Joscho Stephan: Django vs. Yngwie Arpeggios 

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Joscho is such a monster. I could listen to him play gypsy all day.

A jack of all trades or a master of one. I like that his answer was honest in that, even tho he knows of these other players, he didn't study or copy them, his discipline is gypsy. It's just that the technique carries over. Bluegrass players are very similar in their singular focus. They simply don't have time to learn everyone else, they're perfecting their discipline.

Amazing picking and clarity in tone. Love that neck camera shot!

He seems like a great guy. Very forthcoming with info as well, which is nice :)

What your channel is doing is revolutionary! Keep it up!

Really great videos Troy. Thanks to Joscho Stephan for doing this.

awesome editing! love the slow-mo

Dude. Youre a genius for putting these together. Very profound information.

How Awesome You are Joscho!!!

Very cool. Thank you.

Thanks a lot for this work on picking. It has been somewhat elusive, but this really helps to understand and improve on my technique ... thanks, thanks, thanks

Thanks Troy your a great educator love your lessons!

Great. And very generous. Thank you.

this guy is AWESOME!

Amazing video, talent and footage!

I've been struggling with sweep technique. Spent sleepless nights thinking how to practise, thinking how should my fingers be, thinking how should i hold the pick, thinking in what anlge my wrist should be in... or should i make an angle with my wrist and so o and so on and so on. I find these videos of yours extremely and ultimately important and helpfull. I mean EXTREMELY and ULTIMATELY important and helpfull. I found these videos yesterday. Now i perfectly well know that if Joscho can play as a lightning with holding his fingers, pick and wrist the way he keeps, then i can get there that way. And now i know how to do it and i can go forward with practising... and i can sleep :) So HUUUUUGE THANKS to you Troy!! THANKS MAN!!!!!

This is so helpful!

Спасибо огромное!!!!🎼🎸😊💐💐💐

After I watched the Yngwie vids on CTC, I fell in love with the Yngwie method.

This is the type of videos that guitarists crave for

It's really awesome to waand hear these things, the first arpeggio LICK he played was actually the same lick but in a different key in the Hail to king solo by Synyster gates when the fast part started, it's really awesome to see that Music is connected.

Reminds me of Al Di Meola without the attitude...

youre excellent joscho

Guitarrist: *sweep picks* Troy: “THAT’S YNGWIE MALMSTEEN”

Viele viele danke sehr gut gefällt mir so

Joscho rocks !! And a nice guy too !!

hypnotic!

Awesome

Damn Amazing!

He's right about music being connected. Now we know who inspired who.

That's an awesome smartphone holder, where can i get one?

I unintentionally learned sweep picking from playing bluegrass. It was just the only way to play nearly fast enough and came naturally. Ironically I still cannot do it when playing electric because electric guitars just push me to play long sustaining notes and enjoy all the saturation and harmonics.

Big fan.....

I like arpeggios very much so these descending arpeggios were beautiful for me. Yes, it's really important sentence that "music and technique are connected" cause 1) what if we have nice solo in our brain but we can't play it? 2) our guitarist' "toolbox" allow us to think to add more flavor to our songs, cause we know some interesting techniques.

Sweep picking on acoustic guitar... mind blow🤯

Troy when will we see your Joe Stump videos? I remember you had footage of him on your old website years ago.

Troy, you should interview Todd Duane - amazing player.

Where I can get my hands on the phone holder that's on your guitar neck?

How about interviewing Bumblefoot (Ron Thal)?

im having problems whit muting the bottom strings while using downward pickslanting. do you have any tips or do you simply leave the strings unmuted?

Where can I buy one of those phone mounts? 😍

What I find interesting is that most of the time techniques are made up by pure instinct, players try to compensate for speed and clarity and their brain almost automatically develop a picking pattern, I noticed that even with myself, I learned by my own ...when I was in highschool, some dudes would tell me to teach them what I was doing, but I wasn't sure at all what I was doing.

This proves that the technique could have been used before Yngwie and guitarists did not know what to make of it except that it worked and sounded beautiful. But Yngwie popularized it because he was being watched by masses on VHS, guitar magazine and concerts.

когда уже наши займутся переводом этих выпусков на постоянной основе?! Такая полезная инфа!

For the second technique, he has pulling-off to the second note of the high e string right?

Hey Troy, a little off topic in terms of artist however... Does Al Di Meola use the Alternate/ Sweep picking technique you talk about in your 'Mixing Alternate and Sweep picking'? Some of the licks especially in the Friday Night in San Fransisco album are incredibly fast. Ive been attempting the early run from Race with Devil on Spanish Highway and I'm finding my playing incredibly sloppy when Alternate picking each note at a higher speed, would i benefit from a mixture of Sweep and Alternate picking or is there a way you have discovered during your research that you find can help when playing Di Meola's licks. Love the content btw, hugely interesting.

Is that a song with that lick?

Interesting. In his second approach to playing arps, he doesn't sweep up but does two consecutive up-picks (e- and b-string). It's clear as day in the slomo footage. I wonder why, is that for dynamics? With sweeping it tends to sound smooth and there's a little bleed between the notes, this way the notes jump out more I guess. Also his downstroke on the high E was a surprise. He really digs in instead of using just the tip, and there's so much force behind it he hits the top of the guitar. It looks a bit like Van Halen's tremolo technique.

Alternate picking for that lick feels much more natural to me, but I can't get anywhere up to that speed.

Hey Troy Grady, did the results of the recent magnet poll sway you enough to try production? I really want one, and I don't think I'm going to become the next Ben Eller anytime soon.

Hi everyone. I read the comments here and I think there is a little confusion about why django did it this way. A little anectode: Some while ago I worked on the technique until I could play like this with strict Rest-Stroke Gypsy technique: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-izigjJhMwfs.html. I also started improvising on the chords of Jazz standards connecting arpeggios like Django did. I went back to alternate picking, sweeping and the known conventional shred stuff and forgot about the gypsy stuff. At the annual freak guitar camp (mattias eklund from sweden)2015 we played "All of me" with a swing feel. When soloing on the changes with strict alternate picking (I had worked a lot on this, till matching the Paul Gilbert lick)....well it just did not feel right. everything seemed to fall apart, particularly the rythm. Switching back to Rest stroke, felt perfect for the swing feel immidiately, although I did not use it much anymore. It seems to enforces it some, like having a "swingy metronome " build in, in the right hand. You simply have better timing, A much better tone for acoustics and the swing feel, with a clear pivoting point being the downstroke while switching strings. Joe Pass used this method before switching to fingerstyle, George Benson does use it. This is no coincidence i believe. Joscho also explains why he uses this technique in detail in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yfiHsJR64JA.html

cuple of me favz

dude the page 404s where can i get this!!?

I'd love to see an episode dedicated to Bob Fripp' s crosspicking

Do you have the tabs? :)

So clean you could eat off it!

0:20 ojalá!!!!

what is that red thing on the neck.. - anyone?

Shred the world

check his version sweet Georgia brown

nobody can be compared to the great Django, unless they can play lead with 2 fingers, like Django. Love your guitar and you do play it great

He did a reverse down backward sweep. Wow.

Esa canción es "Ojalá" de Silvio Rodríguez

la sensation de rebont est importante et la pratique lente et legere avec un accent sur la mi

This Guy SHREDS like a madman like even perhaps better given its acoustic WITH NO FX than Jo Satriani or LH tapping EVH the original King, new to him check out his Trio version of the jazz standard Sweet Georgia Brown, be patient the Intro is a bit BLANDLY Ostentatious as he seems to be showing off stuff that while fast and accurate is NOT melodically NOR harmonically interesting BUT then as he warms into his Real groove unleashes numerous Licks that are as good as Anyone on the planet

What kind of guitars do the gypsy jazz guitarists use, what is this one with the real big odd shaped sound hole? What aboyt the other one with the tiny sound hole? Who makes these guitar and where?

what the hell is that thing on the guitar neck?

Go listen to Michael Paouris play his composition 'The smoky black bar'.I bet anything in the world Joscho doesn't have the technique to play it as well as Troy either.Paouris is the best picker on the planet Earth.Simply unattainable.

What's the best store to buy shredders? ALDI Meola....There I said it.

Y también es similar a la intro de ojalá de Silvio Rodríguez

@ 1:33 I'm blow away it's possible to play that lick at that tempo. Wow!

Ojalá que las hojas no te toquen la uñeta cuando caigan.

Show us some tabs..

What model guitar is that

Silvio Rodriguez "Ojala" opening riff.

I REALLY WANT Yngwie Malmsteen ON THIS PICKING CAMERA.......!!!!!

Funny this guy acknowledges Malmsteen, most shredders are still in denial

He picks like Marty Friedman

Gambale is the master

Hang on, do you mean to say Malmsteen uses his little finger to pop extra notes!?

Django didn't follow any strict rules on how to pick he instinctively knew what was the right way. it was gypsy guitarists who followed in his giant footsteps who laid down the rules. And remember if Django had copied other guitarists picking style you would not have heard of him

Whatever works for the individual,try all techniques

have a listen at michael paouris

This guy is insane. Oh well, time to take up the pan flute (sorry Zamfir).

Man that first way is rough, i find Yngwie's version waayyyy easier.

That fucking pick!?

You sound so much like Todd Howard.

Him and Al Dimeola could be brothers

Cool video! But actually, the "Metal shredder" way of doing these sweeps is not like that - Joscho is always crossing in between the B and G string with outside picking (up-down) while most guys (myself included) just continue the sweeping motion with a double upstroke, returning to a downstroke only on the B string afterwards. I feel this helps a lot with overall speed and fluidity, and feels more natural to most guys. But to each his own preference ofc :)

Diter Bohlen is the coolest guitar player!

Seré el único que empezó a cantar ... ojala que las hojas no te toquen el cuerpo cuando caigas!!!

sounds more like Al Dim than Django or Malms

reminds me of lil wayne

Play it in 432hz...

Joscho is an amazing guitar player ! Difference between Django and Malmsteen: Django is pure feeling filled with melodies , Malmsteen is repetitive and boring...

Marty Friedman picking hand

dude looks like skinny jack black for real

Why is RU-vid putting conspiracy theory ads in your videos?

at 0:27 notice Joscho's right hand little finger immediately damping the first string the moment he hits the down stroke on the third string. He then removes it the instant he plays the first down stroke on the first string. This damping is barely there, if at all, on the second ( faster ) play-though and there is no damping at all on the fastest ( Yngwie style) play through.