what lick do you use when you're trying to impress an audience? (I know that music is not about showing off, but come on, who hasn't??)
For me, it depends on who is in it... If they are musicians, especially guitarists, I use the opening licks of the 24th caprice by Paganini (sweep, tap, string skip, it has it all) it's cool sounding, and people are always in awe of Paganini...
otherwise, if it's a standard audience, I lean towards flashier looking licks (the one Satriani uses in the Cool #9 break in the G3 DVD is in that league)with my picking hand behind my fretting one, for example...
Show off lick, show me yours!!
# 1
i play the solo from crazy train or flying high again
in a few weeks, hopefully it will be the one from malmsteen's rising force
in a few weeks, hopefully it will be the one from malmsteen's rising force
To improve technique and of course trying to keep all as clean as possible. I know my own limits and speed limits and so on I never play anything I'm not capable of. That wouldn't make any sense. After three years of playing I tried to play everything as fast as possible and that sounded, I would say, like shit, and I didn't realize that if I'd play bit slower things than I was capable of playing then everything would sound much better.
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
--Aleksi Laiho - Advice to Play By
# 2
HOW DOES SATCH DO THAT LICK? IS HE CREATING SOME SRT OF ARTIFICIAL HARMONIC W/HIS RIGHT HAND?
# 3
I play some left-hand-only stuff a la Garry Moore with lots of open strings (yeah, wave to the audience), and then for contrast some heavily muted shreds a la Paul Gilbert, throw in an arpeggio or two, and an all-the-way-up scale. So far it's all improvised, but i like to add something like the Pink Panther theme, or some gipsy-sounding Brahms. Oh, yeah, the Crossroads duel is kinda effective, as well. Not too much 2 hand tapping, if any, as it's got to be the cheapest impressing technique, at least in my oppinion, and I've heard quite a few non-musicians aggree.
Impendance is fruitfull
while the buttons are circled.:eek:
while the buttons are circled.:eek:
# 4
I dont't think I understand which lick you're talking about chris, if you talk about the break, he uses his right hand to mute the strings, while he goes berserk with the left one
# 5
Have you seen Joe Satrianis dvd live in San Francisco?
On cool#9 he plays this lick and he reaches up on the neck of the guitar ( between the 2nd & 4th frets)and creates some sort of artificial harmonic sound while soloing w/the left hand.
I have never seen this done before, it sounds pretty cool.
I'm told he also does it on the G3 dvd.
I'm also told he has a name for this technique.
On cool#9 he plays this lick and he reaches up on the neck of the guitar ( between the 2nd & 4th frets)and creates some sort of artificial harmonic sound while soloing w/the left hand.
I have never seen this done before, it sounds pretty cool.
I'm told he also does it on the G3 dvd.
I'm also told he has a name for this technique.
# 6
ok; I get it...
Well, I don't remember seeing it on the G3, but I know this technique... Ron Thal uses it in some of his solos, where he taps notes, and instead of releasing to a fretted note, he releases to a natural harmonic, so the sound is higher!!! It's a freaky sound, easy to master, and totally show off!!
Well, I don't remember seeing it on the G3, but I know this technique... Ron Thal uses it in some of his solos, where he taps notes, and instead of releasing to a fretted note, he releases to a natural harmonic, so the sound is higher!!! It's a freaky sound, easy to master, and totally show off!!
# 7
That sounds pretty cool, I'll have to try that one. That's not what Satch is doing though (at least I don't think so). I'll try and explain it better.
He wraps the webbing of his right hand, between the thumb and first finger around the neck of the guitar (he moves it between the 6th and 2nd fret)
At the same time he hammers on arppegios w/the left hand. The arp[egios are not played on the same string like he usually does, but instead are played across the neck. It's hard to describe the sound he creates when doing this but its pretty cool and very impressive to watch. Any Idea?
He wraps the webbing of his right hand, between the thumb and first finger around the neck of the guitar (he moves it between the 6th and 2nd fret)
At the same time he hammers on arppegios w/the left hand. The arp[egios are not played on the same string like he usually does, but instead are played across the neck. It's hard to describe the sound he creates when doing this but its pretty cool and very impressive to watch. Any Idea?
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# 9
I don't have a floating trem so my guitar goes out of tune very easily if I use my whammy bar (boo hoo, no dry eyes left for poor mee...!) I found that if you down tune a string by several semitones till it's really loose you can do the most trememdous behind the nut bends (which incidentally are pretty easy to prebend and release too), combine this with pinch harmonics (choice of at least 4 notes per open string) you can get some really massive shrieks out of the guitar - kind of Ice #9 sound to it.
My posiest guitar trick involves playing pinch harmonics over the 12 fret E and 13 fret C and bending the C string up to C in steps - firstly to D using just the left hand and then the extra bit using the right hand pushing the string up behind where it's fretted. You get the most evil ullulation of notes passing into and out of phase.
My posiest guitar trick involves playing pinch harmonics over the 12 fret E and 13 fret C and bending the C string up to C in steps - firstly to D using just the left hand and then the extra bit using the right hand pushing the string up behind where it's fretted. You get the most evil ullulation of notes passing into and out of phase.
If I couldn't laugh at myself how could I laugh at someone less ridiculous?
# 10
What string do you refer to as C? To my knowledge they are EADGHe, except when detuned. :confused:
Impendance is fruitfull
while the buttons are circled.:eek:
while the buttons are circled.:eek:
# 11
there are no Hs
he refers to the one where he frets the C, meaning the B...
he refers to the one where he frets the C, meaning the B...
# 12
yip, that's it.
If I couldn't laugh at myself how could I laugh at someone less ridiculous?
# 13
Thanx.
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(Crazyguy goes home to test this lick and hybrid it with the aliens in his bathroom.)
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(Crazyguy goes home to test this lick and hybrid it with the aliens in his bathroom.)
Impendance is fruitfull
while the buttons are circled.:eek:
while the buttons are circled.:eek:
# 14
Here's how you do the Satch artificial harmonic arpeggio thing . . . .
Put the edge of your palm so that it's just barely touching the strings. And move it to either the 15th fret or between the pickups above the humbucker somewhere. Now play anything legato with a lot of distortion and gain.
# 15
when he (Satch)did this particular thing he had his right hand behind his left (R. hand was around the 5th fret, then he moved it to the 2nd) He was using the webbing in between the thumb and 1st finger to bar.
Doesn't anyone else have the Live in Sanfrancisco video?
Doesn't anyone else have the Live in Sanfrancisco video?
# 16
I've tried to find the DVD, but can't find it anywhere!! Even on amazon!!
# 17
maybe it wasn't released as a dvd format yet, I have it on video, I know it's really new (definetly worth it)
# 18
In the live CD, he advertises for the DVD, saying it was going to be with a 5-1 sound and stuff, but yet, nothing...
# 19
CM: Ok, I thought you were talking about something else. I think he does that right-over-left thing on Cool #9. He's basically just muting the strings with his right hand while he plays all that fast legato string skipping stuff with his left. It keeps it from sounding too messy.
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