39 year old prog/fusion player here and I’ve been playing sense i was fifteen. I started figuring out tool by ear within the first couple months and I can’t read a note. Which is why I watch these videos because I never conventionally learned theory and want to know how to explain it to somebody who has (I also watch a ton of Rick Beato now). I didn’t know that I learned theory and time signatures from tool when I was a kid but It did and it makes me extremely happy that there are people teaching this to people of all ages on you tube. Learning Tool teaches you how to play damn near everything and if this is your starting place I assure you it’s a good one.
Gregory, your teaching over the years has continued to improve leading to greater detail and tips to be easily utilized. You are appreciated by the community and thank you.
Just found you and you are now my favourite guitar teacher on UA-cam. You're teaching style is great and what I find the best is that you use metal and rock for examples, and that's the kind of music I want to emulate as well.
Thanks for making this man. Its something I didn't think I would need but I do. Lately I've realized I've been focusing so much on my fretting hand that I completely failed to see if my picking hand is doing what its supposed to do. When I really slowed down and tried to understand why my playing sounds off, most of it is just coming from my picking hand and the timing too. This would be a VERY nice exercise to improve my strumming, timing and rhythm. Very much appreciated as always dude. Cheers!
yeah, dude! forget scales, better focus on rhythm it doesnt matter how much you know if you can't play in time scales will come and go, the only one that matters is minor pentatonic
have to admit i didn't like you at first on the pot video (i just cant listen to tool covers or teacher showing how to, feels like blasphemy) but man you opened up a portal for me, thank you so much for your work! when i bought my bass first thing i did was tune to drop d and play power chords of D and G all day rocking that low D for a "feels like we are in a church" vibe every one tried to put me down for it, so i went and studied jazz for 2 years (cant say it was a waste of time) one time at a jam dude gave me his pick and said "try this" and i went crazy with MY ORIGINAL guitar-like technique and one of the guitarist was so jealous he said "we dont need a 3rd guitarist, man" - made me relive that "you play guitar, not bass" trauma from the early days than i went home and listened to fear inoculum for the first time... tripped my brains out without any drugs and you appeared finally i embrace my guitary power chords style! i'll be going through all of your tutorials, you are a godsend dude! Please do a "how to play like justin chancellor" video, like your Adam Jones one. We need more bass players to embrace our shadow.
Just want to take a moment to thank you for vids like these. I subbed a long while back because I loved your breakdowns of Tool songs, which were really helpful for a new guitar player like myself. But as I've dug more through your videos, vids like these have really helped provide me some great insight into proper technique and so on. So thank you!
Came back here to say it was fantastic that I watched this right before trying to learn the bass/guitar riff from Beastie Boys' Sabotage. Absolutely necessary to keep the timing right.
can you make a video about what settings you use on example your amp, guitar, pedals etc.. that way people that learn the songs can be in the same tone as tool cause thats a big deal when playing tool is the tone!
as a 39 y/o (prog/tool/grunge) dude who only started out playing about a year ago ... This channel is such a gem!
Im with you bud. I am gonna be 40 in April and I come back to this page all the time. So much I have learned from this guy.
@@jeremiahemmerson4723 I'm 43. (Played guitar for 25 years, now.) Dude knows his demographic! Love these videos!
39 year old prog/fusion player here and I’ve been playing sense i was fifteen. I started figuring out tool by ear within the first couple months and I can’t read a note. Which is why I watch these videos because I never conventionally learned theory and want to know how to explain it to somebody who has (I also watch a ton of Rick Beato now). I didn’t know that I learned theory and time signatures from tool when I was a kid but It did and it makes me extremely happy that there are people teaching this to people of all ages on you tube. Learning Tool teaches you how to play damn near everything and if this is your starting place I assure you it’s a good one.
Gregory, your teaching over the years has continued to improve leading to greater detail and tips to be easily utilized. You are appreciated by the community and thank you.
You are the best Teacher on the internet to learn the Tool. Thank you man, regarts from Istanbul ..
Just found you and you are now my favourite guitar teacher on UA-cam. You're teaching style is great and what I find the best is that you use metal and rock for examples, and that's the kind of music I want to emulate as well.
Thanks for making this man. Its something I didn't think I would need but I do. Lately I've realized I've been focusing so much on my fretting hand that I completely failed to see if my picking hand is doing what its supposed to do. When I really slowed down and tried to understand why my playing sounds off, most of it is just coming from my picking hand and the timing too. This would be a VERY nice exercise to improve my strumming, timing and rhythm. Very much appreciated as always dude. Cheers!
yeah, dude!
forget scales, better focus on rhythm
it doesnt matter how much you know if you can't play in time
scales will come and go, the only one that matters is minor pentatonic
Awesome lesson. Can never go wrong with tool and rhythm lessons 🤘
have to admit i didn't like you at first on the pot video (i just cant listen to tool covers or teacher showing how to, feels like blasphemy)
but man you opened up a portal for me, thank you so much for your work!
when i bought my bass first thing i did was tune to drop d and play power chords of D and G all day
rocking that low D for a "feels like we are in a church" vibe
every one tried to put me down for it, so i went and studied jazz for 2 years (cant say it was a waste of time)
one time at a jam dude gave me his pick and said "try this" and i went crazy with MY ORIGINAL guitar-like technique and one of the guitarist was so jealous he said "we dont need a 3rd guitarist, man" - made me relive that "you play guitar, not bass" trauma from the early days
than i went home and listened to fear inoculum for the first time... tripped my brains out without any drugs and you appeared
finally i embrace my guitary power chords style!
i'll be going through all of your tutorials, you are a godsend dude!
Please do a "how to play like justin chancellor" video, like your Adam Jones one.
We need more bass players to embrace our shadow.
Just want to take a moment to thank you for vids like these. I subbed a long while back because I loved your breakdowns of Tool songs, which were really helpful for a new guitar player like myself. But as I've dug more through your videos, vids like these have really helped provide me some great insight into proper technique and so on. So thank you!
Extremely good lesson. Love this channel.
Much appreciated!
Came back here to say it was fantastic that I watched this right before trying to learn the bass/guitar riff from Beastie Boys' Sabotage. Absolutely necessary to keep the timing right.
Thanks for so much wisdom over the years! Love the tool specials 🤘🤓
I didn't realize how sloppy I was until I tried to play Tool seriously
MORE!!!! please
Thanks Greg
Keep the good work coming brother
Great lesson man!
Excellent. Thank you Greg!
Glad you liked it!
That part in Pneuma could be a song all on itself.
Great lesson! Just subscribed!
Welcome!
Thanks for making this and I am happy to see you monetize your page. It takes a lot of work and you should be compensated.
awesome lesson just subbed from it :)
love this bro!
Glad to hear it!
can you make a video about what settings you use on example your amp, guitar, pedals etc.. that way people that learn the songs can be in the same tone as tool cause thats a big deal when playing tool is the tone!
There is a “how to get Adam jones guitar tone” video on the channel, it goes through how to dial in pretty much any amp. It’s a great video
Could TrueFire be a good place to start learning Guitar? I'm a little bit hesitant being self taught.
UA-cam is honestly really good to start out woth
There's definitely something you can find that will add to your growth as a player. It's a great resource, I've worked through 3 courses in the past.
@@axeofcreation awesome thanks for the input Greg. Also is your Pateron beginner friendly as well?
What gauge pick do you use? Thankyou
Depends on what I'm playing. Either a thin .73mm or extra thick 2.0 or higher.
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interesting lesson, but the sound on your guitar, to my ears, very bland and uninspiring.
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