When I First Heard This Shredder I Didn't Get It... WOW Was I WRONG!
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Buckethead is one crazy shredder! Here he is on Jordan.
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That fact you tabbed this out is beyond impressive.
Jordan on Guitar Hero 2 exposed a ton of us to Buckethead. What a creative dude.
Yes bro!!!! Spot on. At least for us between the age of 25 to 35 absolutely
26 here, and yeah.
GH introduced me to a TON of cool bands
Same lol
i'm so fucking glad they included buckethead in gh
buckethead forever changed me and how i saw shred
@@DrewElGringasho im 16 and gh still has introduced me to a ton of bands. Its also one of the reasons why i started playing guitar. Gh is such a masterpiece.
I've met Buckethead. He was awesome, but he was still in character, so it was interesting. His playing is truly terrifying that he can combine that level of technique with amazing timing and feel is just one of a kind.
Fun fact, he's like 6'6" tall without the bucket, so the dude's a giant. Buckethead's rad, definitely a gem in music and guitar.
Thanks.
without the bucket 💀
I once held one of his custom guitars and its near impossible to play for someone who doesn't have rediculously big hands. No wonder they didn't sell too many of them. They should make a smaller scale one and id gladly save up for one...
It's interesting that he's so tall, because his hands don't look huge, on this video at least
@@banyarling I think it's because he has a giant guitar lol, that's not a normal sized guitar.
Buckethead is far, far, more than a shredder
doesn't work in a title though does it?
What do you mean by that?
@@davidderoux7552 He means he needs to clickbait because he put a lot of work into it so it's easiest to write him off as a shredder just because he can play fast.
He can be incredibly funky.
Clearly this solo is pure shred the entire time. Gotta have some nuance. He never said he was just a shredder
Been a Buckethead fan for 18 years now and he truly is, in every definition of the word, a shredding machine.
I think Buckethead is one of the best living composers and I'm glad that he is getting more respect lately.
Bucket is a master of shred and feel, forever blows me away.
love ur content!
Can't believe you didn't transcribe his Robot dance moves 🙄 kidding of course, hats off to you for working on something as nutty as a bucket head solo!
I love the robot moves followed by the stretch of the guitar strap . So cool
I've been listening to Buckethead since 1996 when I picked up guitar. He is easily one of my top 10 influences.
Well, I certainly hope paul gilbert is on that list of influences! XD
@@percyvolnar8010 He is for me, with Shawn Lane too
And Jimi Hendrix ?......
You did Shawn Lane a couple days ago and now Buckethead! You're just spoiling us at this point.
For the breakdown chicken pickin solo towards the end, he doesn't double pick the notes, he does a rick Graham hammer on from nowhere with his index finger! Helped me learn the solo a LOT easier!
Cheers and thanks for the work!
Excellent choice Levi, he's a big fan of Shawn Lane too.
I saw him live back in 2016 he didnt miss a beat
Been a fan off the bucket for 15 years now. Phenomenal guitarist. Sure he does a lot of non music but he taught me to just play and record everything, anything goes
Guthrie and Buckethead are the only two shredders that I can enjoy. I'm usually more into bluesy stuff but omg these guys are just unreal. They will always be at the top of the list of my favorite guitarists (alongside with SRV & Gilmour).
Guthrie is not a shredder
@@saszahairulin ofc he's not a pure shredder. but he shreds tho
@@saszahairulinthe man can shred if he wants though
Paul Gilbert was his teacher so that's a big reason why his playing is so similar
everyone should check out his albums Colma and Electric tears.. just amazing, no shred at all and he shows he can play anything
There are some channels that I come back every day and this is definitely one. You aways make an amazing job on yours transcriptions, cheers from Brazil, dude
He is the best ever. Thanks for your videos!!!
Yes! Great to see Big B get love
I have been loving these shredder transcriptions! I know it's a shit ton of work and Levi is posting this for free, but in case anyone actually tries to mess around with this, I have to politely point out an articulation mistake at m.50 (around 3:45 in the video)- Buckethead plays these kinds of passages with a "hammer-on from nowhere" for the middle note of each group of 16th-note triplets. So the initial 16th fret F# on the D string isn't picked, it's struck by the fret hand finger, THEN the repeated note after it is picked (he plucks the high E notes with a finger). Good luck for anyone crazy enough to try working on this, and a huge thanks to Levi for all this great work!
I don't like the way hammer ons from nowhere look in tab, I absolutely never use them. The way I see it is that it's like picking information, sure... everything would be more accurate if it were there, but you have to put some trust in the end user!
@@LeviClay I understand. Just to be clear, I wasn't posting that to bash your transcription!
@@dennisjhodges all good mate! I actually appreciate you giving people that little detail! I had someone message me on Facebook asking how to play that as they assumed it was just one note, so it’s nice to have some input from someone who’s (I assume) passionate about BH!
Your playing to have fun,that is so trivial it makes me laugh,thanks
Congratulations on one year of practice routines Levi! Been doing your routines since June 2022 and I've had great development.
Congrats on the year man, that's quite the accomplishment considering you're doing so much more than these transcriptions (grats on the book also!).
Indeed!, Bucketheads sound is like a "computer exploding"😂 and that makes it even more interesting. One of the most talented electric guitarist ever. But I admire Levi more for tabbing this insane stuff from Bucket.
Love his stories about him first hearing Shawn Lane, There's no UA-cam yet in the early 90's so he wanted to emulate his sound thru tapping, and Bucket thought the sound was produed thru tapping, not knowing that Shawn is purely alternate picking everything!. Also his excitement in sharing his amazing experience in watching Yngwie Malmsteen perform live.😄 Buckethead is simply one of the best EVER!
his whole character is supposed to be like a robot raised by chickens or something, that's why he does all the weird computer crashing shreds. really fits the whole vibe
Thank you so much for all the effort you put in to things like this.
Buckethead Land is a funky place..
Bucketheadland is your imagination.
awesome job thank you soooooo much for your transcriptions
Congrats mate!, you just tabbed ALL the most technically insane players: YingYang Valvoline, Pablo Gilberto, Guthrie, Shawn and now Bucket!👏 props for sharing your "transcribing/tabbing" talent.
Hope you could also do a Tab vid of ANY licks or video clip of the most mind boggling out of this world guitar player of all:
Allan Holdsworth.👍💯
Ying Yang Valvoline with 12 fingers Valvoline?
@@MrJohnnyDistortion Yeah, the iconic Neo Classic god 🤘,admired even by my idol Guthrie as well as Bucket- the doughnut hating YingYang Milkshake Valvoline.😂🎸😁
@@mr.truthjustice1477
I was unaware that he had a middle desert name. Chocolate? Vanilla? 🍓? Mocha? Mint Chocolate Chip?
My mouth watering.
That must have been absolutely brutal to transcribe. Fantastic work!
channel is coming along nicely
Lebrontron and Crack The Sky are excellent choices to really hear his excellent playing, apart from his epics like Soothsayer. Actually, his work with Les Claypool is always outstanding. I'd check out the song Buckethead on Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernies Brains.
I love Lebrontron and Crack the Sky, really fun songs
Awesome work with the transcription! Not an easy one at all!
I really need to listen to some of the later stuff, I got a bit lost when he started the Pike series but spent a lot of time learning Welcome to Bucketheadland many years ago when first starting to play. Really should give that a go again too!
Never been into shred not that I don't appreciate the skills. More amazing to me is that Levi can transcribe it.
Buckethead does way more than shred. Check out his electric tears album.
I would recommend albums of his but I can't be bothered as I know people are too lazy these days to listen to a few albums by one artist.
Levi is the Boss, I'm amazed 😎
@@skyisreallyhigh3333 you wrote almost verbatim what I began to write!
Gills from the Tucked Into Dreams album is the opposite of shred, and it's amazing.
my man Buckethead 🥺❤️ been listening to him since i was a little kid... His music is beyond amazing...besides the shredding, he also does a ton of relaxing and sometimes emotional stuff...don't believe me? Check out the "Electric Tears" and "Electric Sea" albums... You won't regret it ☺️
In fact, he's played many different music styles throughout the years (i mean, the man has around 450 albums or more... So..how can he not? :D) i could ramble on about buckethead for hours and hours, but all i'll say now is: Amazing video my friend ☺️❤️❤️❤️ god bless the bucket!
Yes! BUCKETHEAD!!!!!! Thank you Levi.
This is an amazing transcription! The attention to detail that gets to a 31:32 quantisation of a bar of Buckethead's improvisation is really top tier!
31:32 ?
@@MisterPoppy-sc1sj He's talking about the tuplets, not a timestamp :p
Didn't buckethead use to write for guitar world magazine in the US or am I confusing him with someone else (if that's possible). I'm sure there used to be a buckethead section in one of the import magazines I used to get in the late nineties.
I only mention this because one of the other contributers once (it might have been billy corgan wierdly enough) said that noone but buckethead would ever be able to transcribe buckethead. So I'm glad to see you've broken that wall!!
Yes he did! It was a column called Psycho Buddy
Well of course there is some paul gilbert in his playing, considering paul gilbert was bucketheads teacher, so it makes sense there is some influence in his playing.
I found this guy randomly and have loved him ever since.
Great video man. Glad I found ya.
P.s. he did have lessons early on from Paul Gilbert. 😉
P.p.s.
You're transcriptions are amazing.
Yes.. someone in his camp bought a Paul
Gilbert lesson for Bucket as a gift..So
when Bucket showed up Paul and him
reconnected and spent the whole day
together reconnecting....:)
Insane
!!!!!!!!!!!
He reminds me of Steve Vai. They both take their solos outside the box and explore multiple variances which makes their music so unique and emotional. Great job transcribing this piece of music. It is very complex.
Ghost of mars soundtrack
Love me some Buckethead, he learned from Paul when he was a teenager hence the influence
that 2:22-2:26 run he does sounds so much better without the wah that he uses for the studio recording. I need to learn this!
I recognized from 1st time i heard him that he's got many original phrases. very cool shredder !!!
DUDEEEE BUCKETHEAD! so glad you transcribed Mr.B! This man is THE definiton of Organized Chaos. So amazing!
If you guys want to hear the most perfect combo of shred/melody check out the song "The Unknown Song" by Buckethead. Theres literally only one version of the song (that i know of) but its just tear bringing in the best sense possible!
Now to transcribe his entire discography.
As Ukrainian and I fell with bh music art, he is very talented musician and im blessed to see his concert recently. People need to speak to others about that he exist and let them fell in love. He is very unknown still.
Love the Bucketshred
Have seen him twice...my ears are still ringing. I knew one of his mentors as a friend, Shawn Lane, in Memphis. Saw him at least weekly . We were just beyond mere acquaintances ...awesome guy.
Buckethead actually had Paul Gilbert as a teacher a long time ago, probably where drew his inspiration😂
I notice that he uses his pinky a lot.
Which I like, because sometimes watching great players I feel like I overuse my pinky.
Paul Gilbert was actually one of Buckethead's teachers early on so that explains that similar style.
Buckethead is the greatest guitarist of all time, no questions asked. Seen him live 3 times, and each time was just unreal
there's no real comparison, I am confused why it's even a debate if he is the best, it's like comparing Liszt to a bunch of competent second-raters
@@holliswilliams8426 bhead can play anything that any other guitarist can play, and play it very well, but those same guitarists couldn’t play half of what buckethead can play. People are always saying Slash is a better guitarist, or John 5 is better etc.. which is just laughable. They’re great, but not in buckethead’s league
@@MadGunny dude, u just dont know enough. Shawn lane? Guthrie govan? Jason becker? Even vai? Im not even interested in this debate. I love buckethead but i really dont care if he us the fastest or overall best. I dont think he is. Allan wholdsworth? The list goes on. And of the new guys. Tosin? Tim hensen? I dont even begin to claim i know of the last generation of guitarist.... but no way.
@@rodrigogomes2064 on balance Buckethead is the GOAT, skill, productivity, emotional expression, experimentation, live performance but there are guitarists that are better at specializing in each of these categories. If you're thinking about him and the 1st thing that jumps out is him as "fastest" "most technical" guitarist I question how well you know his body of work. There's a lot going on with Buckethead, I made a playlist to try and share his skillset/show appreciation he may even be the most underrated musician which probably sounds crazy to a lot of people.
@@rodrigogomes2064 i know all those guys. Ive been playing and listening to guitar for decades. Buckethead is still better. You wont change my mind on that lol Guthrie could maybe challenge buckethead as the best, but i would still bet that buckethead could play anything Guthrie could fairly easily but GG probbaly couldn't play everything Bhead could
I've been trying to learn that multi finger tapping technique for 20 bloody years...
Shredding!
I'm surprised I didn't see any Shawn Lane comments about that tapping run.
This is what a 4th dimension alien sounds like when they shred guitar.
I heard of buckethead durin the 90s but had no idea he was so necessary a guitarist until I heard colma in 2001. At that time buckethead was everything to me. Since 1983 I listened to all shrapnel guitarist starting with yngyang malmsteen, Ron keel in Steeler 82. Racer x, Vinnie Moore.,Toni macalpine maximum security(my favorite 87?) (of all i missed Shawn lane somehow). Anyways non of shrapnel guitarist from 80s had same effect on me as buckethead. Through buckethead interview in 2004 (after Shawn already passed) Buckethead mentions Shawn lane name, first time I heard of shawn lane. Buckethead rarely gives interviews. It’s what buckethead says about Shawn lane and what Paul Gilbert says.. If only
‘Once upon time in the west’ had lil better quality recording. It doesn’t need a lot with Shawn
he's very much a necessary guitarist (at least as a composer), he can play virtuoso but this is just him messing around and having fun
Buckethead and Shawn are my two heroes
Best shredding he does imo is in pike 65 solo and is 100% my favorite song of all time
omg more Buckethead recognition :DDD
The dude can do it all, and well. Check out population overdrive album, super melodic vibe.
Your transcriptions are a Godsend!!
I see the title and think, "Yes, but you aren't alone!"
Paul Gilbert was Brian Carroll's guitar teacher for a bit back in the 80's.
buckethead! 😲
I have seen Buckethead live 4 times.
tabs?
All of the shredders are technically amazing but the two that blew me away were Shawn Lane and Scott Mishoe. I recently came across Scott's video "Scott Mishoe at Home" and was reminded again what an amazing player he was. Far beyond just a shredder. I wish he had not fallen off the face of the planet so to speak.
I heard there was a month in his career where he released an album each day.
Funny story. Buckethead has been my favorite living guitarist for close to 15 years.
My first exposure to buckethead was this song on guitar hero 2. At the time, id been actually playing for a couple years. I never liked this song.
About a year or so later, my best friend, who also plays guitar, told me buckethead was the next great guitar god. I dismissed him for a long time because i had heard this song and didnt like it.
Then i listened to soothsayer, and have since listened to almost every buckethead song at least once. If you know, you know.
The irony is that my name is jordan.
Also, my best friend's name is michael, which is the first name of the person this song was named after. (Michael Jordan)
I just always thought that was funny. Literally the only buckethead song i just outright did not like is named after me and the guy who convinced me to give it a second chance.
Looks like a lot of fun to play. Not quiet my usual slow blues vibe but I’m enjoying it! Savage work on the transcription Levi.
Buckethead has a lot of slow blues stuff that you might enjoy. Man has 500 albums and has played multiple genres!
@@Johnnysmithy24 thanks- I’ll have a look!
@@martoneill Here’s a couple that you might enjoy 😁
Here’s a cover of The Thrill Is Gone, tho the sound quality is very bad the playing is amazing ua-cam.com/video/VsFXFLp8s1w/v-deo.html
Here are some of his own tracks
ua-cam.com/video/_tZ3B8qYj2I/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/0jc6DcCx638/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/uKUYSl8c-90/v-deo.html
ua-cam.com/video/1-kCmLvmAEY/v-deo.html
@@Johnnysmithy24 thank you. Really appreciate the links. That bucket head sure can play!
@@martoneill You’re very welcome! :)
Paul was his teacher.
& Soothsayer is my favourite!
try tabbing scraps or count scapula or brazos
Brings back guitar hero 2 nightmares
He's a bucket shredder. 🎸
Can you do an Ethan brosh solo or Jessy bullet from Crossfire
He was born in a coop!
Raised in a cage!
Children fear him
Critics rage!
He's half-alive
He's half-dead
Folks just call him Buckethead!!
Levi - how long does it take you to do these transcriptions? They're amazing!
This one took a while! lol
@@LeviClay Well it would have taken me at least a year. I used to be a pro guitarist - I'm so glad I quit when I see solos like this and look at the amazing skill you have in transcribing impossible stuff like this! Thanks!
hey man where can i get the full tab and guitar pro file to download?
Patreon
@@LeviClay alr thx
Still cracks me up that Buckethead was once in GnR.
i went to see buckethead out of curiosity. it was cool. about 30 minutes was my limit. the opener was a percussionist called 'that other guy'. interesting. i think this was the show. at a place called la zona rosa?
Ur thinking of that one guy. He's definitely a character lol and this show is at the culture room in Florida.
@@joshslunk5195 i'm old. the mammaries ain't what they used to be.
man...all that work! Crazy! Well done, but crazy nonetheless ;)
Didn’t he study under Paul Gilbert? He uses some of his 11 note licks
Slash solo Tokyo 1992
I can't wait for BH to start releasing faux jazz/blues albums! ;)
Same tbh
When listening to Paul Gilbert and buckethead. Buckethead is always better for people who said they didn’t like buckethead. Expressions!
I like dissonance for creating tension to set up a resolution, but he strays into dissonance too much for me.
"Buckethead, Brain, Brewer 9/23/17 Gothic Theatre Act 1" at min 41 one of my favorit Bucket live solos, specially the hybrid picking part at 43:09
and can i request some Zappa? the Bamboozled by Love solo at Barcelona 1988 is amazing
Yeah Zappa is incredible, would love some transcriptions of his angular guitar style
Just nuts. Like I have no idea how you’d even begin to know it was 15 notes over the space of 16 or groups of septuplets vs 64th notes. Is that something you actually hear or is it an approximation? Either way: Hats off man.
A mix of the two. You quantise because you want it to look good, but also septuplets to 64th is a gear change, and that’s fine… but if there’s no obvious ramp up in rhythm then the tuplet makes more sense.
Also… what do you do if he’s accelerating? That just doesn’t lend itself to being written down 😂
@@LeviClay check this out on youtube:
'Invitation' - Rene Thomas - guitar (tempo rubato)
I don't want to transcribe Shawn Lane so I'll do some Buckethead instead.
;p
Biggggggg woooow
Buckethead was a student of Paul Gilbert.
I got it the first time I heard him
Thank you for all the hard work! As for Buckethead... clearly one of the most technically competent guitarist out there, but, compositionally, he seems to think that drinking from a firehose is the only way to drink... it is as those the concept of "there is music in the silence between the notes" completely eludes him. There are other guitarist who are as technically competent, but who also have much better compositional skills too (i.e., Tim Henson (most recently), John McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Jeff Beck, Michael Stern, and many others.)
Listen to his albums colma or electric tears! this is just one style he does out of many. This is the song that put him on the map more so than even being in GNR, That was written for the video game Guitar Hero. its meant to be one of the hardest songs in the game! its why it's so wild.
"there is music in the silence between the notes" oh my brother in Christ, listen to Too Many Humans, The Way to Heaven, Gory Head Stump 2006 the Pageant of the Slunks, The Miracle of Surrender, is just like Mclaughlin, that you have full speed energic Noonward Race but you also have You Know, You Know
You obviously haven't listened to all of Buckethead's music. Try The Ghosts Of Broken Eggs on for size and see how it fits those inexperienced ears of yours. Then meander through the over 300 recordings he's done, and I'm sure you'll find other similar gems to your liking.
@@EarthAltar okay I’ll see you in about 5 years time 😂
Totally, totally wrong. Listen to Whitewash or other songs of his, it's all about the space between the notes. He is much, much, much better as a composer than Tim Henson, not even going to argue.
I believe that he got lessons from Paul Gilbert when he was younger
2:39 that stretch is inhuman, just like the Pantera throes of rejection solo were dimebag does the 12-19 stretch.
A 12-19 stretch isn't that crazy. If you have good thumb placement and some practice you can do it comfortably even with tiny hands.
@@kyatzz Playing one string from 12 to 15 to 19 is easy, but doing what dime did on throes of rejection is hard. He goes 12,15,19 on all 6 string beginning on the low E. Listen to it. It could be just me, but once you start changing strings with the stretch it gets really hard.
@@kyatzz it is on the Buckethead guitar with a 27" scale
@@chriseverest8322 No, buckethead is a monster with an abnormal les paul. Spider fingers.
it's a giant guitar btw, a regular one would look like a ukelele in his hands
if you're not getting flabbergasted by buckethead every time you hear him play, you're not listening to it properly lol
soothsayer is probably the only guitar song that equals to cliffs of dover in melodic composition. buckethead is one of my favourite guitarists, and in my opinion one of the very best in the business. and the most unique for sure.
Buckethead has tasty tone.
Finger licking even😂
Paul Gilbert said most terrifying about shawn
Buckethead is my god! Thanks for doing this.