For detailed tablature for all these examples, including two four-minute takes of the ballad intro, check 'em out in Frank's full interview: troygrady.com/interviews/frank-gambale/

You are by far the most professional and thorough and not to mention ridiculously talented guitar instructor on the internet today. Nobody Breaks this stuff down better than you. Keep it up

THANKS, Troy!!!

I’m shocked with the quality of this content. Can’t understand why there isn’t more views! Congratulations for this amazing work.

Frank still don't get the attention he deserves, thank you for this video

Frank was one of my teachers at MI. I learned all my sweeping from him, the master. He's a great guy.

Still just blows my mind that there are people who’ve mastered their craft to this extent. Insane

Troy Grady should receive an award for the high quality and polish of his videos

This dude must spend more time editing each minute of theses videos than most people do for the entirety of theirs. Well done Troy! Cheers 🍻🍻

His “Modes-No More Mystery” tape introduced and demystified the diatonic modes, alongside with giving you a great insight into Frank’s easy going personality

My God. Gambale will definitely go down as the smartest guitar player of all time.

Everyone should check out Frank's instructional books if you haven't already. He is an INCREDIBLY well organized and thorough teacher, and his books provide incredible insight into the way Frank approaches the instrument. Top notch stuff

Troy Grady is the Einstein of guitar teachers.

The production quality of this video is beyond belief. Love Troy's ability to look at things philosophically and systemically. Respect! 👏🏻

It's the synchronicity of Gamble's left and right hand that is incredible. I always watch his left hand and how smoothly he fingers those arpeggios.

The Book 'Speed Picking' is, in my opinion, the best guitar technique book out there, and I advise every guitarist young or old to study it, even if just a few examples. The book is a great way to introduce how easy it is to play complex lines in the guitar.. together with Frank Gambale VHS videos, you can see the tequinique applied with no mysteries (ha) and very musically, studying hand and pick position with a clear view and a very musical approach. Every instrument has a set of rules to make it easier to play, more idiomatic.. Guitar is not a simple instrument, but it does not have to be hard to play, Frank Gambale helped a lot showing how effortless it can be... Now with Troy's videos that breaks down even more the observation parts of the study of Sweep Picking it will be even easier to get into the practice parts. I look foward for the next ones. Great series!

Nice to see Frank on here! My 1st Guitar Teacher went to G.I.T. with Frank back in the day and I wore out my VHS Tapes of Modes: No More Mystery & Monster Licks & Speed Picking!

Shazam! Back in the day it really seemed like Frank was doing the impossible. These days, nothing has changed.

I will never forget seeing Frank Gambale on the same stage as Allan Holdsworth. It was a Halloween night performance in a converted movie theater somewhere in New Jersey that I can’t remember at the moment. It was a doubleheader. Allan Holdsworth featuring Chad Wackerman on drums, did a full set before Chick Corea with Dave Weckel , John Patitucci and of course Frank on guitar. Now get this: some ignoramus seated directly behind me shouted after Corea’s first song something like “bring Alan back.” It was beyond cringe worthy. I remember sinking down in my seat so that no one would think it was me. In fact, I may have turned my head around to indicate the guy. There was a pause. Corea leaned gently into the microphone and said something like: “this is not a competition. We are all friends here and that’s why we are playing. No one has opened for anyone.” He couldn’t of been more gracious. Needless to say, the show went on and Frank tore it up!

Great to see you do an in-depth series on Frank! I had the privilege of taking classes with Frank for a year at the LA Music Academy (now LACM) when he was head of the guitar department there. Frank is lauded - and rightfully so - for his amazing technique, phrasing, and improvisation skills, but I don't think people realize how deep his harmonic knowledge and fretboard knowledge are. Frank's favorite artists are Steely Dan and Chick and he can improvise on any kind of chord progression you can think of. He can play the whole Steely Dan discography at the drop of a hat. He can also take any kind of melodic or chordal idea and instantly sequence/permute/invert/contort it anywhere on the neck. He had the deepest fretboard knowledge of anyone I had ever encountered.

This made me so happy. I could always hear Gambale was a monster, but now I know *exactly* why.

This instructional it’s just ridiculously incredible! So accurate that it reach the point of laughable! Just pure genius! What a piece of work art Troy! 👏👏👏👏

That transition from 11:40 - 11:50 though. 10/10

Why would any guitarist dislike this video?

Thank you for this Troy. You have worked soo hard to be the best at this! You have considered every possible detail in every of your videos. Just thanks man, keep it up!!

Chick Corea? I'm sold. Time to listen to all of Gambale's stuff.

The production value of these are so so good Troy, and as informative as ever, you should be proud of your self mate. Well done, and THANKYOU!

Thank You for an Incredibly well-made and professional production.

Wow, such a fabulous video, all my thanks to you and your team for making such an immacualte video. Thanks to Frank too for just being Frank, all my very best wishes to you all X

so much work to show perfect the unbelievable technique of the king of guitar, Frank Gambale, thank you!!!

This video was masterfully crafted, you should be thanked more often, thanks!

troy, you are a true genius. what you've done with guitar is remarkable. on top of that, you are a monster player. well done sir.

That is so fantastic explained. You should have millions of views!

Recently picked this book up again to have another go about 15 years later! Haha. KZfaq being psychic again! Looking forward to watching

Someone needs to make a video on that damn “Power Licks” Shawn Lane video. The tab book that came with that thing is all whacked. I had to sit there and slo-mo the whole thing to figure out what he was playing, and re-wrote the whole Tab for that thing. That was a major lesson in itself. That and the Brett Garsed video. Jeez man, those old REH videos are a beast and one of the greatest gifts to us modern guitarists.

These videos are incredible. EDIT: The price tag on that video set is pretty reasonable too given the amount of effort that goes into your stuff. I'll be purchasing this weekend. Well done, guys!

wow - Troy is back with those highly polished videos which once made me subscribe to his channel

THIS IS THE BEST CHANNEL ON KZfaq

The visual element of the chord part is fantastic.

This really should have more views, amazing editing and really insightful. Thanks for the content!

Frank was so far ahead of his time, yeah there are masterful sweep pickers out there but he pretty much revolutionized this style of playing

Great video Troy! Your videos are fantastic. I've been playing for almost forty years and trying to perfect my technique for just as long. Your videos are extremely helpful to beginners and veteran players. Your lessons just make sense.

Truly stellar explanation of these techniques. Best breakdown of Frank's picking I've seen!

This video is just amazingly done and enlightening...thank you so much Troy!🤩

what a great video - thanks Frank and Troy!!

Everything about this video is nothing short of damn freakin epic! Why anyone would dislike this is beyond me.

Best sweep picking video ever. This is amazing.

This video/channel is top of the line, it should be a netflix special. The content and the production value are just .. wow.

He is also a great Teacher to boot.

Hey Troy. I met Frank at MI in Hollywood in 1983 I was in the same class with him. He did NOT sweep when he started school. I believe he was 24 years old at that time ,he was more of a blues player then. But after watching him play for a few minutes on the first day of school,I told him he is going to win guitar player of the year award and he did. He was always really nice and polite He would sit and play keyboards and sing with his pink Fender stratocaster hanging from his neck. He was teaching there the following year, Super talented guy, Frank basically took what Yngwie did and applied it to jazz which actually has more possibilities and voicings for sweeping technique then diatonic arps.

I only stumbled upon this channel a week or so ago; all the content is so well thought out. The guitar concepts are really interesting too. Great work man!

Awesome material and edition! keep up the great work mate! ! ROCK ON!

wow... what an explanation and demonstration....genius!

Thank you Troy and Frank.

I definitely gonna follow these series closely!!!! Thank You

Awesome!!! You have mastered the art of educational animation so far!!! Incredible, thumbs up !! an Thanks a lot for the content

Your detailed approach has led to many “Ah Ha” moments in the hearts and minds of many creating much inspiration and encouragement

Love these videos , great artistic flare in the production & of course Frank is a legend

Awesome animations and analysis Troy! I am very surprised with this video, well done! :D

After decades of shredding satriani, malmsteen etc I’ve been reworking my picking with Frank’s courses. He’s even reworked his pentatonic scales to allow for the traditional positions.

Absolutely insane video!!! It’s a very Great job!!!!

This is a very informative and diagnostic video that really helps me understand economy picking. Even though I can clearly see how much more efficient economy picking is over alternate picking, the fact is alternate picking is far more simple because all the brain has to do is constantly do an up-down picking action. Economy picking, however, requires the brain to have to think about when to use consecutive up or down-strokes when changing strings. I'm very trained at alternate picking but trying to learn how to effectively use economy picking is far harder and takes a lot of mental processing to get it down, especially when playing super fast or complex stuff like Frank Gambale does.

The best guitar lecture I've ever watched!

Your videos are a public service Troy! Thanks for this 👍

thanks for the amazing effort you put as usual ! Amazing job Troy

This is the Pinnacle of guitar educational entrainment/educational content

Thanks for posting this, much appreciated. As great a guitarist as Frank is, and in spite of revisiting this content many times throughout the years, I find his teaching beyond useless. He tells you a little about the mechanics but somehow never puts the pieces together in a way that is useful to me. Major respect for his playing though, he’s a monster.

awesome video! can't wait for the next one.

Thanks for posting Troy!

Amazing video!!! Very helpful ❤️

Great visuals. thanks.

This is some great video work. Wow

This is a great series.

Una Master class. Una genialidad .Gracias.

This was awesome, thanks dude! You help keep the blues-box at bay :D

This video is so amazing!

Thank you Troy - you are amazing.

Amazing analysis.. Bravo!

Stunning vid. Thx 🙏🏻

Amazing video as usual

I already saw them on CTC, five exquisite episodes! Troy thanks for all your knowledge

Excellent video !!!! Thumb up !!

Excellent video!

Great job friends, greetings from Barcelona

excellent work as usual mate

My brother sent me here. And my life has changed for the better 😮😮😊😊

Neat. Alternate picking fast is fun in bluegrass stuff. Great to build the chops.

Far more power to Troy Grady, you are a treasure yourself.

excelente trabajo.. me gusta y es muy util

Excellent

So good! Thank you for this! I remember years ago a buddy noticed that I had the economy style of picking ( which I had never heard off ), and didn't realize that I ( for the most part ), had developed, since then i really worked on my alternate picking and lost the economy side😩

Frank figured it out early on and became a killer alternate picker as well in the process. I suspect it's in the wrist motion, that rotation when switching strings provides the perfect natural escape route. So he basically had flawless two-way pickslanting built into his technique from day one.

Damn , Troy's vids are next level

Incredible investigative work Troy. We all have our preferences, of course, but I wasn't into the flat picking, country stuff. Gambale is definitely a study.

Great man

This is killer!

Nice vid!!!!! I wanna see a video of paul Gilbert string skipping arpeggios too

Chop builder was one of the easiest instruction video to follow and master 😅. Its the best possible workout

😂 I still have the “Speed Picking” book & cassette from decades ago. In fact, I digitized the cassette (broken down into individual examples) about 5 years ago & have the files on my phone as I type this.

Fantastiskt bra!!!👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻