@Troy Grady Awesome content! Any plans to feature Kiko Loureiro? He has such an incredibly precise and relaxed picking technique, it would be great to see his playing through your lens
Hey Ron, if you really want it bad enough you will continue to play and practice and keep chipping away every day and eventually... you’ll get it. Buy the book, Speed Picking, and watch the DVD Monster licks and Speed Picking, and just keep practicing consistently. Hope this helps.
Troy, I honestly don't know what we, as a collective group of guitar players did to deserve you and your incredible knowledge of the instrument. I think I can safely speak for every guitarist that has seen your videos and had their playing revolutionized by your teaching and say THANK YOU so so much sir. You're a legend!!
Can confirm... there were moments in these transcriptions where I nearly quit music and took up a new career! 😂 But even though I thought I knew Frank’s playing well... I learned a lot from them still!
Thanks man! Always a pleasure. You'll note some conceptual changes we're rolling out here. What is the slant? What is the motion? We're trying to be clearer on the difference. Let us know whatcha think.
The most incredible thing about unravelling Frank's picking technique, is the fact that Frank devised this technique all by himself without the help of UA-cam tutorials...truly mind blowing when you think about that.
Frank is one of the rare "monster" players that is actually cognizant of the details of his technique. I have his "Speed Picking" book, and he is incredibly meticulous in the way he approaches his technique. It's fascinating to get a peek into the mind of a genius like that, and I truly think he is a genius with his approach to guitar.
It's great to see Troy and Frank working together. In large part, Troy is continuing the educational program that Frank started in 1988, with his game-changing video, Monster Licks and Speed Picking. Frank could have kept his technique to himself, but instead he shared it with the world. MANY THANKS to both Troy and Frank !
Great! I remember requesting this years ago... Gambale's technique is amazing, and goes so much further than the limited arpeggio playing that most guitarists do with sweep picking. With modern camera techniques we can finally see his technique in all its glory.
Thank goodness I discovered this channel just in time for this isolation event. I’ve been playing forever and have upped my game by many levels already. Thanks, Troy.
Man, this is the best channel for guitar technique ever, I have been sharing it with musician friends of mine. I've been stuck for months with my guitar speed technique, and some of your videos have been enlightening really. I was beginning to think my hand genes were not good or something, thank you very much.
Man, I've been working on Gambale's Chop Builder for the past few years, I am *SO* excited to see his right hand up close. I talked to him at a clinic he put on a few years back and asked him about his right hand, about how he orients it and how he connects his lines when they are those really long ones, and he told me that he "changed directions", and honestly, I had no idea what he meant- so to see this now is kind of blowing my mind.
I really appreciate how you break everything down and explain it in detail, Ive struggled for years on these techniques and with your guidance I may just get there, thank you Troy
Yes, Frank’s development of picking technique is amazing, but the more I hear Frank play, I realise the truly special aspect of him as a player is that he has a near-total harmonic command of the fretboard, and is an incredible improviser, one of the most fluent the guitar has ever seen.
Great to see another couple of videos Troy. Doubly appreciated given the current situation. I was never captured by shred but your right, Gambale is gifted with a talent for phrasing and melody.
Frank can overplay with the best of us, for sure. But even when he does, he's always got all these little interesting melody hooks in and around the blazing.
Been really looking forward to this analysis as Gambales playing style which is probably the most technical of all electric guitar playing. I remember watching his sweeping lessons from years past but a big part was missing...how to actually accomplish it! Which you have thankfully given us and gambale never did and so for everyone it was an almost an impossibility to achieve.
This was priceless. I have several of Frank's VHS videos. This is the icing on the cake! I'm super stoked watching Frank's picking technique. It might be cool to analyze an old timer like Ritchie Blackmore, or George Benson.
New here but not new to the quest-- Frank has a book where he shows designed picking sequences. What he is doing is not random alternating or sweeping; he is very specific about sequences depending on the number of notes per string. Not accident folks. 2nd, notice his pinky anchoring the hand. Big clue here. Amazing!
I agree, the muting technique of the hands when doing these types of runs is still sort of alien to me, especially when the left hand can sorta fall behind so easily if you aren’t as precise. I’ve heard about muting the lower strings that you aren’t playing with your right palm and muting the higher ones with you left index finger but an in depth look at muting, especially when doing speedy precise work like this, would be nice cuz everyone seems to have their own approach and no one really dives into muting as much as picking :-)
Right on time!! I have been getting deep into economy picking the past month, practicing exercises 3-4 hours a day. The hardest part is getting legato down using economy and not make your notes sound short in duration.
Imagine what the kids are going to play in the future now that they have such amazing tools like this instructional videos.... Troy you've just unleashed the shreders 2.0
Nice shoutout to Levi Clay! Between your Channel on Technique for the Guitar Troy, and Levi's on Transcribing I've learned more in a year than I have since I started playing Guitar over 30 years ago. Where the hell were you guys when I was growing up :)
I haven't had internet for almost a week! I have not been able to get the best out of these beautiful interviews ... I love being a beneficiary of the scholarship but it hurts me this week that I could not enjoy it
"Double escape" just means any picking motion that makes a semicircle. So stringhopping is double escape, it's just inefficient because the muscles used are the same on the upstroke and downstroke. The type of double escape used by bluegrass players and Steve Morse uses different muscles on the upstroke and downstroke, and feels easy and fast when done correctly. The appearance of the motion is also much flatter, as you can see in Steve's awesome technique ( instagram.com/p/CDhMoVOHtr3/ ).
Such great content/material on this channel so sure who I man crush on more Frank or Troy lol. Question Troy, for a player of 30 yrs like myself, I can learn anything by "hunt and peck" but know zero theory.and don't know my fretboard as well as I should. If u were me where would u start to get where Troy Grady is currently at? FML :(
I'm not the fretboard knowledge expert like Frank is. It's not obvious how to deal with the different interconnecting positions, and people who grew up in rock like me can be excused for not having figured it out. Short story, I think all great improvisers do some form of connecting chord shapes to phrase parts. Mapping the fretboard with all your chords first, then learning the phrases that live near those chords, is the quick and dirty explanation of how I think these players like Frank do it, even if they don't really explaing it as such.
Is that bounce picking like Eric Johnson? I want to know what shapes he uses. I’ve watched a lot of his videos and I can’t find it. I’m talking about the number of notes per string for each type of chord and their inversions. He uses short arpeggios and I want to know the shape limitations.
Eric's description of bounce wasn't quite on target - he doesn't "bounce" when he's playing fast, he actually does what Frank does, which is the diagonal picking motions we're showing here. Eric uses only USX. Frank uses USX and DSX, but mostly DSX. So they are upside down versions of each other, in a way! The next installment will explain why they use these motions. Re: shapes, the complete interview on our platform has quite detailed tablature for everything he played, clearly showing what shapes he prefers. The YT series will be more about the picking mechanics side of things.
At some point in time Troy will engineer the craft of economy picking to a degree, that we can regain energy through it and power our valve amps with it.
Interesting troy, are you redoing the terminology to be more accurate with DWPS and UWPS referring to orientation and downward or upward escape to the mechanic?
Exactly! As we’ll see in this series, the orientation and the motion are two separate things. The one does not control the other. We’ve been sloppy on this and we’re cleaning that up.
One thing that was missing from this is the left hand has to be synced perfectly with the right hand, which is no easy feat to pull off. It sounds horrific if either hand is out of sync with the other.
All playing needs good hand sync to sound good, doesn't matter what technique is involved. Anyone who thinks their alternate picking sounds good with iffy coordination is probably fooling themselves. But then again, I'm picky. Because the bar was just set too low for too many years. That doesn't fly any more.
Troy Grady I’ve seen good players that will do a mix of hammer-ons and pull-offs on anything more than 1 NPS along with economy and alternate picking. When doing 1 NPS sweeps, you have to have perfect synchronization between the two. Frank said that himself in his online school. This is still fantastic was content, nonetheless. And yes, I agree with you, the average player's technique and mechanics are so much better today than even 20 years ago because the bar has been set so high by people like Frank Gambale. What I was saying is that you cannot get away with hammer-ons and pull-offs with those 1 NPS sweeps, at all.
I think the most obvious part of his technic is the anchoring of his pinky on the guitar. It's perhaps the key to what he does, and is missed by the interpreter.
@@troygrady oo thank you man.Your videos improves my technic a lot what a pick perve you are lol.Love you man you always share good stuff with us interview with good musicians in different genres.Just love you man.
Gambale is an awesome players, but he is another player who seems to play extra notes just to add more speed that sent necessary, he is an awesome melodic player but there are alot of times I wish he would just let certain notes ring. Just my opinion, I just started learning to sweep, and in not an accomplished shredder, just my opinion. He is an awesome player regardless
Frank has one foot in rock and shred, and like the rest of us, can do his share of overplaying when necessary. :) But even Frank's overplaying has these little hooky melodies and rhythms tacked onto his phrases that makes it a cut above to me.
"It" being what, the interview? That's what interviews are for - you can watch it on our site if you'd like. This is an analytical lesson, so that "talking" you're referring to is the meat, not the interview. Two different things.
Stay safe out there people! Chapter 2 coming up soon. Until then, stay inside and play more guitar. (Not like we gotta twist your arms on that one!)
@Troy Grady Awesome content! Any plans to feature Kiko Loureiro? He has such an incredibly precise and relaxed picking technique, it would be great to see his playing through your lens
Love @ you and your family Troy
Troy Grady hello, the pack with the interview includes tabs?
Hey Ron, if you really want it bad enough you will continue to play and practice and keep chipping away every day and eventually... you’ll get it. Buy the book, Speed Picking, and watch the DVD Monster licks and Speed Picking, and just keep practicing consistently. Hope this helps.
Troy, I honestly don't know what we, as a collective group of guitar players did to deserve you and your incredible knowledge of the instrument. I think I can safely speak for every guitarist that has seen your videos and had their playing revolutionized by your teaching and say THANK YOU so so much sir. You're a legend!!
Can confirm... there were moments in these transcriptions where I nearly quit music and took up a new career! 😂
But even though I thought I knew Frank’s playing well... I learned a lot from them still!
More solid gold. Can’t wait to watch the rest of this series!
Thanks man! Always a pleasure. You'll note some conceptual changes we're rolling out here. What is the slant? What is the motion? We're trying to be clearer on the difference. Let us know whatcha think.
Nobel prize to Troy Grady please
The most incredible thing about unravelling Frank's picking technique, is the fact that Frank devised this technique all by himself without the help of UA-cam tutorials...truly mind blowing when you think about that.
Frank is one of the rare "monster" players that is actually cognizant of the details of his technique. I have his "Speed Picking" book, and he is incredibly meticulous in the way he approaches his technique. It's fascinating to get a peek into the mind of a genius like that, and I truly think he is a genius with his approach to guitar.
Yep. A true picking pioneer.
This is like the Cosmos for guitar players, Troy. Frank is one of my favorite jazz players, so clean, so powerful.
It's great to see Troy and Frank working together. In large part, Troy is continuing the educational program that Frank started in 1988, with his game-changing video, Monster Licks and Speed Picking. Frank could have kept his technique to himself, but instead he shared it with the world. MANY THANKS to both Troy and Frank !
Frank’s left hand is just as fascinating! The way he articulates note duration is astonishing!
Gambale is a giant, and those instructional videos from a time long gone are classics.
Sweet, sweet tone and so much feeling in his fingers nowadays.
Great! I remember requesting this years ago... Gambale's technique is amazing, and goes so much further than the limited arpeggio playing that most guitarists do with sweep picking. With modern camera techniques we can finally see his technique in all its glory.
Invaluable work and the fact I can view this for free is impressive and inspiring
Thank goodness I discovered this channel just in time for this isolation event. I’ve been playing forever and have upped my game by many levels already. Thanks, Troy.
He's also fantastic in Better Call Saul
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Spoilers dude!
@@MrMetalhorse oh shit, u r right
Breaking bad
😂😂😂 he’s a scary killer.
Man, this is the best channel for guitar technique ever, I have been sharing it with musician friends of mine. I've been stuck for months with my guitar speed technique, and some of your videos have been enlightening really. I was beginning to think my hand genes were not good or something, thank you very much.
Damn Frank is soooo smooth. It's like listening to melting butter.
Listen to muhammad from necroohagist - his sweeps are crazy
Man, I've been working on Gambale's Chop Builder for the past few years, I am *SO* excited to see his right hand up close.
I talked to him at a clinic he put on a few years back and asked him about his right hand, about how he orients it and how he connects his lines when they are those really long ones, and he told me that he "changed directions", and honestly, I had no idea what he meant- so to see this now is kind of blowing my mind.
@@interestingthings8598 it is his old guitar wprkout, look it up!
I really appreciate how you break everything down and explain it in detail, Ive struggled for years on these techniques and with your guidance I may just get there, thank you Troy
Troy, you sir, are a physicist! Well done!
Frank's sweeping is smoother than butter
Frank Gambale is so friggin cool! Thanks for doing these Troy!
So excited, your content is an incredible gift for all of us. Thank you so much Troy!
Absolutely excellent. Thanks so much for that!
great research and even better production, thanks Troy! 😎
Troy, thank you for your extremely informative series. Frank is such a cool player with amazing technique. You made my corona day.
Thanks for getting this to watch while in quarantine
Fantastic video as usual . Very inspiring !!!! Big thumb up !!!
These videos are gold, thank you very much for sharing 👏😊
Yes, Frank’s development of picking technique is amazing, but the more I hear Frank play, I realise the truly special aspect of him as a player is that he has a near-total harmonic command of the fretboard, and is an incredible improviser, one of the most fluent the guitar has ever seen.
Dude, I was just listening to some Gambale right now! He is quite a technical talent indeed!
Great stuff as always!!
Great to see another couple of videos Troy. Doubly appreciated given the current situation. I was never captured by shred but your right, Gambale is gifted with a talent for phrasing and melody.
Frank can overplay with the best of us, for sure. But even when he does, he's always got all these little interesting melody hooks in and around the blazing.
Excellent brother!!
Excellent!!
Thank you
Never seen such an analysis..
Superb
Verry well done. Thanks ! Frank is next to Holdsworth realy an absolute and true genius and inventor, far aboth all the others !
Been really looking forward to this analysis as Gambales playing style which is probably the most technical of all electric guitar playing. I remember watching his sweeping lessons from years past but a big part was missing...how to actually accomplish it! Which you have thankfully given us and gambale never did and so for everyone it was an almost an impossibility to achieve.
4 parts!!! Fantastic!!!
This was priceless. I have several of Frank's VHS videos. This is the icing on the cake!
I'm super stoked watching Frank's picking technique.
It might be cool to analyze an old timer like Ritchie Blackmore, or George Benson.
Troy's content is so awesome! And Frank is a beast. I remember going through the exercises on Chop Builder for hours when I was in high school.
This video is gold!
New here but not new to the quest-- Frank has a book where he shows designed picking sequences. What he is doing is not random alternating or sweeping; he is very specific about sequences depending on the number of notes per string. Not accident folks. 2nd, notice his pinky anchoring the hand. Big clue here. Amazing!
The fretting hand in my opinion, is the truly hard part of this type of stuff.
spot on!
I agree, the muting technique of the hands when doing these types of runs is still sort of alien to me, especially when the left hand can sorta fall behind so easily if you aren’t as precise. I’ve heard about muting the lower strings that you aren’t playing with your right palm and muting the higher ones with you left index finger but an in depth look at muting, especially when doing speedy precise work like this, would be nice cuz everyone seems to have their own approach and no one really dives into muting as much as picking :-)
Muting with the left hand while being accurate with note placement and rhythm is a BITCH.
Oh I can’t wait to use this on my acoustic guitar!!!
Mr. Gambale is a wizard. So much economy in that hand that gulfs the rest of the world's right now. Thanks Troy.
Right on time!! I have been getting deep into economy picking the past month, practicing exercises 3-4 hours a day.
The hardest part is getting legato down using economy and not make your notes sound short in duration.
seriously blew my mind, never understood how guitar works. surreal
Imagine what the kids are going to play in the future now that they have such amazing tools like this instructional videos....
Troy you've just unleashed the shreders 2.0
I still remember a 7th arpeggio sweepadilly from this guy. He is a master.
Awsome as ever
Nice shoutout to Levi Clay!
Between your Channel on Technique for the Guitar Troy, and Levi's on Transcribing I've learned more in a year than I have since I started playing Guitar over 30 years ago.
Where the hell were you guys when I was growing up :)
Also... growing up!
@@troygrady :)
YESSSSSS YESS MY CHIDLHOOD GUITAR HERO. Thank you Troy!
You know your sweep picking is amazing when people make a science discipline out of it.
Frank's playing is quite frightening. Amazingly precise, and even on clean tones, it's clear as water, and smooth as butter.
Really Cool Video.... looks like one of those Science Insight TV Programs.
After all Playing is about science....thought Gambale is Science Fiction!
Aussie legend. Gambale should be more well known for his phenomenal ear too.
Fantastic
Good stuff dude.🤘
I haven't had internet for almost a week! I have not been able to get the best out of these beautiful interviews ... I love being a beneficiary of the scholarship but it hurts me this week that I could not enjoy it
much love...stay safe too
Thanks so much
My Homeboy made Good Frank Gambale ... Some of the most influential fingers in guitar ...
A true Master
Levi kicks ass
Greg Howe does this pick sweeping too in his early recordings
What is the difference between a double-escape motion and string hopping (or the “bounce” according to Eric Johnson)?
"Double escape" just means any picking motion that makes a semicircle. So stringhopping is double escape, it's just inefficient because the muscles used are the same on the upstroke and downstroke. The type of double escape used by bluegrass players and Steve Morse uses different muscles on the upstroke and downstroke, and feels easy and fast when done correctly. The appearance of the motion is also much flatter, as you can see in Steve's awesome technique ( instagram.com/p/CDhMoVOHtr3/ ).
@@troygrady Ok, great explanation! Thank you!
Such great content/material on this channel so sure who I man crush on more Frank or Troy lol.
Question Troy, for a player of 30 yrs like myself, I can learn anything by "hunt and peck" but know zero theory.and don't know my fretboard as well as I should. If u were me where would u start to get where Troy Grady is currently at? FML :(
I'm not the fretboard knowledge expert like Frank is. It's not obvious how to deal with the different interconnecting positions, and people who grew up in rock like me can be excused for not having figured it out. Short story, I think all great improvisers do some form of connecting chord shapes to phrase parts. Mapping the fretboard with all your chords first, then learning the phrases that live near those chords, is the quick and dirty explanation of how I think these players like Frank do it, even if they don't really explaing it as such.
Troy Grady thanks Troy I appreciate the response. Keep up the great work!
I got more from Frank than all shredders, as a career gtr teacher thrash player
1:49
Marvel Cinematic Universe intro
AngHell32 whoa you’re right lol
Teach us how to finger the arpeggios and their patterns !!!
Is that bounce picking like Eric Johnson? I want to know what shapes he uses. I’ve watched a lot of his videos and I can’t find it. I’m talking about the number of notes per string for each type of chord and their inversions. He uses short arpeggios and I want to know the shape limitations.
Eric's description of bounce wasn't quite on target - he doesn't "bounce" when he's playing fast, he actually does what Frank does, which is the diagonal picking motions we're showing here. Eric uses only USX. Frank uses USX and DSX, but mostly DSX. So they are upside down versions of each other, in a way! The next installment will explain why they use these motions. Re: shapes, the complete interview on our platform has quite detailed tablature for everything he played, clearly showing what shapes he prefers. The YT series will be more about the picking mechanics side of things.
At some point in time Troy will engineer the craft of economy picking to a degree, that we can regain energy through it and power our valve amps with it.
It would be VERY interesting to know who actually influenced Gambale:)
@@min7sharp5 Wow how crazy is that?:)
StringGene not so crazy. Holdsworth was also influenced by Sax players. That’s how he developed those long legato lines.
@@justinmwhitaker Yup and Hendrix wanted an accordion:) hahaha I wanted a steel guitar and we could not afford that:)
Interesting troy, are you redoing the terminology to be more accurate with DWPS and UWPS referring to orientation and downward or upward escape to the mechanic?
Exactly! As we’ll see in this series, the orientation and the motion are two separate things. The one does not control the other. We’ve been sloppy on this and we’re cleaning that up.
I want to know what mode or scale he used in the intro........no tabs just let me know the scale please. I'll figure out the phrases myself
Great lessons. Hours of teaching material ........... I throw my guitar out of the window!
need to get john Ziegler on here @troy Grady
Whats the intro song?
One thing that was missing from this is the left hand has to be synced perfectly with the right hand, which is no easy feat to pull off. It sounds horrific if either hand is out of sync with the other.
All playing needs good hand sync to sound good, doesn't matter what technique is involved. Anyone who thinks their alternate picking sounds good with iffy coordination is probably fooling themselves. But then again, I'm picky. Because the bar was just set too low for too many years. That doesn't fly any more.
Troy Grady I’ve seen good players that will do a mix of hammer-ons and pull-offs on anything more than 1 NPS along with economy and alternate picking. When doing 1 NPS sweeps, you have to have perfect synchronization between the two. Frank said that himself in his online school. This is still fantastic was content, nonetheless. And yes, I agree with you, the average player's technique and mechanics are so much better today than even 20 years ago because the bar has been set so high by people like Frank Gambale. What I was saying is that you cannot get away with hammer-ons and pull-offs with those 1 NPS sweeps, at all.
I think the most obvious part of his technic is the anchoring of his pinky on the guitar. It's perhaps the key to what he does, and is missed by the interpreter.
What I wanna know is how he can get a pinch harmonic on an upstroke.
It s just a backingtrack or his own song?
The ballad in the intro? That's something Frank wrote for this.
@@troygrady oo thank you man.Your videos improves my technic a lot what a pick perve you are lol.Love you man you always share good stuff with us interview with good musicians in different genres.Just love you man.
Goookilll cool
You still have to finger it at the same time Troy!
2:11
This is how you teach guitar, sick of videos teaching you stuff without showing a close-up slowmo to really understand what should I do
I naturally do two-way pick slanting. I’m far from a great player though!
Gambale is an awesome players, but he is another player who seems to play extra notes just to add more speed that sent necessary, he is an awesome melodic player but there are alot of times I wish he would just let certain notes ring. Just my opinion, I just started learning to sweep, and in not an accomplished shredder, just my opinion. He is an awesome player regardless
Frank has one foot in rock and shred, and like the rest of us, can do his share of overplaying when necessary. :) But even Frank's overplaying has these little hooky melodies and rhythms tacked onto his phrases that makes it a cut above to me.
Well ..... I officially quit ! Anyone want a good deal on some guitars ?
Yes me.
It’d sure be nice to not have someone talking through all of it.😩
"It" being what, the interview? That's what interviews are for - you can watch it on our site if you'd like. This is an analytical lesson, so that "talking" you're referring to is the meat, not the interview. Two different things.
These videos are the most pretentious stuff ive seen. XD
Whats the name of the song at the start of the video?