Frank would get depressed 😂. Guthrie is absolutely terrifying up close…. I have been familiar with his work since the 90’s. I have seen many guitar prodigies with insane amounts of talent but nobody comes even close to Guthrie.. Technically he is the most gifted guitar guitarist ever.
Never heard it and may never hear it... I've sure eaten a lot of cubes drizzled in Lucy for musical inspiration and to increase the senses at gigs. Maybe one was the game cube you speak of? A cube is a cube as psilocybe mycophiles say...
Welcome back, the rest of us are just drinking coffee, oh there are donuts over there if you like. We were just talking about if we should all get together like this on Fridays now we don't have anything else to do.
That descending sweep lick is a monster. I've seen frank play it longer and cleaner, but I don't know what video it is, or song. I've been through frank gambale's tutorials. Also guys who cover frank gambale licks. NOBODY, Nobody plays this lick from frank gambale.
Guthry and Frank are living legends but when it comes to sweeping Frank is the man acording to Guthry himself. But the new kid on the block is Matteo Moncuso. He is deffinetly a better acustic player than Frank and Guthry but his skills on electric is right up there with Frank and Guthry. Check out his track Drop D
Brian from Avenged sevenfold always credited Frank as a huge influence. Im really surprised more big name guys dont mention him as long as hes been playing.
I remember Brian, I was friends with him and chatted occasionally on Google Plus . He said he really liked my '52 reissue Tele but was happy playing Schecter. It was a long time after that I discovered he was Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold! Really nice guy and although I don't care for their music, I won't forget how he was always friendly to me .
Frank was my teacher at GIT. It took me years to relize his sweep picking style comes from Wes Montgomery who did not "alternate pick" due to the fact he used his thumb. Wes could play as fast as he wanted too!! ❤
Track 1 from the album Truth in Shredding he goes head to head with Allan Holdsworth it's the fastest I have ever heard him play (not that it means anything, it's also musically brilliant)
Had the pleasure of seeing and meeting Frank back in the height of Electric Band days, he did a clinic at the local Sam Ash and I was able to do a complete photo shoot, total gentleman
That first descending chromatic scale he uses in his first ‘speed picking’’ book (1990) with cassette and it drove me bonkers for months! No one could copy it and live.
Comment section here is embarrassing for the most part, Frank is and always has been an amazing player, his solos are out of this world. This is just a demonstration to say he can not he will.
You can tell his fretting fingers are so strong and yet nimble enough to get all those fast notes .Also note how close he keeps his fretted fingers to the fretboard..His fingers never raise up high ...something a classical teacher taught me a long time ago and he noted that Brian May also used this technique.
Part of the trick is relaxing both hands as much as possible and focus less on the notes, sounds and more on syncing the two hands together WITH a metronome or beat. Trust your body and brain, relax your hands and few you way on your right hand or pick hand flowing wherever on the strings and left hand free to match.
I like technical players,but a few of them really...i hate that the guitar community especially younger ones grow up with internet guitar and think its a competition
Really ? Arent the boomers the ones who always compare present guitarists with their guitar heroes. The hatred e.g. Tim Henson is receiving from boomers on the internet bc he has a different approach to playing and composing
@@yellfireThere is a big difference in opinion between people who play guitar and people who just listen to music because they like how it sounds. Most Tim Henson fans are musicians whereas tens of millions of casual listeners will prefer Roger Gilmour, Van Halen, or Slash because of the emotion in their playing rather than raw technical prowess
@yellfire I'm a Boomer, and I seem to recall checking him out and liking what I heard! There is some freaky good and eclectic music lurking about today, mostly under the radar. (Update: I checked out Tim Henson just after posting this original comment. I've definitely checked him out before, and he's a BEAST! Very unique style, too. I don't understand why some of my fellow Boomers might rag on the guy, as he's an ace guitarist & real funky!)
@@yellfiredepends on the boomer. Some boomers who love raw, straightforward, and bluesy 60s/70s rock tend to slag off the 80s thing with all it's elements (flashy shred guitars, synthesizers, and radio-friendly song patterns they called "cheesy" or "sappy").
Facts it doesn’t matter how hard you shred it’s about the music and how interesting and good it sounds. It doesn’t matter how good your skills are, when I’ve heard 10 thousand of the same similar sounding arpeggio licks it gets pretty boring after a while lmao
I love frank Gambale…Chic corea stuff (electrick band)is paramount/ stuff with holdsworth (truth in shredding)/ solo: all great. I really love the chic corea tunes: he is amazing !!!😊
a little grimace was there at the end. great sense of humor. a slow, stinging blues song would go well now. thanx, Frank. thanx Rick. most people don't know who he is, but he can tear your face off if he wants. I'll just bet Alvin Lee listened to Frank. I can hear Alvin (minus singing along w/ the notes) because he was from my youth, and got to see him twice.
An absolute masterpiece man. Nothing short of incredible. Some of your best work yet! If you ever did the movie accurate tentacles with the silver and little red circles in the middle you'd knock it right out of the park for sure. Best tentacle modification I have seen by far man. Great video!
back when he was only in the local scene, he played with my uncle in a jam band in the south coast of australia. he was truly amazing then, and still is now
Frank with Chick Corea Electric Band, those guys defined progressive jazz.
Love me some chick corea man. Also mahavishnu orchestra is pretty good too
no
You mean Jazz Fusion...? I don't think Progressive Jazz is a well defined genre
Thank you. @@JulioLeonFandinho
@@MisterNiles
you're welcome
That second set of arpeggios sounded so magical to my ears!
It was like the old arcade sound effect when your spaceship blew up! 😂
Yeah, that sweeps were magical!
@@Hid4ri Dude!
The same arpeggio pattern is in Frankenstein by Edgar Winter but on keys!
There was a brief segment that used the Gamecube intro's signature quartal harmony :D
I believe him.
Lmfao me too
Yes.. Jesus Christ that right there was PHAST!!
@@sumo-ninjame 3 bruh
Gambale: "I can play as fast as I want"
Mancuso: "Gambale's technique is very limiting."
hahaha
Frank is amazing. His nephew is one of my best mates.
Also a very talented guitarist in his own right.
The Gambale Sweep picking technique is legendary
Frank dueting with Guthrie would be insane
Oh my god🤩
Frank would get depressed 😂. Guthrie is absolutely terrifying up close…. I have been familiar with his work since the 90’s. I have seen many guitar prodigies with insane amounts of talent but nobody comes even close to Guthrie.. Technically he is the most gifted guitar guitarist ever.
Frank can't keep up 5 seconds with Guthrie. Frank is great, but Guthrie is special.
I would argue that Frank has a much more distinct voice
@ronalddoctor8622hmmmmm. If only someone came out of retirement 😂
One of the smoothest techniques ever. Frank is a true beast! 🙏🙏🙏
Scary amazing chops
Frank is insanely talented. Here in Australia he's absolute royalty
No he's not
who else heard the gamecube loading music for a second there
Good ear I knew it sounded familiar
Had to make sure I wasn't the only one lol
Oh yeah, I hear it now👂Had to listen until I heard it too 😅
Never heard it and may never hear it...
I've sure eaten a lot of cubes drizzled in Lucy for musical inspiration and to increase the senses at gigs. Maybe one was the game cube you speak of? A cube is a cube as psilocybe mycophiles say...
Yup, stacked 4ths.
GAMBALE FTW! Been a fan for many years. Best guitarist your neighbor's never heard.
I’ve been a fan since Frank had hair!
😂me too
😂😂😂
Franks phrasing is next level.
Those sweeps are insane.
He’s on a different planet!
Absolutely love this guy!
Legendary quote. The only one who can say it like that and not sound pretentious (because it’s factually true!)
I just got back from burning my guitar
Welcome back, the rest of us are just drinking coffee, oh there are donuts over there if you like. We were just talking about if we should all get together like this on Fridays now we don't have anything else to do.
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@@scottdaugherty8065😂
@@jakespencer431 😃Hey welcome Jake, good to see ya. 😂👍
Man fuck that guitar, where's the beer?
Franks still got it! Wow!
His right hand technique is so insanely ergonomic. Inspiring.
I don't think there is any greater achievment for a guitarist than being the chosen guitarist of Return to Forever.
Totally Agree!!!
raise your hand if you had one of Franks Videos in the 80's when he had a full head of hair and was then as he is now a true legend....
He couldn’t be more honest it’s awesome ❤
First song I ever heard by Frank was Robo Roo, and I never looked back. Dude's a living legend.
That descending sweep lick is a monster. I've seen frank play it longer and cleaner, but I don't know what video it is, or song. I've been through frank gambale's tutorials.
Also guys who cover frank gambale licks. NOBODY, Nobody plays this lick from frank gambale.
It takes a special kind of guitarist to master using the whole tone scale like Frank.
I have a picture with him during a clinic in Napoli 🇮🇹 😊. An amazing guitar player
Frank is the great architec of arpegios of all the time.
I hope Frank keeps a fire extinguisher handy! Frequent, fast friction on frets facilitates fire!
🔥 💦 🧯
😊👌 Fabulous.
I'm going through Frank's exercise book on fretboard mastery .. it is not only technical, but extremely musical.
🐐
Guthry and Frank are living legends but when it comes to sweeping Frank is the man acording to Guthry himself.
But the new kid on the block is
Matteo Moncuso.
He is deffinetly a better acustic player than Frank and Guthry but his skills on electric is right up there with Frank and Guthry.
Check out his track Drop D
A guitar wizard who makes playing RIDICULOUS LINES look waaaaay easier than they really are!!!! MY GOODNESS!!!!!!!🤯
If the warm-up is anything to go by, the solo itself should be spectacular.
Brian from Avenged sevenfold always credited Frank as a huge influence. Im really surprised more big name guys dont mention him as long as hes been playing.
as long as they know sweep picking then they know Frank Gambale.
I remember Brian, I was friends with him and chatted occasionally on Google Plus . He said he really liked my '52 reissue Tele but was happy playing Schecter. It was a long time after that I discovered he was Synyster Gates from Avenged Sevenfold! Really nice guy and although I don't care for their music, I won't forget how he was always friendly to me .
Shout out to the no face shredders. Not everyone has to look like Hendrix peaking on acid when they play.
Frank was my teacher at GIT. It took me years to relize his sweep picking style comes from Wes Montgomery who did not "alternate pick" due to the fact he used his thumb. Wes could play as fast as he wanted too!! ❤
He makes it look easy. 😮
That doesn't look easy
His sweeps are unrivaled, to me there is no one that makes the technique sound cooler. Frank is the fkin man
I saw the thumbnail thinking it would be a sarcastic title. WOW. I just found a new favorite rabbithole
Frank is one of the true greats!!
Track 1 from the album Truth in Shredding he goes head to head with Allan Holdsworth it's the fastest I have ever heard him play (not that it means anything, it's also musically brilliant)
That's like Moore vs. Rudess. 😂
Very tasty solo at that... the tune is by the Brecker Bros, it's called _Rocks_
Frank YOU ARE THE MAN! Thank you for the Music.
Had the pleasure of seeing and meeting Frank back in the height of Electric Band days, he did a clinic at the local Sam Ash and I was able to do a complete photo shoot, total gentleman
Frank gambale is a legend❤
Nick: Hey Good Morning!
Frank: ‘Starts shredding flight of the bumblebee’
1 of a kind for sure
One of my favorite musicians on the planet!!!
FG: hold my beer 🍺
Guitar: kill me now
Oh those heady days of 1990 with yngwie vai van satriani Paul Gilbert gambale holdsworth … we ambitious young axe murderers didn’t know where to turn.
That first descending chromatic scale he uses in his first ‘speed picking’’ book (1990) with cassette and it drove me bonkers for months! No one could copy it and live.
Gambale is an excellent Guitar player and teacher a lot of people have never heard of him
mestre dos mestres, sensacional Gambale
Oh boy back to practicing sweeping for me!!! Awesome, really
Johnn Fury tearing it up on the guitar
Amazing! Good to see I won’t be getting slower w old age
Comment section here is embarrassing for the most part, Frank is and always has been an amazing player, his solos are out of this world. This is just a demonstration to say he can not he will.
Exactly, Frank Gambale is the absolute master and the people that are considered the best guitarists in the world are scared by this guy’s playing
Clean sweep
But people need to judge his playing on only this video while not being able to bring any analytical ability to bear.
@@afalseerra9517I personally soil my pants at the sound od Guthrie's name and get panic attacks at Yngwie's...
Some pretty slick sweeps
Love Frank ...Hes up there with AL DIMEOLA. ALLAN HOLDSWORTH
Well said good sir, well said !!!
You can tell his fretting fingers are so strong and yet nimble enough to get all those fast notes .Also note how close he keeps his fretted fingers to the fretboard..His fingers never raise up high ...something a classical teacher taught me a long time ago and he noted that Brian May also used this technique.
Part of the trick is relaxing both hands as much as possible and focus less on the notes, sounds and more on syncing the two hands together WITH a metronome or beat. Trust your body and brain, relax your hands and few you way on your right hand or pick hand flowing wherever on the strings and left hand free to match.
OH YM GOD? I thought this was gunna be a joke at first but this guy really did just play as fast as he wanted
There's a percentage of people here who understand music JUST ENOUGH to have an opinion.
And there’s a smaller percentage who are walking along an adjacent path to the one he walked
I remember spending many Hours watching my Modes no more mysteries and speed picking REH videos.
His chordal chops when Chick plays a solo is staggering. Hairs stand up
It almost sounds like the flight of the bumblebee.
Lol. That's what thought, on the beginning of the riff.
He's god tier.
I like technical players,but a few of them really...i hate that the guitar community especially younger ones grow up with internet guitar and think its a competition
Really ? Arent the boomers the ones who always compare present guitarists with their guitar heroes. The hatred e.g. Tim Henson is receiving from boomers on the internet bc he has a different approach to playing and composing
@@yellfireThere is a big difference in opinion between people who play guitar and people who just listen to music because they like how it sounds. Most Tim Henson fans are musicians whereas tens of millions of casual listeners will prefer Roger Gilmour, Van Halen, or Slash because of the emotion in their playing rather than raw technical prowess
@yellfire I'm a Boomer, and I seem to recall checking him out and liking what I heard! There is some freaky good and eclectic music lurking about today, mostly under the radar.
(Update: I checked out Tim Henson just after posting this original comment. I've definitely checked him out before, and he's a BEAST! Very unique style, too. I don't understand why some of my fellow Boomers might rag on the guy, as he's an ace guitarist & real funky!)
@@yellfiredepends on the boomer. Some boomers who love raw, straightforward, and bluesy 60s/70s rock tend to slag off the 80s thing with all it's elements (flashy shred guitars, synthesizers, and radio-friendly song patterns they called "cheesy" or "sappy").
Facts it doesn’t matter how hard you shred it’s about the music and how interesting and good it sounds. It doesn’t matter how good your skills are, when I’ve heard 10 thousand of the same similar sounding arpeggio licks it gets pretty boring after a while lmao
So effortless, you can tell muscle memory is in to it
I love that it doesn't eve come across as bragging he is just saying he is not limited by his technique
No one can play as fast as one wants. If one can, then one should be wanting more.
Best sweep picker i know of!
I worked for Frank. Super cool guy…
Saw him with vital information in Milwaukee at the jazz estate. 2 feet from him. Insane.
I love frank Gambale…Chic corea stuff (electrick band)is paramount/ stuff with holdsworth (truth in shredding)/ solo: all great. I really love the chic corea tunes: he is amazing !!!😊
I love the feeling notes. Everything has a time and place.
Nice work 🔥🔥🔥
He was truly world class back in the 80's and scarily accurate at such speed. The phrased ending here topped it off nicely eh!
Was there one note off there? Or nah
Do they know who he is . GOAT...
i dont see david gilmour
@@spaghettisauce445 haha good one
That’s not Guthrie.
😉
Absolutely insane guitarist!
Frank is a true master of the instrument
That is an interesting unique shred. I haven’t heard lines quite like that before. Maybe kinda in jazz, would be the closest thing to this?
Fusion
yeah, yeah...but can you play [......] ? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Awesome Mr Gambale!, if anything, I reckon you are still becoming a greater player🔥
a little grimace was there at the end. great sense of humor. a slow, stinging blues song would go well now. thanx, Frank. thanx Rick. most people don't know who he is, but he can tear your face off if he wants. I'll just bet Alvin Lee listened to Frank. I can hear Alvin (minus singing along w/ the notes) because he was from my youth, and got to see him twice.
Of all of Frank's guitars, I love to sound of his Kiesel/Carvin guitar the most!!
I would never imagined Anthony Hopkins could play the guitar that fast.
His sweeping is top of the tops
An absolute masterpiece man. Nothing short of incredible. Some of your best work yet! If you ever did the movie accurate tentacles with the silver and little red circles in the middle you'd knock it right out of the park for sure. Best tentacle modification I have seen by far man. Great video!
Ur gonna make Yngwie mad when he sees this 🤣🤣
Just give him donuts he'll cheer up 😂
@@Yahwe666he doesn’t like fucking donuts
Yngwie is waaaaaaay cleaner, they are both 2 of my favorites though
Why?...Has Frank played with the Japanese Philharmonic Orchestra?
@@gabrielaaronWhy do people feel the need to compare anyway? I agree, they are BOTH awesome.
I know this vid is about his speed but i've always loved that bend lick, its in The Italian Job off the album Coming to your Senses
Grande, Roberto Carlos.
back when he was only in the local scene, he played with my uncle in a jam band in the south coast of australia. he was truly amazing then, and still is now
Ah heck, I can play like that in my sleep.
When I'm dreaming.
Was that a gliche Frank😂jokes love you bro
Those arpeggios were right out of Inside Out.
Legend...today's guitar influencers should see this. fast is fascinating but that fascination ain't music
Im glad i came across frank years ago
King of sweep picking
Amazing
Frank gambale speed picking. Its excellent guitarrist
Frank is Amazing!
💯
He has been definitely under rated in my opinion though a lot of guitar players know him.
GAMBALE, YOU ARE MY F'N ALL TIME HERO...BB KING said it best : A GUITAR PLAYER IS ONLY AS GOOD AS THE FACES HE MAKES!!!😅😅😅😢
Saw this guy live once, he ruled.