John Petrucci Guitar Lesson - 5 Guitar Tips 

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Nice of him to come down from Mount Olympus for a bit.

A guy who can play the craziest shit imaginable but still doesn't mind teaching novice stuff like this. I love how down to earth he is. No ego at all.

Mesa- boogie, Bunch of majesties lying around God preaching Good vibes.

I really admire how down-to-earth and humble he is.

It took him his whole career to be able to play that slow.

John Petrucci is the most humble and the most skilled musician world has ever seen. My favorit guitarist by far.

It makes me so happy to see that the Alex Lifeson Chord is so influential among musicians such as JP

Incredible content. Every single one of these guitar tips is a trademark of John's work in Dream Theater, tracing back to the early beginnings. For example in Images & Words: 1- Alex Lifeson Chord = Metropolis Pt 1 solo break 2- Fifth Below the Root Power Chord = Pull me Under main riff 3- Chord Intervals = Metropolis Pt 1 main riff 4- Vibrato = Under a Glass Moon intro 5- Flat Fifths = Under a Glass Moon solo

Love that he appears in so many videos. He definitly should make his own channel.

I discovered the "Alex Lifeson" chord a while back on my own. Never really listened to Rush or ever learned a chord like that in a song. Very neat idea and I'm glad it came to me somehow. Gotta start listening to more Rush now.

JP the living legend...

The "Alex Lifeson chord" as he calls it, I always called it the "Dream Theater chord" lol because they use it so much , especially on their older albums

John Petrucci : *choke the bridge* His guitar : "harder daddy"

I love how he references Steve Morse. Such a killer player. Petrucci is just so awesome all around. One day I’ll get that Music Man!

Saw him live recently. Never seen anybody play so perfect. Legend

Back then there was no internet, youtube, ultimate-guitar... It was all about imagination and listening to records

His Majesty with his Majesty.🤘

I literally worship you as my Idol. The real God. Thanks for the inspiration. Such simple way of teaching yet powerful and of course the soul resides in ur music Love from India ❤️

From the series “Petrucci for dummies”...

14:48 thats child in time material!!! always enjoy JP teaching stuff

Guitar god, seems like such a great guy. Who wouldn't love lessons from him he's so patient in his explanations.

The tone just rips, scratches, beats, crawls around. It is so wild man.

I wish I had a teacher like John. Super cool of him to do this video.

He is like a God of Guitar literally.

I learned to play by slowing vinyl records,& likewise adjusting the pitch. New & young players, yes, even knowledgeable players, invest in a variable pitch turntable,& some vinyl. This is a wonderful way to both learn,& play along! Thanks, I was returned too my youth by this video.

From the royalty to the people: It must be one of the best timbres in the music world. My building is shaking hard, even my neighbour came here to complain. Love you John.

I want to see his tutorial on growing the beard.

this is like lebron teaching us how to dribble...

Petrucci's lesson was as helpful as the staff at Sweetwater... Excellent 🤘

I knew exactly what chord Mr. Petrucci was going to play before his fingers touched the neck: that F# bar chord with the open B and E strings. (0:56) I remember having the same discovery of that very chord from the Hemispheres song book. It opened up this whole new world of playing chords with open strings ringing. (same technique is employed heavily on 'The Spirit of Radio') Amazing chord from a great album by Alex, Geddy and Neil. May Mr. Peart rest in peace.

Thanks for uploading these vids. As others have said, it’s inspiring to listen from the masters themselves and more so realizing they’re great persons. Cheers

Wow he Is so good and calm guy. I started liking him after the g3 live in tokyo

Amazing how he can still remember his early days after decades of mastering the instrument

Kids, notice he keeps mentioning Alex Lifeson. Do yourself a favor: listen to Rush.

Great lesson! These chords and licks blew me away!

The "Alex Lifeson Chord" also appears in Eddie van halen's stuff...

Awesome!! John Petrucci is a guitarrist impressive!! I am big fan!!!!

This was awesome....I so love the look and feel of the majesty he's playing Cool tips I like his manner of explaining how to

I love all the references. Great job.

I listened to Dream Theater a while before I really listened to Rush and the ‘Alex Lifeson Chord’ is implanted into my head as the chord that is played in the riff before Myung’s bass solo and Petrucci’s solo on Metropolis: Part 1

Oh, god, the TONE. AMAZING tone.

the way he talks.. the way he explain things.. is EXACTLY the same as his instructional video way back years and years ago when I am starting to learn more from guitars.. hehehe.

Thank you Mister Petrucci. Thats Great!

At 6:15 did someone else knelt? wasn't just me right?

Hallowed be thy name, john

Sweetwater and Petrucchi equals stability and power.

That's a monster tone!

for progressive genre guitar God every thing he play the timing seems right which is incredible

All great basic tips to put in your repertoire. I learned the fifth trick from mustaine lesson long time ago def adds meat to rhythm tracks. Anyone else miss the Ibanez guitar tho?

A Great and Yet Humble Guy. Ace Frehley use to practice the same licks over and over all day and he learned how to bend and create cool licks and riffing just by practicing it over and over again. It works for me too. I'm getting my sound and feel too by doing it over and over religiously. Simply easy bends etc... A craft if you will. It all comes from the way you palm mute, rake, etc. I'm establishing my own sound now. Practice, practice, practice.

Man...that amp sounds f'n amazing.

Incredible.

I really like all of your creativity

“Burn it Down” by Alter Bridge uses that Alex Lifeson chord. It’s fun to play.

When Petrucci played the "Alex Lifeson chord", the song that came to me was first big chord on Far Cry, off of Snakes and Arrows. A bit forgotten as a Rush song, but a masterclass of the Lifeson style.

holy mother of tone!

JP2C+Mesa 412 is a dream rig....And I have a LOT of stuff already...I am very close with my Triaxis rig etc...but still...Also the the Zoom captures the sound REALLY well!!!

Awsome awsome teacher

I never thought I could learn so much in 15 minutes. Thank you guitar god, for you have blessed me with knowledge.

awesome. my Hero. love JPP

6:17 can't wait to go home and try that move!

4:58 is how I check to make sure my interface isn't clipping lmao

He is a really sympathetic guy!!!

Would love to see JP do a full play of ITPOE

Petrucci god of guitarists. He seeks to teach the week but holds the power of the mighty

Me.encanta esa forma de equalizar en v llevando los cortes de la media frecuenfia bien cerradas

Oh yes...its so easy...thank you

Something to work on ...loving how basic . Thanks man...**** INSPIRED ******

LOL Of course he mentions Alex Lifeson. Gotta love it. :D

The hawks that are the individual notes, swirling around him at the mountaintop, would be easier to discern if he backed off the gain quite a bit. But still awesome.

0:19 “Soo the first thing that comes to min-or” lol 😂

That first chord can also be found in villa lobos prelude 2 for classical guitar, he also moves it around there. It should be called the villa lobos chord

It's nice to see how even a player of his skill level isn't perfect, showing that he is only human haha. As an aspiring guitarist and musician myself it makes me have hope of becoming as good as him someday

The chord of life(son). Nice.

Superb :)) keep it :)

Interesting how big of an influence Rush guitarist Alex Lifeson has on Petrucci! Never knew that before and learning the Lifeson chord.

14:48 is actually found that same way in The Necromancer from Caress of Steel

Just because of JP I subscribe this channel.

So called "Alex Lifeson Chord" has been used in guitar pieces long long before this. I first encountered in in a piece by Hector Villa Lobos, and yeah its sounds really cool

His look is awesome

The fact that John is self-taught I believe makes all the more difference when he is teaching stuff... He tries to show things the way he found out or stumbled upon them with practice and it makes it seem easier for beginners

Forever wishing I could grow a majestic beard like his

I could be blown away too, If only I can discern some'

you have way too many Majesty's , probably should go ahead and send me one your Majesty

Great guitarist...and nice guy.

always keeping it simple.....

🔥🔥🔥

I am looking forward to a John song (or maybe an album) called "When I Was Younger"

So what got me started was I heard this song by band back in the 70s called Deep Pupil or something like that. They did a song called Stroked on your Daughter and I knew I wanted to play guitar. 👍

John Petrucci was influenced by exactly the same great music I was influenced by when I started learning guitar in the early 1980s. I totally relate to him about the discovery of the "Alex Lifeson chord"! It's a chord that I still always love playing after all these years. I'm a huge Rush fan, as well as a fan of Iron Maiden, Queensryche, Dixie Dregs, and amazing guitar players like Allan Holdsworth, Yngwie Malmsteen, Vinnie Moore, Gary Moore, Frank Gambale, etc. Now, if I could just start wood-shedding so that I can get up to a level of playing that's even remotely close to John Petrucci's incredible playing. :-p

This dude has good taste

at 11:32 when he said , vibrato is like fingerprint , i just tought of yngwie .. few seconds later he said his name ! yngwie's vibrato is gorgeously amazing !

7:06 the number of the beast iron maiden

I don't know about you but I'm getting an extra dose of JP and Music Man content these days!? I'm a happy guuuuy! \m/ :D \m/

The Root Power Chord is one of my favorites because it makes the guitar sound really heavy. Fun Fact: Kirk Windstein of Crowbar uses that a lot.

If he will continue, I know He can make it to the top and earn money to buy new jeans.

Vibrato was a big deal for me also, I remember my moms console record player in the 70s had a 78, 45, 33 and a 16 rpm that worked out almost an octave down so I would tune my sg down a whole octave to learn the faster stuff. but regarding vibrato,, listening to records that slow confused me into thinking that some solos were bending down first (this is before Floyd’s and kahlers) so I would ghost bend and change pitch from high to low but that error helped me develop a style that was different from anyone I played with, some cool shit comes from trial and error so in a way I feel bad for this note for note tab and video lesson generation that never used the broken bathtub faucet drip as a metronome also great acoustics in the bathroom, lol

Wow the third example was really cool how he wrote that song using an idea he got from Iron Maiden.

oh Jesus.thankyou