Yes, he’s a wonderful person and family man!❤❤❤

He didn't just step back from touring, he quit megadeth

No sounds like he's leaving Megadeth, I hope not though

​@@ozman6602he already left them man

​@rastamon5969 Yes dumby, he quit so he could be closer to his family. U get it

Are they going away?

I don’t think so. I was thinking about new videos.

As a then-teenage kid who had open classes with Kiko during High School in Cubatão, of all places, I can guarantee that he's a superbly nice guy. Super open to people, honest, down-to-earth, totally focused on the instrument. Good to see him reaching the recognition his talents always pushed him to have.

I've found the trick is to use the very, very tip of the pick, so you need to find the angles that allow you to pick that way consistently, which are: up or downward pickslanting, leading or. trailing edge, and the most overlooked of all, the angle along the the length of the string. If you picture the pick perpendicular to the string the part where you hold it should point to two o'clock. Also I use the arm to change strings and the wrist to pick, that helps keep my hand in the same position relative to the string I'm picking. If you look at the vid, Kiko does the same, and he anchors his fingers for maximum precision. I started working on this stuff like 3 years ago, and it changed my life

Procure por Edu Ardanuy , outro brasileiro, ficará fascinado na mão direita

You can add Uli Jon Roth there. Man playing hard songs like he's playing twinkle twinkle little star. He's so relaxed.

Rick Graham and Anton Oparin also

He's not so humble here in Brazil

@@FelipeMartins-lr5pm Es bíblico... nadie es profeta en su tierra. Saludos desde Argentina!

​@@FelipeMartins-lr5pmaccording to who? People spoke ill of Jesus, how even more so of us?

Dude's you've heard him play in angra.... he owns the right to brag a little for his accomplishments... but he wouldn't act like a queen unless you pull his lashes😂

@@sirborges O que ele fez que você achou errado?

@@sirborges Entendo. Sinto muito.

​@@sirborgesExistem relatos de varios lugares do Brasil de pessoas que foram maltratadas por ele

@@sirborges Here we go again with the haters and their gossips: "I've heard that...", "I had a friend of a friend who told me...", "I heard of people that...", "once I've read of rumors..." "I've heard reports of people...". Funny thing though is these people never a miss a single video about him.

ya wow. u know its truly hard to believe..but idk him right. I was wanting to know what ur sayn in Portuguese? cuz it seemed juicy. Hes either SUPER humble/chill, or SUPER douchey/arrogant lol @@sirborges

You'll get it eventually, it did take me way longer than right handed guitarists to get alternate picking runs down that aren't tremelo picked.

Lefty here aswell! but I've always played right handed guitar. I've always struggled with my picking hand and precision, Kiko is the first guitarist that I've heard comment on this and it makes so much sense

Excellent comment. I believe that some of my inability to pick really fast is certainly genetic (or developmental), but much of it is simple laziness. I have never had good discipline in my practice routine. My laziness has also precluded me from learning all of the notes on the neck, and from learning triads all over the neck, and from practicing scales in every key, and... fuck! I am a worthless guitar player! 😭

Great comment

I'd say also, the shape and size of your hands has more of a bearing than a lot of people think!

I have short fat fingers, and my pinky crinks up anytime I use it and I need to pop it so it’ll move again. I will never be where I want to be as a player 🤣

I disagree with the «being born» statement. I'm nowhere near what can be called a virtuoso player, I always was on and off with the instrument due to life circumstances, I have a twisted left hand middle finger due to a basketball injury... Despite all that, I had my breakthrough and eureka moments when I suddenly progressed more than in 10 years in a brief period of time. It isn't a matter of practising more, but actually a matter of practising right. These genius virtuoso players just hit all the right buttons at the right time, that's their IQ. Even people with disabilities managed to pick quite fast, like Django Reinhardt. People with small hands don't have any disadvantage, just take a look at those many incredible Japanese virtuoso players with fingers not much longer than the width of the fretboard (watch out for the Chinese guitar army of kids not many people are aware of). In my country there are so many little children playing flamenco guitar like Paco (the fretboard's smaller width has the string separation of an electric guitar bridge). But speed picking is just that, it isn't any key component of great music, just a tool you can use, should you have it. It's the key to the Lamborghini, but nobody really needs any sports car to go through a beautiful journey. I align more with Tomo Fujita's motto: don't worry, don't compare, be kind to yourself.

What a stupid thing to say.

I'm a righty and play lefty... always felt natural, to use my right hand for the fretboard.

Agreed. I couldnt imagine trying to betray my lefthandedness by playing righty😂

I find the faster I am able to play the more ssubjective time I have when I am not playing fast (most of the time) to move to some new idea and make it fit the timing. Plus the occassional shred it a ton of fun.

Im in a similar situation. I played guitar for years, stopped and recently picked it up again after 10 years. Decided that I wanted to up my game to shredding. Been practicing this last 3 months and found personally that the fastest way to progress is to learn actual licks and solos more so than repetetive exercies. Also playing with a metronome is essential for high speed guitar.

@@jademonolith I agree about licks and solos. You need language and vocabulary - and the ultimate goal is of course to play music, not just exercises. Personally, I'm finding that the exercises have really helped with my ability to play lead more fluidly. I'm kicking myself for not incorporating it years ago. Oh well. Better late than never.

​@@jademonolithtrust me, these exercises will always be important for you to be able to step up your playing. It doesn't matter how skilled you are. Try to come up with your own patterns (be really creative). You'll be able to quickly spot your weaknesses to work on and find different sounds and ideas for new songs. Listen to Wes Hauch's Sleepwalk video for Seymour Duncan here on KZfaq. An amazing piece of soulful shredding that clearly came from an exercise/pattern.

@@Conqoo no doubt, I started with them. But I found that lately proficiency was accelerated by going straight to the licks and solos. Maybe because I already moved past the exercises years ago. Idk YMMV. Doing established solos gave me lick and run ideas

Yes!