@@Dankjo There where lost of cool chords in Petrucci and DT's music. Not that there aren't anymore, but it's really different. Their earlier work was more melodic to me as well.
I dont think this particular solo is a good representation of that -- he was kind of just noodling around pentatonic licks. Not something a shredder would do, but not very melodic either.
Man this was a totally different John Petrucci. I still love John Petrucci but I sometimes wish he comes back to more of his fusion based stuff :) so many memories!
I always wondered why he dropped Ibanez for Music Man guitars. His Picasso Ibanez has to be among the coolest looking guitars I've seen in ages. I'll bet the action is buttery-smooth on that axe.
I'm not trying to bash Ibanez because I haven't really played them, but once you play Music Man guitars, there is nothing else better. Their necks are a different kind of feel, and if you either like it or hate it.
I heard music man guitars are really good, but still in relation to Petrucci's tone and style, I prefer the Ibanez era.. or maybe if he didn't build that huge muscle mass, his playing style would still be the same as before.. just my opinion..
Music man sucks. You're out of your mind. I wouldn't pay more than 700 bucks for any of their garbage. Look at all the players who use them now: EVH, petrucci, Vinnie Moore... They all sound mediocre compared to the superheroes they sounded like with their original axes. And the Ibanez were always the best. Vai, skolnick, petrucci, Moore, Satch, Paul Gilbert??? Do I really have to go on???
Fuck yeah! I'd never realised that, but yes, Marco Sfogli has much of early Petrucci bottled and even improved, Sfogli is an incredible lyrical and soulful player and of course, technique to the moon and back.
Dude, this video lesson taught me so much guitar. What is particularly cool about it is the fact that Petrucci was really trying to teach cool and practical things about guitar playing and not just showing off how hard his solos were and how well he could play them. It is like watching a lesson from a master, who brings himself to other people's level in order to truly teach something.
John Petrucci Rock Discipline. I had this in VHS when it came out. Those warm up exercises are brilliant and this Example 16 was my favourite part of the set. Brings back so much good memories. The tone and this signature guitar are still epic 😊
Its been many many years since i first listened to JP and dream theater..my taste in music has constantly changed morphed and evolved..i have heard and seen brilliant musicians and guitarists play...many have become my all time favorite new artists!! But there is still and never will be a better or a more amazing player than JP for me
Punished Venom Snake there are plenty of players better the JP jason Becker,yngwie,Paul Gilbert,bucket head,Steve via,joe satriani,Jason Richardson,these players are more innovative creative and just better st guitar than JP,theirs obviously more but it’s mostly a personal preference
This takes me back. Back before John sold guitars, amps, pedals, picks, stays at a private mansion. Back when he quietly hid in the back of a guitar world magazine filled to the brim with grunge crap. Love, 15 year old me
David Lane I call it "The Jordan Rudess Effect." He has progressively added more gain and his playing has become my circus-like and clownish since SFaM. I don't think it's just a coincidence.
Ahh!! I remember how I practiced to this DVD with my old acoustic guitar back in 2003. It completely changed the way I played. Thank you John Petrucci!
Have you noticed most of the great players..Gilbert, Vai, Petrucci all have giant fingers/hands perfect for the guitar. It helps soooo much. I'm stuck with mini sausages for fingers. The struggle is real :'(
deltafit I agree with others it is more a mind over matter thing. The size of your hands is a very small portion of playing. It only matters with things like figuring out what radius feel more comfortable to you and so forth. For example I have short fingers for my size. This makes it easier for me to play 11 to 14 radius necks because they are almost flat and I don't have to reach over a radius to grab a note. Ibanez wizard necks are awesome to me. I got a fender, peavy, dean and schecter. The one I am more comfortable playing is the schecter simply because the radius is just right on it. Don't worry you'll get it and those fingers will be flying over the fingerboard soon enough. Just practice practice practice. Good luck dude.
This was after Images and Words(which had Under A Glass Moon on it) around 94 when Awake come out so really, he already had the lick written for lets say, 2 years before he played that solo there. Just some trivia for ya ;) I could be wrong with the exact dates but for the main part, this Instructional Video was recorded after he had recorded Under A Glass Moon.
Ah yes they are, it was his Dimarzio Steve's Special Pickups that gave the juicy tone of his Ibanez guitars. He uses Illuminators now :/ which are okay but Steve's Special Pickups were way better.
@@sanjivharikumar I thought it was the tone zone with the humbuckers from hell? Can someone please clarify this so I can buy the pickups! I love his 90's tone!
for all those saying that john petrucci has become a "SHREDDER" or isn't "Melodic" anymore... i just have three words for you... "THE SHATTERED FORTREES"... one of his best solos EVER!!!
@TheSchrism John Petrucci is probably one of the best, if not the best, guitarplayer when it comes to his technique. It's absolutely amazing how well he controls his guitar. He's definitely one of my favorites.
As a response to porpoisefathom (since I can't respond to him because RU-vid sucks donkey balls now), you have no clue what you're talking about. Petrucci uses a number of linear patterns, but is far from up and down. I mean, just listen to the Under a Glass Moon solo. lots of switching between modes in very subtle and clever ways, not to mention some chromatics, and it's very anti-linear. As for Govan, I'm absolutely stunned. There so many examples of him ending on places other than the tonic I don't even know where to begin. He also frequently uses odder patterns and skips degrees within the patterns (and when I mean frequently, I mean A LOT) so to say that he is linear just blows my mind. Govan is one of the least generic and least linear guitar players in HISTORY. Porpoisefathom is a really good example of unfathomable stupidity.
Rock Discipline was a very helpful DVD for me. It's kind of antithetical because he doesn't explain scales or gets too involved in theory, he simply goes over right hand and left hand technique and provides you with knowledge of how to improve your "chops" but not necessarily how to play melodic guitar solos.
I agree. The Petrucci's Musicman guitars are amazing, especially the bluish one that shines about fifty different colors, but I like the Ibanez sound alot better.
When he was little, all the bullies at school I insulted, because it was clumsy, overweight, and could be inattentive in class, then she decided not to leave the house more, and so he took a guitar to pass the time, and focused only about her, 24 hours a day, and so was born Petrucci
Karl Kanner I read that one all the time :D Funny enough that in almost every case the guitar player in question actually played that song somewhere being recorded ;)
It's really interesting that, while I like this tone way more than his current one, his early Music Man tone, like the one on his solo album, isn't that different, and it's still awesome. His current (distorted) tone is muddy and has too much chorus.
Kevin Neace you're completely right. His early music man jp6 models had the steve's special and air Norton, the same pickups as his ibanez. The early jp6 models don't sound very different from the ibanez for that reason
Got old. Stopped playing ibanez. No longer inspired. From Dream and Day to Metropolis he was at his best. All ibanez. It's been downhill ever since. I haven't bought an album since the one with "as I am." Can't even remember the name of album smh. Losing Moore was a killer. Petrucci will always be awesome but like Yngwie, he well past prime and just fooling around now. Not that great any longer
Every time I see the Ibanez JPM, I regret not buying one when I was a young guitar player. I played one in my local mall music store in 1997 and the sticker on it was $899! Knowing how generous the owner was, especially with younger players, I could've probably got it for ~750. Now, they sell for $2500 easily. And they're not easy to come by To all you new guitar players, guitars are an amazing investment. Good guitars only go up in value over time if they are taken care of properly. My brother has probably owned 50 guitars over the last 25 years, with 20 or so in his collection at any given time, and he has yet to lose money on any he has sold. He even had a used Telecaster that he "didn't like the feel of", and still made money when he sold his two weeks after he bought it
