Matteo Mancuso's Lick is Impossible with a Pick? Let's Try It

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Matteo Mancuso's Lick is Impossible with a Pick? Let's Try It

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6 ай бұрын

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Another cool lick from @MatteoMancusoofficial second appearance on @RickBeato - this is tricky with a pick, but that's what makes it a great thing to try!
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@nekkon1989 6 ай бұрын

They said it was impossible for mere mortals, not for the one and only John Nathan Cordy

@rokket2005 6 ай бұрын

This kind of descending arpeggios in threes is a staple of Jason Richardsons playing, and he does it just as fast if not faster with a pick than Matteo does. His playing on Born of Osiris' The Discovery has it plastered all over.

@Garbageaf 6 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing about Jason when I originally watched the Matteo interview.

@jaredwilliams1031 6 ай бұрын

Currently trying to master min7 and maj7 arpeggios in groups of four. Descending is a real workout. It's going to require some hybrid picking probably.

@DaveElwoodCutter 6 ай бұрын

Jason Becker, Teemu Mäntysaari, Edoardo Taddei, Jeff Loomis… there are plenty of shredders doing these sequenced arpeggios. Not to take anything away from Matteo, he’s incredible.

@picksalot1 6 ай бұрын

"Matteo Cordy" gives it a good shot. Sweeping looks like the way to go, simply based on what the picking hand needs to do.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

The sweeping thing makes most sense since it sorta sounds pretty Gambale inspired to me?

@pauljohnston1560 6 ай бұрын

I love the name “Matteo Cordy” … I kinda hope that sticks 😝😝😝

@tomanynote 6 ай бұрын

Nice work John. You’re right , that lick is Absolutely playable it’s just an Esus4 arp . It comes from Mike Stern’s vocabulary . I remember hearing it in the 90’s. It’s a common jazz, lick

@azcardinalsletsgoteam6537 6 ай бұрын

I can play it with my dick tied behind my back. Easy.

@stewartperry7797 5 ай бұрын

I’ve been following you since you were at about 28k followers and I get notification but for some reason you aren’t coming through. I believe you are comparable if not better than the young Matteo and your follower list should be well over a million. You are that good.

@kentower 6 ай бұрын

and props for the picking although I think what Matteo meant was that with licks like these his (spread across the strings) left hand has an advantage or in the sense of thats where he feels more comfortable because it means LESS stress for his right hand, whereas if you pick it its really more challenging than doing three note per string stuff which in contrast again is hard to pull of and sustain with fingerstyle picking. I guess the "its impossible" part was just kudos being given, Asato would prolly have been able to pull it off with a bit of preparation. Frank Gambale does this stuff with sweep picking if i remember correctly. might even be possible with Paul Gilbert style string skipping?

@FreeSpeechWarrior 6 ай бұрын

Love that custard-colored super Stratocaster with the ebony fret board and it seems a little fatter than an actual Stratocaster. The head stock looks like it's been roasted. Just gorgeous.

@caseylockwood5512 6 ай бұрын

I absolutely believe Matteus Asato could play it with some effort haha, I think he was mostly gassing his boy up, not that Matteo needs it. Matteus is such a nice dude. Also great job breaking this down! Matteo is definitely one of those players that will inspire an entirely new generation, and I think people are starting to rethink the way they viewed fingerstyle playing. Matteo has kind of defined what is possible with the technique on an electric, something few before him have been able to do.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

I think it's one of those things where something that is totally natural for Matteo as he has done it for a long time would require most of us to sit down with it for a while before it started to feel possible? But yeh I like the idea of trying to incorporate Matteo's awesome lines into "traditional" playing. Was listening to his album today and a few more lines jumped out at me!

@GuitarsOK 6 ай бұрын

That’s some cool playing, John! Come on 💪! Thanks for posting! 👏🏻

@ksharpe10 6 ай бұрын

Figures says he can't do Sweep picking and then does it without thinking about it. Sneaky JNC!!!!

@kimmis15 6 ай бұрын

Way easier to economy / sweep pick, I had the same reaction as your did hehe, just got my guitar and tried playing it instantly

@FireStrings85 6 ай бұрын

I've found this much easier to sweep, down stroke on the highest string in each 4 note grouping followed by 3 down strokes.

@user-qj8bb6zm6x 2 ай бұрын

Wow, good job John, bravo. But One exspecially of Matteo Is the inimitabile formnof legato: in him wonderful phrases by distorcion too, each single note are clean, becouse he plays whith finger without pick, so everythink, in every solo he plays we do not ear the "noise" of pick on every single note. This morbido tocco without pick of his right finger are inimitabile. Thanks and go on, i'll follow you.

@MrCalenture 6 ай бұрын

WELL DONE SIR!!

@GreenHoleSun 6 ай бұрын

I give my 2 cent, from a keyboardist (more than guitarist) perspectve: the point is not if it is possible or not to do certain pieces with or without a pick and at what speed. What Matteo say is that it is a question of "economy of movements" and control: it is certainly more confortable for a guitarist who is trained to use all his fingers of the right hand to do what he does and it provides him more control on the playing. Obviously he did not invent anything (nor he is claiming to have invented anything): classical and flamenco guitarists do it all the time. From my humble perpective he is right: why use only a single piece of plastic when you have 5 fingers avaible?

@meljohnson5579 6 ай бұрын

I've got to try to learn it. If nothing else just as an exercise. You said it best. "It's about the friends we make along the way😊

@Userxyzabcdefg 6 ай бұрын

Even i tried and played that lick with hybrid picking.

@kentower 6 ай бұрын

thanks for switching the mic at the two minute mark, i was gonna write something ;)

@synboy 6 ай бұрын

For some reason, I'm hearing "Green Tinted Sixties Mind" in that riff, minus the sliding tap. Hmm......

@nevilriker5090 6 ай бұрын

Nice . Fantastic playing

@atquinn1975 5 ай бұрын

When I heard them say that I was like, have you never heard of Steve Morse? His core technique is alternate picking and he plays single string arpeggios like this regularly (or used to back in the day at any rate).

@BigSh00tsie 6 ай бұрын

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@akaerik1 6 ай бұрын

Another Monday gem.

@eddiejr540 6 ай бұрын

Jeez…I’m still struggling with inside vs outside picking😩

@TheMasonator777 6 ай бұрын

I always recoil when people say things are impossible.

@stevegrg8434 6 ай бұрын

The sound and feel of it is a bit different coming from Mancuso.John is awesome as always.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

Of course - he's an INCREDIBLE player!

@aleibus 6 ай бұрын

the first lick you show at the beginning is beautiful, is there a video where you explain this? thanks !

@vincet68 6 ай бұрын

Interesting - when you started moving around the chords, it really began to sound like Mike Oldfield (who so rarely gets mentioned in virtuoso guitar references)

@tagoresmith8831 6 ай бұрын

If you refinger it so that the first and second notes of each grouping fall on the same string, and sweep it D-U-U-U for each grouping, the right hand isn't that hard- I play some stuff with basically exactly that picking pattern, but in thirds, and I can play it really fast. In fourths the left hand gets harder, especially the A on the 14th fret into the little barre at the 9th fret. I'd have to practice it some to get that move really reliable at fast tempi, but it's definitely playable. Might get pretty tricky on the lower frets though, unless you had big hands.

@jaredwilliams1031 5 ай бұрын

I can play it at sixteenth notes around 100 bpm but I am wanting to be able to play cleanly at least 20 bpm faster.

@martinopinto6323 6 ай бұрын

Don't worry John, not even Petrucci can play The Glass Prison alternate picked ahah. There is a sickk video by Martin Miller though :o

@davidnoy3964 6 ай бұрын

Phenomenal guitarist. The funny thing is , Matteo couldnt do (with 8 fingers) what Shawn lane could do with a pick.

@terrapin323 6 ай бұрын

Sending very Matteo-y today

@deamonlite 5 ай бұрын

Let's say it's playable with a pick, of course by those guitar masters, can they make it sound as clear as him?

@stuto200872 3 ай бұрын

They are right !!! . You're a great guitar player for sure but the sound is completely, really completely, different. From a muscular point of view it certainly can, but the sound (this is music guys , SOUND !!) will always be damn different. Cleaner, more tied..... more beautiful. Let's restore the concept of beauty. That sound is more beautiful. And sorry if my long-trained ears tell me this. Bless you amazing musician❤

@carlodevivomusicontent2138 6 ай бұрын

As you said as an exercise i can accept that someone would like to try this out, but i think you agree that you don't sound not even close to the flow Matteo performs it, so i would still say that they are right saying that it is not pickable

@jan_07 6 ай бұрын

It is pickable. Those 2 (Rick and Mancuso) are capping because they are piss poor at picking with a plectrum themselves, and Asato was just trying to be courteous. It’s an arpeggio ffs, use sweep-picking and it’s game over. The reason John can’t play it as close to the Mancuso flow is because he’s alternate picking it as he said he’s not good with sweeping.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

Well given that I've only practiced it for maybe 30 minutes at most, and am not a great picker, I feel like it's definitely something that folks could do. That Matteo has his own style doesn't exclude the lines from folks with a pick - all of Matteo's favourite players play with a pick, so it's 100% worth trying to incorporate Matteo's lines into our playing as pickers too

@carlodevivomusicontent2138 6 ай бұрын

@@johnnathancordy i don't think that' s one of his nicest lines anyway.

@carlodevivomusicontent2138 6 ай бұрын

@@johnnathancordyi hope you understand my english, my comment was not meant to be offensive in no way, i just don't like the provocative title you gave the video (for me it's that question mark that gives it that provocative tone) as if you are saying "it's impossible they say, i'll show them, 'll play it with no effort" and then at the end it's not even half the speed Matteo plays it, and not very precise, and even if somebody does pick it at that speed with the same precision, it will sound crap, it's a legato/sweep sounding style, it's not meant to be picked. I am not saying you are a bad player, i really like your playing and i think you are one of the best players on youtube, very talented. I am only contesting the provocative title . Sometimes i think people have a problem with the fact that there are people like Matteo that are pure genious, we should all be glad we have met him in our lives, he's on another level, we shouldn't be gelous. This is just my opinion, nothing more

@madgeorge2236 6 ай бұрын

Let's pray for autofocus!

@ThinPicks 5 ай бұрын

Of course it can be played with a pick, just involves some string skipping. Beato's ok, but sometimes he gets a bit silly.🤪

@kaekayyy2554 6 ай бұрын

damn that intro went so hard the camera forgot to focus.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

Lol yeh the sun was shining too bright for me to notice....

@mogret7451 6 ай бұрын

just play high and low e at the same time, not possible with a pick 😅

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

Pick and hybrid

@Javier-qk7ms 6 ай бұрын

It’s like Deadmouse and Davie504 again 😂

@JerryTheVeganRockstar 5 ай бұрын

Who is they?

@livelypelts3325 6 ай бұрын

John, what gauge/type pics do you use?

@nathan-dudeman 6 ай бұрын

Day 14 of asking for ALL the backing tracks to be put up on Patreon! Some say it's IMPOSSIBLE but I have HOPE!

@luchorios5663 6 ай бұрын

Might just be easier and faster to learn it with fingers a la Mancuso to avoid any unwanted accents....

@gibsondude07ify 6 ай бұрын

Jon you think that lick is hard? Lol I just tried it and sprained my ankle 😏 Also adopt me (I'm 32 btw)

@brianice9846 6 ай бұрын

As good as those guys are, neither of them impressed me because I haven’t heard them write a song that moves me. Maybe that’s forthcoming or maybe not

@ksharpe10 6 ай бұрын

Matteo and his group did one I really liked alot, the video has Matteo using a Pacifica in it, setting up the base and then coming in with solos on his revstar. It had an 80's thing going on.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

Jason Richardson - great shout - I think Baxty and that Taranto fella too do this sort of stuff?

@johnplaystheguitar123 6 ай бұрын

That Beato line was hyperbole surely. Matteo learnt all his lines from pick players. There'd be so many pick players who'd be able to play this, Cordy included already, whether alternate, sweeped, or hybrid picked (Stephen Taranto, Jason Richardson, Baxty). Also Beato recently interviewed Steve Morse who'd be able to alternate pick it. Also has interviewed Gambale where the lick most likely originated from. Gambale would 100% be able to play it, perhaps better than Matteo himself, and there is a high chance you could find the lick played by Gambale already. It'd probably involve a barre and sweeping. Also, fkin hell Cordy was able to do it to prove a point with very little time. Beato is great but some of his takes he does miss from time to time. Just plain wrong.

@ThinPicks 5 ай бұрын

Allan Holdsworth would've played it all legato and twice as fast!😮

@FreeSpeechWarrior 6 ай бұрын

I like hearing your playing better than Matteo's. He sounds like an AI robot, and you sound like a very polished and talented guitarist that pours his soul out into all of his licks. Please do not sell yourself short.

@TheRflynn 6 ай бұрын

The internet is unforgiving, things move on. Last week’s prodigy is this weeks has been.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

While Matteo is perhaps getting a bit more exposure right now, he's impressed SO many of THE guitarists out there - Steve Vai, Al diMeola, Eric Johnson - he's definitely the real deal (as well as SUPER deferential to all the great guitarists that have inspired him)

@TheRflynn 6 ай бұрын

@@johnnathancordy In your video you were pretty clear about how impressed you are with his playing. I probably should have put some tongue-in-cheek emoji.

@Check-it-out 6 ай бұрын

So sad that in this day and age so many people can't read or don' want to read. I said that "I don't like his style". That is my OPINION. I am not saying that 'anything fast is without emotion'. Listen to Joe Satriani, Gary Moore, Scott Henderson.. Scott Henderson is the best example. Not 2 notes have the same expression. Matteo is just playing notes flat and without emotion. Music is ABOUT emotion, remember ? Music is about taste, remember ? Look at the twisted reply from @piter127 who apparently is working for the Matteo Mancuso Immaculacy Police or perhaps... he is projecting ?

@Check-it-out 6 ай бұрын

People need hypes. Matteo is the current hype. That's all. I don't like his style. It is completely without any musical emotion.

@piter127 6 ай бұрын

People? I think YOU need hypes and it looks like the fact that a new young extremely talented guitarist makes you feel uncomfortable.

@johnnathancordy 6 ай бұрын

People say anything fast is without emotion...I think that's a fairly subjective and prescriptive take on expression that doesn't particularly square with centuries of other music. Besides, check out Matteo's album the Journey and there's plenty of melodic playing on there.

@Check-it-out 6 ай бұрын