In the days of old you didn't buy gold, you discovered it after a time of prospecting. Metaphorically then, if you are prospecting for technique, this video and the result within, is like found gold for those who have been looking for such "treasure".
Agreed. Amazing how much he's researched and compiled into a coherent learning system. Just signed up for the subscription on Troy's website. Amazing information I wish I had before putting in all those alternate picking hours on the metronome.
d nollem well they are a bit up in years now and we do need the next gen to have a chance and to be as good if not better by taking it and possibly finding ways to improve it if approached this way.
+Troy Grady Frank Gambale Economy Picking - Paul Gilbert Intense Rock - Troy Grady Downward Slanting & Rebound Technique Like Drummers - Allan Holdsworth Legato Technique - Greg Howe Hammering On From Nowhere - Magnus Olsson Hybrid Picking These guys helped me so much. Combing all these ideas!
I used to think I was a decent guitar player. Then I see these videos and I feel like i'm standing at the bottom of Mt. Everest looking up, and a bird just pooped on me.
It's the opposite for me. I feel like I was standing at the bottom of mt. Everest before, and then global warming struck, melted all the snow and raised the sea level, taking me half way to the top, the sun shining bright on my face.
You should watch Marshall Harrison videos then! He's on a whole other level so you can feel like all the water has drained to the bottom of the deepest ocean, you're stood there in the trench staring up at Concord flying over head now at 100,00ft.. someone flushed the toilet and a half frozen fat bastards turd splats you in the face and mouth !
EVERYBODY was s*it when they started. NOBODY arrived fully formed. Your style is defined by your limitations. Keep learning, practice & get out play live ....
Mickeyislowd Marshall's technique is on a different level. Nothing against this stuff. It's fantastic and Troy' s videos have been a revelation for many players in regards to technique. Marshall's hybrid/sweeping approach is so fast and efficient. He's kind of merged Brett Garsed's and Frank Gambale's very unique right approaches which is a monstrous feat. Anyway, Marshall does live vids every Friday night through his UA-cam channel. He talks about his technique and gives many great examples. Check it out!
Troy, I've been playing for 35 years mostly by ear and what I've learned through lessons from a couple different teachers. Your videos are very informative and detailed and I would like to thank you. You've inspired me to relearn how to pick properly instead of stumbling over the strings... I'm just tired of being frustrated over that!
Over 4 years late andI'm wishing I had seen this back then. This is the first video I've seen on your channel and I'm subbed for life. Slows enough to watch and understand while also being so packed with info to make you pause and re-watch a few times for good measure. Thank you for great content. 👌😎🍕
I remember your Shawn Lane isolated hammer-on sequence analysis from years back, blows my mind to see how you have systematically achieved all of these, once mysterious, patterns. You are truly a god amongst men.
Might be worth pointing out that a lot of jazz players play the diminished arpeggio from the Flat 9 (half step above root) That gives b9, 3 5 7, over more dominant than minor blues sounds. Sounds great either way, keep up the good work!!
When I learned git in the 80's everybody focussed just on left hand fingerings. Right hand matters had been neglected for decades. How to even hold the pick? What angle? Edge down or up? Everybody seemed to develop their own technique, more or less intuitively. Some made it to accuracy and high speed, most didn't. Then Troy Grady came and worked on the flat-pick-issue like a scientist. With extremely valuable results! Thanks for sharing all this knowledge for free!
Incredibly cool . I started with exclusively economy picking everything (frankly , that's what I thought alternate picking was, and never figured i was doing anything different). It's served me well all this while. I've now come to a stage where I see the few weaknesses it has and wanted to include alternate picking as well into my arsenal of tools. This entire series has been a revelation . It has changed my playing overnight. Looking forward to getting a pass when I have more time to dedicate.
Hey Troy ! I've been playing for 25 years and I've been stuck for 25 years with that string changing slopiness but no more and that's all because of you :-) Thank you bro
HI Troy, I just wanted to thank you for your AMAZING work here. You really have provided us all with the keys. Just subscribed and purchased your Series 1 and 2. What a VERY fair price for all this knowledge. Touched and blown away!
I have been paying attention to pick movement and trying to do what you show and I have evolved a lot in just one day. Thanks so much. I have never thought before that I could play fast and sound good.
wow....where were you when I was 15? Your insight and analysis is remarkable on ALL of your videos. Awesome job!!! My only regret is that I'm just now finding you.
Beyond excellent! I understand everything. Amazing....I have beevn playing 30 years. This is my PhD studies of the guitar. You put me in light speed on the guitar and I understand the warp drive...You have uncovered the unknown and made the complex simple....Your information help cross me into elite world class.... my students are amazed .... I have been doing the slant picking for 10 years and told my students it was my circle slant picking style. I think circle . I use a combination of my wrist ,elbow and arm. to get hyper drive speed picking. Anyways you did help me in leaps and bounds..You saved me a decade easily...like you came from the future to give me inside information that would give me an edge...
I've been playing for about 25 years and after failed band situations became almost completely apathetic towards the instrument. I was merely playing for about half an hour per week all of a sudden just to keep muscle memory, because..you never know. I wasn't "feeling" guitar anymore for about 8 months though, maybe more. After stumbling across these videos I bought a better guitar and am loving it again (you really can't describe this to someone who doesn't play). I think it was the Yngwie 6 note per string video that done it. Something so simple completely opened up my playing and mind, not to mention patience to examine those little sloppy mistakes I often overlooked. Thank you.
In the years I’ve spent learning guitar I can’t remember picking ever being the focus. Now you have given me strategies I find myself planning out on the fly picking choices and options. Using the rigidity of only changing on upstrokes with slanting results in accuracy without having to think about how to strike the strings (or rather I’m now more aware of how I am doing it). Then combine this “rule” with sweeping and rotating the direction of slanting, more options and combinations open up. It seems so quick and precise to rehearse new combinations and applications as well as revisit licks with new eyes. Ultimately what you have provided Troy is freedom and creativity. Truly game changing. I can’t thank you enough.
Just discovered your videos Troy - a COMPLETE revelation and unlike anything I have ever seen ...I may well suscribe for the whole course...excellent work, thanks. Cant imagine the effort that went into producing these videos!
Yes, This is a picking method of Hybrid, 4 note patterns, pick angles, fast and fluid, that Paul Gilbert set me out on, years ago, but wanted to incorporate with a good wide vibrato, bluesy, beebop thing that Ive' been doing for years and is really slick. I could only achieve this Hi-octane picking style from time to time, but after MANY HOURS of watching guys like Frank Gambale, Greg Howe, Steve Morse, Tony McAlpine, Nuno, now Rick Graham, Ben Eller, Martin Miller [are you kiddind me?] until 3 a.m. starting to just grab a guitar and rip. I go out and watch guys locally playing good old pentatonic stuff, bending strings until they break, .I say Thank You God, that's not me anymore,, you just got to want to advance, some guys are happy staying on first base. Thanks for the explanation-advice.
You mentioned that "Yngwie is not a guy who over-intellectualizes his guitar technique" but he used to turn his back on audiences so they couldn't see what he was playing. I'm guessing this means that he was fairly certain he had a revolutionary insight into guitar technique and he wanted to keep it to himself for a moment, at least. In light of what you've revealed, I totally get it. I didn't at the time. I love Yngwie and will forever admire his art and dedication. Thank you TG for giving us a window into the genius of all of these guitar masters!
You have to talk about the 4s pentatatic sweep descending version as well. It also starts with an upstroke and is just as elegant ( each 8 note sequence starts with 3 notes per string then a double direction change sweep to get the next string, note 8 happens to be a downstroke, which starts the pattern of 8 again on the lower string with an upstroke, voila )
Mr. Grady, my friend, I must say you’ve inspired me to start thinking about my technique and playing more than ever and I’m so thankful for that! Thank you very much sir!
This man and this show are way beyond amazing!!!! I love his technical and theoretic knowledge. And the production values of this show are off the charts.
Thanks, now everything falls into place with hours of practice in my youth, the pick slanting was the missing piece. Totally awesome and BIG THANKS!!!!!
Great video, guys! I really like how you've thrown in some cool scale ideas, especially the bit about the similarities between whole tone and Mixolydian. I'm looking forward to the next Master's in Mechanics seminar as well as Cracking the Code. Cheers!
Awesome video, as usual!! I ll stay at home this evening, i have to study all these new concepts, it sounds incredible!! Thanks for this work, you are number one, greetings from Madrid!!
For quite a moment i feel that he's learning the secuence too, ... then he starts to play the same sequence in every scale and i remember being a simple mortal. Great Videos.
God damn! I never actually watched this whole video. Seriously digging the fusionesque tips at the end! Insane, Troy, I've never heard you play that sort of thing.
I was binge watching this yesterday and have found it very helpful so far even though I was executing this in a different way than Troy does - pick the first note and hammer the next two then pick the next note and hammer on the next two. I'd been doing that for 20 years but doing the techniques here has been a big help in doing it more straightforwardly. And this morning after starting to watch Troy's fours video again I realized someone else came up with a different way of executing the ascending and descending pentatonics in a novel way: Shawn Lane. Even though his demo indicates he is doing fives in that video,, search for 'Shawn Lane Pentatonic Lesson Part 1 of 1 and Part 2 of 2". His fingerings are highly unusual and he of course blazes through the pentatonics like a buzzsaw.
Love your vids Troy and the excitement that you generate in them. I'm a bassist that will probably make little direct use of a lot of the content ... BUT ... man, does it get my brain gears turning. I'd love to see someone analyse the right/left hand techniques of Entwistle, Jaco, Clarke, Manring, etc. in the way that you do with these innovative guitarists. Thanks so much for your work.
Damn it troy. My arm is on fire. After unlocking this door. I haven't been able to stop playing. The trove of content that's here has me picking up my guitar 10 minutes after I put it down.
oh my freakin GOD. hahahha I just watched at 5:31 then picked up my axe and i swear in 2 min i had this lick at about 40% of your speed. wow. I was stunned. It DID feel like it was meant to be that way and I almost never economy pick. just wow. I'm going to practice this in the 1st spot (good ole A min 5th fret). wow. It's crazy how it just flows once you get the first chunk figured out. The other strings are just repeats with diff left hand positions based on whatever pentatonic spot you're in. wow. That's just amazing.
Great job on the video - technically(the video aspects) and musically.A person who makes shredding interesting to a life-long advanced garage guitarist. Good work. Oddly enough, coming from a punk/metal background(and a sloppy player), I still discovered up-angle picking and starting with an upstroke to cross strings comfortably. I still suck, except when I totally kill it.
It's inspiring but depressing too. hehe I can intellectually grasp it but physically doing the right hand part... hard but also getting the left hand shapes in TIME with that right picking hand... harder. I had no idea Yngwie was sweeping any scale runs. I knew he swept arps but not scales.
Troy some great alternate scale usage there outside of the pentatonic! Brilliant mechanics as usual too! Have you ever ventured into analyzing John McLaughlin's approach since he's a god of speed and creative complex scalic work. With his Indian raga scales and western exotic scales too and the "Sarod Picking" technique that he adopted from learning to play Indian instrument Vina. Because I never felt John's playing was "recognizable" in that its hard to identify patterns and pure scalic runs. He uses odd timings a lot and 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 note sequences but they never sound like he's just going through exercises or patterns. Every sequence seems unique yet Im sure it cant be. I guess playing "changes" a lot too helps break up the melodies by changing key really frequently. But it never sounds laboured or contrived. Al di Meola for instance is easily identifiable in the runs he does. But John is out there somehow and I dont know how. Both acoustic and electric work the same... Any insights??
Paul Lesson There really aren't many other ways of doing this, and most of them are simply combinations of these two basic concepts -- the EJ alternate picked approach and the Yngwie volcano approach. So instead we decided to go another way with this video and talk about musical applications. This is really where the rubber meets the road for me. In my own playing, once I get a solution that works, I immediately stop looking for others and start working on compositional or improvisational ideas.
***** Thanks so much for your reply. I stand corrected. The 2 solutions are right on. I considered ascending Pentatonic 4's, using same notes on different strings in style of S. Morse. I did this in my head. When on the fret-board I realized I was trying to be too clever. As I have said before "If your videos had been available during my tenure as guitar professor, your material would have been required. Your insight stands just as tall as 120 RHS, Sor's 20 studies, Villa Lobos etudes etc. Segovia was my professor's teacher. I know Andres would have been blown away by your teaching. Cheers.
Really really helpful info from Troy, has helped me tremendously already Thanks dude, so good, the best lessons on you tube a cloud has lifted for me with the dwps :)
I use sweeping on 3 note per string patterns when ascending, when descending i use alternate picking. And on 2 note per string im strictly an alternate picker. Maybe its the fact that i usually always start anything with a down stroke start makes both of the patterns different. Odd yet interesting to realize what youre doing. Unfortunately my picking speed is as good as my actual picking.
That is a seriously wicked way of incorporating whole tone and diminished into blues, seems like very fertile ground for new creative sounds and textures, or as Holdsworth might describe it, "sheets of sound". Also, a lot of your own original riffs and ideas are total badassery, are you ever planning on releasing a CD of original stuff?
I wish executing this was just as easy as understanding it was. Something about your teaching makes me believe I can already do it. Then I pick up my guitar and remember that I can't. Yet!!!!!
The key where, which isn't explained in this video, is that your picking motion needs to be a USX motion ( troygrady.com/primer/picking-motion/usx-motion/ ). Meaning, it needs to move like that on a diagonal, even if you're just playing a tremolo on a single string. If it's not, and it's a DSX motion ( troygrady.com/primer/picking-motion/dsx-motion/ ), then none of this is going to work, and you'd be better off working on DSX lines and phrases first. I'm not saying you can't learn USX eventually, you can learn anything you want. But you should consider it like speaking a different language. You're going to be best at your own language first.
Would be interesting to see how Troy approaches 4 note arpeggios like Dom7, Maj7, Min7 and min7b5 with . I am working on it over the whole fretboard but it seems like information overload. There are 4 shapes for each of them on two strings..The idea is to have enough armor to survive fast jazz changes.
I seriously have no idea how the hell is this pure golden video of such information is just free
In the days of old you didn't buy gold, you discovered it after a time of prospecting.
Metaphorically then, if you are prospecting for technique, this video and the result within, is like found gold for those who have been looking for such "treasure".
BlueArpeggio agreed
+Brian Fucking use some punctuation marks, please.
Agreed. Amazing how much he's researched and compiled into a coherent learning system. Just signed up for the subscription on Troy's website. Amazing information I wish I had before putting in all those alternate picking hours on the metronome.
d nollem well they are a bit up in years now and we do need the next gen to have a chance and to be as good if not better by taking it and possibly finding ways to improve it if approached this way.
Absolutely killer. I have to thank you for the time and effort that goes into putting this together. Definitely a labor of love.
Paul Crane thanks Paul!
+Troy Grady seriously this is Tv material
+Troy Grady Frank Gambale Economy Picking - Paul Gilbert Intense Rock - Troy Grady Downward Slanting & Rebound Technique Like Drummers - Allan Holdsworth Legato Technique - Greg Howe Hammering On From Nowhere - Magnus Olsson Hybrid Picking
These guys helped me so much.
Combing all these ideas!
I used to think I was a decent guitar player. Then I see these videos and I feel like i'm standing at the bottom of Mt. Everest looking up, and a bird just pooped on me.
It's the opposite for me. I feel like I was standing at the bottom of mt. Everest before, and then global warming struck, melted all the snow and raised the sea level, taking me half way to the top, the sun shining bright on my face.
ThatVaiGuy 😂
You should watch Marshall Harrison videos then!
He's on a whole other level so you can feel like all the water has drained to the bottom of the deepest ocean, you're stood there in the trench staring up at Concord flying over head now at 100,00ft.. someone flushed the toilet and a half frozen fat bastards turd splats you in the face and mouth !
EVERYBODY was s*it when they started. NOBODY arrived fully formed. Your style is defined by your limitations. Keep learning, practice & get out play live ....
Mickeyislowd Marshall's technique is on a different level. Nothing against this stuff. It's fantastic and Troy' s videos have been a revelation for many players in regards to technique. Marshall's hybrid/sweeping approach is so fast and efficient. He's kind of merged Brett Garsed's and Frank Gambale's very unique right approaches which is a monstrous feat. Anyway, Marshall does live vids every Friday night through his UA-cam channel. He talks about his technique and gives many great examples. Check it out!
Troy, I've been playing for 35 years mostly by ear and what I've learned through lessons from a couple different teachers. Your videos are very informative and detailed and I would like to thank you. You've inspired me to relearn how to pick properly instead of stumbling over the strings... I'm just tired of being frustrated over that!
Mr. Troy Grady, your lessons are the greatest I've ever came across. These techniques are really gonna make me shine for my upcoming gigs. Thanks man.
Over 4 years late andI'm wishing I had seen this back then. This is the first video I've seen on your channel and I'm subbed for life. Slows enough to watch and understand while also being so packed with info to make you pause and re-watch a few times for good measure. Thank you for great content. 👌😎🍕
I remember your Shawn Lane isolated hammer-on sequence analysis from years back, blows my mind to see how you have systematically achieved all of these, once mysterious, patterns. You are truly a god amongst men.
Might be worth pointing out that a lot of jazz players play the diminished arpeggio from the Flat 9 (half step above root) That gives b9, 3 5 7, over more dominant than minor blues sounds. Sounds great either way, keep up the good work!!
When I learned git in the 80's everybody focussed just on left hand fingerings. Right hand matters had been neglected for decades. How to even hold the pick? What angle? Edge down or up? Everybody seemed to develop their own technique, more or less intuitively. Some made it to accuracy and high speed, most didn't.
Then Troy Grady came and worked on the flat-pick-issue like a scientist. With extremely valuable results!
Thanks for sharing all this knowledge for free!
And finally someone who provides examples of different scales and how they are supposed to be played on guitar.
I think this may be the ultimate guitar technique channel om youtube. Thanks
Incredibly cool . I started with exclusively economy picking everything (frankly , that's what I thought alternate picking was, and never figured i was doing anything different). It's served me well all this while. I've now come to a stage where I see the few weaknesses it has and wanted to include alternate picking as well into my arsenal of tools. This entire series has been a revelation . It has changed my playing overnight. Looking forward to getting a pass when I have more time to dedicate.
Hey Troy ! I've been playing for 25 years and I've been stuck for 25 years with that string changing slopiness but no more and that's all because of you :-) Thank you bro
Those combined phrases toward the end sounded sick. Thank you for figuring these out .Very cool
HI Troy, I just wanted to thank you for your AMAZING work here. You really have provided us all with the keys. Just subscribed and purchased your Series 1 and 2. What a VERY fair price for all this knowledge. Touched and blown away!
And Yngwie says "I don't know, man! I just play it!" 😁
I have been paying attention to pick movement and trying to do what you show and I have evolved a lot in just one day. Thanks so much. I have never thought before that I could play fast and sound good.
wow....where were you when I was 15? Your insight and analysis is remarkable on ALL of your videos. Awesome job!!! My only regret is that I'm just now finding you.
Beyond excellent! I understand everything. Amazing....I have beevn playing 30 years. This is my PhD studies of the guitar. You put me in light speed on the guitar and I understand the warp drive...You have uncovered the unknown and made the complex simple....Your information help cross me into elite world class.... my students are amazed .... I have been doing the slant picking for 10 years and told my students it was my circle slant picking style. I think circle . I use a combination of my wrist ,elbow and arm. to get hyper drive speed picking. Anyways you did help me in leaps and bounds..You saved me a decade easily...like you came from the future to give me inside information that would give me an edge...
I've been playing for about 25 years and after failed band situations became almost completely apathetic towards the instrument. I was merely playing for about half an hour per week all of a sudden just to keep muscle memory, because..you never know. I wasn't "feeling" guitar anymore for about 8 months though, maybe more. After stumbling across these videos I bought a better guitar and am loving it again (you really can't describe this to someone who doesn't play). I think it was the Yngwie 6 note per string video that done it. Something so simple completely opened up my playing and mind, not to mention patience to examine those little sloppy mistakes I often overlooked. Thank you.
In the years I’ve spent learning guitar I can’t remember picking ever being the focus. Now you have given me strategies I find myself planning out on the fly picking choices and options. Using the rigidity of only changing on upstrokes with slanting results in accuracy without having to think about how to strike the strings (or rather I’m now more aware of how I am doing it). Then combine this “rule” with sweeping and rotating the direction of slanting, more options and combinations open up. It seems so quick and precise to rehearse new combinations and applications as well as revisit licks with new eyes. Ultimately what you have provided Troy is freedom and creativity. Truly game changing. I can’t thank you enough.
this channel is a gem. its like Cosmo, full of information but easy to digest. hopefully i can be as good as you.
Just discovered your videos Troy - a COMPLETE revelation and unlike anything I have ever seen ...I may well suscribe for the whole course...excellent work, thanks. Cant imagine the effort that went into producing these videos!
Yes, This is a picking method of Hybrid, 4 note patterns, pick angles, fast and fluid, that Paul Gilbert set me out on, years ago, but wanted to incorporate with a good wide vibrato, bluesy, beebop thing that Ive' been doing for years and is really slick. I could only achieve this Hi-octane picking style from time to time, but after MANY HOURS of watching guys like Frank Gambale, Greg Howe, Steve Morse, Tony McAlpine, Nuno, now Rick Graham, Ben Eller, Martin Miller [are you kiddind me?] until 3 a.m. starting to just grab a guitar and rip. I go out and watch guys locally playing good old pentatonic stuff, bending strings until they break, .I say Thank You God, that's not me anymore,, you just got to want to advance, some guys are happy staying on first base. Thanks for the explanation-advice.
This is incredible! thank you for putting the time in on developing this kind of tutorial.
Scott Inkley No worries glad you enjoyed it!
You mentioned that "Yngwie is not a guy who over-intellectualizes his guitar technique" but he used to turn his back on audiences so they couldn't see what he was playing. I'm guessing this means that he was fairly certain he had a revolutionary insight into guitar technique and he wanted to keep it to himself for a moment, at least. In light of what you've revealed, I totally get it. I didn't at the time. I love Yngwie and will forever admire his art and dedication. Thank you TG for giving us a window into the genius of all of these guitar masters!
The work you put into these videos blows me away...
You have to talk about the 4s pentatatic sweep descending version as well.
It also starts with an upstroke and is just as elegant ( each 8 note sequence starts with 3 notes per string then a double direction change sweep to get the next string, note 8 happens to be a downstroke, which starts the pattern of 8 again on the lower string with an upstroke, voila )
I keep coming back to these videos. Such a trove of invaluable information
Mr. Grady, my friend, I must say you’ve inspired me to start thinking about my technique and playing more than ever and I’m so thankful for that! Thank you very much sir!
This man and this show are way beyond amazing!!!! I love his technical and theoretic knowledge. And the production values of this show are off the charts.
Troy, these are the BEST guitar lessons i've seen ever since i started playing guitar 13 years ago. Thank you
Roman Bilko thanks Roman!
Thanks, now everything falls into place with hours of practice in my youth, the pick slanting was the missing piece. Totally awesome and BIG THANKS!!!!!
Great video, guys! I really like how you've thrown in some cool scale ideas, especially the bit about the similarities between whole tone and Mixolydian. I'm looking forward to the next Master's in Mechanics seminar as well as Cracking the Code.
Cheers!
Awesome video, as usual!! I ll stay at home this evening, i have to study all these new concepts, it sounds incredible!! Thanks for this work, you are number one, greetings from Madrid!!
Mr Grady u r a genius. Your hi fi tutorials are the best and incomparable.
9:11- 9:28 I would love to get a closer look of your marriage ideas ;) This video is top notch as always Troy. Thanks for the great stuff.
For quite a moment i feel that he's learning the secuence too, ... then he starts to play the same sequence in every scale and i remember being a simple mortal.
Great Videos.
This really was a great tip, I ended up using idea in the solo section for my most recent track. Thank you a bunch! Keep it up!
Troy it's just genius the way you have broken this down and showed it.
These vids are GOLD. Creative/calculated/perfectly executed and entertaining. Thank you!!
These lessons are INCREDIBLE! Please continue to put this kind of effort in, you're changing lives :)
I saw an old video with Sean Lane. He also starts some pentatonic runs with an upstroke! He had a lot of pentatonic variations.
God damn! I never actually watched this whole video. Seriously digging the fusionesque tips at the end! Insane, Troy, I've never heard you play that sort of thing.
Totally agree.
I was binge watching this yesterday and have found it very helpful so far even though I was executing this in a different way than Troy does - pick the first note and hammer the next two then pick the next note and hammer on the next two. I'd been doing that for 20 years but doing the techniques here has been a big help in doing it more straightforwardly. And this morning after starting to watch Troy's fours video again I realized someone else came up with a different way of executing the ascending and descending pentatonics in a novel way: Shawn Lane. Even though his demo indicates he is doing fives in that video,, search for 'Shawn Lane Pentatonic Lesson Part 1 of 1 and Part 2 of 2". His fingerings are highly unusual and he of course blazes through the pentatonics like a buzzsaw.
Yeah!! Glad to see I was correct.
A monthly or weekly homework will be great *****
Great video! Thanks a lot man!
The best guitar technique videos I've seen so far! And that's including all the official instruction videos from the famous guys!
Ever have one of those "My head just exploded" moments?
I think I need this level of technical analysis to move me forward...thanks for all your excellent work.
WOW...just wow!!! And thank you Troy...you the Man!
Yngwie did it all...and continues to do so. Thanks for another great analysis!!
Love your vids Troy and the excitement that you generate in them. I'm a bassist that will probably make little direct use of a lot of the content ... BUT ... man, does it get my brain gears turning. I'd love to see someone analyse the right/left hand techniques of Entwistle, Jaco, Clarke, Manring, etc. in the way that you do with these innovative guitarists. Thanks so much for your work.
So many useful tips … just crazy! Super useful. Big Big Thanks Troy!
That blues lick at 7:24 is awesome.
A vid on Shawn Lane's descending pentatonic 6's, starting on a down stroke, would be a treat.
Damn it troy. My arm is on fire. After unlocking this door. I haven't been able to stop playing. The trove of content that's here has me picking up my guitar 10 minutes after I put it down.
I just wanted to say I really appreciate all your videos! Thank you so much for the awesome content!
Jake Mesta Hey, Brendan here from the Code team. Thanks for the comment…we appreciate your appreciation!
oh my freakin GOD. hahahha I just watched at 5:31 then picked up my axe and i swear in 2 min i had this lick at about 40% of your speed. wow. I was stunned. It DID feel like it was meant to be that way and I almost never economy pick. just wow. I'm going to practice this in the 1st spot (good ole A min 5th fret). wow. It's crazy how it just flows once you get the first chunk figured out. The other strings are just repeats with diff left hand positions based on whatever pentatonic spot you're in. wow. That's just amazing.
Love that whole tone action!
Great job on the video - technically(the video aspects) and musically.A person who makes shredding interesting to a life-long advanced garage guitarist. Good work. Oddly enough, coming from a punk/metal background(and a sloppy player), I still discovered up-angle picking and starting with an upstroke to cross strings comfortably. I still suck, except when I totally kill it.
A lot of information here. Great video presentation.
Thank you for your very high quality videos, you're an excellent guitarist.
It's inspiring but depressing too. hehe I can intellectually grasp it but physically doing the right hand part... hard but also getting the left hand shapes in TIME with that right picking hand... harder. I had no idea Yngwie was sweeping any scale runs. I knew he swept arps but not scales.
What an amazing lesson this was.
Great video, even pure alternate variant sounded clean. That's something I really struggle with. But I guess thats the whole point huh!
your new to me and blow my mind.i appreciate you
Troy some great alternate scale usage there outside of the pentatonic! Brilliant mechanics as usual too! Have you ever ventured into analyzing John McLaughlin's approach since he's a god of speed and creative complex scalic work. With his Indian raga scales and western exotic scales too and the "Sarod Picking" technique that he adopted from learning to play Indian instrument Vina. Because I never felt John's playing was "recognizable" in that its hard to identify patterns and pure scalic runs. He uses odd timings a lot and 3, 5, 7, 9, 11 note sequences but they never sound like he's just going through exercises or patterns. Every sequence seems unique yet Im sure it cant be. I guess playing "changes" a lot too helps break up the melodies by changing key really frequently. But it never sounds laboured or contrived.
Al di Meola for instance is easily identifiable in the runs he does. But John is out there somehow and I dont know how. Both acoustic and electric work the same...
Any insights??
Thank you for the great insight!!!! Your chops are fabulous too!!
I hope you still have your Roadstar. I love those.
Your videos are absolutely fantastic.
Where has this channel been when I started playin 5 years ago? :D lovin it
Great presentation. Very intricate.
Outstanding! Will you talk about solutions other than these 2. Ideas that you liked etc..
Paul Lesson There really aren't many other ways of doing this, and most of them are simply combinations of these two basic concepts -- the EJ alternate picked approach and the Yngwie volcano approach. So instead we decided to go another way with this video and talk about musical applications. This is really where the rubber meets the road for me. In my own playing, once I get a solution that works, I immediately stop looking for others and start working on compositional or improvisational ideas.
***** Thanks so much for your reply. I stand corrected. The 2 solutions are right on. I considered ascending Pentatonic 4's, using same notes on different strings in style of S. Morse. I did this in my head. When on the fret-board I realized I was trying to be too clever. As I have said before "If your videos had been available during my tenure as guitar professor, your material would have been required. Your insight stands just as tall as 120 RHS, Sor's 20 studies, Villa Lobos etudes etc. Segovia was my professor's teacher. I know Andres would have been blown away by your teaching. Cheers.
Great video catapulted my playing tremendously thank you simply awesome
Really really helpful info from Troy, has helped me tremendously already Thanks dude, so good, the best lessons on you tube a cloud has lifted for me with the dwps :)
I love that you put John Pizzarelli next to Django in that one image, that's great!
Thank you Troy! I plan to master Cracking the Code this summer!
Chris Poland could be a great example of 3 notes per string penta patterns.
What is this madness? Awesome! Thanks!
Beyond AMAZING. I'm in total awe. Thanks
I use sweeping on 3 note per string patterns when ascending, when descending i use alternate picking. And on 2 note per string im strictly an alternate picker. Maybe its the fact that i usually always start anything with a down stroke start makes both of the patterns different.
Odd yet interesting to realize what youre doing.
Unfortunately my picking speed is as good as my actual picking.
REPEAT! Great little lesson!! Thanks
This is the only guitarist on youtube who authentically pisses me off with how good he is....
Very well produced graphics and video.
Great work !!! So dam fun to watch .. you have improved your Guitarplaying 😎 since the last time a watched your first season. Thanks
Very cool. Thanks for another great vid, Troy!
Maybe in 10-15 years I'll understand this stuff. But it's still amazing to watch.
This will take me many months to work on but it's a great project thank you
Thanks a lot for making this fantastic video
That is a seriously wicked way of incorporating whole tone and diminished into blues, seems like very fertile ground for new creative sounds and textures, or as Holdsworth might describe it, "sheets of sound".
Also, a lot of your own original riffs and ideas are total badassery, are you ever planning on releasing a CD of original stuff?
Great stuff, Troy Grady!
Great video as usual! Man why is it that I just found this channel.
I wish executing this was just as easy as understanding it was. Something about your teaching makes me believe I can already do it. Then I pick up my guitar and remember that I can't.
Yet!!!!!
The key where, which isn't explained in this video, is that your picking motion needs to be a USX motion ( troygrady.com/primer/picking-motion/usx-motion/ ). Meaning, it needs to move like that on a diagonal, even if you're just playing a tremolo on a single string. If it's not, and it's a DSX motion ( troygrady.com/primer/picking-motion/dsx-motion/ ), then none of this is going to work, and you'd be better off working on DSX lines and phrases first. I'm not saying you can't learn USX eventually, you can learn anything you want. But you should consider it like speaking a different language. You're going to be best at your own language first.
Would be interesting to see how Troy approaches 4 note arpeggios like Dom7, Maj7, Min7 and min7b5 with . I am working on it over the whole fretboard but it seems like information overload. There are 4 shapes for each of them on two strings..The idea is to have enough armor to survive fast jazz changes.
Your videos are amazing! Keep up the great work!
phenomenal video, wish i could hit the thumbs up 1000 times
Underrated channel!
Please explain the lick note for note with pick direction.
awesome playing analysis and video computer skills!
Sounds great! Thank you!