His amazing technique is something every guitarist should aspire to, weather they play blue, metalcore, jazz, or whatever. That dude plays fucking CLEAN

Love jeff Loomis. He is my all time favorite. He can't be beat

I can do this in my sleep. But only in my sleep. This dude is wicked!!

Wow, I'm surprised Jeff says he improvises a lot in the studio. All his solos seem so well composed. Just goes to show what a monster musician he is.

fuck man gotta love how he gets cleaner as he gets faster

Anyone attempting the diminished string skipping part, don't do it. You'll stretch your hand too much and turn it into a flattened pancake or something. That technique fucks up your hand and it's only something Jeff can do. I don't know how he does it but he just does.

you can express some feelings through playing blues or ballads, but you can also express anger and evilness through this kind of song. So the discussion about feeling is pointless. as long as you play it right and honestly there is always a feeling being expressed. This guy is awesome

4:11 impossible task for me

His hand looks like a "rake" during the last solo shapes. JL is insanely talented. I could listen to him play all day.

@Lentax If I'm not mistaken he's tuned down a half step so its Bb standard.

Awesome! , more Jeff Loomis videos Plz

it sounds the same? every player has there favourite musical qualitys. Loomis likes Diminished and whole tone licks, and mixes them up frequently. He also likes going up in Minor thirds for alot of his riffs like the verse riff in "Born"

You can tap the notes of the stretch parts if its difficult

that is a beautiful guitar

he has scary big hands

Jeff Loomis, why? Why do you make things so difficult? Why? But do you know, that old Jeff was so smart and so slick, he thought up a lie and he thought it up quick. :P

that stretch at 4:15 is just no for me, at least on an extended scale guitar(Loomis sig). Curse my average sized hands.

@guitarfiend797 yeah, Jeff Loomis signature model

jeff loomis is living prove of god

Killer Tone!

This guy really knows how to incorporate Middle Eastern flavors into his playing

@Ningirsutyr I know that he probably never even heard a not from a Middle Eastern track, but nevertheless it sounds familiar to the Oud or Qanoon. But Randy Rhoads for example played the entire solo in "Diary Of A Madman" in the Algerian Scale, But if you go to something like Maiden, It's sometimes the Augmented 5th

amazing violinist!!!!!!!

very good.

lovely, i love u jeff!!!

I love that guitar *-*

@R1ronin Well, about Gilbert, he just has a really long pinky, and Brendan can stretch too. Look for Technical Difficulties (He plays a red Ibanez with a fixed bridge, so you can recognize the vid" And for Small, watch his "Betcha Can't Play This"

JEFF?????? How come you had to quit Nevermore????? Hope the solo record sounds good. Dont leave your fans behind!!!!

@Niallphillips it all sounds awesome

Every time i see his hands im surprised..Jeff is the person on Earth who have exactly the same hands and fingers with me, both in length and shape...our hands are brothers hahaha

freeze at 4:28....he has the demon hand!!!!

1.37 the smile on his face = PRICELESS (yeah i nailed that solo ROFL!)

Sounds like he's playing the gypsy scale, one of my favorite scales.

Those notes aren't there when I play.

This guy is heavier than a rain of axes! once you have enden to listen his solo album your personality changes (into heavier of course)

@Niallphillips Thats a fair point but this is a piece of music, not mindless fretwanking.

@Ningirsutyr I'm not sure. that's at least what Guitar Pro 5 scale finder told me.

@Lentax probably b flat standard Bb,eb,ab,db,gb,bb,eb-low to high

EVH FTW.

That rhythm riff sounds rhythmically similar to the beautiful people

@MrNeosantana :O I didn't know that about Diary of a Madman! What is exactly the Algerian scale actually? :/ In any case, it's hard to translate a real Middle Eastern melody to the standard Western notation system since there is no substitution for the 2nd minors between two notes ;)

@25jonathan Well said, but it's not exactly phrygian :p It's Phrygian Dominant, which is a mode of harmonic minor.

The intro riff... is that from a song? If so whats it called plz?

And I thought the stretch on Andy James' "Diary of Hell's Guitar" was big.

nice

@EnemyXofXreality666 Shawn Lane used to do it as well

What's the song in the beginning?

@hellion786 He does have big hands

he is a long-haired guitar playing vampire!

so smoth could be on a starbucks menu

@Lentax lol sorry bro, knew you were joking about the Z but i thought you really wanted to know lol

Jeff Loomis eats haters for breakfast.

@R1ronin I'm just saying "If this is wide stretching for you, then you'd be scared if you saw X" I'm not insulting you in any way, dude

@Navarre1994 He IS highly influenced by Friedman, and Jason Becker

como se llama la cancion??

@jpjdo1212 No, a trait is like a part of your personality.

I accidentally skipped to the slow intro where he is doing the chugs slowly, WHAT AN INTRO any ways, try listening and accenting the intro SLOWLY, its brutal as F. here look 0:56

@Rrrrobbo A dimished string skip lick like this is painful even on frets above 12

@grievous56 I found out, right after reading your comment.

This is absolutely Arabic mode called ( Hijazi - Phrygien dominant ) 😀

what model schecter is that. it looks sick nasty. must be a signiture model

@BaphometStudios i use 1.5 and its perfect for me

@sonicgeetar to blow a whole through your point..Milli vanilli Toured....so shows what that logic means

@YggdrasilEtLeCruxis i have a six string you can still play 90% of the solo you know

@Nameless164 isnt it " a jack of all traits, is a master of nothing"

is this regular tuning?

That stretching lick must have been Shawn Lane inspired.

@Thardus616 cool

@Nameless164 guthrie govan is master of all styles...

pikinge paling keren ....

@mortemdrummer and still the sexiest man alive as long as he has a guitar in his hands...

4:06 i was like, what happened to his pinky?! Where is it? Than i realised that he was using his pinky.

@nght5tlkr w8 for the video its still processing

0:47 ''for this next bitch...''

@HuberttXXX17 Alright, and theres no need to apologize as you did nothing wrong, I was just asking for a reference :). Further note, I still disagree...

hands of a giant

@R1ronin You've obviously never watched Brendan Small or Paul Gilbert play, then you'd be scared

Just a heads up for those trying to learn this. The solo rhythm is significantly different on the actual record than he shows in this video. It's more like this: |------------------------|--------------------5|----------------------|------------------------| |4444_5444447|5444_544443|5444_544442|5444_53333_5| |2222_3222225|3222_32222--|3222_322220|3222_31111_3|

i miss the hair string mute

that busts my organs ... *_____________*

6:25 Impossible....

1:38 he's smiling because he knew that nobody can easily play that

1:50 basically he's saying "because i'm jeff fucking loomis and i'm better than you"

I got arthritis jus watching this😬😑🤨

@gdbangrenbehemoth666 Lucky you! My hands are rather small so its almost impossible for me

1:30 + What big hands you have.

@genud0414 i think it was a joke....

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@gnrcr Dude, Jeff quit Nevermore along with their drummer Van Williams. =[[

@IloveRillettes i know brutal

4:08 ARE YOU SHITTIN ME?

@Niallphillips lulz.

@Niallphillips His solo album disagrees strongly.

@brendanollie ...down a half step

C# Phrygian Dominant. Sounds scary.

The moment he said phrygian dominant I came, that's probably my favorite scale. Sounds edgy as fuck though.

@EnemyXofXreality666 if you can't strecth just learn tapping and you're done

@nght5tlkr works for me

@EnemyXofXreality666 Hahahahahaha... what ?

damn long fingers.. longer that mine... O_O