Misha could also simply say: This is a song from my band Periphery, this is how you play it. It isn't a must to tell the audience who exactly wrote a certain riff, but doing so shows respect for your bandmembers.
if you have watched many interviews with him, he is very proud of his role in assembling a team of incredibly talented musicians, as he should be. His aim was to have that, so he takes pride in all the members' contributions.
actually periphery is a full line up of decent people. they all respect each other and think highly of the musicianship they have. many people ask why they dont release p3 instrumentally or do instrumental tours. they love and respect spencer, thats why. nothing but respect for these guys
This is a cool example of how different all these guys are as players, Mark's done a ton of lessons on this song already and when you compare the 2 it's neat to see how the pretty dramatically different way they pick their notes out comes together and sounds good
I know you made this comment 8 months ago, but I'm learning music theory right now, and I dont fully understand. Is it necessary to specify that the melodic minor is parallel to the natural minor used for the chord progression? Would it mean something different if the two minors were relative? How would that work?
I don't think it was necessarily in a melodic minor, (tbh it just sounds like he is outlining a few chord tones over the progression with a few variation in the rhythms he plays) and besides, you don't really need to know theory in order to play really good solos. He probably just knows the guitar fretboard well enough and how to move around it that he can just think "I want it to sound like this" and then he can instantly find the notes on the fretboard. No real theory involved
@@sesarise I think some don't realize they "know" theory bc they never formally learned it. Others try to make it seem like they don't know theory to keep everyone else from feeling bad. Honestly idk theory and play by ear and tabs. I can improv but it's very limited.
Its not required yes; but if youre a working professional and have the time to work it into your schedule, it is foolish not to learn it. Especially if you want to gig independently someday! But as I said there’s plenty professional players who don’t know it. Though I will say this, in my experience: after 15 years of ignoring learning theory, because I felt I was ‘too cool for school’ basically; once I finally did teach myself basic notation of the fret board, different scale modes, and all the rest going back to how it all relates to a piano, how to understand everything about timing/what it all means etc., I was able to not only communicate better with other independent pro’s (“Hey man let’s cut a quick groove in the key of ‘A’, and maybe try building a solo off that Dorian style lick you played earlier.” That’s a slightly unrealistic/geeky example but yea),, but I also am able to write better/more efficiently now especially if I am at a writing ‘wall,’ I can move around the fretboard a little more melodically, now that I know exactly what I am doing music-wise. Yeah music is just “sound”, so you can get plenty far ignoring the theory that makes it sound the way it does, and just going off your ear (as I did for the first 15 years); but, from a once-young-now-coming-of-age player like myself, I’d say to the newer players just to stay open to the idea of some day learning the theory/meaning behind it all. 🎶 But I wanna stress/reiterate, as I believe this is most important: there’s no right or wrong to making music. Just knowledge to gain and art to express.
There's nothing wrong if you don't know theory, but there's also nothing wrong with learning theory. What really matters are the players and how they communicate with one another for them to understand. In my band, I know theory, and I'm the drummer. Everybody else knows little to nothing, but they write great stuff and we work together really well and know how to communicate.
P2 and P3 are masterpieces to my ears. Same with the joy of motion and the madness of many by animals as leaders. 4 of my favorite albums of all time honestly. Just saw both of them live on the tour they are on now and both of them absolutely KILLED IT!!! Not only are both bands amazing composers and songwriters and technically amazing skillful musicians, but they also nail each song each night live just as good as the album studio version. There are no studio magic with these 2 bands, they can play all this crazy shit live and actually sound better live than the album recorded version. This song is actually one of the most simple straight forward Periphery songs there is. Haha but still love the catchiness of it and how they add little things here and there that are signature Periphery style.
He doesn't know theory but can create all those cool riffs and melodies, that makes him a guitar genius . Dedication and passion for guitar at it's best!
I have a rare disease where I poop everytime a new person I've never met looks at me. I'm a real good guitar player but I could never play in front of anyone ever but when I play this song I feel like a rockstar! Thanks Misha!
"We did a catchy chord progression over blast beats, beacause.... why not." lol. That was my thought from the first time I heard the song. I was like chorus is all blast beats?? what?? why?? and then i thought to myself.... meh... why not
misha "i dont know theory" but has the rhythmic brain of a god and has great melodic sense when hes so self deprecating it just makes u feel worse bc u know theory and that level of talent is unreachable still amazing to see 😊
Hi Misha, how long before a new album? Can't wait to hear some new stuff, please include song from marks jam up bias video, the middle one, such a sick tune, you guys are the best!
This song is so difficult for me to play, anyone have any tips for upstrokes, that's what always gets me. Ive been playing for almost 10 years and still cannot do upstrokes
Pretty sick signature misha. How u like the peavey setup? I run a classic 50 and 100 through a port city 4x12 with two creams and v30s (444). Great speaker combo to me.
Aeolus based on seeing mark playing around with chords improvising, it’s second nature to him. Misha has had to learn it instead, and it’s completely opposite to his “style”
Don't know how I feel about them not knowing theory.... they write some tricky stuff that seems to work so how can they do that consistently without knowing anything
Trial and error. You can get just as far by not knowing what you’re doing musically, it just takes a little bit more time with trial and error. Truth is, most musicians inadvertently know more theory than they want to admit. A lot of things guitarists must to know in order to play in key are things directly tied to music theory. The more ya know, mang.
Well, they don't know theory as in they don't know names and stuff, but they certainly "know" theory. Their ear knows theory and how to harmonise. They can discern movements and minor from major and much more. It's just more internal and without the fancy names. I know theory but I can't hear what these guys hear in their heads. Theory's just a way to communicate a bunch of collected information through the ages. The information is sonic, so a good ear develops most basic theory on its own.
does anyone feel that each periphery guitarists have their 'best' playing riff? for example, i think mark plays 'the way the news goes' best of all 3 guitarists, and bulb plays 'marigold' best of all, and jake plays 'luck as a constant' best
Here’s a guitar lesson. I have no idea what I’m doing and I don’t know how to explain it other than try to play it like this and it will sound really good.. alright everyone ready???? Here we gooooo….
If anything that makes them more impressive to me because it means they have to write entirely based on feel. Then again I'm a huge periphery fan so my opinion may be biased in their favor
What?!! I give it a huge thumbs up. Props #1: I can't think of any drummers that would have even thought to blast through an epic sounding chorus like that...I know I wouldn't have. Props #2: Then in the second half of the chorus, he keeps the blasts, but gives you the accented snares on 3 that you wanted in the first place. Perfection.
You're a professional musician, learn theory. It's the language of Music. You're selling yourself short by not learning theory for this instrument and many others.
When did I ever say he wouldn't or isn't a successful guitarist? I simply said, why not improve your skills by learning Theory? Do you have something wrong with learning Theory?
