I found this guy way too late into my guitar career!! Wow, very underrated guitarist. Junk town is a fantastic album

For a guitar player who grew up in the 70s, it's such a luxury to have this series where we can watch all these great players close up and in slow motion. Troy Grady has done more for string picking pedagogy than anyone in history. Thanks for the master class Andy.

You've given the guitar community so much valuable content and somewhat demystified many guitar mechanics. These kinds of insights will be the next big step in guitar history and musical virtuosity. Mark my words.

I used to jam with Andy back in the day in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg TN. He's a really humble player. He turned me on to Brent Mason and I turned him on to SRV. He deserves all the success he has obtained and is talented off the charts.

@1:07:24 is the most important information anyone interested in playing fast guitar needs to hear! It's not about individual notes, it's about a texture. Love the way Andy talks!

It's funny watching Troy attach THE Magnet @50:40 and now FOUR years later I finally received my production model today and looking at it! 😃

Love the comment Andy made about the old Petrucci forum. That is where I chatted with and got to know all those amazing players Andy mentioned. There were some incredibly talented dudes that hung out at that forum.

Troy is the mad scientist of guitar mechanics, Troy has him wired up and the experiment begins... Great stuff!

This deserves many more views. Thanks to both for making it possible.

from now on I'm gonna say I am commodore 64 thanks Troy I am stealing that one!

Thank you, Troy for all you do!

Troy, you never cease to amaze me with how brilliant your video concepts can be! This was a Live video? Wow, absolute perfection! Thank you so much for greatly expanding my understanding and skill.

This is a gem. Brings up new ways to approach guitar and music.

This is the best interview ive ever seen watched

Andy is an amazing player, and this is a great, informative interview.. the small tips he puts out here are really valuable, and truthful.

Very interesting thoughts here... In my humble opinion(being an old fart, who began playing at age 7 in 1977) I believe that all the time we spent, honing our skills, because there wasn't much else to do, gave me a deeper understanding of the few elements of music, that I've spent time really learning; Eartraining and rythm... How ever; with the possibilities nowadays with "The interweb" and different global access, I feel I've developed greatly as a player, simply because of stuff like this online workshop and all kinds of "tips & Tricks" that are at our disposal... The problem (in some cases, not all) is when people just go for the fancy stuff, and forget to learn the essentials of PLAYING MUSIC, and just go for flashy tricks ;-)

Thanks for sharing video Troy Grady..

amazing questions and incredible answers. thank you guys.

I agree with Python.... I'm 61..played since i was 15...still i find so much valuable stuff ..U have taken guitarteaching to a totally new level... God Bless u and thank u

this was excellent. thank you Troy and Andy for sharing your knowledge and insights!

Thanks for your Video's Troy. They are truly great. I stopped buying and reading guitar player before I even knew what Upward and downward pick slanting was? All I knew about was alternate picking. I love your cracking the code series. And this was a great Interview. Andy is a phenomenal talent. I'm 55 and when Yngwie came out I was like 21. I learned the whole solo of Too young to die Too drunk to Live by first memorizing the solo in my head and then stopping the record and then playing to it. I learned those arpeggios in different positions then Yngwie played them in but it developed my upward and downward pick slanting which I didn't even know, at the time, had a name, or what I was doing? I didn't know I figured them out in the wrong position until I got Yngwies Vhs Instructional tape. He'd play them on the first high G, B, E, strings and I'd play them on the D, G, B, strings. And the run before the ascending diminished run before the solo I'd play on 2 notes per string, and the ascending diminished arpeggio into the solo on the G, B, and E strings. When Yngwie showed me how it was done it was way easier to do it his way, but it still felt more comfortable to me the way I learned it? I only wish I had what the kids have today. The only good thing back then was it developed my ear and musical memory.

Great video, many thanks for sharing it!

There's just one way to describe this: MIND-BLOWING.

his picking is quite outrageous! amazing skill!

I can't wait for the day Troy will have Kiko Loureiro as a guest.

Troy Grady u rock man, thank you!!!!

Havent been on TGs youtube in a while. What a pleasant surprise to rediscover his channel through AW youtube. My day just got better.

Awesome guys 🐻👍

PERFECT!

Andy wood is a beast of a player

Fantastic player!

That’s chord and picking at 1.13 and that final note is absolute class

gift. Thank you

johnny winter in 1973 was my gateway. nice vid, troy!! well done.

I watched all of it.

Gibblets ... I love it

Hell yes to the Blade Runner shirt, and what a great session.

Good stuff

I had a pong console lol It was awesome. I remember it had ice hockey and 3 others but cant remember. The good old days.

Hmm bluegrass and country arent really genres I can relate too much to, but I gotta say in terms of super shreddy, technical guitars, seems that is where we can see the most musical ones. Molly Tuttle turned me into the genre recently and I feel so late to the show lol

So funny, he's like what? and just like killin it...

hi andy awesome playing

@57:30 most X-rated playing I've seen 😃 commences.

His tone is very similar to Paul Gilbert's in the Intense Rock 1 VHS. Amazing technique!

Amazing! Jason Richardson next pls :D

I first became aware of Andy from MySpace, when Down From Up was just spamming friend requests.. checked it out and bought the album.. never knew Andy was bluegrass guy until he released his solo album 😂

I second his opinion on strings gauge/ Tension. I play rumba flamenca stuff on a nylon Spanish bracing Cordoba and light tension strings always has more expression than wrestling with high tension ones.

Andy us such a bad ass. Holy shit !!!!

WOW

Andy seems like a really good dude

Yep. We were definitely able to uh..... :D

Andy Wood had MPD! He's also a notorious hip-hop DJ ..

Wonderful. No detail too small to investigate - love it. Thank you to Troy. Technical question: Is Andy 'anchoring' his right hand on bridge with ulner (pinky side) or radial (thumb side)? I know it's briefly in there somewhere. I also love Troy's playing. How does he 'anchor'? Thanks, guitar friends.

The information available now is mind boggling. There was a lot of secrecy with tone and technique in the 70s and early eighties. Eddie , for example, love him, led us astray by saying in Guitar Player Magazine that he cranked his “stock” Marshall’s line voltage up with the Variac not down, bad boy.

"The most comfortable would be the G string... and all the jokes that go with at" ahahahaha :D

Troy reminds me of Eric Foreman from that 70s show.

Loved his guitar. What was it?

"Mclovin guy " 😂😂 , wonder how many people watched the audience is listening video and never realised

Is there another video with analysis of the picking footage?

I think I saw Andy have to restrain himself from making a joke when Troy said "you have to track off"

Alex Skolnick wrecked me!

Strange is that Andy says he does not like when the palm of his right hand goes to the body when picking the lower strings and avoids that. But when you look at the vid where he plays “Andy Wood interview 46 guitar examples”, he is doing that.

1:03:20

If you want to see and hear the greatest master of the speed and technique on the guitar in general,then listen to Michael Paouris on youtube performing "Paourissimo".It's simply funny how many levels below that is Andy Wood.To make things crazier the guitar is not Paouris' main instrument.In fact he's a bouzouki player first.Nobody,absolutely nobody in the world is capable of competing with him.Check it out if you think I'm exaggerating.

Im jus gonna say... U really gotta talk about mute position, really important factor

So what did he practice to get his alternate picking to that level? (1:00:00 in the video).

Man, one hour two minutes onwards.. I thought I was the only one who hated playing on a and e because of the lack of resting point and the flimsy nature of high e. The mechanics on the lower strings change because of hand resting. At least someone as good as Andy feels what I feel too

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You can trace Metal to Sabbath and then Priest

Lol @ „play something easy to warm up, like an Al di Meola tune“ (near 1h17)

54:00 is remarkably hard to get to that speed. is there footage of his picking hand from troy's neck camera?

my first electric guitar had a floyd. it ruined my life lol. i became a shredder limited to one string. i could never figure out where to rest my hand so i could not cleanly change strings at higher speeds. twenty five years later it's still easier on a les paul or tele... something fixed.

As “wankish” and mindless as licks like this may be, the legato from about 1:24 to 1:32 is just otherworldly. Insane technique 🔥🤯🔥

what about Bireli La Grene ???

Whats that Riff at 39.55?

Suhr is worth every penny, doubters!

Which Kind of pick he use? dunlop?

You can play any mk characters

I'm so old I have no clue about Mortal Combat.

Timestamp the topic points!

This is like a fighter pilot talkin to a monk...

I find that playing thrash metal rhythms is a lot harder than any lead playing now, not sure why.

Can you give some Tabs on what Andy Wood is playing on the guitar 🎸 ???? 😨😰🤦🏻‍♂️

If your dog doesn’t remember you, you’re doing it wrong.

Hitting double note are is a pain in the Ass to break that habit.. any one have this problem?

The handsize is totally overblown. Once I saw Lisa X at 7 years old play Racer X tunes that thing was over.

I notice Andy likes playing closer to the neck pickup.. I find that there's too much play in the strings, so I play closer to the saddles. I liken it to the same reason a tightrope walker doesn't walk on a wire that isn't taut. Or the same reason we use heavier picks.. To eliminate the play or slack and let the mechanics do what they're trying to do. Ie remove all potential sources of error. So why would Andy want to play between pickups when he even said he didn't like the flimsy nature of high e? Move the pick stroke closer the the bridge pickup and the string instantly feels "heavier".

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"that's not OVERLAPPY?"

Only 365 views. You gotta be kidding.

35:50 39:55 40:05 40:34

Nublette = pisiform

Pendulum NOT guillotine!!! lol

Im just going to quit playing now..yup

just one thing: there's no such thing as a Super Nintendo Genesis, WTF :D

So basically, buy a mandolin and learn fiddle tunes.

Can't trace the origin of metal? Lol what? Black Sabbath started metal. Not Blue Cheer or Vanilla Fudge or something. Metal literally starts with Black Sabbath.

you can absolutely trace jazz as well as metal....

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