Kiko Loureiro Shares the Secret to Flawless Playing
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2023
- In this clip, former Megadeath guitarist Kiko Loureiro breaks down his practice routine, and how he plays so flawlessly.
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Big respect to Kiko for stepping back from touring to focus on time with his family ❤
Yes, he’s a wonderful person and family man!❤❤❤
He didn't just step back from touring, he quit megadeth
No sounds like he's leaving Megadeth, I hope not though
@@ozman6602he already left them man
@rastamon5969 Yes dumby, he quit so he could be closer to his family. U get it
I’ll miss his videos. Those backstage glimpses of all those cables and equipment were so eye opening.
Are they going away?
I don’t think so. I was thinking about new videos.
Kiko's solo work is amazingly musical! Very happy to have him back as a solo Artist! Love his classical guitar playing.
Kiko... what a humble guy and VERY talented musician!
He's not so humble here in Brazil
@@FelipeMartins-lr5pm Es bíblico... nadie es profeta en su tierra. Saludos desde Argentina!
@@FelipeMartins-lr5pmaccording to who? People spoke ill of Jesus, how even more so of us?
Dude's you've heard him play in angra.... he owns the right to brag a little for his accomplishments... but he wouldn't act like a queen unless you pull his lashes😂
Kiko and Yngwie... two of the most relaxed picking hands in rock. It's almost magic watching their right hands. Yngwie's right hand is mesmerizing to watch... as is Kiko's, but in a different way. Yet both are, or least appear to be almost unbelievably relaxed and even gentle with their picking attacks.
I don't see Kiko as much... but I could watch Yngwie's right hand for hours. Yngwie doesn't even come close to using the supposed "required" downward-slant picking technique for shredding either. If you study Yngwie he implements a LOT of flat picking... slanting only briefly when doing fast progressions from the lower to higher strings. And Kiko with the change of how he now holds his pick... different, but so smooth.
Great players, for sure. Kiko seems to be a genuine nice guy on top of it all. I don't think there's an overly cocky bone in the guy's body... seems very down-to-earth. Or, at least it appears to be that way.
As a then-teenage kid who had open classes with Kiko during High School in Cubatão, of all places, I can guarantee that he's a superbly nice guy. Super open to people, honest, down-to-earth, totally focused on the instrument. Good to see him reaching the recognition his talents always pushed him to have.
I've found the trick is to use the very, very tip of the pick, so you need to find the angles that allow you to pick that way consistently, which are: up or downward pickslanting, leading or. trailing edge, and the most overlooked of all, the angle along the the length of the string. If you picture the pick perpendicular to the string the part where you hold it should point to two o'clock. Also I use the arm to change strings and the wrist to pick, that helps keep my hand in the same position relative to the string I'm picking. If you look at the vid, Kiko does the same, and he anchors his fingers for maximum precision. I started working on this stuff like 3 years ago, and it changed my life
Procure por Edu Ardanuy , outro brasileiro, ficará fascinado na mão direita
You can add Uli Jon Roth there. Man playing hard songs like he's playing twinkle twinkle little star. He's so relaxed.
Rick Graham and Anton Oparin also
Kiko is a legend. He barely moves his fingers. So clean and precise.
Kiko's solo albums are so good!
I can see how he feels each relaxed (non angled pick) swept note like a drummer would feel each single stroke roll note (say a sextuplet), played faster and slower. In a clean, musical way - at the same volume - faster, then slower. But this dude is smoother with one hand than I am with two on a drum 😞 ☺️.
Monster of a player! 🤘🏼🔥
Kiko has some of the best economy of motion I’ve ever seen. Interesting too that he’s left handed playing right handed. I’m the same and the issue for me is complicated slap patterns on bass. You have to learn the rhythm in reverse which makes it more complicated. If I had my time back I would have learned on a left handed bass/guitar.
Hats off to Mr. Loureiro. It is refreshing when such a great guitarist and teacher is void of ego. It makes them even better to my ear and soul.
Well... it's not the experience that us brazilians had from him. But ok.
@@sirborges O que ele fez que você achou errado?
@@eversongabriel7099 Ele foi professor no conservatório Sousa Lima. Há vários e vários relatos (inclusive de amigos próximos que trabalharam lá) do quão mal ele tratava as pessoas, alunos, funcionários.
Já esbarrei com ele em época de Expo Music em São Paulo. TODOS os músicos famosos do evento eram super receptivos e simpáticos, menos o Kiko, que se recolhia ao canto dele em que ninguém podia entrar, não falava com ninguém, não dava atenção pra ninguém, agia como uma diva, era grosso, babaca, enfim.
Sem contar o tanto de treta que rolava dentro do Angra por causa dele. Ele é um dos motivos do André Matos ter saído do Angra.
Por mais difícil que o Aquiles seja, ele também saiu do Angra por causa do Kiko.
Ele tratou o Edu Falschi mal pra caramba, especialmente quando o cara teve problemas de saúde que afetaram a voz dele.
Enfim, a galera do UA-cam não tem essa noção, especialmente porque hoje ele mora fora do Brasil.
@@sirborges Entendo. Sinto muito.
@@sirborgesExistem relatos de varios lugares do Brasil de pessoas que foram maltratadas por ele
Glad you have him on here. Very inspiring player. I love Kiko - totally did not know he was left handed. Kinda blows my mind
Always love to hear from Kiko!!! He makes all topics for guitar very interesting and inspiring.
Loved you in Megadeth. You were a perfect fit. Good luck in the future and looking forward to see what's coming next! What a player!
I have listened to him since 1995, he isbone of the best ever. MD was another step in the way to get his Grammy 😂
Thank you!!!!!! I learned so much from this clip!!
I'm subscribed! Love the variety of guests (still a long waiting list I guess for many) and how each has a unique style of playing.
Kiko Loureiro is the best, I am a lefty too, cant imagine myself playing a righty guitar :)
it was the one of the best guitar guides i ever watched
Respect for Beato and kiko...
Best guitar channel from youtube
Keep the amazing work Rick...
Kikos the man. I think he’s my favorite guitar player right now. I loved watching his tour vlogs with Megadeth !
Love watching so many different shredders and picking out the things they do slightly different from each other that I also have in common with them individually.
I think, by watching this, you guys can understand why Kiko was one of those guys that EVERYONE wanted as a teacher back in the days (and probably to this day, but I imagine it's not "so easy" anymore lol)... and why pretty much all of his students became very good guitarists... the technique, the discipline, the form, the knowledge, the musicality, it's all just so damn flawless.
His precision is amazing. And his feel is amazing as well. Controlled passion.
Ok Rick, I subscribed. Which I never do! The interviews have been insane, with the coolest guests and the best insights from you and the artists!
I too try to avoid using tension when playing guitar. Kiko is definitely on the ball using as little effort as possible and keeping relaxed. He's very clever and has obviously thought all about this a lot . Thank you for this excellent video!! :)
I didn’t realise that- I was not subscribed yet I watch a ton of your videos.
I’ve always wanted to play my music to you so that at least someone could break it down and analyse it and tell everyone else that it’s good enough 😢 hahah.
This guest you have on this episode is actually mind blowing.....
I can put in the time to be as good but it will never be as good.
But what is good when it comes to guitar playing?
Deep.
Thank you beato!!!!
I subscribe to all your social channels, I purchased all your courses, and even donated some cash on your website. Thank you for all your content
Love kiko man, his styles are so mind blowing! Miss him much!
Interesting to hear him talk about being left handed. I too am a lefty and play right handed. For years I've been aware that my fine motor skills in my right hand are not as precise as my left, and wonder how things may have been different if I learnt left handed. But maybe I should stop wondering and just accept it as he said, that it doesn't really matter. Just got to practice more...
You'll get it eventually, it did take me way longer than right handed guitarists to get alternate picking runs down that aren't tremelo picked.
Notice how always all of his fingers are so close to the fretboard, he is extremely efficient. He does not waste stamina, also because he is close to the frets he can execute notes faster. Such a great player
He's such a great guy, and an amazing player!
Valuable information 🙏
I really treasure moments like this.
I learned that sweep/strings control technique many decades ago by looking at Biréli Lagrène live videos on VHS.
I highly recommend to bring him on the channel too!
I remember this talk. Tremendous. Kiko is a great all around person, very down to earth. Say Rick, you know who you should consider soon? A couple of dudes that you would agree would be dynamite for your channels: Mikael Akerfeldt, and Nick Johnston! In one of NJ's IG lives (maybe about a month ago), I asked him if he knew Mikael, and ironically enough he said no but that Fredrik Åkesson was going to be a guest performer on one of his (NJ's) next albums! What a fantastic piece of news, isn't that? I think interviews with each of these gentlemen would be phenomenal for all of us and your channel!
Kiko always keeps it real and humble despite being so skilled
Yes! The POWER of lefthandedness in righty guitarists! -of which KIKO is our exemplar. Go, KIKO!
I'm also a lefty. Been playing 25 years and this is the first time hearing this. My struggle makes sense. I feel like I can breathe ❤
Lefty here aswell! but I've always played right handed guitar. I've always struggled with my picking hand and precision, Kiko is the first guitarist that I've heard comment on this and it makes so much sense
Hell , when you said that I looked and sure enough I wasn’t subscribed nor did I realize it was a second channel , now subbed.
first time I know Kiko from Angra "Rebirth" and damn this guy is awesome he wrote the solo for Angra is at another level 🤘🏻🤘🏻
I know Kiko for such a long time..found him on the early Angra Days...and always thought this guy is special, and one of the very best players
This is supercool, Rick! Greets from Brazil!
What a great player!
I love this man.
I've noticed that when I play light my fingers just move so much smoother across the fretboard. It's nice to hear a pro say it out loud lol
Great lesson Kiko
Nosso Kiko, orgulho do Brasil !
Just subscribed. Great content great guest Kiko is phenomenal🤘🤘✌️🖖
Some people will never get speed picking down. No matter how hard they try. Others can do it from when they’re 5 years old. It’s taken me 20 odd years to achieve it. My guitar teacher’s daughter could play the Get the Funk Out solo flawlessly when she was 8 years old and pretty much anything by Paul Gilbert by the time she was ten. I used to smile through gritted teeth when my teacher made her play Gilbert’s Technical Difficulties after I’d been struggling with AC/DC solos. She’s now a successful session guitarist in her 20s. Practice helps, obvs, but it’s mainly genetics and a state of mind. It can’t be taught but it can be coaxed out of those who have natural potential. It’s something you are born with. If you can’t control adrenaline you’ll never achieve it. Many are also held back by subtle developmental conditions like dyspraxia too. It’s a funny old game guitar playing. Everyone’s journey is different. And you have to reconcile yourself with the fact that some people are going to find it a lot easier than you. Comparison is the thief of joy…as the old saying goes.
Excellent comment. I believe that some of my inability to pick really fast is certainly genetic (or developmental), but much of it is simple laziness. I have never had good discipline in my practice routine. My laziness has also precluded me from learning all of the notes on the neck, and from learning triads all over the neck, and from practicing scales in every key, and... fuck! I am a worthless guitar player! 😭
Great comment
I'd say also, the shape and size of your hands has more of a bearing than a lot of people think!
I have short fat fingers, and my pinky crinks up anytime I use it and I need to pop it so it’ll move again. I will never be where I want to be as a player 🤣
I disagree with the «being born» statement. I'm nowhere near what can be called a virtuoso player, I always was on and off with the instrument due to life circumstances, I have a twisted left hand middle finger due to a basketball injury... Despite all that, I had my breakthrough and eureka moments when I suddenly progressed more than in 10 years in a brief period of time.
It isn't a matter of practising more, but actually a matter of practising right. These genius virtuoso players just hit all the right buttons at the right time, that's their IQ.
Even people with disabilities managed to pick quite fast, like Django Reinhardt. People with small hands don't have any disadvantage, just take a look at those many incredible Japanese virtuoso players with fingers not much longer than the width of the fretboard (watch out for the Chinese guitar army of kids not many people are aware of). In my country there are so many little children playing flamenco guitar like Paco (the fretboard's smaller width has the string separation of an electric guitar bridge).
But speed picking is just that, it isn't any key component of great music, just a tool you can use, should you have it. It's the key to the Lamborghini, but nobody really needs any sports car to go through a beautiful journey.
I align more with Tomo Fujita's motto: don't worry, don't compare, be kind to yourself.
Kiko is a class act
Great video
I’m 44 and left handed. I also play right handed. Couldn’t afford a left hand guitar when I was a kid. But the store owner said something similar. You never heard of a left handed piano? So I learned to play right handed. Always wondered if it helped or hurt my playing.
My favourite musician!!!
Kiko is an awesome musician, Many praises his work with Megadeth but just have an ear to the first 2 Angra's albums, he produced some great guitar parts there !
I've been playing years and thought it about time to develop a bit of speed/'shred'. I've been playing long enough that I have quickly come to appreciate the benefit of doing a few shred exercises - and sticking with them for the medium term. I doubt I'll ever have the time to devote to develop real speed, but I now think that's OK. What is important is that I am reducing sloppy technique, improving accuracy, improving hand co-ordination, playing light, playing relaxed - and yes, I what I am practising I am already able to play faster. But that isn't the goal anymore.
I'd recommend everyone give a couple of appealing shred exercises a try on a longer-term basis. I'm a couple of weeks in, sometimes only practising them for 10 minutes a day, but I already see big gains.
I find the faster I am able to play the more ssubjective time I have when I am not playing fast (most of the time) to move to some new idea and make it fit the timing.
Plus the occassional shred it a ton of fun.
Im in a similar situation. I played guitar for years, stopped and recently picked it up again after 10 years. Decided that I wanted to up my game to shredding. Been practicing this last 3 months and found personally that the fastest way to progress is to learn actual licks and solos more so than repetetive exercies. Also playing with a metronome is essential for high speed guitar.
@@jademonolith I agree about licks and solos. You need language and vocabulary - and the ultimate goal is of course to play music, not just exercises. Personally, I'm finding that the exercises have really helped with my ability to play lead more fluidly. I'm kicking myself for not incorporating it years ago. Oh well. Better late than never.
@@jademonolithtrust me, these exercises will always be important for you to be able to step up your playing. It doesn't matter how skilled you are.
Try to come up with your own patterns (be really creative). You'll be able to quickly spot your weaknesses to work on and find different sounds and ideas for new songs.
Listen to Wes Hauch's Sleepwalk video for Seymour Duncan here on UA-cam. An amazing piece of soulful shredding that clearly came from an exercise/pattern.
@@Conqoo no doubt, I started with them. But I found that lately proficiency was accelerated by going straight to the licks and solos. Maybe because I already moved past the exercises years ago. Idk
YMMV. Doing established solos gave me lick and run ideas
Yes sir❤
This guy really is class!
Lefties on right handed guitars are always very intricate (mechanical, but still musical). Steve Morse, Michael Batio, etc.
Eu não canso de me impressionar de ver o Kiko tocar, o cara é um gigante
great kiko also cool t shirt is that coltrane circle
Hey Rick, Kiko. Your Megadeth fans miss you dude. Hope all is well at home na seu pais maravilhosa.
I didn't even notice I am on Rick Beato 2. When I found Rick Beato 1, there were only 70k subs. Dylan's video went super viral on Facebook. I don't use FB anymore.
Rik Emmett, guitarist and lead vocalist, formally from the Canadian power trio, Triumph is left-handed but plays guitar right-handed. He claims to be dextrosinistral, which he claims is an advantage. He's always been very eclectic, even though he was a bit suppressed living as the rock guy. He has since done amazing things in many genres of guitar playing.
Rick, could you please review some of Rik Emmett's amazing work in acoustic finger style, jazz, rock, and blues? He is tremendously underrated and deserves to get a spotlight on his amazing contributions of fine guitar playing (and equally great singing!). There is a young generation of aspiring musicians and songwriters who need to know his works.
Lefty who plays right as well Gary Moore also. Great video!! Subbed
A great guitarist!
Gosh, I do so love those Ibanez "Saber" S-series but the ultra thin 'Wizard' neck and 16" Radius on my precious S470 fatigues my wrist especially with chording. That's how I ended up with a bunch of "C" and "U" neck shaped Fenders and Gretsches. Neck dimensions can really make all the difference sometimes.
I request Kiko full interview...
As a leftie, conventional guitar playing feels most.natural to me. I always wondered why other lefties played it backwards. Definitely an advantage with the dexterity of my left hand
I'm a righty and play lefty... always felt natural, to use my right hand for the fretboard.
Agreed. I couldnt imagine trying to betray my lefthandedness by playing righty😂
Smiles! Good afternoon!
Great lesson
😮. I didn't know Antonio Banderas was guitar master.
What a stupid thing to say.
I think technique, especially on the right hand, depends on an individual's idiosyncrasies..for some is mostly wrist ,for others other parts of hand/arm ,different motion etc...
Hope Kiko is doing well .... with family & stuff .. nice guy .. bcos of him i followed Megadeth .. ..😔
Great!!! what model of guitar is that?
Genius !
Kiko es lo maximo lo tiene todo...
Good video.
gosh man kiko is the best.
Rick, could you include the difference between the main channel and this one in future requests for subs?
7:20 exactly
He's got it right. I don't mind mechanical practice.
Even with almost 50K practice hours I still go through Hanon ( piano ) and new Slonimsky patterns ( guitar and piano )
My new band is called Chamelion ( ROCKSHOTS Records )
Our debut album will be released this Friday
I think we do better in certain areas depending on our "dominant hand"... Of course, practice can improve everything, but I would make cleaner licks with my right hand than I do with my left hand with half practice time...
Kiko is great
me gustaria saber como practica los bends asi?
I say that guy playing in a suburb in Rio de Janeiro (suburbs in Brazil are usually not wealthy neighborhoods, quite the opposite) more than 20 years ago. Quite a resume he has built.
I'm with Kiko here, left and right handedness only matters on low effort low precision tasks, any fine motor skills you have to learn it won't matter, it's all the same you're learning from step 1
3:55 to 4:35 Simple but so dreamy!
Cool I'm left handed also and play right handed!
I'm subbed RB
For me a key part of staying relaxed is practicing slowly at 80bpm to get the feeling of being relaxed memorized. Then I bump it up to higher tempos.
This guy is a beast!! My top 1, best guitarrist for sure.
Been subbed from the beginning. You even reviewed one of my songs. Cheers Rick.
Yes!
Master
His 2 'Deth albums are the best!
this guy is a monster on the guitar
Thats wild hes a lefty, im a lefty I got my very first guitar Christmas of 97' my parents bought it for me but they didnt think about me being left handed and bought a right handed strat knockoff and pretty much instantly flipped it around backwards and just learned to play by ear. Theres no way i could play like a right handed player when it comes to anything right im like disabled lol i wish i was ambidextrous but no, eventually i realized I couldnt play power chords (try playing the power chord shape backwards, its hard!) So i got the nut switched around and restrung like a lefty guitar
Incrível
Does anyone know which Ibanez guitar Kiko is playing in this video?
I don't play anything, but I could keep watching this video for hours.