I remember being so stoked when Guitar World released this video. The opening riff to Parallels is, in my opinion, one of the best riffs ever written. There's something about its rhythm and melody that makes it so pleasing on the ear. Phil is my favorite guitar player/song writer to date.
Hey guys, just wanted to tell you that if you buy the powerless rise deluxe edition it comes with tabs to every single song on the cd, in both guitar pro and pdf format. I got the deluxe edition not knowing this and was blown away. Just to make sure, i rewatched this vid, and the tunings, and playings match up. If you want to learn the songs right, def buy it, a little pricy, but its def worth it in my book.
That's a very good melody that they composed in Parallels! On another note, I won't ever get people complaining about EMGs sounding too sterile and how they don't reflect the tonal qualities of woods. First, not everyone has the money to afford different guitars with great sounding woods and EMGs actually provide a solution on that aspect. Second, if you want something warmer, you can always try the 18-watt mod on classic EMGs or just go with the newer X series or try Seymour Duncan Blackouts..
There’s something about the emg pickups, the pick he uses and his picking technique that gives that really nice quack quack tone to his riffs like everything from shadows are security
@sonicx2218 The problem is the song is mixed so well for the intro and layered very tightly.ITS VERY HARD TO HEAR BY EAR that they use DGDFAD tuning. I love this song tho
The Powerless Rise was their absolute peak!! Awakened was okay but a little more thrashy than melodic. I would’ve liked to see all the other albums they would’ve made after that album if only Tim didn’t do what he did 😪
@jedivolt But i've never see a Prs Singlecut with a tremolo and 2 vol 2 tone knobs. Only the tremonti has that setup. The Single cuts either have 2 vol 2 tone with a wrap around tail piece or a trem and 1 vol 1 tone.
Quick question, when they play the chorus does Phil use a pitch shifter again, or do they both actually harmonize? I'm referring to when they play it live by the way.
Ooo and I forgot dimebag wrote walk in d standard and played it in d standard live. Most people think its e flat or drop d. But its actually d standard.
Wrong, he wrote and played in 440hz tunings instead of 432hz, which means his tuning is in the middle between d# and e standart "d#,5" so to speak. Don't believe everything on the internet people !!!
no, within destruction is in drop Eb. i got to meet phil and ask him. they tuned the guitars UP a whole step and then drop the E string. live they play it in drop D.
@elasdickband027 my bad must have hit the letter d instead of c on my phone when I was typing that. I hate touch screen phones. But at least I got how to tune it there right.
i thought within destruction was tuned up a half step to F standard but then drop tuned. Eb A# Eb G# C F, but live they play it in regular Drop D. That's what nick said in an interview.
@Harris2160 He uses a custom made Ibanez he has the closest you can get to is an ART200 its not the same, it doesn't have EMG's but thats about as close as you'll get
I'm just wondering, are all the songs of As I Lay Dying use this tuning ? Furthermore, are there any other bands using this tuning ? Since it's the time I've ever heard of it , I found it to be really genius...
@MyEverConstantSmile Nick and Phil are unbelievably consistent when it comes to playing live. If you closed your eyes and listened you'd think you were in the studio.
@prenner111 you also neglected to mention the fact that you originally were mistaken in that I wasn't commenting on the "metal"ness of the guitar, rather the pick ups in the guitar.
@slipknotxpaulxgrey If I knew how to tab, I would. I can make a video lesson sometime in the near future though, I learned the whole song, and converted the drop D Guitar Pro tab for the solo only, I watched the music video and corrected the parts that I could see.
@sonicx2218 tabbers might be wrong, but some have a nice sense of how different notes are on different strings, i first learned this song from this video, but i also know it by a tabbers point of view because it's tabbed in the same note/different strings on dropped D tuning, nowhere near as hard as the real way, but to me there is no right or wrong way, nothing has to be perfect or exactly the same as the band itself, we aren't the band so we dont have to play exactly like them :)
Well from what I understand, that makes inverted power chords much easier to do because they become just like the one finger bared chords that you normally get in a typical drop tuning. It enables you to sound lower, almost like a 7 string guitar.That is what you call being innovative.
@jedivolt Actually I think it is a Tremonti model, because I don't remember PRS ever doing normal singlecut with 4 knobs and the p/u-switch in the normal Les Paul position AND with a tremolo on the same guitar. It's been either 4 knobs and a hardtail or 2 knobs and a tremolo, so... It's a Tremonti model. Or a private stock which I doubt.
