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

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.

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

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

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

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

4:11 impossible task for me

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"

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Awesome! , more Jeff Loomis videos Plz

@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

@guitarfiend797 yeah, Jeff Loomis signature model

Killer Tone!

@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 loomis is living prove of god

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

amazing violinist!!!!!!!

that is a beautiful guitar

lovely, i love u jeff!!!

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

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

I love that guitar *-*

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

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

@Niallphillips it all sounds awesome

@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 ;)

very good.

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)

Those notes aren't there when I play.

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

What's the song in the beginning?

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

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

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

EVH FTW.

is this regular tuning?

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

That rhythm riff sounds rhythmically similar to the beautiful people

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

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

como se llama la cancion??

@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

Jeff Loomis eats haters for breakfast.

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

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

@EnemyXofXreality666 Shawn Lane used to do it as well

That stretching lick must have been Shawn Lane inspired.

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

so smoth could be on a starbucks menu

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

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

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

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

he is a long-haired guitar playing vampire!

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

@hellion786 He does have big hands

nice

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

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

@BaphometStudios i use 1.5 and its perfect for me

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

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

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

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

@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...

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

pikinge paling keren ....

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

@Thardus616 cool

@nght5tlkr w8 for the video its still processing

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|

hands of a giant

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

that busts my organs ... *_____________*

4:08 ARE YOU SHITTIN ME?

i miss the hair string mute

"everything he does sounds the same" Let me reveal a very true phrase to you guys - "jack of all trades, master of none". I'd much rather have Jeff make 1 awesome style of music than a bunch of medicore styles.

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

@MrNeosantana What many call Middle Eastern flavor since Blackmore brought them on the spotlight is nothing but a Phrygian scale most of the time. It would be foolish to think that all these guys listened to any Middle Eastern music or melody during their lives ;-/ I wonder how he came up with that big stretch idea though ;) Nobody in his right mind would say "Yeah, let's just try that" :)

1:30 + What big hands you have.

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

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

Ugh, people suggesting he plays in a screamo band... No.! death metal, sure, melodic, ect. Anything except for the genre of "screamo" Keep in mind just because they scream doesn't make it screamo.

@Niallphillips His solo album disagrees strongly.

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

6:25 Impossible....

@IloveRillettes i know brutal

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

C# Phrygian Dominant. Sounds scary.

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

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

I got arthritis jus watching this😬😑🤨

@denerpunkrock who the fuck is JUSTIM BEIBER!?