I love these videos because “fake it ‘till you make it” works for awhile, but the fact that it’s never 100% legit always nags at you. Finally understanding and putting in the work to figure out the lick not only satisfies that nagging feeling, but it also makes you a better player by leaps and bounds because you’re working on things like ear training, matching rhythms, and really locking in on those nuances that make these licks so satisfying to hear in the first place. Keep rocking man- your vids are the bees knees!
Started like 6 months ago. This thing just works. At first played all of the hotel california then all nirvana songs and most of red hot chili peppers songs excluding the snow. Some metallica solos. I started to get fast really. At the starting point I could only play at 100bpm for 1!! Then 240 for 1, 200 for 4... Now I cant play at 8 200 without any frustration. Just start slowly and get as much as from a song, just don't play it for show off or to impress someone, learn it, feel it.
It depends what you want to do. Some people think trying to get it just like the record is a waste of time because a lot of artists never even bother to do that. Randy never did. The average listener will never know. I was in a cover band and was told that I do the songs too much like the record. And I had to laugh because he had no idea how much stuff I was faking because you often don't always have time to spend getting it all perfect, and you don't really have to, unless you want to.
Yeah I’m still not sure if it’s a quick bend or a slide but either way I’m sure Randy was like, “crap I gotta get to the last note!” and magic ensued. 😂
In exploring solos, I don't think I've ever found so many different versions of the same lick. The interesting thing is how complex most of these are. I really appreciate this version; it is by far the easiest to play and sound smooth and it is possible that only Randy himself really knows exactly how this was played. Thank you for sharing.
What you're doing is real cool, thanks for taking the time to show everyone your skills. My first concert was Ozzy when I was 13 years old. About three weeks later, I heard that his guitar player had died.
Ahh! The good ol' practice until you've had enough and sleep on it trick! I do that too for complex tasks that I am learning; but, just in a slightly different manner. Randy was another great artist that pushed me further into the higher plateaus of the unknown about rock guitar playing. Great job and thank you for enlightening your audience with this video.
I’ve tried for several years to truly learn this last part of the solo and I’ve failed miserably. I’ve studied tablature from the studio version and from Tribute.I’ve tried it playing it at 25% speed over and over again. I can’t come close (and I’m not that bad a player). Im done trying. Now, instead of the 78 notes Randy plays in that next to last measure, I step to the front of the stage, make a face like I’m the biggest badass on the planet, and I defiantly play just one note and hold it for the rest of the solo.
If you look up crazy train from thirty years after the blizzard dvd and slow it down on youtube it is somewhat approachable and I feel like it sounds really good once you get it and it is not bad quality so it isnt impossible to see lol
I know exactly what you are talking about Art-of-Guitar! So cool to find another die hard Randy guitarist. I always hate it when people BS the end of this amazing ending. Randy's solos were like songs within songs. One of the greatest melody players to ever pick up the instrument.... Randy was a perfectionist, true. But I honestly believe that this was a studio take that he literally "winged it" on and left it in because it sounded cool. It should not take 40+ years for professional guitarists to figure out what he did on this track. I have listened to the isolated guitar recordings and they are still a blur even at 1/2 and 1/4 speeds. Truly a master in his craft. Being able to articulate all those notes despite the speeds he was playing at. Very few players can do that without sounding sloppy. Randy just happened to be the best
Thank you very much. Finally, after more than 30 years you've provided me a course correction to "unlearn" that extremely taxing movement I picked up from an Ozzy song book. I found Believer to have similar stumbling blocks towards the end of the solo.
Let the nagging cease! Thank you a ton. I’ve got the whole song down, singing and playing it. ...except THAT part. I’m confident your breakdown is the key for me. As you know, there’s no shortage of people playing this ending on UA-cam. This is the best, most accessible (and seemingly accurate) version I’ve encountered. So, thank you Art of Guitar guy. Much appreciated. 🤘🏼
Thank you sir!! Been workin on this solo the past few days, and this lick has been holding me back and I finally got it! Knew I could count on you Mike
Been playing guitar for about...12 years now. I've always loved the progress you see even within a few hours. Love these videos too; you're never past the point where you can still learn new things.
It's close...a lot closer than I see a lot of other people play it. Randy actually discussed this part of the solo in a seminar before he died. The only things I see and hear differently and that Randy himself mentioned are on the D string, it should be: 11h13h14 instead of 11h12h14 And on the B string: 14h16h17 instead of 14h15h17 and no alternate picking in the beginning of the run. Aside from that, this lesson is great and I think you do a great job of breaking the riffs down. Just watched your video of the double-tracking done in the Crazy Train solo and how each track had parts that were played slightly different but yet the dissonance that it creates just..."works". Take a really close listen to the bluesy lick in the break of the first chorus and you can CLEARLY hear 2 separate runs with some different notes being played, yet it's amazing how it all comes together.
Randy Rhoads had very small hands, i have never seen him do any big stretches across the fret board, unlike the monster hands of Vai, Paul Gilbert, or EVH. It still amazes me what he did with such a short reach, made me feel, with practice, i could do it also.
Hey dude. There's audio of a lesson Randy did before he died and he discussed the final run and you've got everything right except the first 2 runs you're picking on the 6th and 5th string are also hammer ons as well. So the whole run is hammer ons until the ending lick.
@@TheArtofGuitar I obsessed over that run and only that run for a while as well. There's been so many different variations of the tab but once I found the audio of the lesson he gave from which the question was asked about that run, he couldn't remember exactly the ending bits but it was all hammer ons. If you refer to all other examples he's given us on two albums, any runs he did starting on the low E moving upwards they were all hammer ons. That was just his style. But hey, whatever you see fit and whatever works for you dude as long as you're playing some Randy, it doesn't matter. :)
@@TheArtofGuitar Check the video on UA-cam titled Randy Rhoads Gives Guitar Seminar Part Two. Check the 3:05 mark and you'll hear nothing but hammer ons. Dude when I was beating my head trying to figure that run out, finding that audio was like a gift. It wasn't perfect but it gave me what I was missing.
I listened to the lesson and that is for sure hammer ons, but he seemed a little unsure of what he did on the album. I'm sure he had a producer sitting there having him try different things at the time. Who knows though, so I went back and listened to the slowed down isolated guitar track and my ear still hears attack on every note of the first 6 notes, because when the next part hits it's obviously hammer on's. But who knows, maybe his hammer ons were so strong they sounded like picking or maybe slowing it down caused it to have a more attacked sound?
Thank you for this post! I’m working on this right now as an audition piece and this helped clear up a lot! (I also have been trying to do it with that big stretch you mentioned, but have been finding it impossible to get up to speed)
I dont feel so bad now knowing im not the only one who was doing this Randy riff wrong. but honesty I learned the whole song awhile ago maybe few years ago but that solo riff I am still working on. thanks a lot for this video definately helps me a lot.
Sounds good, the way I learned it 32 yrs ago was 3 notes per string starting on the 6th 11-12-14, 5th string 11-12-14, 12-13-15, 4th string 11-12-14, 12-14-15, 3rd string 12-14-15, 2nd string 15-17-19, 1st string 15-17-19..... sometimes I hammer on the 1st 3-notes per string, then pick the 2nd 3-notes per string so on and so on...also sometimes just pick all of the notes. Thanks for sharing!
@FeO2 FeS I haven't either. Last I heard after the autopsy record he's dead. This is the body of a very badly burned man. Now I'm going to make the Y shaped incision there's no hair on the scalp, there's thermal Burns on the brain the weighs approximately? Missing his right hand. What was left to Buried? For a smoker his lungs were in pretty good shape other other than eight to nine broken ribs then punctured the lungs spleen liver kidneys pancreas stomach gallbladder the heart so was the esophagus. Anyways you read the rest. If you are interested. A lot of trauma. Nicotine in the bloodstream slight traces of alcohol. I used to work with a guy at Sears Auto named "Ken" who picked up the human remains from plane crashes and helicopter crashes and they called them Krispy critters.
E Mixolydian (same as D lydian or A major) scale position 9-12 (same as blues root on 5th) starting with pinky on low E string, and ending with pinky on high E string and bending up a whole step. You can bend or hammer on or tremolo or whatever...
This is very helpful for me i've been trying to learn the solo ever since i started guitar and i never knew how he ended it now i know thank you very much mike there are also some other things i'm getting wrong in this solo but i'll keep working on it Randy Rhoads was the main reason i started guitar and i haven't stopped since. Thank you once again Mike for teaching me alot about guitar i wouldn't have gotten very far without your videos
Thank you for your candor and confirming nobody is perfect. Because it's sometimes hard to feel good at guitar for most of us. Still you are playing very fast.
Thank you so much! I'm 24 and this was the first song I started to learn back about 15 years ago when I first started playing. And this solo(mainly the ending) has had me stumped ever since. Not anymore! Funny though because I can play the Revelation(Mother Earth) solo verbatim. Thanks again! Love your videos!
Holy smokes Mike. You're right. It IS 6 16th notes into 3 sets of triplets. I always thought it was straight 16 notes from start to finish. As for the end... who cares. As long as you hit the bend at the right time! :)
16ths or the triplets and I could never sound anything like the real thing or even mixing the two techniques. But this is explained very well. I'm gonna go try again. Thanks
I did it exactly like this so far (saw it in another tutorial). However, I played the first six notes (E and A string) at the same speed as the the following ones? Need to listen to it again, those go by really quick.
Of course :) But to me it always sounded like they were all the same speed. So this was news to me that the first six are at a slower pace. Playing this lick at original speed is a whole different matter haha
Yea. Enjoy your teachings. I've been missing so long and have wanti g grab my guitar and pkay. But work and time seems catch up to me and havent find time to even change my strings. Procrastinating the job at hand and frustrated. I miss playing and having fun. Thanks mike for encouraging me get off my ass and jam.
thank you so much for this great breakdown easy to follow and now i have direction when it comes to that part of the solo for years it has just been a sloppy mess on that run.
Great Job!! Food for thought. If you search for Randy Rhoads teaching a guitar seminar, he actually breaks down this exact lick. He shows how to play it in F# and then again in the key of A. The Seminar is in 4 parts. The last part is him teaching how to play "Diary of a Madman".
Here is a link with TAB from the Guitar World website. : ua-cam.com/users/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqa2t1dGl2ajNneWJZQ0U4ejNDZUF2cDkwckZnUXxBQ3Jtc0tsRnBrU2xaV0YxNUVtaFMyekpyWEk4Y1U0ZzA2dkw3ekdBdk16aDBXRzFwZG5BY1hpRkJZNmcxNmZ4YkFISlZMMHEyTkRJQXIwWktQNjE0clN3N1hLdmFHYVlDN3QwQkdmTWw2cTBhdmp5czJscmNUOA%3D%3D&stzid=Ugx7PvnELI4YX61yO8N4AaABAg&event=comments&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.guitarworld.com%2Flessons%2Fcomplete-randy-rhoads-guitar-clinic-february-1982
Thank you for this! Already love this series of videos! If I could make a request- I know you probably don't want to do another GnR one so close to the first one, but if you ever get a chance to go over the end solo to November Rain, there are a lot of little riffs at the very end that I find myself guilty of faking, even though I know how they sound on the record!
Hey brother. I was tinkering with it and yes it seems more fluid your new way. How about trying the alternate way of staying on the b string with the second to last lick and picking 14-17-19 like a 3 note per string lick then pick or pull off to 17, slide to 19 and finish off last lick on the E. Totally works for me now... thanks.
I'm not 100% sure but I think it is e minor till the flat 6th then the same in the next octave then 7th and the slide sequence that ends with the bend and vibrato tho i might be wrong
I had been playing the first pat of this as slide 11-< 12, 14, 16 and 12/14/16 on A string as well. This method is much easier and sounds the same to me up to speed
I do the exact same thing although on the low E string, I’d slide from 11 to 12 and then hammer onto 14 and 16. But your way seems much simpler, thanks
Very close, but I slowed down the original recording to like 20% and looped it for a long time until I got it right. I am almost certain this is what he's playing: Low E: 10-12-14 A string: 11-12-14 then in the same movement 12-14-16 D string: same exact pattern: 11-12-14 then 12-14-16 G: 13-14-16 B: 14-15-17 (keep your fingers in this position) High E: swipe a quick note on 14 Back to B string: slide from 17 to 19 Then the big bend on the high E at the 19th fret. Try it. He's just following the A major scale.
ha ha great . every time i’ve had to play this out i re-go over the last run and never do it the same way. and you’re right , Rhonds changed it over time . there is even an audio interview / lesson where he says he changed this run.
Hey I've got a String Butler on my Les Paul too. I believe it helps. I used to do the big stretch on the 6th string too. Not easy played. I like your way much better.
Hah! I thought I was the only one faking the ending! I used to do some sort of hammer-on minor scale and just made sure I'd end on the righ bend and figured most people wouldn't notice (but I knew).
I play it a little bit different. On the d string I play 11, 13, 14 and I pick it instead of legato. I think I'm right about the notes but I think you're right about legato vs picking. I'd done the same thing though and fudged my way through it for years until recently lol.
Dude i totally played it wrong for years til i finally buckled down and learned it a few month’s ago but every tab ive seen shows the first part on low e as 11slide to12 14 16 which is the stretch i think ur talking about youve always seen and it sucks to play but does sound right. The fill after the first part of the chorus was tricky too
Some licks are meant to be learned because they have applications to build your solo library (not to mention understanding). Others are cool but in the artists style which you could only learn by dedicating yourself to playing his licks note for note until you have pretty much everything he's done. I learned Mr Crowley note for note because I think most of the guitar work is really important. Crazy Train sounds cool but I don't think that lick is anything but Randy blazing through some random scales he's done 10,000 times before so it was like second nature. I have no problem playing something generic there. In 30 years I never had anyone say I did it wrong.
When doing that "tricky" part you talk about 14-17 B string then 14 on high E, just bar those two notes on the 14th fret. A lot easier than picking up and moving a finger, then just drop your other finger back down for the slide.
Thinking of that stretch that turned out not to be a stretch, one rule of thumb I've found to be surprisingly (though not 100%) universal is that when you're trying to play someone else's solo and you need to play something particularly, annoyingly physically awkward, it's probably transcribed wrong. Might be wrong notes, might just be wrong fingerings, but broadly speaking, pros don't choose make their lives harder than they need to be. Of course you need to allow for physical differences between people, backgrounds in different techniques, whatever - but if you're hitting a brick wall with something that just seems nonsensical, it's definitely worth re-evaluating.
When I listen to the outtro the last lick doesn't sound pentatonic. I think randy ascends straight up sequentially up the major scale into the final bend.
Yup I too have been working on this ,so many people doing different things , the video 30 years after the blizzard of oz is interesting also . this helps though thanks :-)
Man I can play the rest of the solo nice and clean but that last part is always so noisy. My setup is also a reason cause it is noisy but still after endless tries that last part still bugs me.
Just wanted to let you know (correct me if I’m wrong) but I think right at the beginning of the lick, on the low e string it’s 10 12 14 instead of 11 12 14
What you call medium speed, I noticed that you start at one speed then start speeding up to another speed. The timing seems a bit skewed or awkward. But the notes you are playing sounds totally correct, nice job!
I love these videos because “fake it ‘till you make it” works for awhile, but the fact that it’s never 100% legit always nags at you. Finally understanding and putting in the work to figure out the lick not only satisfies that nagging feeling, but it also makes you a better player by leaps and bounds because you’re working on things like ear training, matching rhythms, and really locking in on those nuances that make these licks so satisfying to hear in the first place. Keep rocking man- your vids are the bees knees!
Started like 6 months ago. This thing just works. At first played all of the hotel california then all nirvana songs and most of red hot chili peppers songs excluding the snow. Some metallica solos. I started to get fast really. At the starting point I could only play at 100bpm for 1!! Then 240 for 1, 200 for 4... Now I cant play at 8 200 without any frustration. Just start slowly and get as much as from a song, just don't play it for show off or to impress someone, learn it, feel it.
It depends what you want to do. Some people think trying to get it just like the record is a waste of time because a lot of artists never even bother to do that. Randy never did. The average listener will never know. I was in a cover band and was told that I do the songs too much like the record. And I had to laugh because he had no idea how much stuff I was faking because you often don't always have time to spend getting it all perfect, and you don't really have to, unless you want to.
Still feels a bit weird, but hey, it's Randy
Yeah I’m still not sure if it’s a quick bend or a slide but either way I’m sure Randy was like, “crap I gotta get to the last note!” and magic ensued. 😂
@@TheArtofGuitar hey long time viewer, have you ever looked at the tab for this solo on songsterr? It differs from yours in the beginning.
Thanks for showing Randy’s solo, his solos were a piece of art.
In exploring solos, I don't think I've ever found so many different versions of the same lick. The interesting thing is how complex most of these are. I really appreciate this version; it is by far the easiest to play and sound smooth and it is possible that only Randy himself really knows exactly how this was played. Thank you for sharing.
What you're doing is real cool, thanks for taking the time to show everyone your skills. My first concert was Ozzy when I was 13 years old. About three weeks later, I heard that his guitar player had died.
Flying High or Flying High Again? 🤓
fun to see that you decided on doing these riffs for real and not faking it👍
Keep up with these "Done faking this lick series" it is awesome!!!
That's beautiful Les Paul
Sounds good, sounds right, right amount of notes in that short space of time,very fast in real time
Ahh! The good ol' practice until you've had enough and sleep on it trick! I do that too for complex tasks that I am learning; but, just in a slightly different manner.
Randy was another great artist that pushed me further into the higher plateaus of the unknown about rock guitar playing. Great job and thank you for enlightening your audience with this video.
I’ve tried for several years to truly learn this last part of the solo and I’ve failed miserably. I’ve studied tablature from the studio version and from Tribute.I’ve tried it playing it at 25% speed over and over again. I can’t come close (and I’m not that bad a player). Im done trying. Now, instead of the 78 notes Randy plays in that next to last measure, I step to the front of the stage, make a face like I’m the biggest badass on the planet, and I defiantly play just one note and hold it for the rest of the solo.
Lol I started learning like a couple of days ago and I got to the end bit which I have to admit is pretty weird
If you look up crazy train from thirty years after the blizzard dvd and slow it down on youtube it is somewhat approachable and I feel like it sounds really good once you get it and it is not bad quality so it isnt impossible to see lol
Try learning the live version of the solo. It’s easier and I personally think it sounds better.
I know exactly what you are talking about Art-of-Guitar!
So cool to find another die hard Randy guitarist. I always hate it when people BS the end of this amazing ending. Randy's solos were like songs within songs. One of the greatest melody players to ever pick up the instrument....
Randy was a perfectionist, true. But I honestly believe that this was a studio take that he literally "winged it" on and left it in because it sounded cool. It should not take 40+ years for professional guitarists to figure out what he did on this track. I have listened to the isolated guitar recordings and they are still a blur even at 1/2 and 1/4 speeds. Truly a master in his craft. Being able to articulate all those notes despite the speeds he was playing at. Very few players can do that without sounding sloppy. Randy just happened to be the best
Randy is an all time A leaguer million os die hard Randy guitarists. he was so melodic
I can’t believe you made a video on this!! Just yesterday I was thinking about how this lick is super hard but you made it way easier. Thank you!
Thank you very much. Finally, after more than 30 years you've provided me a course correction to "unlearn" that extremely taxing movement I picked up from an Ozzy song book. I found Believer to have similar stumbling blocks towards the end of the solo.
Let the nagging cease! Thank you a ton. I’ve got the whole song down, singing and playing it. ...except THAT part. I’m confident your breakdown is the key for me. As you know, there’s no shortage of people playing this ending on UA-cam. This is the best, most accessible (and seemingly accurate) version I’ve encountered. So, thank you Art of Guitar guy. Much appreciated. 🤘🏼
THANK YOU. I have never seen a Lick played more ways than this one. Proof. Randy rules
Thank you sir!! Been workin on this solo the past few days, and this lick has been holding me back and I finally got it! Knew I could count on you Mike
Been playing guitar for about...12 years now. I've always loved the progress you see even within a few hours. Love these videos too; you're never past the point where you can still learn new things.
This has helped me a lot. I always just did legato runs all the way up to the 14th fret in the B string. No one ever noticed it wasn’t right .
Thank you so much. I have been struggling with this for years. This fixes the stretch issue and the timing issue and keeps the correct notes.
Of all the posts, you know how to explain the best, congratulations!!!
My favorite guitar that you own. Beautiful.
Sweet video also.
It's close...a lot closer than I see a lot of other people play it. Randy actually discussed this part of the solo in a seminar before he died. The only things I see and hear differently and that Randy himself mentioned are on the D string, it should be: 11h13h14 instead of 11h12h14
And on the B string: 14h16h17 instead of 14h15h17 and no alternate picking in the beginning of the run.
Aside from that, this lesson is great and I think you do a great job of breaking the riffs down. Just watched your video of the double-tracking done in the Crazy Train solo and how each track had parts that were played slightly different but yet the dissonance that it creates just..."works". Take a really close listen to the bluesy lick in the break of the first chorus and you can CLEARLY hear 2 separate runs with some different notes being played, yet it's amazing how it all comes together.
Randy Rhoads had very small hands, i have never seen him do any big stretches across the fret board, unlike the monster hands of Vai, Paul Gilbert, or EVH. It still amazes me what he did with such a short reach, made me feel, with practice, i could do it also.
Hey dude. There's audio of a lesson Randy did before he died and he discussed the final run and you've got everything right except the first 2 runs you're picking on the 6th and 5th string are also hammer ons as well. So the whole run is hammer ons until the ending lick.
If you hear the guitar track you can check that is actually alternate picking
Could be but I'm really hearing picking when I slow it down. I went a little nuts obsessing over it. haha
@@TheArtofGuitar I obsessed over that run and only that run for a while as well. There's been so many different variations of the tab but once I found the audio of the lesson he gave from which the question was asked about that run, he couldn't remember exactly the ending bits but it was all hammer ons. If you refer to all other examples he's given us on two albums, any runs he did starting on the low E moving upwards they were all hammer ons. That was just his style.
But hey, whatever you see fit and whatever works for you dude as long as you're playing some Randy, it doesn't matter. :)
@@TheArtofGuitar Check the video on UA-cam titled Randy Rhoads Gives Guitar Seminar Part Two. Check the 3:05 mark and you'll hear nothing but hammer ons.
Dude when I was beating my head trying to figure that run out, finding that audio was like a gift. It wasn't perfect but it gave me what I was missing.
I listened to the lesson and that is for sure hammer ons, but he seemed a little unsure of what he did on the album. I'm sure he had a producer sitting there having him try different things at the time. Who knows though, so I went back and listened to the slowed down isolated guitar track and my ear still hears attack on every note of the first 6 notes, because when the next part hits it's obviously hammer on's. But who knows, maybe his hammer ons were so strong they sounded like picking or maybe slowing it down caused it to have a more attacked sound?
Thank you for this post! I’m working on this right now as an audition piece and this helped clear up a lot! (I also have been trying to do it with that big stretch you mentioned, but have been finding it impossible to get up to speed)
This was very helpful. I’m learning the solo now. I always improve after sleeping on a new skill too!!
I dont feel so bad now knowing im not the only one who was doing this Randy riff wrong. but honesty I learned the whole song awhile ago maybe few years ago but that solo riff I am still working on. thanks a lot for this video definately helps me a lot.
Great video and gorgeous LP Custom !
Sounds good, the way I learned it 32 yrs ago was 3 notes per string starting on the 6th 11-12-14, 5th string 11-12-14, 12-13-15, 4th string 11-12-14, 12-14-15, 3rd string 12-14-15, 2nd string 15-17-19, 1st string 15-17-19..... sometimes I hammer on the 1st 3-notes per string, then pick the 2nd 3-notes per string so on and so on...also sometimes just pick all of the notes. Thanks for sharing!
Great video thanks. Randy’s lead playing live was the best. Powerful
I think Randy is my favorite 🎸 on the planet
@FeO2 FeS I haven't either. Last I heard after the autopsy record he's dead. This is the body of a very badly burned man. Now I'm going to make the Y shaped incision there's no hair on the scalp, there's thermal Burns on the brain the weighs approximately? Missing his right hand. What was left to Buried? For a smoker his lungs were in pretty good shape other other than eight to nine broken ribs then punctured the lungs spleen liver kidneys pancreas stomach gallbladder the heart so was the esophagus. Anyways you read the rest. If you are interested. A lot of trauma. Nicotine in the bloodstream slight traces of alcohol. I used to work with a guy at Sears Auto named "Ken" who picked up the human remains from plane crashes and helicopter crashes and they called them Krispy critters.
E Mixolydian (same as D lydian or A major) scale position 9-12 (same as blues root on 5th) starting with pinky on low E string, and ending with pinky on high E string and bending up a whole step. You can bend or hammer on or tremolo or whatever...
This is very helpful for me i've been trying to learn the solo ever since i started guitar and i never knew how he ended it now i know thank you very much mike there are also some other things i'm getting wrong in this solo but i'll keep working on it Randy Rhoads was the main reason i started guitar and i haven't stopped since. Thank you once again Mike for teaching me alot about guitar i wouldn't have gotten very far without your videos
Awesome to hear. Best of luck to ya.
Thank you for your candor and confirming nobody is perfect. Because it's sometimes hard to feel good at guitar for most of us. Still you are playing very fast.
Thank you so much!
I'm 24 and this was the first song I started to learn back about 15 years ago when I first started playing. And this solo(mainly the ending) has had me stumped ever since.
Not anymore!
Funny though because I can play the Revelation(Mother Earth) solo verbatim.
Thanks again! Love your videos!
Holy smokes Mike. You're right. It IS 6 16th notes into 3 sets of triplets. I always thought it was straight 16 notes from start to finish. As for the end... who cares. As long as you hit the bend at the right time! :)
16ths or the triplets and I could never sound anything like the real thing or even mixing the two techniques. But this is explained very well.
I'm gonna go try again. Thanks
This has been bugging me for 20+ years playing guitar... THANK YOU.
SO THAT'S WHERE MY LES PAUL IS!
I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR IT THE ENTIRE MORNING.
Yet another lick I'm not quite done with faking yet 😅😅
I did it exactly like this so far (saw it in another tutorial). However, I played the first six notes (E and A string) at the same speed as the the following ones? Need to listen to it again, those go by really quick.
Yeah start slow and then shred! Haha.
Of course :) But to me it always sounded like they were all the same speed. So this was news to me that the first six are at a slower pace. Playing this lick at original speed is a whole different matter haha
Yea. Enjoy your teachings. I've been missing so long and have wanti g grab my guitar and pkay. But work and time seems catch up to me and havent find time to even change my strings. Procrastinating the job at hand and frustrated. I miss playing and having fun. Thanks mike for encouraging me get off my ass and jam.
Thank you very much. Great presentation 👍
Please do a synyster gates guitar techniques or tom morello. Tom some really whacky techniques :) It would complete my life.
I agree! Synyster gates techniques for sure
Mr.Gates is a monster.
You’ve heard of dual guitar now get ready for dual uploads
Ha!!!
Finally some guitar player that actually faces the fact that most of us faked that part xD thanks for the analysis, love the videos!
Thanks so much for this. After trying to play the end of that solo upteen times ive finally got it right after watching this 😉
Thanks! How many times I've faked that end!!!
Your my new hero !!! THANK YOU !
as someone who has constantly faked his way through this, THANK YOU!
thank you so much for this great breakdown easy to follow and now i have direction when it comes to that part of the solo for years it has just been a sloppy mess on that run.
Great Job!! Food for thought. If you search for Randy Rhoads teaching a guitar seminar, he actually breaks down this exact lick. He shows how to play it in F# and then again in the key of A. The Seminar is in 4 parts. The last part is him teaching how to play "Diary of a Madman".
Here is a link with TAB from the Guitar World website. : ua-cam.com/users/redirect?redir_token=QUFFLUhqa2t1dGl2ajNneWJZQ0U4ejNDZUF2cDkwckZnUXxBQ3Jtc0tsRnBrU2xaV0YxNUVtaFMyekpyWEk4Y1U0ZzA2dkw3ekdBdk16aDBXRzFwZG5BY1hpRkJZNmcxNmZ4YkFISlZMMHEyTkRJQXIwWktQNjE0clN3N1hLdmFHYVlDN3QwQkdmTWw2cTBhdmp5czJscmNUOA%3D%3D&stzid=Ugx7PvnELI4YX61yO8N4AaABAg&event=comments&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.guitarworld.com%2Flessons%2Fcomplete-randy-rhoads-guitar-clinic-february-1982
Thank you for this! Already love this series of videos!
If I could make a request-
I know you probably don't want to do another GnR one so close to the first one, but if you ever get a chance to go over the end solo to November Rain, there are a lot of little riffs at the very end that I find myself guilty of faking, even though I know how they sound on the record!
Hey brother. I was tinkering with it and yes it seems more fluid your new way. How about trying the alternate way of staying on the b string with the second to last lick and picking 14-17-19 like a 3 note per string lick then pick or pull off to 17, slide to 19 and finish off last lick on the E. Totally works for me now... thanks.
That Gibson is stunning
I always take shortcuts to make it easier and play it more my style. That’s the difference between a cover and a clone.
I'm not 100% sure but I think it is e minor till the flat 6th then the same in the next octave then 7th and the slide sequence that ends with the bend and vibrato tho i might be wrong
I had been playing the first pat of this as slide 11-< 12, 14, 16 and 12/14/16 on A string as well. This method is much easier and sounds the same to me up to speed
Thank you my man!
I do the exact same thing although on the low E string, I’d slide from 11 to 12 and then hammer onto 14 and 16. But your way seems much simpler, thanks
This lick always confused me and I've been playing guitar for 21 years! I like the tip about practicing before bed and when you first wake up. Rock on
Very close, but I slowed down the original recording to like 20% and looped it for a long time until I got it right. I am almost certain this is what he's playing:
Low E: 10-12-14
A string: 11-12-14 then in the same movement 12-14-16
D string: same exact pattern: 11-12-14 then 12-14-16
G: 13-14-16
B: 14-15-17 (keep your fingers in this position)
High E: swipe a quick note on 14
Back to B string: slide from 17 to 19
Then the big bend on the high E at the 19th fret.
Try it. He's just following the A major scale.
yeah altho you better look at it as playing the F# minor scale since he targets the root notes of that throughout the solo
ha ha great . every time i’ve had to play this out i re-go over the last run and never do it the same way. and you’re right , Rhonds changed it over time . there is even an audio interview / lesson where he says he changed this run.
Hey I've got a String Butler on my Les Paul too. I believe it helps. I used to do the big stretch on the 6th string too. Not easy played. I like your way much better.
Great video, great guitar
Hah! I thought I was the only one faking the ending! I used to do some sort of hammer-on minor scale and just made sure I'd end on the righ bend and figured most people wouldn't notice (but I knew).
I play it a little bit different. On the d string I play 11, 13, 14 and I pick it instead of legato. I think I'm right about the notes but I think you're right about legato vs picking. I'd done the same thing though and fudged my way through it for years until recently lol.
Dude i totally played it wrong for years til i finally buckled down and learned it a few month’s ago but every tab ive seen shows the first part on low e as 11slide to12 14 16 which is the stretch i think ur talking about youve always seen and it sucks to play but does sound right. The fill after the first part of the chorus was tricky too
Some licks are meant to be learned because they have applications to build your solo library (not to mention understanding). Others are cool but in the artists style which you could only learn by dedicating yourself to playing his licks note for note until you have pretty much everything he's done. I learned Mr Crowley note for note because I think most of the guitar work is really important. Crazy Train sounds cool but I don't think that lick is anything but Randy blazing through some random scales he's done 10,000 times before so it was like second nature. I have no problem playing something generic there. In 30 years I never had anyone say I did it wrong.
I LOVE YOUR GUITAR!!!
2 videos on the same day!!!
Cool
Love that LP Custom!
When doing that "tricky" part you talk about 14-17 B string then 14 on high E, just bar those two notes on the 14th fret. A lot easier than picking up and moving a finger, then just drop your other finger back down for the slide.
Can you do a video on Randy's Texas Soundcheck?
Hey man Great stuff I also slowed it down and I got the same notes as you except I can hear 11 12 and 14 on the A string played twice
Thinking of that stretch that turned out not to be a stretch, one rule of thumb I've found to be surprisingly (though not 100%) universal is that when you're trying to play someone else's solo and you need to play something particularly, annoyingly physically awkward, it's probably transcribed wrong. Might be wrong notes, might just be wrong fingerings, but broadly speaking, pros don't choose make their lives harder than they need to be.
Of course you need to allow for physical differences between people, backgrounds in different techniques, whatever - but if you're hitting a brick wall with something that just seems nonsensical, it's definitely worth re-evaluating.
The 6 levels of crazy train
When I listen to the outtro the last lick doesn't sound pentatonic. I think randy ascends straight up sequentially up the major scale into the final bend.
Thank you
Yup I too have been working on this ,so many people doing different things , the video 30 years after the blizzard of oz is interesting also . this helps though thanks :-)
What do you think about the ending lick of A Tout Le Monde?
Oh shit 2 uploads?! Is it christmas already?!
Cool , thank you!
love the lessons
Man I can play the rest of the solo nice and clean but that last part is always so noisy. My setup is also a reason cause it is noisy but still after endless tries that last part still bugs me.
Just wanted to let you know (correct me if I’m wrong) but I think right at the beginning of the lick, on the low e string it’s 10 12 14 instead of 11 12 14
Listen to the isolated guitar track and split the channels, you can hear just one side of that double track.. he definitely starts on the D#
I'm trying to learn this solo so hard right now...
It's so hard changing my thumb position for the bend!!
this lick and the one from the beginning can't get down. I watched your robot technique vid though and I'm gonna hope it helps me stop faking.
Does anybody know how to play the last "fill" near the end of the song?
Which fill exactly? I like to play the live version which has a lot of fills
Masterful!
Holy shit u actually attempted this
Pretty cool 😎
Have you read the tablature from the Tribute tab book?
Tab books are almost never 100% correct
That sounds great
Wow!!
Thank you!
What you call medium speed, I noticed that you start at one speed then start speeding up to another speed. The timing seems a bit skewed or awkward. But the notes you are playing sounds totally correct, nice job!
I'm not speeding up the tempo, the notes start moving faster after the first 6 notes.
Right on
Show how play the solo on bulls on parade
What tab did you use? Mine is tabbed a little differently.
I used my ear.