was a reason that chorus was throwing me so bad because if it was in one time signature it shouldn't have been so difficult. The way you explained the 4/4 feel is really what made that transition from 6/8 to 4/4 to 6/8 again smooth. Great job.
@hellfireshell Thanks! I'm pretty sure theres a video floating around that shows. It's just the vocals (1 1 2 3 5 8 13) I believe.
still watching mister! thank you
@axeofcreation hehe indeed i checked nearly all of your lessons last night.... really nice work... especially the tool stuff but all the other stuff is really informativ... and ...
glad you like the old stuff from hettfield + co. please keep going on to make new stuff
especcialy on scales thats to part im still not through.
thx. greets from austria
this lesson was awesome, i tried learning that intro everywhere but yours was the best
Just to send you a note of thanks all the way from Scotland - your lessons are excellent ;-)