Fredrik Åkesson (Opeth) Masterclass - GuitarMessenger.com
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2013
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Check out the interview here: • Fredrik Åkesson (Opeth...
"here it is slow" (still goes extremely fast)
this degree of awesome cannot be slowed down
Haha, reminds me of some old Malmsteen instructional video where the shows his playing "slow".
Cire Solrac hahah
XDDD
This man needs waaaaaaaay more credit than he gets.
Like 10x more, he adds so much to Opeth once joined.
Amen
In a world filled with "shredders", Fredrik is more than just a well rehearsed technician, he is one of the few modern era guitarists with true style. So bloody fluid, but his phrasing and composition create solos that are musically important to the whole of the song. He's his own man, but if you crossed Yngwie with Allan Holdsworth and found a young apprentice to drink the potion, he might grow into a Wizard like Fredrik.
+captainflamson yeah man this guy is out of this world! agreed on that one
i would say that more than yngwei, i see a lot of john norum in his style... specially on the vibrato!
Add Jeff Beck, David Gilmore, and Joe Satriani tone and string bending magic.
dude
so aptly said! beautiful!
hes like a variation of michael romeo
"Last run is pretty tricky"
*Proceeds to play it perfectly at double the speed while he's laughing*
Thats it,I'm turning my guitar into a coffee table.
well, I don’t know about guitar but you SHOULD turn your amp into a coffee table, see the example below:
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😆😂
😂😂😂😂 I know the feeling
Put Frederick in a puffy shirt and dye his hair white and he’d look like a classical era composer. What a guitar wizard he is.
Got to hang out with the Opeth band after the show at an Irish bar across the street from the venue. This guy was cool as hell.
Shreddies with taste! So rare.
Welcome to Prog........ Pleb
"i am gonna play it slow now"
Plays 10x faster than what people can normally do 😁
The fluency Frederik has in his playing is beyond this world. Those legato parts are killer! Really one of world's most underestimated players imho.. His melodic style sometimes reminds me of Marty Friedman. Both are focused on melody instead of speed and both of them would be insulted when called "shredders" ;-)
Also really like his contribution to the new Ghost album. Those solos are kind of "simple" and "poppy" compared to Opeth's proggressive style which is really out there but they hit the nail on the head, awesome 👌
I absolutely LOVE his vibrato, so perfect.
Which is string-skipping, diminished, widdly-woo stuff...
Luca Grieman best shit ever
That is precisely what it is.
Watch me skip all the strings.... 💤
A true guitar master and yet so humble and low profile attitude. As Mikael said, he's one of the very best swedish guitarists these days.
i really like the fact that his prs se shows a lot of wear. shows that he actually plays it a lot
What i love about Fredrik and Mikael is that they have those 2k€+ PRS guitars and they still tend to use their SE models the most when it comes to playing live. But yea PRS SE guitars are the best guitars in their price range.
He actually plays that Heir Apparent solo NORMALLY??! No tapping? Un-fucking-believable! Kirk Hammett got nothing on this guy!
As much as I love the Heir Apparent solo, that Nepenthe solo is nuts. Heir Apparent has hard stretches (especially legato that fast) but the string skipping with Nepenthe is ridiculous.
Yup,the guy is a monster guitarist,check out the stuff he did with Talisman,before he joined Opeth,albums like ''Humanimal'',''Life'' or ''Genesis'',of the best melodic hard-rock stuff from the 90's.Specially that synchronised bass/guitar shredding with Marcel Jacob(R.I.P.) is amazing.He was only 19,when Marcel Jacob discovered him and hired him for Talisman.
Soft spoken with the roar of a lion. So good.
He plays some of the most intense licks on the guitar. I wish he was more famous for his playing. He is killer!
This is absolutley incredible. What a gift!
I like that Fredrik and Mikael have cheap signatures and actually play them live.
4:46 "Jajjemensan!"
He is damn good. He reminds me a lot of another great guitarist Michael Romeo of Symphony X. I'd love to see that duo. Opeth and Symphony X in one night.
Don Smith 2 of my all time favourite bands! Would be a dream!!
did i just see a BEND with his FUCKING PINKY????
Wessel van den Broek not really? ive seen alot of videos and i have rarely seen that before
Wessel van den Broek
omg u so cool but guthrie govan almost never bends with his pinky either
1:04 Yes! Muting is always the trickiest part when tapping.
Why does Fredrik look like Brendon Fraser with a wig?
Can’t be sure, but I think it’s because he has a similar looking face. But Fraser has short hair and Akesson has long hair. That’d be my guess.
Frederik could've easily passed an audition to play in Zappa's band a la Steve Vai and Mike Keneally. He can pretty much play anything and has his own incredibly unique style and tone too. Mikael struck gold with Frederik after Peter left....I hope he stays until the band finally calls it quits. Legend.
fucking beast of a player
I saw him live with Arch Enemy and then live with Opeth (twice). Love his blues-influenced style.
We need more of this guy
This is an awesome class, it is very inspiring! I'm trying to learn those riff, it's been long that something motivated me like this video did.
Just to be clear..He is doing bends with his pinky! haha I know I'm an amature, but damn this guy rocks!
Mmm, well... It's not like he's doing it all exclusively with his pinky. And I believe they're all just half bends?
@@Cr8Tron
Post-Haste answer!
Ive been playing for some time and still cant bend with my pinky because I have weak girl hands. I have no problem bending with my ring finger.
I sooooo love this guitar. I have one in my collection
Wow. I need to learn the Hungarian scale.
Fucking badass! Opeth, best metal band of modern times in my opinion
+Zadkiel Fontecha BEST BAND OF ALL TIME!
Zadkiel Fontecha Amen
More than being technical.. He fucking sounds cool, Awesome guy.
Best guitarist I have ever seen live!!
Frederik is one hell of an amazing Guitarist, and such a laid back dude.
He's my guitar hero.
"i'll play it a little slower" still plays it insanely fast
Oh, that sounds so generous of you.
This is beautiful!
Yeah must agree. I love his playing, and his sig guitar.
Great!! Really great playing and tone!!
Fredrik's,one of the best
I have his instructional videos and his solo Powers of Ten. The dude could melt faces, that's for sure.
I must thank you. After reading your reply, I gave Ghost Reveries a serious listen, and it has since become one of my favorite cd's period. It is a total masterpiece imo. Song structures, vocals, feel, good guitar playing, this has it all. After I checked it out, having no expectations, I love it. My wife does as well, so thanks. Do they or anybody else have a cd that is similar in arrangement?
Yeah Mikael has by far some of my favorite vocals. Give it time - I first heard Opeth five years ago and didn't become crazy about them until last year.
i slowed the video down to 0.5 on the "slow" part and it's still too fast .-.
Hes so fucking humble, having been in both Arch Enemy and Opeth. Amazing. Sad about Peter's departure from Opeth, but Fredrik is more than worthy of taking up his post. Plus his shredder repertoire doesn't hurt either
When Peter left I was at first one of those ZOMG NO ONE CAN REPLACE PETER PETER 4 EVER guys but Fredrik shut me up reaaaaal quick.
Amazing guitarist!
He's so good!
Great stuff as always Fredrik! Hope you use some of that new stuff on the new Opeth album.
he is combining alternate picking and legato perfectly.
Totally indeed, sir !!
Maj7 and 11th tapped arpeggios are sooooo beautiful :)
He's just so damn perfect
Good lord he's unreal! So fluid!
talented indeed!
Geeez, this guy's good. Tasty technique.
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I love how little distortion he's using. You can really "hear" his fingers.
he's sooooo amazin'
Nice playing I like that
Fredrik is awesome
Holy shit fredrik you are a beast! Absolutely amazing!
I've seen people play that solo in Heir Apparent w/ tapping. Good to know how he actually plays it.
What a gun of a player this is unreal!
Good stuff.
Wow. Surprisingly melodic.
Damn good player from a damn good band.
buenísimo !!
Thanks, I will.
his phrasings are diamonds.
Love that Hungarian stuff, don't hear that scale a lot
Even him playing the stuff slow is 100 times better than I'll ever be
So much control!
Master of our ages
Wonder who taught this guy?
Fredrik is a beast..
those inlays...
Just in case you didn't know, those are the inlays they use in most PRS guitars.
Maximilian Reilly-McDowell but..they're green!! anyways, it's nice to see the SE series getting some attention. pretty underrated guitars imo
All that time Frodo spent with the elves truly paid off.
awesome
That’s utterly psychotic ,& scary Both the Taping & solos ridiculous wow
Finally, we have found a thing fast enough which can escape from a black hole
A Fred's solo
I could listen to the heir apparent solo all day
A lotta people don't realize the trick behind arppegiated tapping is muting the strings perfectly... And it ain't easy.... You will always think you've nailed it... It takes a lot of time mate!
I just wanna hug him
When doing hammers I do keep my fingers curled and use only the finger tips to strike the string, however, for pull-offs I find it necessary to allow the tip joints to collapse as it seems to allow the fingers to be more relaxed, especially the ring and the pinky which share a tendon. Not sure if this is technically correct, but if I play pull-offs with perfectly curled fingers and keep the tip joints tensed so they don’t collapse, my hand feels stiff and I have difficulty playing legato passages, especially those which involve ring and pinky… any ideas?
he rocks
Absolute monster
I'm still waiting for the slow part fredrik.
Heir Apperient's solo like egyptian sounds.
Thanks. I didn't mean to suggest that you need a virtuoso, but killer phrasing and a great vibrato mean alot to me. Any suggestions?
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need more similar stuff like nepenthe intro.. is this whole tone scale?
Genio
that fucking 9 and 11 pedal tone on the descent of the hungarian lick is sick, and I kinda hate that I didn't think of that first
Got it.
Magda Gessler gitary! Uwielbiam gościa!
fucking badass on guitar.. fredrik is too damn good
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