Wild Stringdom w/ Dream Theater's John Petrucci - The Power of Three
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
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This month, I'm going to demonstrate how one can utilize simple triadic shapes and patterns in order to imply more complex and varied chord qualities.
I find this to be a very cool and useful improvisational tool, because you can apply it to playing over either a chord progression that you want to outline melodically or over a static pedal tone or one-chord vamp over which you want to superimpose shifting harmonic colors.
Let's begin by outlining, and then combining, simple major and minor triads. FIGURES 1 and 2 illustrate the notes of a G major triad-G B D-played in seventh position.
Talented, humble, and super calm? Wish I could take lessons from this guy.
Awesome lesson. He started with simple stuff and took it slowly to another level. Excellent!
"Already, I can hear a G major over that..." This demi-gods mastery of the instrument, intimate understanding of theory (pulling the relative major out of his ass), astounding ear, and just raw talent blow me away every time.
Or maybe he just plays a lot in g major? It's only 1 note difference from c major and its relative minor
+Happy Jordan And only one note difference from d major. Look to the seventh, as I always say...it never lies
okay?
@@thedesolatescene3240 you’re so pissed
Sure sounds like he knows his theory. Too bad I don't. It would of made this lesson better for me.
That is the thing about him and guys like Vai, most modern rock and metal is actually boring to them and playing it just is not interesting to them. Dream Theater has some of the most complex songs and can be difficult for your average music fan to get into and never really got any radio play. Most of the time by the time you think about taking lessons you have already past the point where you need em anyways and you have already picked up lots of bad habits that a classically trained guitar instructor will get onto you about. I pretty much picked up everything by ear playing along with whatever i was into at the time. Lots of Metallica, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, all that kind of good old shit gets you amped up and scares the parents and little kids.
Jaymzofsteel I don't think they believe that metal is boring to them. It's all in how you present it. If you are having fun with it then who cares what you play. If John hates metal so much then why does most of his songs revolve around the metal genre? Metal doesn't get boring. :P
this is just scratching the surface. theory can be as deep as you are willing to go . but understanding these basics is more than a lot of players dive into. its actually fun and not like work .personally i enjoy it and it makes writing easier also trains your ear really well.
John Petrucci is a master, no words.
HAHAHAHA 5:08 "As the messiah by the way..."
the stuff he improvises without even trying is just incredible, and teaching really great stuff at the same time. god i love petrucci so much. second i see his face and a guitar near him i get inspired and i jump to my guitar.
There's that world-class Berklee School of Music knowledge coming out. He's a fantastic teacher himself
Mostly self-taught. He was only at Berklee for a year before the DT guys dropped out :P
Alex Maiers Check that Alex, John graduated Berklee. It was Vai who never finished the formal education.
When did he graduate, exactly? In the official Dream Theater biography & in every interview they did prior to "Score" coming out, MP JP & JM all say they went for a year & dropped out. Just like Vai, John Mayer, etc.
Jim L. Berklee Student here
John Mike and John all attended Berklee together for ~3 semesters before dropping out.
Vai about 2 semesters.
Mayer 1, supposedly.
Essentially everyone who goes here is self-taught. Berklee is meant to refine you as a musician and give you networking opportunities - not teach you how to play. You can learn all the theory in the world, but nothing replaces practice and experience.
It'd be interesting to find out if Petrucci knows the book "A Modern Method for Guitar by William G Levitt"? You'd think he would've heard of it, surely? I'm thinking because he's so knowledgable about music theory, would that book be something that he would've gone through and read himself during his beginner days???
5 people didn't understand a word
this made me feel like when you go into guitar center and grab a guitar and plug in and start playing and then the store worker comes over and grabs it and plays something totally better sounding than what you were playing.
there is a solution to that,don't give up the guitar to anybody! haha.
A common bad idea...if you want the commission, don't intimidate the customer...till after he's committed, then smoke em...
JOHN PETRUCCI hanya cara kamu yg bisa ku pagani di dlm belajar main gitar
...And there it is. Famous last words. LOL
Aku penggemar beat Dream Theater
This is a great lesson that also has a lot of applications for other styles. I wish he had done two major triads a whole step apart implying Lydian or maj7#11.
sounds (looks) as if you can do that all by yourself. I was a tad bit lost, I must admit, but these are helpful.
Who know name of this song from the beginning?
the enemy inside - dream theater
He was only half transformed here
0:07 to 0:14 looks like the Game of Thrones throne in Kings landing but instead of swords its guitars.
Trey Huckabee You might even think that´s intentional...
Cool lesson!
If god invented the guitar than he’s really proud of you Johnny boy
my teacher introduced this concept to me 30 years ago when i was in high school and it works great . i still use it to this day and it is just as cool as ever john is an excellent teacher. i was lucky to have a great teacher as well. but when we did this lesson it really was what made me understnd the major and minor arppegios so well. good lesson👍
So lets just add 1 more thing here and.. further complicate matters.. ehe.. 7:34
I remember that little etude he plays in the beginning from his Rock Discipline videos
Awesome teacher and thanks for sharing your tips 👍
He totally uses this in On the Backs of Angels by the way, rudess does that is.
Really not of fan of John Petrucci or his playing but this is a good lesson to get people into bigger chords and was done very nicely. Really enjoyed it John *thumbs up
that guitar is soooooooooo 2014
goodness, you see that pick trick he does at 8:34?...
Why don't you play that new stealth long horn thing
That picture in the intro 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Whats the song in the intro?
Dream Theater-The Enemy Inside
Man that tone is beautiful
That „Don‘t play that note“ ...
Great lesson!
Awesome.
I never really understood how you could just play scales and add other scales with them. Like why does the B Minor sound good with G major? Would D Major sound equally as nice? I don't know, it all confuses me. Lesson didn't help with understanding it further unfortunately. Guess I need a textbook.
Nah he's staying in the one scale but combining 2 simple chords together to suggest cooler more interesting chords. If you're jamming on something and have to pull out a cool solo on the fly, it's way easier to remember and combine two basic 3-note chords than remember all the notes in some ridiculous 6-note monster chord. This is one of those secret easy methods for sounding like a master musician before you really are (do they exist anyway?).
it's because they're part of the harmonized major scale. The key of Gmaj contains the notes - G,A,B,C,D,E,F# - so the chord progression would be Gmaj, Am, Bm, Cmaj, Dmaj, Em,F#dim (try it out..play them and you'll see that they all sound "correct")
Who needs to understand it? The best way to play is to use your ear and experiment. It's nice to know the theory bu in the end its more fun to just PLAY.
we need both. Without theory we'll be floundering all over the fretboard. Theory takes the guessing out of the game and frees our minds to be more creative, without wasting energy on whether we hit the right notes or wrong notes, or which chords to play for a particular set of scales etc.
@@daosnet I find it limits my creativity when I'm focused on the "right" way to approach it. But it can be treally helpful if I get lost or stuck. Go to the game plan and at least escape with some dignity. And for transcribing of course...
I am learning more shit but there is one problem. My tone sucks compared to his...
Ah well you need a Triaxis and Mesa 2:90 power amp with TC Gmaj like me...It sounds very incredible especially on the MK IIC+ channel. What are you using?
I dont have the money for all that. I just use either my 6505 with eminence swamp thang speakers with a little reverb and delay and my rp360xp which is how I record directly to the computer. I will have to save for that great setup. congrats! Is now on my wishlist. Thank you!
Honestly it's worth saving for if you have the passion for the guitar...also there is now a plug in by Mercuriall called the Reaxis which is like $70 and it sounds identical to my rig. They have nailed it superbly and there is a suite of very cool FX in the plug in too. For little cash you could have a lot of fun and get to know what the Triaxis can do.
Here's the link I found with Ola Englund explaining it. Hope this helps you decide what you want in the future. You really need the Boogie power amp to partner the Triaxis but look out on Ebay for the 295 older power amps as they are dropping in price and they are considered in the top 5 most stunning power amps ever made. They make even digital stuff sound awesome.
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@@MICKEYISLOWD As a user of Mercuriall Reaxis, I concur. It sounds really good, once you dial it in. Like all Mesas, it sounded shit without tweaking properly
this bored me silly
Tabs???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
at the risk of sounding like a jerk, tabs aren't going to get you anything here. you'll learn some licks but that's not what this is about. This is a lesson about teaching you to use arpeggios more creatively. There are tons of places out there that have arpeggio charts for you to look up, what you should be doing is learning those shapes and notes and applying them over different triads to create a more complex harmony :)
Perry Davis Yeah, good point. what was i thinking ;-p
Skylar Fisher
LOL!!!
Tabs? you have a professional teaching and showing you how to do it. Why the hell would you need tabs? LOL
Dude try at guitarworld.com