That's very genius of you because if you play like this you'll be happy, you can become famous in a band and make lots of money and get a hot but kind wife
I never comment in youtube videos or any other social media for that matter, I'm more of a silent watcher. I just spent like 50 minutes tracking down this vid since I used to watch it around 40 times a day in 2009... didn't know if I was ever gonna find it. Still is awesome.
Andy James is teaching and performing with his band "Scared Mother Tongue" at MonkeyFest 1st - 3rd July in Woking, UK MonkeyFest tickets here: monkeyfest.co.uk
I find very funny watching at his pinky,that thing flipping non stop,like saying,let me play it,please let me. :) Of course playing sounds wonderful as always.
this is actually completely insane. I think that andy james is a LOT better than many famous guitar players that you may know from other bands. This solo include so fucking many techniques, its just mad. FAR better than i've heard in a long time. I'm proud
A great pleasure for me as a guitarist to watch Andy play. Would recommend any learning guitarist looking for inspiration to improve both as a musician as well as on the technical side. Andy rocks !!! :)
Wow Andy your really amazing you are mean and clean a very rare combonation I have been friends with chris broderick and have admired his playing for years you remind me of his playing alot keep up the great playing ... cheers
4:26 omg I've tried to learn that bend->slip-to-next-string thing from a Paul Gilbert lesson. I never succeeded. You, Andy James, is the master of all guitar techniques!
this song's incorporation of melodic sweep picking and alternate picking with the off beat tempo and the constantly changing chord progressions reminds me of good ol' tony macalpine shredding. love it.
I actually laughed at 1:44 those sweeps are so smooth it's ridiculous. It reminded me of the boss in the shadow temple of zelda: ocarina of time? Amazing playing! I wish I could sweep that smoothly..
i have never seen andy james play like that before. he is amazing! i think andy could easily have famous metal players run for their money. the different scales and licks he covers are awesome!
Then the world melted, and the universe imploded. All that was left at the centre was Andy James, and he created new matter and made new worlds........and it was good.
seen lots of his stuff the trouble with him he hypnotizes me every time i try to learn a lick library dvd i get sod all done with out doubt one of the best guitarists in the world whatever you can do this guy will do it my favs include the joe satriani dvd and yngwie malmsteen watch the dvd samples there sick......................................
This is amazing. How he and SMT aren't more famous is beyond me. This kind of talent shouldn't be wasted doing Lick Library it should be blowing people's brains to shit \m/
@WilsonAlmighty I was watching the first take and was wondering if that's what it was, I've never seen one before. Makes ALOT of sense though. Is it just a velcro cable lock?
I said that in my comment sir, and you are correct I am not dogging on his tone, and I don't have a better rig. I know he's a great guy and excellent player (I said it quite a bit in my comment), I was just pointing out that he is using a hairtie which gives nearly any player the ability to play clean, even though I know for a fact Andy James can shred like crazy without it and still do just as well or better. Thank you :)
@Artybruh hahaha thanks for the encouragement man, honestly tho i could never quit guitar, its like sex without the risk of aids haha. and as far as songs off that album i recommend: "Spokes for the Wheel of Torment"(has a very disturbing music video tho), "woods of suicide", "the treeman" and one of my favorite Bhead songs ever "fountains of the forgotten". You keep on shredding too man, dont let guitar bullies like andy james, yngwie malmsteen, and buckethead discourage you haha
GUYTH, does this super duper ultra mega awesome tune have a name? I believe it would, someone please tell me what it is!! God, anything this guy does is soooooo gooooo_0d!!!!
Never realized Andy James is like my favorite guitar players. He has the power of Dimebag, Syn, Mark Morton, Kirk, Adam D, and Zakk Wylde in his hands. If I were 1/3 as bad as this dude..Well I would be pretty badass.
excellent solos, but I think (now this is just a personal preference here) that I would be more impressed with the string skipping with tapping if there was no headband/hairtie on the neck, and his sweeps are clean, but in this particular video (I've seen other videos of him without it and he's still an excellent player), it's somewhat due to the hairtie. I know Romeo does not use one and does more extreme tapping and string skipping and it's cleaner than this, but again, excellent solos :)
@yamahaing7737 man, never really listened to that album, can you reccomend me some of the best delicious shredtastic tracks from that album?? also don't give up lol, pretty sure Andy James is like the leading metal guitarist of our generation lol, he can do anything What I'm trying to say is, if "not being able to play a Andy James song" was a reason to give up on guitar, then the majority of guitarists would be in BIIIIIIIG trouble ;) especially me :'( I struggle with 4-5 finger tapping :'(
That's what soloing is, hitting notes in the correct key in your choice of scale. And he mixed it up, using diminished, harmonic minor, and some pentatonic shred.
@Chargeglass Nope, just a regular hairband. There are various other things people have used, selotape at the 1st fret, a mates hand or there are even mechanical things with soft material attached. It's not advisable to use in almost any situation except recording though as people hate on everyone that uses them (unless they are famous because that somehow makes it ok). If you search "mystical potato head thing" you will see another example of this technique
@krispatel1 Hi, I only saw your reply now, I was wondering how transposing this has gone so far? I've been trying even using the amazing slowdowner program but it doesnt come out very clearly. GAH. I have the one main riff that people have compared to Stockholm Syndrome down but beyond that its just too fast.
Well, what would you expect from somebody who uses a petrucci singature guitar?Haha Great playing by the way.I've been watching andy's videos for a while now...and I must say he's trully a master.5 stars
@DragonForce191 Actually it is only because this guy had a 5 minute solo to record in one take, The slightest mistake would have been stuck there had he not used the dampener. All the best musicians use them for recording, Marty Friedman, Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Steve Vai. It's merely because you might get 2 takes, 1 sounds amazing but has 1 mistake, the other has zero mistakes but sounds less good. The string dampener preserves the good take, the mistake is still there but unnoticeable
oh yeah when I do some eight finger tappy junk I do use a hairtie :P I wish I had the petrucci 7 string, all I have is (I have a vid) a modified RG7321 :\ it gets the job done. Well, happy shredding!!! :)
Yes i like all of Andy James solos because they are not noisy but fantastic beautiful sounding solos while incorporating various melodic techniques and fluid style. And no offence to Rusty Cooley who has good speed on him, but in my opinion Rusty Cooleys solos sound rather noisy and a waste of speed. But Andy James is fast enough with great tasteful licks and chops all nicely put together, Andy James really hits the spot on his solos. He gives meaning to shred with a divine purpose and reason
Did any of you listen to the solo? Who gives a shit if he doesn't use his pinky. Its not about technique its about the final product, and Andy James is a badass guitarman.
@DragonForce191 1.)This is not the lesson part thought, it says performance during the video. 2.)MAB has his own signature dampeners for live use. 3.)It is because he is a professional that he uses the string dampeners. He is hired by licklibrary. Getting the perfect take for the performance in as few a takes as possible saves his bosses money. Also he's doing these DVD's to teach you not impress you
@Raziel236 where the hell did you find Knight of Cydonia in this song dude. Anyways it was probably the scale he is using, Matt Bellamy uses the same scales/chrord progressions to get that sound he gets in songs like KoC or Stockholm Syndrome, which is not that usual, thats why msot people playing the scales "sound like muse"
If angus young saw that this guy was wearing his shirt, he would probably quit playing the guitar immediately or cry, one of the two, the level this guy plays with surpasses human comprehension
Because right now everyone is checking out the guys that sound like Meshuggah, Fell Silent, etc. James style is more straight away stock style metal shred. Nothing wrong with either. He reminds me of a heavier Vinnie Moore.
I admit I'm just being a dick. This guitar playing is fucking epic though, Andy James is one of the most perfect guitarists I've ever seen. In the same league as Paul Gilbert.
