It amazed me when I watched him on Troy Grady. Looking at his right hand when he shreds, he seldom employs palm muting to silence the strings. It was clear that his hand was suspended above the strings and was relying on pinpoint accuracy as to not hit any other string. I knew he was a clean player but to have seen that he can achieve that sound without palm muting left me aghast.

@@EvaluateAssimilate true, but he uses his own patented string dampener that is connected to the headstock.

Thanks for the reply guys, much more informed for knowing. KZfaq thought to inform me 7 months later 🥴 All the best

Try Paulo Schroeber, so you will understand what means clear.

Yes exactly..... he has a string dampener on!! So he’s not that clean fanboys

I'm sure your mom would understand and let you stay home to practice.

Thats right! Its never too late too polish your skills and advance. Look at some of the shredders out there are goin on 70, Iommi, Roth, Perry, Scholz, Alvin Lee etc etc. PLENTY OF TIME!!

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TELL YOUR MOM YOU'RE GOING TO LOCK UP YOURSELF IN YOUR ROOM AND NEVER GO OUT FOR A WEEK..

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Yes, totally agree - a very huge contrast when you are coming straight from a Yngwie video lesson :D

Well, yeah. He's been playing guitar for literally his entire life. Like 50 years.

Me too. He is really nice and such a dedicated musician. He deserves more respect, a lot more than he gets. The pro's know he means business tho', the others don't slow him up

Yeah. We used to hate on this guy and Paul Gilbert in the 90s. So lame on our end. I have so much respect for Paul these days. As a musician and teacher. And michael makes a living doing what he does well. Teaching sick guitar techniques. And getting people pumped about playing guitar. Nothing wrong with that.

Ted Cabana I am am a lefty that plays right, and it has its ups and downs, no pun. Your lead (feeling hand) is your off hand, but you have better ability on the frets. For us, along with picking tricks is to make sure that your brain is firing and working on both sides, it is easier to have an off night if your right hand is not cooperating, but when it is, Look Out! I have to mundane exercises to make sure I am firing with both hands.

+HamerSlammerSeries same here.....cheers!....a lefty playing right.

I've always encouraged my left handed students to play right handed guitars. They always find it to their advantage. True, we do have to focus more effort on our right hands, but there are several exercises to remedy that issue. Go Lefty!!

Ted Cabana And that is a good thing because I think there are very few pure lefties, most are hybrid. I instinctively batted right handed, which was 100% choice, along with golf, drum and guitar, it felt right. But I instinctively wrote (wacked off!) left handed, which is what determines what you are imo. So most left handed people are better off playing right handed. I did a study and found that most of the lefties that play left do not write crook handed like a majority of lefties. I could go further into what this means but will save it unless someone asks

I think lefties are more ambidextrous that righty's. We tend to favor our left, but often perform tasks with our right. For example, I can not wipe my ass with my left hand.

+smr He plays a lot of alternate picking. That's great. A lot of people swear by it. But then again, Yngwie Malmsteen plays economy picking. And you can master it VERY quickly. I spent YEARS following Paul Gilberts strict alternate picking rules and only ever achieved 145bmp in quadruplets. That's not fast enough to play the leads I wanted to play. When I finally gave up and switched to economy picking, I blew through to 165bpm quads. Wow. There are quite a few Satriani runs that suddenly came VERY easy for me, which tells me he was using economy picking as well. If you want to spend some time to learn it, I suggest The Wizard of Shred . The method was easy, and once I got it under my fingers, like I said, 165bpm quads. No sweat. Randy Rhodes plays 3-note per string runs by picking 1, hammering 2, picking 3, and then repeating on the next string. That's another way to get past the dreaded "up-stroke on the next string"....Randy's method turns it into a down stroke! The moral of the story is, if you haven't gotten smooth as silk after 40 hours of practicing alternate picking, your brain just might be wired for economy picking, or perhaps Randy Rhodes picking. Those two seem to work together well, too. Alternate picking is very exclusive, though. And don't EVER go down the Frank Gambale road. He uses strict alternate picking, but planned all of his runs out to avoid the "up-stroke on the next string". Now THAT'S cheating. Good luck. (don't worry about how clean he plays---it's too sterile anyway, and he has a damper under the capo on the 1st fret----that's just a great idea for when you are in the studio, not on stage) That'll be $1200. (that's about how much I've spent over the years figuring out all of that the hard way)

thanks for the feedback. i also find economy picking to be working better for me but i get stuck at some points where alternate picking and outside picking works better. i haven't really put any serious effort to figure out what to do where.going between strings and playing some for example harmonic minor based solos are pretty painful to play with economy picking but i also can't play them via playing alternate. so what's your suggestion would be on this, trying to make them work with economy picking or trying to improve my alternate picking ?

+smr well, like I said, you are talking to a pretty committed economy picker, so I would go that route if it comes more naturally to you. Here is an exercise that jump started me: start on the low e string, 7th fret. Play 3 notes per string (Estring) 7,8,9,(Astring)7,(E)9,8,7,8,9,(A)7,8,9,(D)7,(A)9,8,7,8,9,(D)7,8,9......ect... This will super focus the economy pick moves while simplifying the left hand. I can fly this all the way up the the high e string in 2 seconds! (Just kidding). But it is really fun to play it mega fast. When it gets super easy and natural, you switch to using a 3-note per string musical scale. Let me know how it goes. I've been teaching for 20 years and I am thinking of starting a KZfaq channel.

yea man i already see your point getting fast with economy picking. i also can get crazy fast with up-down kinda patterns and scales but between strings is my issue. for example playing on b and low e strings:5-6-8, 5-7-8-7-5 and go up on b: 8 back to e:5-7-8 and so forth. that 8 on b destroys it for me. this is what i was trying to point out. going up and down is okay, like i can go on b:5-6-8 e:5-7-8 back on e and i can do it necrophagist fast, but when you mix stuff between you can't get them cleanly with keeping the crazy bpms. playing up and down without missing or adding another strings is okay, basically playing the scale fast but adding repeats, going back to other string and going back down kinda shapes i cannot get to go with my economy picking. did you solve it by practicing or you avoid doing such ? that was my main problem.

+smr you get past it by designing a cyclic pattern that isolates the problem spot. Like , your problem sound s like you would benefit from: (B) 5,6,8,(e)5,(b)8,6,5,6,8,(e)5,7,8,7,5,(b)8,(e)7,5,(b)8,6,(e)5,(b)8,6,5, repeat. This cycle does not fit quads or triplets. It is a mess. But it is easy mixing for economy picking. I can't stead how important it is to get comfy with the picking without worrying about musicality, other than staying even tempo. That's called isolated technical practice.

Frank Gambale was one of my early influences, awesome also!!

indeed...

GVirus Luminus Neil young is a good example of emotion playing. His solos are eargasmic!

I about died when he told that story.

I thought it was the "keys to the Lambo" part II

Bwahaha that's insane

At 5:14 it comes out again Disturbing

That's just his little characters that he makes. He's a really funny guy.

@@andrewwilliamson5060 he does it to be funny. But he got used to doing it when being funny

+Beast6228 dude, about speed picking, you better talk to Anton Oparin. He's a beast!! Michael Angelo is awesome, but he won't be able to play get out of my yard without human capo like this guy. For 200 dollars that guy will be your personal coach for a month. Duuuuude, in 3 months, I play 30% faster! In Three months!!!! Scales in 110Bpm to 160... Damn!

I agree. I think it's because the vocal cords enhance his Chicago accent causing the words to exit his mouth melodically and without feedback.

No shit

Because that is the only riff you can play. u noob

@@mra3822 pretty sure he's kiddin, bro. chill :)

@@OEMPlus even i am kidding bro

Or practice these exercises and play smoke on the tsunami.

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+Takashi White About Alternate picking you can contact me on facebook. My name is Anton Oparin... I'll advice you a lot of great things)

He warms up slow every day. I take lessons from him, and I do the exact same thing.

hahahaa

@@RainStickland how do you get lessons from him? How to contact him? I would just love to learn from the fastest shredder himself!

whoops *neck pickup

+InfinityDz Yes, string changing is down to L/R hand syncing, but I notice some slight anxiety in pick moves that I find hard and I tense and then it stumbles my timing because I am not relaxed enough to do the riff in one fluid motion without the tension causing the movement to be broken up. The way I do it is to slow down and play with the least possible effort to reduce the micro adjustments and tensions as much as possible until you can literally play from any point without distraction. You could also use EFT technique to take away the pshycological hooks out which I have found most effective. Another technique I have found really insane is to play a riff through the changes and not let it interrupt your breathing, so you have to focus on playing and on not disturbing your breathing but not to force it. It is a bit of a headfuck at first but you notice the stuff you can play is stuff that doesnt throw your concentration through distracting your breathing too much. Begin with a basic riff and then increase the complexity and the learning happens faster. The point at which it does interrupt is the current limit of your ability. Just find it and push it out slowly.