With the Pike series you can easily get lost in the Buckethead rabbit hole. So much great guitar to be found. Terrifying shred to the most relaxing ambient sounds ever recorded. Considering his output he may be the greatest guitar god of all time.
Bucket head is just a genius. An absolute virtuoso and an overall great musician. For anyone interested there is one video of a teenage bucket head jamming at a bar without the bucket. That's the only confirmed video of him. The guy in the photos is a French guitarist.
Colma is one of my favourite guitar albums. I learned that whole album and Electric Tears as a teenager and still go back to those tunes. Love the opening arpeggios in The Way To Heaven.
His 27inch baritone scale would help the tuning stability. One thing I think Buckethead should get way more props for is his small venue concerts they charge around 25-30 dollars a ticket.
I saw BH at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas 2019. He started his show an hour late. Other than that the show was really good. He played a solo show using backing tracks from his laptop. I don't know his music well, but as a guitar player I knew that I had to see him live. I'm glad I did.
Before this video even starts, I already know I will be wanting a part 3 and that there will likely end up being parts 3 and 4. Dave, you're an absolute gem. Thank you. ^-^
I love your Buckethead videos! I've seen Buckethead 4 times and the first time I was literally blown away and depressed at the same time. I thought about giving up guitar, realizing that I could never come close to that level in a lifetime, no matter what I did. That passed, (except for the blown away part), thankfully. Not only does Buckethead come up with unusual, non-cliched, sometimes simple and sometimes almost impossible to play riffs and motives, literally on a daily basis, he makes everything look effortless, like he's just having fun (which I am sure he is). His style varies so much from album to album that there has to be somethig for everyone somewhere in his collection. He's truly a once-in-a-generation talent.
How in the world have I missed part one of this! I love Buckethead! Ever since seeing him at the MTV and rio gig with GnR and started buying albums like Colma and Electric Tears. Thanks for this and also 👌🏻 for the as always awesome playing!
I’ve been playing guitar for 30 years and fell in love with BUcKeThEaD guitar playing. Very creative and inspiring something different than my other favorite hero’s like Van Halen and Randy Rhoads.
Always liked your lessons, they’re always kind of...into it. But this one blew me away. I always played by ear and never was close to pin this tunes down. Great job.
Forgive me here, as I don't mean to be "that guy," but every picture in that collage starting at 2:16 is not Buckethead. His name is Stephane Alaux, a guitarist from France.
Buckethead was probably my first big influence on the guitar. His albums Electric Tears and Colma got me through some rough times. Population override aswell and Cuckoo clocks of hell is amazing.
Hey David... thank you so much for the second episode of 'Buckethead' late night lessons... I really appreciate your work!! Thank you so much!! Greetings from Berlin, Germany
My take: Buckethead knows and sees the whole natural minor scale on the neck as he looks at it, and, lets it lead him as he is feeling at the moment...it appears that he clearly does not develp a chord chart prior in most cases, but, he just goes with it, and, it develops naturally; it is a gift; even some of the best composers cannot really do that, as they usually make up a chord-chart -skeleton prior to song creation...I think that Jimmy Page was also such a player...and, DeMArtini(sp?) from Ratt...believe it or not...
I really enjoy these videos on Buckethead. He is my favorite guitar player. I really love to see a series of videos on him if you have the desire to make the videos!
David- The unmasked photos at the beginning are not Brian Carroll. They are of French guitarist Fanalo Alaux, been circulating for yrs & are totally inaccurate. Fanalo himself said he was fed up with ppl thinking he was BH. Also, BH has never had any affiliation with Satriani. Not sure if you’re able to edit those parts so as not to perpetuate mis-information for current/potential fans & the man himself. Otherwise, this was a great lesson & nice selection of his more mellow haunting tunes. I really enjoyed your lesson on his multi-finger tapping & octave displacement techniques. If you ever do another BH lesson, it’d be neat to see a breakdown of his unique style of hybrid picking. He implements it very often, uses interesting shapes, & can be very tricky (prob based on the way he chicken picks when he plays banjo). But it lends a very cool distinctly percussive sound. Songs like ‘Sled Ride’, ‘C’, Chess Roof’, ‘Twister’, ‘The Siphoning Sequence’, ‘Groves’ as well as the opening lick to 'Welcome to Bucketheadland' are just some examples that showcase this very cool style. Thank you sir.
I’ve still got the transmutations album on cassette I think the main reason I got it was because it was on the axiom record label and I was really into that label at the time. Another band called Material came out on this label. They’re also similar to this dub psychedelic world metal of Praxis. I think Axiom label was started by Bill Laswell who also did lots of ambient Asian influenced reggae/dub. Wow I didn’t even know I remembered all that information
Brian was in my very small circle of friends when I was growing up in Southern Cal. I got to know him a bit in the late 80s, shortly after he started the Deli Creeps with Barnum. Those guys were a blast to hang out with. Barnum is just as funny off stage as he was on. I even got to open for a deli creeps show once. Brian is a very sweet shy guy. He doesn't know how to take a compliment, just smiles shyly and will say thank you. I knew he was gonna be big way back then. Never seen a more dedicated guitarist in my life. He was and still is unbelievable. It's like he knows every single note on the guitar. Why I ended up gravitating towards playing alternative and just writing songs. I knew that I would never catch up to shreds like him. It was like growing up with my own personal Eddie Van Halen and then some! Basically leaving him in the dust. Lol. I'm probably one of a very few peeps that actually knows what the man really looks like. Or used to anyways. Haven't seen him in years. I got to catch him once about 10 years ago at a local gig at the beach and Chris (one of our friends) he is the one who taped all those early deli creeps and bucket head shows that are out now on DVD, was running the merch table, and he's like hey man, wouldn't let me buy a thing, in fact gave me 2 free CDs. When I heard he joined G N' R I was floored, but not surprised. Long live the Bucket!
That's actually not him with Satriani. I know it looks like him. Satriani said they never met. Sorry buddy, my OCD compelled me to comment. Great video by the way.
Dude , thank you so much for this . I’ve been into Buckethead for quite some Time now. this opens up a new chapter for me. I also saw him twice , in Buffalo, I was given his pick after I pressed his killswitch and a darth Vader mask. Cheers.
Dave, you should use a Digitech Drop pedal so you don’t have to restring and retune your guitars. It really works, and you don’t get flabby slop from the strings.
I was lucky enough to have been exposed to the guy with a bucket on his head. He was playing with the Deli Creeps at The Berkeley Square in...ummmm....I know this. The club was not huge and only half capacity. So I helped myself to the front of a stage that looks there might have been an axe-adent at the deli. He played a Talon guitar into a very noisy Rockman 2x12 amp and a midi footswitch. Didn't matter. Bucky used and abused our senses by doing a blind fall backwards hitting the switch and went right into the next song where he performed the Moon Walk perfectly! I was mesmerized. One of the real highlights was getting wrapped together with any and all who braved the front. Cellophane can be useful to meet new people....or food for Buckethead...I did audition after the Deli Creeps broke up but the bassist was lost...
With the Pike series you can easily get lost in the Buckethead rabbit hole. So much great guitar to be found. Terrifying shred to the most relaxing ambient sounds ever recorded. Considering his output he may be the greatest guitar god of all time.
Bucket head is just a genius. An absolute virtuoso and an overall great musician. For anyone interested there is one video of a teenage bucket head jamming at a bar without the bucket. That's the only confirmed video of him. The guy in the photos is a French guitarist.
Colma is one of my favourite guitar albums. I learned that whole album and Electric Tears as a teenager and still go back to those tunes. Love the opening arpeggios in The Way To Heaven.
I love his creative chords and his playing is so accurate. great guitarist.
His 27inch baritone scale would help the tuning stability. One thing I think Buckethead should get way more props for is his small venue concerts they charge around 25-30 dollars a ticket.
Great lesson! Perfect time of year for part 2 of the Chords of Buckethead
I saw BH at The Joint in the Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas 2019. He started his show an hour late. Other than that the show was really good. He played a solo show using backing tracks from his laptop. I don't know his music well, but as a guitar player I knew that I had to see him live. I'm glad I did.
I wish I could see him live as well.
Ooooo. Something to inspire me again 😊
Before this video even starts, I already know I will be wanting a part 3 and that there will likely end up being parts 3 and 4.
Dave, you're an absolute gem. Thank you. ^-^
Looking forward to a Part 3! He is so prolific, there are hours and hours of his material (he's coming out almost daily with new music)!
Buckethead , the very best ! Late Night Lessons , the very best ! \m/ \m/
I love your Buckethead videos! I've seen Buckethead 4 times and the first time I was literally blown away and depressed at the same time. I thought about giving up guitar, realizing that I could never come close to that level in a lifetime, no matter what I did. That passed, (except for the blown away part), thankfully. Not only does Buckethead come up with unusual, non-cliched, sometimes simple and sometimes almost impossible to play riffs and motives, literally on a daily basis, he makes everything look effortless, like he's just having fun (which I am sure he is). His style varies so much from album to album that there has to be somethig for everyone somewhere in his collection. He's truly a once-in-a-generation talent.
Thank you, thank you, thank you for accurate Broken Mirror chords.
This was one of your best episodes in my opinion brother. Buckethead is the man whenever it comes to slow melodic riffs.
That opening riff was beautiful and scary at the same time
How in the world have I missed part one of this! I love Buckethead! Ever since seeing him at the MTV and rio gig with GnR and started buying albums like Colma and Electric Tears. Thanks for this and also 👌🏻 for the as always awesome playing!
I’ve been playing guitar for 30 years and fell in love with BUcKeThEaD guitar playing. Very creative and inspiring something different than my other favorite hero’s like Van Halen and Randy Rhoads.
Thanks for the lesson. I knew Buckethead was prolific, but pretty much only exposed to the GnR stuff. Time to do some exploring.
Always liked your lessons, they’re always kind of...into it. But this one blew me away. I always played by ear and never was close to pin this tunes down. Great job.
LNL! Thank you so much for this, this was so amazing. Great work! Thank you for sharing!
Love your buckethead videos a lot much help and great hanging out!
Forgive me here, as I don't mean to be "that guy," but every picture in that collage starting at 2:16 is not Buckethead. His name is Stephane Alaux, a guitarist from France.
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Well done! 👏🏻
Buckethead was probably my first big influence on the guitar. His albums Electric Tears and Colma got me through some rough times. Population override aswell and Cuckoo clocks of hell is amazing.
Hey David... thank you so much for the second episode of 'Buckethead' late night lessons... I really appreciate your work!!
Thank you so much!!
Greetings from Berlin, Germany
As usual, you’ve picked an interesting guitar player and done a great job showing how they do a little of what they do. These never get old.
My take: Buckethead knows and sees the whole natural minor scale on the neck as he looks at it, and, lets it lead him as he is feeling at the moment...it appears that he clearly does not develp a chord chart prior in most cases, but, he just goes with it, and, it develops naturally; it is a gift; even some of the best composers cannot really do that, as they usually make up a chord-chart -skeleton prior to song creation...I think that Jimmy Page was also such a player...and, DeMArtini(sp?) from Ratt...believe it or not...
Buckethead is a master at making melancholic sounds
I know nothing about Buckethead .. just here to hear you play!
this Chicago guy approves! fantastic lesson...
Thank you very much for this outstanding video
I really enjoy these videos on Buckethead. He is my favorite guitar player. I really love to see a series of videos on him if you have the desire to make the videos!
That was A real diamond in the rough!
I tried to learn it last night
Bad Ass.....I prefer the Lava Lamp on please.
You do very well!
I don't think My L.P. would survive that tuning. Shape Shifting, liking chapter 5 alot.
David- The unmasked photos at the beginning are not Brian Carroll. They are of French guitarist Fanalo Alaux, been circulating for yrs & are totally inaccurate. Fanalo himself said he was fed up with ppl thinking he was BH. Also, BH has never had any affiliation with Satriani. Not sure if you’re able to edit those parts so as not to perpetuate mis-information for current/potential fans & the man himself. Otherwise, this was a great lesson & nice selection of his more mellow haunting tunes. I really enjoyed your lesson on his multi-finger tapping & octave displacement techniques. If you ever do another BH lesson, it’d be neat to see a breakdown of his unique style of hybrid picking. He implements it very often, uses interesting shapes, & can be very tricky (prob based on the way he chicken picks when he plays banjo). But it lends a very cool distinctly percussive sound. Songs like ‘Sled Ride’, ‘C’, Chess Roof’, ‘Twister’, ‘The Siphoning Sequence’, ‘Groves’ as well as the opening lick to 'Welcome to Bucketheadland' are just some examples that showcase this very cool style. Thank you sir.
Yes i know this French guitarist.Born in Cali, I live in France now too since 1990.
I paused the video at 1:21 and went and bought the Praxis album.
I’ve still got the transmutations album on cassette
I think the main reason I got it was because it was on the axiom record label and I was really into that label at the time. Another band called Material came out on this label. They’re also similar to this dub psychedelic world metal of Praxis. I think Axiom label was started by Bill Laswell who also did lots of ambient Asian influenced reggae/dub. Wow I didn’t even know I remembered all that information
Brian was in my very small circle of friends when I was growing up in Southern Cal. I got to know him a bit in the late 80s, shortly after he started the Deli Creeps with Barnum. Those guys were a blast to hang out with. Barnum is just as funny off stage as he was on. I even got to open for a deli creeps show once. Brian is a very sweet shy guy. He doesn't know how to take a compliment, just smiles shyly and will say thank you. I knew he was gonna be big way back then. Never seen a more dedicated guitarist in my life. He was and still is unbelievable. It's like he knows every single note on the guitar. Why I ended up gravitating towards playing alternative and just writing songs. I knew that I would never catch up to shreds like him. It was like growing up with my own personal Eddie Van Halen and then some! Basically leaving him in the dust. Lol. I'm probably one of a very few peeps that actually knows what the man really looks like. Or used to anyways. Haven't seen him in years. I got to catch him once about 10 years ago at a local gig at the beach and Chris (one of our friends) he is the one who taped all those early deli creeps and bucket head shows that are out now on DVD, was running the merch table, and he's like hey man, wouldn't let me buy a thing, in fact gave me 2 free CDs. When I heard he joined G N' R I was floored, but not surprised. Long live the Bucket!
Muy buen trabajo!!! Y la parte 1???
I really like this channel. Colleage to colleage.
Yeah, Buckethead. What's next Phordclay with Death Cube K?
That's actually not him with Satriani. I know it looks like him. Satriani said they never met. Sorry buddy, my OCD compelled me to comment. Great video by the way.
You're right. It's a French guitar player
Dude , thank you so much for this .
I’ve been into Buckethead for quite some
Time now. this opens up a new chapter for me.
I also saw him twice , in Buffalo, I was given his pick after I pressed his killswitch and a darth Vader mask.
Cheers.
That first chord on machete kinda reminds me of the opening of teflecter
Cool Channel man
Hi David another great lesson ! was wondering if you could let us know the time signature in some of the songs..
Please do interworld! This is great
I like players like Buckethead, Ron Thal,and John 5
In the photo at 2:18 all those pics with other guitarists is french player Fanalo, only the 2 are him, cool vid
Queensryche uses so unusual chords somewhat like these buckethead chords. Make a Queensrych Chords Lesson
Check chordplay playlist, you will find queensryche episode.
Dave, you should use a Digitech Drop pedal so you don’t have to restring and retune your guitars. It really works, and you don’t get flabby slop from the strings.
I was lucky enough to have been exposed to the guy with a bucket on his head. He was playing with the Deli Creeps at The Berkeley Square in...ummmm....I know this. The club was not huge and only half capacity. So I helped myself to the front of a stage that looks there might have been an axe-adent at the deli. He played a Talon guitar into a very noisy Rockman 2x12 amp and a midi footswitch. Didn't matter. Bucky used and abused our senses by doing a blind fall backwards hitting the switch and went right into the next song where he performed the Moon Walk perfectly! I was mesmerized. One of the real highlights was getting wrapped together with any and all who braved the front. Cellophane can be useful to meet new people....or food for Buckethead...I did audition after the Deli Creeps broke up but the bassist was lost...
Thats great! But may I ask you to do some hard songs of buckethead chords?
He sure is different. What do you think of John 5?
Any help with getting the rhythmic tone from the electric tears album? 🧟♀️😱
I cant remember the name of the song but he had one with a chord which used 3 tritones
Where is the first part? Is it also buckethead chords?
How did you work out the tunings?
One of the clues is that Buckethead's Les Paul is either Baritone scale or something really close to it.
Bucketheads signature Les Paul is 27in scale believe it or not.
That's not Buckethead without mask, that's Stephane Alaux. There is NO picture of Buckethead without mask.