Frank Gambale's Cascading Sweep Harmonics 

His sound makes me miss Shawn Lane.

I know. I never even thought of doing a harmonic with an up stroke. And he’s been doing so long while sweeping. He really is the master.

Lancelot On Crack it’s also important that you listen to the notes he’s not playing. 🤯

Absolutely! He has technique for days. But I think that even in the slower passages, the playing is absolutely tasteful, and even when he is sweeping it is leading somewhere and it's not gratuitous. As a young guy, i was absolutely into vai, satriani, malmsteen etc but the idea of jazz or fusion was like 'pretentious' music to me. I took lessons for about 3 months at 13 and although I learned a good bit of theory, finger positioning etc. I quit because I was learning nuage but wanted to learn attitude by sepultura etc. I'd heard of all the jazz greats, and some fusion guys like dimeola, holdsworth and mr gambale here, but stuck to my metal and shredders. Holy fuck, as a somewhat older guy I know now I missed out a lot by not pursuing these kinda guys earlier. Frank's playing here touches me in a way that the best metal solo never could. I'm glad my horizons broadened eventually!

it's extremely bland

Totally agree, you can hear how much Frank is connected to his playing, sounds completely amazing and natural.

Correct - l am envious of his technique, but more so of his note choice and knowledge.

his right hand techinque is remarkable

Nice that you mention kotzen, Another absolute beaat !!

Avisek Ganguly, nah uh Cacophoney, G.Howe, T.McAlpine, all the Schrapnel/Blues Review Mob

Avisek Ganguly, But his pic technique is next level 4 sure.

B.T.B's I have heard all those players band none of them expanded this technique from neoclassical niche to the blues, fusion, jazz and beyond

Avisek Ganguly I disagree, I think many are & did tred those roads as well. But thats ok, theyre ALL amazing their own way.

Avisek Ganguly, off the top of my head is Richie Kotzen, He's a great example, but ill agree 2 disagree agreeably. 😁

Totally!

Has he really ever been considered to be a shredder? He's like Michael Brecker - sonic fast but solos are packed with sophisticated and beautiful ideas

I’ve met him several times... One of the nicest musicians out there... He even let me play his Cort acoustic(behind him).. You can tell from his instructional videos that he’s really cool...

i don't find many to be musical tbh but i have gone from hating Satch to liking some of his stuff, check out Grace Potter, Cortex the Killer featuring Joe Satrianni, that's the only time i heard him play for the song, other musicains playing on it are of the scale too, literally searched the internet for ages, for 12 years, that is in top one percent of outstanding videos i have found, literally moves me to tears.

Like the french

Nick Sm, of course he's a shredder. Remember Varney's Truth in Shredding release? Sheesh..

Love Frank, he is truly a master.

this is also what i wished for

Drink Gambale soda...! You discribed him like some coca cola ad.

Hey Truth! Good to see you here

That's the truth, Truth! Spot on with "melodic" and "economy"... truly an efficiency expert and interesting to listen to.

And yet he can alternate pick with the likes of Steve Morse.

Yes he is

Yeah, his tone and his playing are both smooth as silk. He's undeniably a master of the instrument.

Millennials still using observation as a form of ridicule. Sort of like how a 5 year old does.

sure blue notes surpass blue meth

He only plays at full measures though.

Kooper Mike was one of the best characters in the show but go off

He's doing it for his granddaughter.

Destroyed = perfectly executed in this case.

@Bill Miles You sound like my mom lol

Don't forget Eric Johson

@@realtruenorth EJ is a great player but as I said Gambale and Holdsworth are the beginning and the end. There's really nowhere else to go.

@@rockzilla5150 Paco de Lucia,, is another

TheGuitar Person those girls dancing with the guitars cracks me up every time :D great exercices also. Very hard to keep playing them without building tension

i found it slighly nauseous. some stereo effect at work there i suspect.

When he's playing the song there's a slight modulation/pitch shift going on - when he's talking with Troy it's off. I like it for some things. I found his tone in this video nice and I think it's some the nicest playing I've heard him do.

Terrible tone. Every tube amp within 6 blocks of that room committed suicide while listening to it. (I'm not commenting on his playing, just that terrible over processed sound.)

Roland Snyder Pure late 80s cheese I love it. Perfect for those “even rock stars can get sad too” ballads.

Oh yes, fantastic tone. I've never seen a god, but listen to this and you'll know how a god sounds.

greekfreak1980 I think this video is going to sell a few Kiesels!

Kiesel? I thought this was a signature Carvin.

@@YaoEspirito oh yeah!

It's the same company.Long story short:the company was founded as ''Kiesel Guitars'' in 1946,by Lowel Kiesel,but after a legal battle with some dealers,he couldn't use the name anymore and re-branded it to ''Carvin'' in the 50's.In 2014,the Kiesel family,finally got the legal rights to ''Kiesel Guitars'' back and in 2015 the the 2 divisions split up.The guitars department became ''Kiesel Guitars'',runned by the son/grandson of the founder and the amps/audio department became ''Carvin Audio''.

They are beautiful instruments.

Thanks Albin! I don't consider myself any sort of great interviewer - I'm just out there trying to get the answers any ham-handed way that I can. I think of it more like field work than interviewing.

Ok cool

Yes, this is the right reference. He is not Shawn Lane, but he does have stuff on comparable level to offer us. Happy us :)

He is way before shawn lane my friend give credit where it's due

@@roadwarrior4080 Gambale is 4 years and 4 months older than Lane. Wikipedia states: Frank Gambale. Active 1984-present. Shawn Lane. Active 1977-2004. That actually makes Lane Gambale's senior by 7 years...

Does or does not? In person he's always been pretty forthright that the technique has at some level always been out there in our "guitar consciousness". But as you're alluding, I would say what Frank did was give it structure and rules. The sweeping math of odds and evens, even though it seems obvious in hindsight, is a legit engineering way of thinking about things.

I did mean "DOES": as per back in the late 80's the VHS tape "Sweep Picking & Monster Lick" that he made. His 3 notes per string in major scale modes was a great step forward for myself, even though I dont sweep or use economy picking at all. Im all alternate picking. 3 note per string scales still work wonders! Of course now Im watching your videos Im going to expand my technique into the pick slanting methods. Im not much of a fan of sweeping though Frank does make it sound great. And of course its more efficient. Ill sign up for your courses online and hope to refine my methods and speeds. I followed Mclaughlins & Meolas advice from the 70/80's magazine interviews about alternating, triplets, anchoring the right hand and string skipping/chordal picking.

I don't know who invented sweep picking, but it wasn't Frank Gambale - great player that he is. Alex Murphy claims elsewhere in these comments that Les Paul invented it. I've never noticed Les sweeping but that probably says more about me than Les. I can tell you that Dave Creamer was sweep picking (and known for his intervalic playing) long before I ever heard of Frank Gambale. I know because I studied with Dave back in the mid-late '70's (when a young Joe Satriani was also studying with Dave). Dave never hustled to make it big but was well known in certain circles (played on Miles' On The Corner). Here's an example of Dave's playing, also his composition ('75): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wRXlGcLek3Y.html.

Robert Mayer sweeping per se is just raking. Django did some of it back in the 20’s! But to formulate it to be at its near maximum efficiency that WAS Frank. Besides Frank only got known years after he sorted out his way of playing sweep. In his early 80’s video he referred to how he got frustrated with alternate picking “10 to 15 years before” suggesting he had a handle on it as far back as the 60’s. Certainly no one else seems to have organized and taught it en made as Frank did. And used it almost exclusively in his playing.

he needs to be interviewed just because

Interesting Things that 2. I'm not even sure if he could pull off his furious picking anymore, seems like he lost all interest in it but if he warms up with this stuff I bet he could still be a great example of perfect technique.

I saw him live last year and he could, although it didnt sound like Racer X original tone, it doesn depend on tone how we perceive it too

Interesting Things I saw him live at the beginning of this year but the most recent live footages and stuff don't have any trace of his picking. Well I'm not gonna go into that any deeper so let's just hope troy gets him to do this. Have a nice day :)

I saw him at the Pat Torpey memorial show in LA in May. Although what Paul is writing is more blues and jazz derived now, he crushed his alternate picking game. And for anyone that participates in his online classes...there's no loss of steam or ability. He's just added some more tricks to his bag from other genres. But, he may not have as much interest in doing a "this is how I shred" video simply because he's been there done that. But I'd venture to guess he would because it's fun.

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Yes, he is!