killer of giants intro (and the entire song tbh) makes my hair stand on end.......one of the most melodic,moving and interesting intros of all time.........makes me hate the nerve damage,repaired tendons and broken wrists ive suffered ,gimping my ability to finger pick and fret like this....a beautiful piece that moves me every time i hear it,and its been thousands of listens. the 10 fret stretches ,i can never do.my fret hand thumb tendon was surgically repaired and limited my stretch and movement
I love Jake and how he is able to get all those sounds out of his guitar without a whammy bar. One of my favorite moments is his solo on over the mountain at the 1983 US festival. How he bends those strings in the solo is nothing short of amazing.
Awesome lesson as always. I'm 51 years old and was a teenager back in the 80s when all of these awesome guitar players were on the scene and your channel does an incredible job of highlighting the licks and riffs and techniques of the day.
I LOVE Jake's playing. He's definitely my all time favorite. His unusual approach to making songs has always stood out to me. So many little things he does and his unique style makes him one of the greatest. Ultimate Sin and the first Badlands album are probably my two most listened to albums. I would sometimes get into debates with other Ozzy fans about their favorite albums, but for me it was Ultimate. If you really listen to the guitar work on that, I mean really listen, it's truly some of the best music Ozzy did. And truthfully, that album was pretty much all Jake and Bob Daisley.
The Ultimate Sin, more than any other album, got me into hard rock and metal when I was growing up in the 80's. Love the album! It's still one of my all-time favorites, mainly because of Jake's playing; his lead-playing is especially fantastic. What do you think of the production and mix of the album? Some people like the music but think the production is too commercial, too "pop-metal". Do you think the album would be better if it sounded more like Ozzy's first 3 albums, or do you like the album's production the way it is?
Those chords that he used in Badlands are so haunting and emotional. That first album is among my all-time favorite albums. It's especially obvious how great the recording is now that time has passed. Thank you for showing how it's done, David!
Ps. Met Jake once in Florida, interesting and nice guy. I gave him one of my picks before stage, he gave it back, was to thin for him, he gave me then one of his heavys. It was on Badlands debut tour.
Absolutely adore Jake and the first two badlands albums in particular. No idea what the story was with Ray Gillan (obviously he died ) but they seemed to get a rough deal from most labels and these two records are almost impossible to find now . Fantastic video , takes me back to the first summer I actually LEARNED to play something properly . Rock on !
thank you so much , jake e lee has always been my favourite guitarist. i named my first boy jake after him. its also great to see that i was pretty well on the money when working out his music sooo manny years ago,well before you tube. badlands the selftitled album is still one of my all time favourites. would love if you could show us rumblin train & solo just interested to see how close i got to that incredible guitar work of jake e lee.
The 1st 2 Badlands albums are fantastic.Anyone who says otherwise,should just fuck off.Amazing band. Great singer Great guitarist Amazing Rythmn section Stupendous songs.
@@LateNightLessons Ive been fortunate enough to meet and hang with him a handful of times over the last few years and picked his brain about some of his technique. As much as I love Randy...Jake just had something else in his playing that was almost unorthodox in his approach. Plus he has such a heavy attack with his right hand (whereas Randy had a very light picking attack). Learning Jakes material was always more difficult for me to get it note for note as opposed to Randys. Dont get me wrong...neither one are easy haha. Jake just always gave me a harder time to get it down properly. Anyway. Cheers man. Keep up the great work
DUDE, thank you SO much for doing this lesson! I think that Badlands album is one of the most underrated albums of all time. SOOO fuckin killer! Jake is such a great guitarist, and you never really get a look at those "mysterious" chord progressions in other lessons about him, which to me is greatly overlooked and just missed by other people in these videos. It's one of the main elements of what makes him sound the way he does. Great job, Dave! Keep up the good work, man!
Wow! Do some more RDC. Jake is such a clever most underrated guitarist. Just recently started to listen to both RDC albums and I'm totally hooked. Always been a Jake fan. He's one of my top three favorite guitarists! Glad he's back!
David, this was a nice lesson. I think Jake’s work on The Ultimate Sin and the first Badlands album are both underrated. People don’t seem to hold Ultimate Sin in as high a regard as the other Ozzy albums, but I find Lee’s guitar playing to be excellent on every level. The Badlands record has a dry production style, but that doesn’t affect Jake’s killer tone either. His playing can be pretty, like Winters Call, or just aggressive and mean, like High Wire. I wish we had more guitarists like this today. Thanks for highlighting his playing!
That Devil’s Stomp intro is so fun to play once you get you handle on the picking. I highly recommend younger players who want to develop hybrid picking to use that as an example because, fundamentally, its one shape. But getting that picking to sound smooth is the trick - so its perfect for that. The heavy lick that follows is a fun finger twister as well and sounds great through a cranked up amp. I can’t recommend the three Badlands albums enough. Haunting intros? The Last Time has a great one as well! For those with an ear for details, listen to Dancing on the Edge...you can clearly hear Jake (or maybe Ray?) snapping open a Zippo lighter, lighting his cigarette, and snapping it closed before the song kicks in! Dave thanks for creating this video and reminding listeners what great music resides on those recordings. I have a feeling that Jake was in a real retro stage in his career - going back to the music that inspired him before Ozzy (Page/Hendrix) and maybe even dug a little deeper to find Robert Johnson as inspiration for Voodoo Highway and Joe’s Blues. If your listeners haven’t already, be sure to check out Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) by Johnson. I’ve been working at mastering that and its a challenge to play it as recorded - that song is so good it can give you the chills!!! Thanks again, Mr Brewster. Sure wish I had lessons like these available when I started off! Prince would be a good guitarist to feature as well - Lets Go Crazy, Purple Rain, his version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps...absolutely gorgeous. A truly underrated guitar master.
Thank you so much for watching and for this comment. Dusk is such a great Badlands album, it's a shame more folks don't really know it even exists. I wanted to explore some of that album along with a few moments from his solo material, but I can only hit so much in under 15 minutes, so I had to make some hard edits/choices putting this one together. Anyway, thanks again and ROCK ON\m/
I didn’t discover Dusk until a few years ago. I had heard about it but didn’t realize it was as “finished” as it was - it really holds up as a third Badlands record. From what Ive read, Ray never really completed his tracks and some are just scratch tracks with incomplete lyrics and melodies. Still sounds great to me! Ray was in Black Sabbath for a stint and videos of him playing live exist on UA-cam. Very impressive hearing him do his versions of the Dio era of Sabbath! Especially Children of the Sea.
That's good to know and cool that you mentioned it too. I think I read somewhere that it was the record label that shelved the album for a number of years and then they finally released it after the band was no longer a band anymore (or something like that). It makes me wonder what might have happened if they would've released it once it was finished instead of waiting. Timing is everything and you can find albums all the time that weren't popular or successful when they were released, but then found an audience later in life or a remixed/reissued release stirred some attention. I have a hunch if more people knew about some of Jake's music that has been buried (a little) over the years, his name would be even bigger than it is, more people would respect him and maybe he would be known as his own musician - instead of primarily an "ex-Ozzy guitarist." As I learn some of the treatment/mistreatment that Ozzy had with some of the musicians he worked with, it makes me respect/like him less. It's such a shame that he treated Jake badly.
Those three Badlands records are basically the holy grail of blues/rock from that era. When they were active, with the combination of talent they had, there wasn't a better band around. Unfortunately Ray's issues screwed it all up. Jake wasn't very lucky in his career, no wonder he got fed up and ran away from the sick and twisted world of the music business.
Loving the channel and the artists you are covering. I always get something to take away and play with regardless of what you're teaching.👍🤝 He does have fans and is loved by rockers of a certain age and I would like to give a SHOUT out for Derek Frigo of Enuff Z Nuff and their first three albums. He like Vito Bratta and Nuno are from the Eddie influenced camp but again he did his own thing with it, finding himself in a Lennon and McCartney /Everly brothers songwriting situation. He has a languid tremolo bar style? and great rhythm/chord work and coaxes some wonderful Eddie Hand tap harmonic/percussive "what was That!" moments
Dave, many thanks for your awesome lessons. I’ve only recently discovered you and am loving everything you are doing. In this case, Jake is my favorite guitar player of all time so this lesson together with your other Jake lesson are outstanding. Thank you very much!
I totally agree with you. Jake was amazing with Ozzy and especially the first Badlands album. I just found your channel and love it. Randy Rhoads was my hero. You're amazing and have a great ear. I'm very impressed with your teachings . Please keep up the great work. This is great work
Jake has said that he played piano for many years when he was younger. I think his chord playing shows a lot his knowledge of triad inversions the way a pianist would.
Jake is brilliant. He pulled off the 80’s heavy metal technique with ozzy. Then does a 180 and turns into pure bluesy bad ass with very little overlap in styles. Very few players can chameleon quite like that
Jake for the win! Yeah, I always caught that Pagey vibe off those tunes as well. Got to see Badlands open for Ratt back in the day. It was awesome! On a side note, Michael Schenker was actually filling in on guitar that night. For Ratt I mean.
That's sooOoo awesome!!! :-O You saw Michael Schenker play with Ratt. Damn. It. Man. I'm totally jealous! I did see a dual guitar solo of DeMartini and Schenker bootleg on UA-cam and it was killer. I bet that was from the same tour too! Ermagerd - that's awesome! : )
Wow. I wish there was a bootleg video of that concert! My two all time favorites and Warren D nd Schenker were on fire at that time. Seen a few clips on you tube from that era (Ratt). Where was this? Trying not to be envious lol. ( Great episode LNL).
Yeah man. Your playing is clean and the timing is spot on without a time keeper. I liked that Jake kept some of those eerie octave chords he used in Ozzy ...he does still in RDC...great video ..Add wasp to the list
I've never had a guitar teacher in 40 years. You are my one and only teacher..... dont change a thing to your format. Always stay with what works. You're very gifted in what you do. I wish I would have had this decades ago. Thx a bunch.
Love love love Jake! Like many in this thread he’s the biggest single influence on my guitar playing. So happy he’s been back for a few years now with a couple of awesome albums. Dude you did a great job here as you do with all of your videos. Thank you for doing what you do and for doing such a great job on this particular video for all of us Jake fans!
There only a very few albums I can literally wear out (on the surface of the coating on the CD) AND Badlands first album is literally at the top of a very difficult few to top in my faves. Wow Severely under rated. What a collaboration that was. 😟
Wow.. Really Enjoying your Videos Especially with regards to Jake E Lee.. Your Instruction and Amazing attention to Guitar Detail is Spot On! Thank You So Much for your Efforts and Continous Guitar Contributions! Hats Off to You Sir!
Dave. Your playing and influences are right up my alley! I feel like I have struck gold finding and subbing to your channel. My request would be an episode on Rik Emmet. Our band recently started covering Lay it On the Line and I almost forgot how great a player and influence on me he is. I also had realized that Rik was highly influenced by Randy’s playing on Blizzard. You hear a lot of Randy’s influence on Allied Forces. I had first thought that Rik influenced Randy-but Blizzard came out a year before Allied Forces. In particular a lot of the same licks from Mr Crowley are in the Fight the Good Fight solo. Very cool to see how quickly guitarists we’re picking up ideas from other players back then. I don’t think any other decade comes close to the 80’s with the abundance of great playing and shredding. Awesome to see someone like you bringing this to light! I subscribe to a lot of guitar channels but yours has become my favorite by far!
Wow - thank you so much and for watching! Rik is a monster player and a band I used to play with opened for him back in the late 90s. He was super nice and I was super nervous meeting him. I was like "it's the guy from Triumph and Guitar Player magazine...AHHHH!" : ) I was honored to meet and open for him. I'll totally add him to the list. Thanks again for watching! ROCK ON\m/
Dave-that had to be a career highlight. Bringing things full circle for you! I had forgot about Rick’s lessons in GP until you mentioned it. My young inexperienced brain was turned off a lot from his lessons because many were acoustic based- from what I remember--back then I was wanting more shred but the older I got I realized that you have to have a more well rounded approach-biggest lesson I had was playing in a country band in the early 90’s- I had 2 days to learn the full set of covers -NEVER PLAYED COUNTRY UNTIL THEN--and the drummer had just come off tour with David Bowie-everything was in G or C and all the intros were so similar-it was trial by fire (plus they made me sing harmony) but since the drummer played with a metronome click (he had become accustomed with using a click since the band was synced up to video on the Bowie Sound and Vision Tour)- after the initial shock--I soon discovered I could get the tempos from him and program my old Alesis Quadraverb to have the repeats in time--(impressed the hell out of him-made me loosen up and enjoy the 2 month run also--we take so much for granted today--things like Tap Tempo! Lol - when we limit ourselves or get in a comfort zone we fail to reach our full potential-I can tell right away from your playing that you haven’t limited yourself at all or gotten in any kind of comfort zone! 🤟🏻🎸🎸🎸🤟🏻
Great Video, especially if you listen to Killer of Giants by Jake E Lee you can hear Jimmy Page Influences, not because of his bluesy playing, because Jimmy also used pretty much voicings and open strings when he played chords.... By the way. what do you think about Kane Roberts ? He played with Alice Cooper back then and i think his main influence was based on Jake E Lee´s playing. Greetings from Germany !
Thank you and thanks for watching too! : ) Kane is great and I like most of those great 80s players. I also like a lot of 70s and 90s players too, but there were so many good ones throughout the 1980s. Rock on and thanks again!!!
Killer of Giants is played as follows- E, open position, adding the b (g string, 4th fret) and e (b string, 5th fret). The C and Bb chords are played in the 3rd and 1st positions, respectfully.
Would really appreciate/love it if you'd consider breaking down "Exithouse" and "The Rapture" chord structure from Jake's "A Fine Pink Mist" solo disk...
I really enjoy your videos know the history keep it simple a perfect guitar teacher I cannot play a lick of guitar but you understand scales technique shapes I'm personally a drummer for 25 years from Hollywood glam scene currently living in Tennessee understanding swamp music a lot of pickers here not my thing but I really enjoy how you make things simple behind the song and Theory State of Mind, and the creative juices were flowing at the time those masterpieces were created I wish I played with people like you so cold down to earth attitude probably love to jam a lot of copies love your tone love sound knowledge is King thank you again from a drummers point of view understanding a guitarist point of view you rock
I just checked some lives and it seems Jake doesn't hybrid or fingers those parts on Devil's Stomp, it's all picked. At the same time i saw him hybrid-pick stuff in Ozzy, parts of Mr Crowley for example.
Great video! Love all the badlands. Been trying to figure out the chords for fat cat off the dusk album. Can’t find any tabs and my ear can’t quite make them out. Maybe try a video for that album?
Makes me think Jake might not be of the type to accept nomination as a few others have historically rejected it in the past. Ozzy, who later recanted Black Sabbath's nomination rejection, originally refused nomination writing to the organization: "Just take our name off the list. Save the ink. Forget about us. The nomination is meaningless, because it’s not voted on by the fans. It’s voted on by the supposed elite for the industry and the media, who’ve never bought an album or concert ticket in their lives, so their vote is irrelevant to me. Let’s face it, Black Sabbath has never been media darlings. We’re a people’s band and that suits us just fine.” IMHO, Badlands (as an example) never got the recognition it truly deserves.
I don't give a toss about that. But the Musicians' Hall of Fame - now that would be something dignified and all around respectable for a musician's musician.
Love these videos, especially when it is about my fav players like Jake, Vito, Sykes etc I read an interview with Jake a long time ago that he started that thumb playing while trying to play chords DiMartini was playing with his huge hands and mile long fingers that Jake just couldn’t emulate so he started playing them with his thumbs. I don’t know if that is the truth but that is what I read.
Its cool that you do this,. What would be cool is if you used different tone settings to show how much tone has a lot to do with sounds of the artists.
I feel Jake has more of a Hendrix and Leslie west than page sound. He has a unique combo folk and 70’s hard rock bluesy influences. A very bluesy sounds. He grew up in that 70’s time period and you can hear the influences from that period. Jake has a lot of feel to his playing and unbelievable improvisational skills. I seen him three times while in badlands for both of the first two albums. I had front row each time. Unbelievable live player. They played for three hours straight and played a few covers. He was improvising all over the place. He also has a great stage presents. Everyone in badlands was top notch especially the singer(rip). Unfortunately, badlands has a cloudy over their music do to the singer supposedly intentionally spreading an incurable deadly sexual transmitted disease from which he later passed from at a very young age. They don’t sell the albums anymore due to lawsuits from the victim’s families. Jake has very creative songs especially from the badlands period. I feel he is very underrated. People forget that he was the original guitar player In ratt and had a big part in writing some of the songs on the first album. He taught warren some of the ratt guitar parts when he first jointed ratt. I believe they may of been roommates at one point. Jake got a raw deal from ozzy. I feel that he never recovered from after ozzy. Badlands would of been a huge band if they where out in the late 70’s because there music fit that period perfectly.
Doesn't Clapton use the sliding E Major shape on I'm So Glad per Skip James? Slides up from first thru fourth position I think Every day is a Jake day in my world but let's not forget that ol EC is EVH and Allen Collins favorite
I love Jake and Badlands. I recently reunited my ears with Cinderella and the guitar stylings of Jeff LaBar. If you get the time, maybe he can be put on your quickly growing list. 😎
Cant believe he got cheated out of credits for writing the riffs for Bark at the Moon. That guitar track from Bark at the Moon was as good as anything Randy or Zak did. Didnt care for the lyrics but....Killer of Giants another great tune.
That's true and I really only like the 'No Rest For The Wicked' album with him. Zakk was brilliant on that one but he sort-of lost me after that, but No More Tears was good too, but that's about all I like from him (honestly). : )
@@LateNightLessons Zakks an amazing player,but possibly not the most capable songwriter, certainly when he replaced Jake. Plus,Zakk's sound is wretched......
@@LateNightLessons I am with you on that. Cant listen to what he does these days, but Book of Shadows is an amazing album, I think hecrecorded pretty much all of it himself
And......rock guitar players just play and jam in order to make riffs and songs, they don't sit down with pen and paper like a mathematician. Maybe Petrucci does that but he boring like a robot, no soul! He's good of course but not the same as the others
Very good and nice instructional videos. But...... please stop saying all the time a Aug, e over d, e sus 4 ,E sus flat 13 etc. If Jake watched this he wouldn't understand a word you say. He is self taught like me and he has always been improvising, thats why it sounds different than music scholars. Stay simple and stick to the task. If you want to demonstrate music that can be applied to sheet music, then, by all means use and teach your knowledge. Best regards
The first badlands album was breathtaking; voodoo highway was absolutely jaw dropping
killer of giants intro (and the entire song tbh) makes my hair stand on end.......one of the most melodic,moving and interesting intros of all time.........makes me hate the nerve damage,repaired tendons and broken wrists ive suffered ,gimping my ability to finger pick and fret like this....a beautiful piece that moves me every time i hear it,and its been thousands of listens.
the 10 fret stretches ,i can never do.my fret hand thumb tendon was surgically repaired and limited my stretch and movement
Jake E Lee is my favourite Ozzy guitarist....he's also in my top 5, very underrated guitarist / writer
Jake for me as well, they`re all good but I really connected at the time with Jake`s playing and still do.
For sure Jake was better than randy in my opinion
@@richieeveritt2766 He absolutely was, and is. Jake was the king back then in Ozzy.
I love Jake and how he is able to get all those sounds out of his guitar without a whammy bar. One of my favorite moments is his solo on over the mountain at the 1983 US festival. How he bends those strings in the solo is nothing short of amazing.
Awesome lesson as always. I'm 51 years old and was a teenager back in the 80s when all of these awesome guitar players were on the scene and your channel does an incredible job of highlighting the licks and riffs and techniques of the day.
I LOVE Jake's playing. He's definitely my all time favorite. His unusual approach to making songs has always stood out to me. So many little things he does and his unique style makes him one of the greatest. Ultimate Sin and the first Badlands album are probably my two most listened to albums. I would sometimes get into debates with other Ozzy fans about their favorite albums, but for me it was Ultimate. If you really listen to the guitar work on that, I mean really listen, it's truly some of the best music Ozzy did. And truthfully, that album was pretty much all Jake and Bob Daisley.
I'm with you on that one. The Ultimate sin is the BEST ozzy album.
@@Eduardot12345556 but Ozzy's least favourite. I'm with you on this, NOT Ozzy.
Tim A ultimate sin is a bad assss album and song
The Ultimate Sin, more than any other album, got me into hard rock and metal when I was growing up in the 80's. Love the album! It's still one of my all-time favorites, mainly because of Jake's playing; his lead-playing is especially fantastic. What do you think of the production and mix of the album? Some people like the music but think the production is too commercial, too "pop-metal". Do you think the album would be better if it sounded more like Ozzy's first 3 albums, or do you like the album's production the way it is?
@@Eduardot12345556 yup I agree
Jake e lee is one of the most phenomenal guitar players I ever listen too. Just the fact he doesn’t use a whammy bar is amazing.
Those chords that he used in Badlands are so haunting and emotional. That first album is among my all-time favorite albums. It's especially obvious how great the recording is now that time has passed. Thank you for showing how it's done, David!
Jake E Lee, Warren D Martini and Alex Skolnick are my favorite guitarists... thank you for this...
Thanks for this! The first Badlands album is a classic
Ps. Met Jake once in Florida, interesting and nice guy. I gave him one of my picks before stage, he gave it back, was to thin for him, he gave me then one of his heavys. It was on Badlands debut tour.
Hey man, thanks for this. Jake uses some cool chords, that's why he's one of the greatest who ever lived.
I just found this video! As a huge Jake fan (especially the Badlands era), THANK YOU - great analysis!
Absolutely adore Jake and the first two badlands albums in particular. No idea what the story was with Ray Gillan (obviously he died ) but they seemed to get a rough deal from most labels and these two records are almost impossible to find now . Fantastic video , takes me back to the first summer I actually LEARNED to play something properly . Rock on !
Awesome lesson, Dave! Thanks for doing this one on Jake!
Wow, your cover of killer of giants was awesome.
thank you so much , jake e lee has always been my favourite guitarist. i named my first boy jake after him. its also great to see that i was pretty well on the money when working out his music sooo manny years ago,well before you tube. badlands the selftitled album is still one of my all time favourites. would love if you could show us rumblin train & solo just interested to see how close i got to that incredible guitar work of jake e lee.
I named my son Jake after Jake 3 Lee 🤟🏻🚬🚬🤟🏻
another great video Dave...now I am listening to the Badlands album...thanks for reminding us about it...cheers !
Badlands debut album is in my Top 5 albums of all-time.
Heck yeah!
That album kicks ass!
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Thanks for watching\m/
Voodoo Highway must be there too, that one is a masterpiece...
Oh yeah, that's a great one for sure!
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The 1st 2 Badlands albums are fantastic.Anyone who says otherwise,should just fuck off.Amazing band.
Great singer
Great guitarist
Amazing Rythmn section
Stupendous songs.
Great job man. Jakes my biggest influence as a player hands down.
Thank you so much!
Jake is MONSTER.
He truly is.
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@@LateNightLessons Ive been fortunate enough to meet and hang with him a handful of times over the last few years and picked his brain about some of his technique. As much as I love Randy...Jake just had something else in his playing that was almost unorthodox in his approach. Plus he has such a heavy attack with his right hand (whereas Randy had a very light picking attack). Learning Jakes material was always more difficult for me to get it note for note as opposed to Randys. Dont get me wrong...neither one are easy haha. Jake just always gave me a harder time to get it down properly. Anyway. Cheers man. Keep up the great work
That's awesome bro and thanks for the additional info!
Thanks again and stay tuned for more good stuff!
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DUDE, thank you SO much for doing this lesson! I think that Badlands album is one of the most underrated albums of all time. SOOO fuckin killer! Jake is such a great guitarist, and you never really get a look at those "mysterious" chord progressions in other lessons about him, which to me is greatly overlooked and just missed by other people in these videos. It's one of the main elements of what makes him sound the way he does. Great job, Dave! Keep up the good work, man!
killer stuff...met Jake in 2013 in Philly...what a cool dude
I really like these chord videos! Jake is still one of my top guys!
Thank you so much!
Jake is such a great player and person - a TOTAL legend.
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@@LateNightLessons You are welcome!
Wow this is awesome
Badlands Jake at his best.
Thank you Dave!
You're welcome and thank YOU!
Badlands kicked all sorts of butt! Great stuff!
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Wow! Do some more RDC. Jake is such a clever most underrated guitarist. Just recently started to listen to both RDC albums and I'm totally hooked. Always been a Jake fan. He's one of my top three favorite guitarists! Glad he's back!
Me too and I hope he can keep things moving forward. That new album of theirs is solid.
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Rock on\m/
David, this was a nice lesson. I think Jake’s work on The Ultimate Sin and the first Badlands album are both underrated. People don’t seem to hold Ultimate Sin in as high a regard as the other Ozzy albums, but I find Lee’s guitar playing to be excellent on every level. The Badlands record has a dry production style, but that doesn’t affect Jake’s killer tone either. His playing can be pretty, like Winters Call, or just aggressive and mean, like High Wire. I wish we had more guitarists like this today. Thanks for highlighting his playing!
Thanks for watching and for this comment too, and I totally agree!
He's a legend and should have more attention and respect from everyone.
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That Devil’s Stomp intro is so fun to play once you get you handle on the picking. I highly recommend younger players who want to develop hybrid picking to use that as an example because, fundamentally, its one shape. But getting that picking to sound smooth is the trick - so its perfect for that. The heavy lick that follows is a fun finger twister as well and sounds great through a cranked up amp.
I can’t recommend the three Badlands albums enough. Haunting intros? The Last Time has a great one as well!
For those with an ear for details, listen to Dancing on the Edge...you can clearly hear Jake (or maybe Ray?) snapping open a Zippo lighter, lighting his cigarette, and snapping it closed before the song kicks in!
Dave thanks for creating this video and reminding listeners what great music resides on those recordings.
I have a feeling that Jake was in a real retro stage in his career - going back to the music that inspired him before Ozzy (Page/Hendrix) and maybe even dug a little deeper to find Robert Johnson as inspiration for Voodoo Highway and Joe’s Blues. If your listeners haven’t already, be sure to check out Preaching Blues (Up Jumped the Devil) by Johnson. I’ve been working at mastering that and its a challenge to play it as recorded - that song is so good it can give you the chills!!!
Thanks again, Mr Brewster. Sure wish I had lessons like these available when I started off!
Prince would be a good guitarist to feature as well - Lets Go Crazy, Purple Rain, his version of While My Guitar Gently Weeps...absolutely gorgeous. A truly underrated guitar master.
Thank you so much for watching and for this comment.
Dusk is such a great Badlands album, it's a shame more folks don't really know it even exists.
I wanted to explore some of that album along with a few moments from his solo material, but I can only hit so much in under 15 minutes, so I had to make some hard edits/choices putting this one together.
Anyway, thanks again and ROCK ON\m/
I didn’t discover Dusk until a few years ago. I had heard about it but didn’t realize it was as “finished” as it was - it really holds up as a third Badlands record. From what Ive read, Ray never really completed his tracks and some are just scratch tracks with incomplete lyrics and melodies. Still sounds great to me! Ray was in Black Sabbath for a stint and videos of him playing live exist on UA-cam. Very impressive hearing him do his versions of the Dio era of Sabbath! Especially Children of the Sea.
That's good to know and cool that you mentioned it too.
I think I read somewhere that it was the record label that shelved the album for a number of years and then they finally released it after the band was no longer a band anymore (or something like that).
It makes me wonder what might have happened if they would've released it once it was finished instead of waiting.
Timing is everything and you can find albums all the time that weren't popular or successful when they were released, but then found an audience later in life or a remixed/reissued release stirred some attention.
I have a hunch if more people knew about some of Jake's music that has been buried (a little) over the years, his name would be even bigger than it is, more people would respect him and maybe he would be known as his own musician - instead of primarily an "ex-Ozzy guitarist."
As I learn some of the treatment/mistreatment that Ozzy had with some of the musicians he worked with, it makes me respect/like him less.
It's such a shame that he treated Jake badly.
Are you sure Jake hybrid picks devil's stomp?
Those three Badlands records are basically the holy grail of blues/rock from that era. When they were active, with the combination of talent they had, there wasn't a better band around.
Unfortunately Ray's issues screwed it all up. Jake wasn't very lucky in his career, no wonder he got fed up and ran away from the sick and twisted world of the music business.
Loving the channel and the artists you are covering. I always get something to take away and play with regardless of what you're teaching.👍🤝
He does have fans and is loved by rockers of a certain age and I would like to give a SHOUT out for Derek Frigo of Enuff Z Nuff and their first three albums.
He like Vito Bratta and Nuno are from the Eddie influenced camp but again he did his own thing with it, finding himself in a Lennon and McCartney /Everly brothers songwriting situation.
He has a languid tremolo bar style? and great rhythm/chord work and coaxes some wonderful Eddie Hand tap harmonic/percussive "what was That!" moments
Dave, many thanks for your awesome lessons. I’ve only recently discovered you and am loving everything you are doing. In this case, Jake is my favorite guitar player of all time so this lesson together with your other Jake lesson are outstanding. Thank you very much!
That's great to hear and thank you so much!
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Rock on and stay tuned\m/
I totally agree with you. Jake was amazing with Ozzy and especially the first Badlands album. I just found your channel and love it. Randy Rhoads was my hero. You're amazing and have a great ear. I'm very impressed with your teachings . Please keep up the great work. This is great work
Thank you so much!
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Jake's a MONSTER!
Take care and rock on\m/
Jake has said that he played piano for many years when he was younger. I think his chord playing shows a lot his knowledge of triad inversions the way a pianist would.
He was a trained classical pianist since 6 years old, doing competitions and such. So his knowledge of theory and music in general is pretty high.
Jake is brilliant. He pulled off the 80’s heavy metal technique with ozzy. Then does a 180 and turns into pure bluesy bad ass with very little overlap in styles. Very few players can chameleon quite like that
Jake for the win! Yeah, I always caught that Pagey vibe off those tunes as well. Got to see Badlands open for Ratt back in the day. It was awesome! On a side note, Michael Schenker was actually filling in on guitar that night. For Ratt I mean.
That's sooOoo awesome!!!
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You saw Michael Schenker play with Ratt.
Damn. It. Man.
I'm totally jealous!
I did see a dual guitar solo of DeMartini and Schenker bootleg on UA-cam and it was killer. I bet that was from the same tour too!
Ermagerd - that's awesome!
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@@LateNightLessons Check out the Ratt Unplugged episode. Warren and Michael going at it on acoustic. Totally sick grooves.
Wow. I wish there was a bootleg video of that concert! My two all time favorites and Warren D nd Schenker were on fire at that time. Seen a few clips on you tube from that era (Ratt). Where was this? Trying not to be envious lol. ( Great episode LNL).
Yeah man. Your playing is clean and the timing is spot on without a time keeper. I liked that Jake kept some of those eerie octave chords he used in Ozzy ...he does still in RDC...great video ..Add wasp to the list
Thank you so much and you got it!
\m/ ROCK ON \m/
SEASONS is very Zeppelin to my ear. Jake's the man, love his style, and of course Dave B🐓!
Has that Ten Years Gone vibe
@@bobbymcbay1586 Hey, yeah 👍
Dude hell yeah. I just discovered Badlands over this Spring/Coronavirus break. And of course you made a video on em🤘
I've never had a guitar teacher in 40 years. You are my one and only teacher..... dont change a thing to your format. Always stay with what works. You're very gifted in what you do. I wish I would have had this decades ago. Thx a bunch.
Great lesson, all your stuff is top notch man 👌
Wow! Thank you again and ROCK ON\m/
Rumbling train was my favorite tune on this album
what an amazing song hey !!!
Great lessons here. Love that you explored some of Jake's stuff, as he is one of my all time favorites. Subscribed!!! Great job!!!
Thank you so much and for subscribing!
That rocks\m/
Stay tuned...
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Love love love Jake! Like many in this thread he’s the biggest single influence on my guitar playing. So happy he’s been back for a few years now with a couple of awesome albums. Dude you did a great job here as you do with all of your videos. Thank you for doing what you do and for doing such a great job on this particular video for all of us Jake fans!
Love all the analysis. Thank you!
That's awesome to hear and thank you!
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There only a very few albums I can literally wear out (on the surface of the coating on the CD) AND Badlands first album is literally at the top of a very difficult few to top in my faves. Wow Severely under rated. What a collaboration that was. 😟
That album totally rocks.
As soon as I heard a track from it I was hooked and it still sounds great today.
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Wow.. Really Enjoying your Videos
Especially with regards to Jake E Lee..
Your Instruction and Amazing attention to Guitar Detail is Spot On!
Thank You So Much for your Efforts and Continous Guitar Contributions! Hats Off to You Sir!
You're a very insightful and knowledgeable musician. Excellent.
The Sword, Warp Riders! Rocking album.
Dave. Your playing and influences are right up my alley! I feel like I have struck gold finding and subbing to your channel. My request would be an episode on Rik Emmet. Our band recently started covering Lay it On the Line and I almost forgot how great a player and influence on me he is. I also had realized that Rik was highly influenced by Randy’s playing on Blizzard. You hear a lot of Randy’s influence on Allied Forces. I had first thought that Rik influenced Randy-but Blizzard came out a year before Allied Forces. In particular a lot of the same licks from Mr Crowley are in the Fight the Good Fight solo. Very cool to see how quickly guitarists we’re picking up ideas from other players back then. I don’t think any other decade comes close to the 80’s with the abundance of great playing and shredding. Awesome to see someone like you bringing this to light! I subscribe to a lot of guitar channels but yours has become my favorite by far!
Wow - thank you so much and for watching!
Rik is a monster player and a band I used to play with opened for him back in the late 90s.
He was super nice and I was super nervous meeting him. I was like "it's the guy from Triumph and Guitar Player magazine...AHHHH!"
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I was honored to meet and open for him.
I'll totally add him to the list.
Thanks again for watching!
ROCK ON\m/
Dave-that had to be a career highlight. Bringing things full circle for you! I had forgot about Rick’s lessons in GP until you mentioned it. My young inexperienced brain was turned off a lot from his lessons because many were acoustic based- from what I remember--back then I was wanting more shred but the older I got I realized that you have to have a more well rounded approach-biggest lesson I had was playing in a country band in the early 90’s- I had 2 days to learn the full set of covers -NEVER PLAYED COUNTRY UNTIL THEN--and the drummer had just come off tour with David Bowie-everything was in G or C and all the intros were so similar-it was trial by fire (plus they made me sing harmony) but since the drummer played with a metronome click (he had become accustomed with using a click since the band was synced up to video on the Bowie Sound and Vision Tour)- after the initial shock--I soon discovered I could get the tempos from him and program my old Alesis Quadraverb to have the repeats in time--(impressed the hell out of him-made me loosen up and enjoy the 2 month run also--we take so much for granted today--things like Tap Tempo! Lol - when we limit ourselves or get in a comfort zone we fail to reach our full potential-I can tell right away from your playing that you haven’t limited yourself at all or gotten in any kind of comfort zone! 🤟🏻🎸🎸🎸🤟🏻
Thank you so much and for sharing that story too!
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Rock on bro and have a great one\m/
Hey Joe saw u in Minneapolis last year at the Parkway great show thx man
Great Video, especially if you listen to Killer of Giants by Jake E Lee you can hear Jimmy Page Influences, not because of his bluesy playing, because Jimmy also used pretty much voicings and open strings when he played chords.... By the way. what do you think about Kane Roberts ? He played with Alice Cooper back then and i think his main influence was based on Jake E Lee´s playing. Greetings from Germany !
Thank you and thanks for watching too!
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Kane is great and I like most of those great 80s players. I also like a lot of 70s and 90s players too, but there were so many good ones throughout the 1980s.
Rock on and thanks again!!!
Killer of Giants is played as follows- E, open position, adding the b (g string, 4th fret) and e (b string, 5th fret). The C and Bb chords are played in the 3rd and 1st positions, respectfully.
Would really appreciate/love it if you'd consider breaking down "Exithouse" and "The Rapture" chord structure from Jake's "A Fine Pink Mist" solo disk...
I really enjoy your videos know the history keep it simple a perfect guitar teacher I cannot play a lick of guitar but you understand scales technique shapes I'm personally a drummer for 25 years from Hollywood glam scene currently living in Tennessee understanding swamp music a lot of pickers here not my thing but I really enjoy how you make things simple behind the song and Theory State of Mind, and the creative juices were flowing at the time those masterpieces were created I wish I played with people like you so cold down to earth attitude probably love to jam a lot of copies love your tone love sound knowledge is King thank you again from a drummers point of view understanding a guitarist point of view you rock
Badlands period was outstanding. great video
Thank you!
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Dave, are you sure Jake fingerpicks devil's stomp? Outstanding lesson as usual
I just checked some lives and it seems Jake doesn't hybrid or fingers those parts on Devil's Stomp, it's all picked.
At the same time i saw him hybrid-pick stuff in Ozzy, parts of Mr Crowley for example.
That was very interesting… love all these uncommon chords! … Wow :)
Great video! Love all the badlands. Been trying to figure out the chords for fat cat off the dusk album. Can’t find any tabs and my ear can’t quite make them out. Maybe try a video for that album?
Great that you opened with badlands stuff!
Love it, I'm a lead singer, and I love ray gillen, and Jake. Again your an awesome player
Very nice work brother.
Jake E Lee for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!!!
\m/ HECK YEAH \m/
Makes me think Jake might not be of the type to accept nomination as a few others have historically rejected it in the past. Ozzy, who later recanted Black Sabbath's nomination rejection, originally refused nomination writing to the organization: "Just take our name off the list. Save the ink. Forget about us. The nomination is meaningless, because it’s not voted on by the fans. It’s voted on by the supposed elite for the industry and the media, who’ve never bought an album or concert ticket in their lives, so their vote is irrelevant to me. Let’s face it, Black Sabbath has never been media darlings. We’re a people’s band and that suits us just fine.” IMHO, Badlands (as an example) never got the recognition it truly deserves.
@@TheSavage1969Maybe so... I would still love to see a tribute! ;)
I don't give a toss about that. But the Musicians' Hall of Fame - now that would be something dignified and all around respectable for a musician's musician.
Wow! This is great thanks!!
Thank you!!!
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The last chord progression really reminded me of Alice In Chains and chords that Jerry Cantrell uses.
Love these videos, especially when it is about my fav players like Jake, Vito, Sykes etc
I read an interview with Jake a long time ago that he started that thumb playing while trying to play chords DiMartini was playing with his huge hands and mile long fingers that Jake just couldn’t emulate so he started playing them with his thumbs.
I don’t know if that is the truth but that is what I read.
Bonjour, et bravo pour ton travail ! Mais où est Whisky dust ???
Its cool that you do this,. What would be cool is if you used different tone settings to show how much tone has a lot to do with sounds of the artists.
Thank you!
And I'll see what I can do to talk more about tone and amp/effects settings too.
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G5 to G7 gives a pretty... reflective/somber sound. Sort of like what is happening in Zep's "Rain Song."
Can u show some more lessons from the voodoo highway album??...thanks
I prefer the Jake E Lee ozzy LPs over all his other players. Jake is a bad man!
I feel Jake has more of a Hendrix and Leslie west than page sound. He has a unique combo folk and 70’s hard rock bluesy influences. A very bluesy sounds. He grew up in that 70’s time period and you can hear the influences from that period. Jake has a lot of feel to his playing and unbelievable improvisational skills. I seen him three times while in badlands for both of the first two albums. I had front row each time. Unbelievable live player. They played for three hours straight and played a few covers. He was improvising all over the place. He also has a great stage presents. Everyone in badlands was top notch especially the singer(rip). Unfortunately, badlands has a cloudy over their music do to the singer supposedly intentionally spreading an incurable deadly sexual transmitted disease from which he later passed from at a very young age. They don’t sell the albums anymore due to lawsuits from the victim’s families. Jake has very creative songs especially from the badlands period. I feel he is very underrated. People forget that he was the original guitar player In ratt and had a big part in writing some of the songs on the first album. He taught warren some of the ratt guitar parts when he first jointed ratt. I believe they may of been roommates at one point. Jake got a raw deal from ozzy. I feel that he never recovered from after ozzy. Badlands would of been a huge band if they where out in the late 70’s because there music fit that period perfectly.
Doesn't Clapton use the sliding E Major shape on I'm So Glad per Skip James? Slides up from first thru fourth position I think Every day is a Jake day in my world but let's not forget that ol EC is EVH and Allen Collins favorite
Great! Thanks, how about some Joey Landreth chords?! =)
You should do a lesson of just songs off of Badlands Voodoo Highway
the badlands album is incredible!!! i have the tape
More Jake Please.
When I hear those sliding E chords, I think of Alice in Chains' Jar of Flies album or Red Hot Chili Peppers' song Breaking the Girl.
Can you do more badlands stuff please! It's jake in his prime
Great lessons. Have you ever thought of doing a lesson on Jeff Loomis?
Here i expect to see jake .and here you was by
Thx
Zack wilde request
Jake uses his fingers a lot
Yeah, he has a lot of stretchy chords and licks,
He must be triple-jointed.
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Dave - Just Curious if you've released any of your own stuff... a la - Santriani or Vai?
I hear a lot of nick Drake in lee's chord choices and organization but the picking styles differ considerably...just a thought
1. George Lynch;
2. Jake .E. Lee;
3. Warren DeMartini;
4. Randy Rhoads;
5. Eddie Van Halen.
6. Tracii Guns;
7. Chris Holmes;
8. Akira takasaki;
9. Mick Mars;
10.Yngwie Malmsteen
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My top 10 guitar players!
George lynch would be a awesome part to cover. Because he had a great relationship with Randy rhoads
How about Blackmore ?
Absolutely!
I've had a few requests for some Blackmore ideas, so he's on the way ASAP.
Thanks for watching and take care!
Are you located in Houston Texas
Who is this 1 hater that follows all of your videos? Disgruntled student? lol
A Vinnie Vincent 3 for all would be nice
Mark Farmer and Nuno Bettencourt.
Farner
I love Jake and Badlands. I recently reunited my ears with Cinderella and the guitar stylings of Jeff LaBar. If you get the time, maybe he can be put on your quickly growing list. 😎
Vito Bratta please.
Check this lesson out for some Vito/White Lion action - and thanks for watching!
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Just watched it The best explanation of Vito's chord voicings/writing...well done ! More Vito in future would be great !!! Thank you !
Thanks again and I'll put some more Vito in the mix.
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\m/ ROCK ON \m/
Cant believe he got cheated out of credits for writing the riffs for Bark at the Moon. That guitar track from Bark at the Moon was as good as anything Randy or Zak did. Didnt care for the lyrics but....Killer of Giants another great tune.
Haha That lesson is just a bit sus!
After Jake left Ozzy became sort of repetitive Randy Style - i like Zack but he is not really a good diverse songwriter like jake is !
That's true and I really only like the 'No Rest For The Wicked' album with him.
Zakk was brilliant on that one but he sort-of lost me after that, but No More Tears was good too, but that's about all I like from him (honestly).
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Zakks an amazing player,but possibly not the most capable songwriter, certainly when he replaced Jake.
Plus,Zakk's sound is wretched......
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I am with you on that. Cant listen to what he does these days, but Book of Shadows is an amazing album, I think hecrecorded pretty much all of it himself
Well shit...it looks like Sharon Osborne was here to give this awesome lesson a thumbs down. As if ripping JE Lee off wasn't enough for her and Ozzy
Click bait.
And......rock guitar players just play and jam in order to make riffs and songs, they don't sit down with pen and paper like a mathematician.
Maybe Petrucci does that but he boring like a robot, no soul! He's good of course but not the same as the others
Very good and nice instructional videos. But......
please stop saying all the time a Aug, e over d, e sus 4 ,E sus flat 13 etc.
If Jake watched this he wouldn't understand a word you say. He is self taught like me and he has always been improvising, thats why it sounds different than music scholars. Stay simple and stick to the task. If you want to demonstrate music that can be applied to sheet music, then, by all means use and teach your knowledge.
Best regards
Jake E Lee for Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame!!!