Ive been playing guitar since I was a teenager and no one has ever inspired me to write ugly, jarring, jumpy, yet somehow still beautiful and fascinating music as much as this man. Keep doing what you do Mark; you're an inspiration to many of us!
You hit it on the head. I can write a song on my acoustic but when it comes to a riff on my electric with high gain I end up with writers block. I grew up on Dream Theater because their first album came out as I was learning to play.
This video is what first introduced me to Periphery who have since become one of my favourite bands of all time. The speed and agility of this riff just impressed me so damn much, I had to hear more of where it came from. Thanks for doing what you do, Mrak, you're such an inspiration to me and I think to many others as well!
I wish Mark, Misha and Jake would do a video where they break down a song or part of a song to show how each part is written then how each part fits together.
He answers a lot of my questions in the first minute. Been writing for several years but I always get stuck on riffs. I always get writers block and can never get unstuck. His method seems a lot more freeing.
Not really. This isn't some ground breaking/innovative way of writing music, a lot of people including myself do it. Him and Misha are just really damn good at putting their ideas on the fretboard and banging out awesome riffs.
Not once have I ever felt that I was good at guitar 😅when I’m in the zone practicing and someone comes by and says can I play something and they have one single riff or song they wrote or learned and I’m like yes I’m still a beginner
There is limited count of 4 piece chord progression, so to say. It's interesting does he ever use the same progression to write another riff? And how much it is acceptable?
I know this is his signature PRS but the matte finish on the body of the headstock looks different from the ones sold online. Is this a different model? 10 Top?
Honestly, this PRS is quite possibly the least muddy guitar I've ever heard. It maintains insane clarity with high distortion. This particular video sounds like the guitar's had all the tone rolled off or something of that sort, though.
I have a PRS SE Torero and trust me PRS guitars produce one of the cleanest tones out there. I'm pretty sure the mix was at fault or he just preferred to use that specific tone
+christian jacob leongson After a couple listens, sounds like (roughly) F-9, BbSus4, Eb/G, Ab, EbAdd9, Bb/D. So the progression would be II-, Vsus4, I/3, IV, I, V/3. Hope that's helpful!
This is very interesting, but I thought that we (prog players) all do that... because who wants too much awkwardly empty space? You just HAVE to fill it sometimes, not necessarily with tremolo picking or something like that.
In this order: noise gate Tubescreamer with gain at 0, tone at full Amp on a little gain A good cab EQ the very high frequencies out a lil and some low You'll probably get a half decent tone there
... i kind of feel like telling you what all what the actual notes were....and the intervals, and progression numbers are ....just to spite all of you.
@@djentrification1631 can you remember the color red? or royal blue? you can do the same with sound, you can remember notes, they can replay in your head.
Last time I checked, he plays for Periphery and you just comment on videos of him. Sorry, I'm 3 years late. Lmao. Tone isn't bad, just isn't your preference. Def too gainy for me.
Isaac Zaladar Idk about animals as leaders, I know the drummer went to Berklee so he obviously had some theory experience. But yeah, I dont know how they do it but all of them just write what sounds good I guess. Even when he was describing chord shapes he used he refered to them by the frets he had his fingers on, rather than the "A chord" for example.
great advice, however the tone is horrible! not clear at all. for the case of teaching use a cleaner tone, so people can hear clearer, can always distort it after 😁
Can the self proclaimed guitar tonal overlords in the comments stop going on about "Tone" all the time, we get it, you can turn the nobs on your amp, we all can but it doesn't make you a "Tone connoisseur " at all. Skill, personal playing style, gear and hand shape all play into this misused word "Tone". Learn how to play and your sound will find you.
