The DeMartini Sequence 

My band opened for Ratt in the early 2000’s and I got to meet Warren. Great dude, and a killer player !!!!

Can’t stress enough how great your videos are. Not to mention your playing! Geez. The ability to almost exactly imitate and pick up on all our guitar Hero’s stuff is not to be looked over

No pinky finger required! -Michael Schenker

Warren is one my top 10 favorite guitarist!

Agreed Prof. Brew.. there IS something about Warren's playing that I've been drawn to for years... "Lay It Down" "Body Talk", "Shame, Shame, Shame"...there is SO much great playing going on...he has always stood out to me in that class of Sunset Strip players...GREAT stuff today Prof. Brew!

Struggled with guitar on and off for decades. I go back because it’s good for the soul. I didn’t think I had the mental furniture for theory / the fretboard. I like lots of music but Mickey Ratt/ Ratt I keep coming back to. Always wondered how those flutters were achieved. 🙌🏻.

This is a great example of why I love your channel! You take a single lick and show us how we can work on it endlessly to improve our musicality.

When I was in 7th grade my older brother took me to see Ratt back in either 85 or 86. They were opening up for Bon Jovi and watching Warren DiMartini play was the coolest thing I had ever seen in my thirteen years of life. That and all of the amazing women at that show!!!!

I remember Frank Zappa in an interview if he liked or paid and any attention to contemporary players(Late 80's). He said not really, but he thought Warren was unique in his phrasing and it made him stand out from all the other shredders.

Warren has amazing time-feel and his playing is full of groove and swing like EVH. Both master "rhythm" players that can solo just as well.

Very underrated guitarist! Thanks for showing the Petrucci and Gilbert expanded versions also wicked cool.

Every time you bring Warren to your channel it’s a treat for me man. By far my favorite glam shredder

New to your chanel and i love when someone instructing actually uses content that you can use and grow with , can't wait to dive into more, great job bro

Thanks for sharing all this good stuff. You’re so light on the pick and make it look so effortless. Right On!

Warren is one of the most tasteful palyers of his era... they guy created magic and memorable solo after solo.

Dude, this was a great video! You break these licks down without getting bogged down and into the weeds. Awesome playing as well! You earned a new subscriber!

I love the evolution shown here of the lick. masterful. i had known warrens and gilberts but never made the connection. working on some of that paul now and its a lick so fun it makes me feel like a wonder kid! thank you so much!! accomplishing some decades old goals tonight!!

Reminds me of that cascading, descending lick that Satch does at the end of Always With Me, Always with you. I LOVE that symmetrical, sequential kind of stuff - I have a lot of similar licks in my repertoire, these kind of connected phrases are all over the place, and they all have the potential to sound this smooth & fluid. Cool video!

Love your channel and your lessons. Always informative and the playing is amazing. You have a great style , a great sound and always some bad ass picking. Love the way you let the playing do the talking and don’t fill the video background with 20 guitars, pedals, lights etc etc. I saw Ratt multiple times in the mid 80’s and Warren blew me away every time. Great sound / style, always put on a great show. I spent my teenage years lusting over those Charvels

Great lesson Dave! Like you, Eddie is the one that that got me started playing guitar, but Warren and George Lynch were my go-tos once I started to find my "voice". Keep up the great work man!

Thanks for the lesson I'm going to try this Warren is just so great Anybody could pick any 5 seconds of his stuff And it's all just so outstanding.

During my garage days, we played back for more. It definitely had a feel thing to it. Thanks David!!!

You have such nice tone for a guitar lesson video and I like how you assume that the guitarist has an underlying understanding of the instrument so you can immediately get to the good stuff. Thank you for posting.

I must have a look back they had some killer riffs to cheers for another great video mate .

Very Sweet David!! Glad to watch this one.

Awesome lesson David. I'm a huge Ratt/DeMartini fan. I really liked how you showed some variations to incorporate into your fan's guitar playing. Would love to see you break down some more DeMartini licks like in the solo from "Can't Wait On Love" which I believe is his best solo of all time.

Great stuff! I’ve ran across your videos now and then. I finally hit the subscribe button. I’m a slow learner 😂. All the guys you name at the end were definitely inspirations to begin playing. Your tone is awesome. The sequence is going to give me a good workout. Look forward to more videos.

Great playing, great lesson. Spot-on with the EVH comparisons!

Whoa!!! Yes! Awesome! MORE Warren please!

So good Maestro! Such great stuff! Thank you!

Great lesson, much appreciated.

That's so awesome! I always wondered where Warren learned so much great guitar at such a young age.. Very cool lesson!

Subscribed, this is right up my alley !!

Thank you, that was cool, saved and subscribed. You are really clean.

Great stuff as always

You are the man and thank you for these wonderful videos. Just subscribed.

Awesome episode!!! Thank you! Love Warren 🙏🏻

Looking forward to this one DB 😁

I remember an interview in a guitar magazine back in the 1990s, where George Lynch said that he wanted Warren's tone so bad that he would hang out with him at his home and steal his amps and heads after Warren passed out. George said that he never stole the right head and ended up selling them in garage sales. He felt like Warren knew what he was up to and was leaving shitty amps and heads out on purpose, just to mess with him. 🤣 I think I still have that magazine in a box in my closet. 🤘

You have great tone in your hands. Great lesson, and thanks!

Awesome lesson brother. Thank You

This was great! I'm gonna use these ideas in my playing. Thanks man!

Awesome playing and great little history lesson.

I really enjoyed this lesson tonight, thank you, i have subscribed. Cheers!

What up I'm glad you and this channel give Mr DiMartini the credit he deserves. Love his style. I also liked Robins style too they blended well together. Hey man I just caught TOOL the other night in Baltimore it was their opening night. They played intolerance that and Rosetta Stoned brought the house down, it rocked the place. I know you have some videos on Adam, that dude is freaking amazing. The whole band is outstanding but Adams tone and delivery are bad ass in their own right

Ratt is who got me into metal and ultimately into playing guitar. Great video!

Great lessons!!!!❤

GREAT TOOLS for my next solo ! thx wouhou love this channel

awesome lesson! fantastic. thank you

Awesome video !!

Great lesson and very useful licks👍

Great. Back to practice for me again

I really enjoyed these licks. I'm always interested in spicing up the old pentatonic routine.

Very cool, great playing as always. Warren’s playing has his own flavor for sure. I saw Warren play in NY years ago for a tribute to Zappa, and I was blown away with his style and playing ever since. Would love to hear him play some solo work today.

Thanks for another made easy lesson, first 3 notes of the lick and your on your way to playing everyone knows its Wendy as well.

Very cool sir!

great job!

Man!You are sooo good!

Very tasty riff, Sir. Thank you for the recipe. 🤘

Yep, I love it Glad you went over this as I don’t really have time to listen to all players from that era

Another great vid Dave. Since the right (non-fretting) hand is important to this lick, I would suggest that fellow players follow your alternate picking to play this lick at speed.

Thanks! It finally clicked why Warren sounds how he sounds. Makes sense now.

Your technique is sick!

Sweet lesson! I seen what u did there on the Sequences with those sneaky pull offs .

Fun lesson!

That was awesome brother.

When I think of a solo that defines Warren, You’re in trouble has a lot of his very distinctive techniques. I don’t understand theory enough to be able to actually say what he is doing, but when I hear that song, and Back For More is the “Warren sound”.

love warren - great video

Holy crap…thats a lot to work on…thanks Dave👍

I actually had the privilege of knowing Wayne Charvel and having him work on of my one guitars. I just didnt know his history at the time. Late 80's. They always say Redlands, but his shop was in Calamesa.

As fast as the 80’s hair metal go Ratt was by far the best. Hands down. Their music had a groove you couldn’t deny. Warren and Robin were a hell of a duo. I miss this music. Today’s music can be described in one word. Sux.

Awesome video !! Love everything Warren !!! More please ?!

A new thiller by Robert Ludlum lol! Far and away my favorite spot on the interwebs 🤘🏾

that variation from gilbert is tasty. not to mention, how you managed to capture it by playing so tight and clean

Warren was the best guitar player from the hair metal genre and one if the best players in the 1980s period.

Reminds me of the Sweet Child ascending run before the Hendrix lick during the wah section.

Hey David, could you go over Jake E Lee's weird harmonic behind the nut bend trick like at end of "Thank God For The Bomb" some time? Thanks for all the great videos by the way!

Dont fear the pinky

This was great!

NIce tutorial on shredding style. At 9:00, I have heard Buckethead play a very similar shred on a couple of his originals.

Warren has said EVH was a big influence , Warren talked about going to see Edward on the strip and getting right up next to the speaker when EVH would play .

Warren if my favorite “hair metal” guitarist. Very melodic player.

Wow is this good!

Round and Round is one of those iconic solos like Carlos Cavazo' Metal Health lead. 🔥

It's the "slink" in his playing. Awesome timing.

This lick is going to help me relax my index finger's death grip on the neck.

I once read a critic describing Warrens playing as ..."snakelike runs". Bullseye!

Great video, and thanks for sharing...definitely one of the better 80's "shredders," had the melody and technique. Saw Ratt in maybe 2002 without Percy at the time...watching Ratt today without Warren is the same thing...a cover band.

He has a descending like he likes to do, it’s in lay it down for sure

Sometimes the triplets Warren used were chromatic instead of scalar, three notes per string to simulate speed in a way, and played legato to save time and energy. Kind of what Billy Gibbons would do if he played metal.

RATT was the best of the LA scene. No dispute.

Have you heard Mathias Dieth's playing on the Faceless World album (U.D.O.) ? Now there's a prime example on how to construct melodic compositions. Just an amazing guitarist.

I’m sort of a newbie to theory so wondering how C#m works with Em - C#m would make that Em Dorian with the natural 6th vs Em flat 6th which is C. New subscriber to your channel!

Those double picking licks around 8:20. Strict alternate picking or down up pull off down?

MORE WARREN!!!

Please break down the string skipping pattern maybe a lesson featuring string skipping... Awesome video Dave 🤘🤘✌️🖖

Another good workout in my future …..😉. Thanks as alway David for breaking down another cool riff & giving us all variations to try as well . Very much appreciated man 😎👍

Lay it down, badassary!

I don't agree. The title sounds like a famous mathematics. Just like Fibonacci sequence and all its siblings. The brilliant DeMartini Sequence. The second bit reminds me of that Paul Gilbert lick I saw somewhere going pentatonic up the strings but every pattern was notes going down. And when you shifted it at 7:30 it actually is the exact same lick I remember. Just different fret (your usual suspect would be the 14th fret on D string, the E note). Actually it was something called "Heavy Exercises - 25 essential metal licks" guitar pro tab, no idea where it came from, who did it or why but it had sort of signature licks as one long back and forth soloing piece. And you called it being Paul Gilbert lick too so I guess it really is very signature. I really dig the ending string skipping melody you showed. Thanks for this episode, never too much DeMartini! Still don't understand how he makes somewhat classic lick patterns to sound so different. Looking forward to the video about Shame Shame Shame little lick collection ;)

Where’d you get the Star Wars poster? I remember this back in the late seventies. Wallpaper I believe.