Guys like you, Jack Gardiner, Pete Thorn and Andy, are the future of modern guitar, Rick. You deserve all the success that your hard work, dedication and integrity will no doubt bring.
I wish I hadn't clicked on this, I was just starting to feel good about my guitar playing. Think I'll just go ahead and quit now. Listening to Andy Wood play is both thrilling and depressing at the same time
6:06: "Obscure Blues Riff". I busted out laughing at that, lol. This guy is insane, he has got to be one of the most technically gifted guitarists I've ever heard.
maybe not that hes one of the most technical, but that he blends that technical ability with so many styles/ideas/feeling, without sounding like a shreddy robot
I can't remember the last time I had so much fun watching/listening to a guitarist...Andy is a real freaking musician with a massive vocabulary and I was so taken by the music itself that I forgot to be blown away by his incredible technique LOL WOW
Seems impossible, like something you'd see in a traveling carnival -- like a savant freak-show you'd discover in some tiny town in Southern Mississippi in 1953.
+TechMetalRules We used to tab these ourselves, but it took forever and ate into the time we spend editing new stuff. We now hire the wonderful Levi Clay for all our transcription, who is a true pro. It was a big step for us to be able to afford him on large projects like this, and your purchases and subscriptions are what finally made it possible. So thanks to you and everyone for supporting us!
+Petter Eriksson Not a crazy comparison - he and Martin came up together, and both represent a 21st century standard for what you can do with alternate picking, among other things.
That's cool :) I've noticed that I'm decently rubbish at alternate picking unless it's a decending run. Ascending runs are pretty much always economy picking for me if I want to do it at speed. By the way, did you ever have problems with your left hand speed? The left hand is my weakest point when it comes to playing.
I'm not particularly "fast" compared to the average player when it comes to raw hand speed, either left or right. I may be cleaner, but that's because our contribution to this conversation has mainly been accuracy techniques like pickslanting and crosspicking. If there are specific challenges related to finger speed I'm not aware of them, but hopefully we'll learn more about this over time as we collect more data.
I know that my picking hand sucks because I play also violin and so much higher speed. It is easier to play violin fast than guitar. I have better left hand.
Best cross picker I've ever seen.I'd say better Yngwie,Vai,Eric Johnson,Al DiMeola,etc etc.Bonamassa is a quite a picker but I don't think this good.Yes I said it.This guy has mastered picking angles/string skipping .These are some difficult runs to play without sluring mutes over other strings to get where the note is.His constant repositioning of his wrist angle is advanced stuff.
This guy is insane! He should end it by dropping his pick and simply walk out of the room with the guitar (especially if it's Troy's and not his). All Troy could really do then is nod in agreement and clap.
This stuffseems way beyond human capability. Who knew that starting with a mandolin could send your guitar picking frequency straight through the sound barrier? Techniques like sweep picking start to seem totally redundant when you're already able to pick at a rate which forces Troy to explain what's going on in terms that sound like quantum physics to mere mortals. But it's still a feast for the ears and eyes.
I don’t know what just happened, but I feel the same way I did when I saw Yngwie for the first time and he played all solo no band the whole time. Feel like I have to grab a wall or somethin 😂
Am I being wrong or Andy is really using upward pickslanting for higher speed licks, especially while picking the bass strings? I think this is caused by shifting the anchor (from bridge to the body), too.
Hello! I'm from Brazil. You would know where I can buy a holder like that to attach my cell phone to the guitar arm. I can not find it on ebay. Thank you and congratulations to the videos. They are great!
+Chord TheSeeker He really played all that! It's a bit of a barrage when edited into in a montage like this, but in person Andy is still a non-stop juke box of styles and vocabulary.
As good as it get's with alternate picking.Joe Bonamassa has it too.Eddie,Yngwie,Steve Vai,Zakk etc..all great technicians but imho a step below at alternate picking compared to Andy and Joe.
I wish I could figure out how these guys get so much speed and articulation with wrist movements. I'm an elbow picker, like Vinnie Moore, and wrist movements just feel so sluggish to me. I can't grasp it, but I feel like I could gain more articulation if I mastered the movement.
So seriously HOW do you get the pick in and out of the strings without resistance slowing you down for speed? The 'drag' of the pick contacting the strings
I'll give you the practical answer and the technical answer. Practical answer first: this isn't really a significant issue that people have when trying to play fast. Nine times out of ten, when people come to us and say they "can't play fast", and they show us video of what they are doing, their problems have nothing to do with picking too hard, using too much pick, getting stuck on the string, or using motions that are too large. Instead, most of the time they are just using a slow awkward joint motion instead of a fast one. That's really the sum total of it. The technical answer: the pick glides across the string because it experiences a reduced angle of attack at the moment of string contact, less than 90 degrees, when it hits the strings. This is true of all picking motions and all pick grips. Otherwise the pick would stop completely when it hits the string. In plain English this means that part of the pick is angled (and this is the key) * compared to its direction of motion *. This can be accomplished by moving along a diagonal or semicicle * compared to the pick's orientation *, using edge picking, using grip flop, and using picks with rounded edges. For a thorough technical explanation you can check out this lesson in the Pickslanting Primer ( troygrady.com/primer/choosing-a-pick/chapter-6-angle-of-attack/ ). However, while this is all technically interesting, just keep in mind, none of this is almost ever the real problem. Most people do this stuff automatically. Instead, most problems are just people using slow joint motions that feel awkward instead of the good motions that feel easy and fast.
Should I really continue playing after watching this guy? What a fluid, technical, creative and versatile player. Andy really blew my mind. I always enjoy Levi's transcriptions. Hope to purchase this someday.
While still giving full credit for the epic banjo-roll type licks and tasty hybrid picking, the thing that strikes me most is how efficient and effortless-looking Andy's wrist movement is when he's doing fast linear runs like 1:45, 3:47, 4:38 . Very strong resemblance to Paul Gilbert. And seemingly no (or very little) elbow movement on those runs. I suspect many people who describe themselves as "wrist deviation" pickers probably have more elbow movement or forearm rotation than they realize. But Andy seems to have a very "high purity" wrist deviation movement on his linear runs, unless there is something more interesting happening that's hard to observe. If you ever revisit the Biomedical Engineering labs in North Carolina, Andy would be a fascinating subject to "put under the microscope."
+severalpaperclips Definitely, Andy is a textbook deviation two way pickslanter. But there's plenty of forearm for pickslanting movements during inside picking, and even crosspick arpeggio playing in the Stoney Point example. For near-zero forearm or elbow you can think about Albert Lee or Molly Tuttle. Molly alternate picks everything with essentially only wrist movements. We'll see that coming up.
I totally agree. I am sure Andy did not start playing by thinking about how pure and precise his wrist or forearm movement was. He simply started playing that way from the start.
Wow, this guy is an amazing player. Just saw his name listed on the Bijou website saying he was rolling through town. Checked out this video and was completely blown away. Can't wait to see this dude live now.
Really like this stuff, it is amazing. I like this hybrid picking more than thump pick and finger style. You can be more dynamic and snap the strings. This is epitome of picking, thanks.
+cptnoremac That was indeed Cold Shot! Please excuse the guitar nerd humor. Orange Blossom Special is a bluegrass standard, and you're right, it looks the Hellecasters have done a version of it.
Monster!
The Master himself! Love your vids Rick!
Rick Graham said a monster to another monster
Let them fight.....
Guys like you, Jack Gardiner, Pete Thorn and Andy, are the future of modern guitar, Rick. You deserve all the success that your hard work, dedication and integrity will no doubt bring.
Absolutely!
I wish I hadn't clicked on this, I was just starting to feel good about my guitar playing. Think I'll just go ahead and quit now. Listening to Andy Wood play is both thrilling and depressing at the same time
wow. just wow. incredible. so if i buy your shit ill play like that?
6:06: "Obscure Blues Riff". I busted out laughing at that, lol. This guy is insane, he has got to be one of the most technically gifted guitarists I've ever heard.
We thank you for catching that one! Andy is the best - great player, great dude.
I tried to figure out that reference, but it just don't mean a thing.
Nice.
maybe not that hes one of the most technical, but that he blends that technical ability with so many styles/ideas/feeling, without sounding like a shreddy robot
That's it, right on the money!
These behind the scenes/extra footage vids are great Troy. Any chance of Guthrie Govan?
yeah i think the same, we need cracking the Guthrie!!!!hahaha
Those hybrid arpeggios at 4:00 - I literally just gaped like an idiot at my screen going 'What. The. Hell.' Andy is incredible!
Nick Siepmann My exact reaction too! Sounds almost like a harp. Never heard anything like that on a guitar
Agreed. It sounds like a tapping lick almost.
It had the look and feel of a harpist too. Fantastic stuff!
I also.
Ohh....My!!!
The Marriage of Figaro part, unbelievable!
holy crap...people are starting to get good at this whole "playing the guitar" thing...
1:47, 3:40, and 4:00 were the "Wow" moments for me
Finally. Tone for grown up guitarists. He plys like I would like to sound. Whats the Amp? Suhr?
Yep. Bella, fantastic base tone, but a handful of OD type pedals in the mix here as well.
Troy Grady what guitar is he using? Its obviously a telecaster style guitar but i cant figure out what it is. Can you tell me plz?
its the andy wood signature suhr
Clean as butter.
Camilo Velandia smooth as a whistle.
That could be said for both the playing and the camera and editing work
Yep, I'm glad I switched to drums years ago 🤣. This guy is ridiculous! The accuracy and synchronization in his hands are GODLY
Just threw my strat into the bin
How is he playing so great without doing any pickslanting? Or is he pickslanting but doing it so minimal that its hard to tell?
I can't remember the last time I had so much fun watching/listening to a guitarist...Andy is a real freaking musician with a massive vocabulary and I was so taken by the music itself that I forgot to be blown away by his incredible technique LOL WOW
4:01 - 4:09 seriously!?
fucking amazing
Marriage of Figaro for the win
6:25
His accuracy is got to be Beyond Comprehension to play that kind of style I mean there's no room for error tremendous
Seems impossible, like something you'd see in a traveling carnival -- like a savant freak-show you'd discover in some tiny town in Southern Mississippi in 1953.
Haha yeah like Lonnie from the movie Deliverance playing banjo!
Just bought this pack! Thank you so much for this interview and all the work that went into tabbing everything out!
The world needs more Andy Wood!
would it be rude to ask for the tab pdf? i know, he deserves a buyer...
+TechMetalRules We used to tab these ourselves, but it took forever and ate into the time we spend editing new stuff. We now hire the wonderful Levi Clay for all our transcription, who is a true pro. It was a big step for us to be able to afford him on large projects like this, and your purchases and subscriptions are what finally made it possible. So thanks to you and everyone for supporting us!
I would...but I'll be in the shed for the summer practicing so I won't have time.
Just buy it yourself...it's worth it!
u hav 4 me??thnx
@@TechMetalRules Right answer👍
Love 6:17 - just the coolest bluesy sequences. 1:48, 2:55, 3:41, and 4:02 are also really killer sequences.
I've got a great idea; where can I go to become utterly frustrated with regard to playing the guitar? Oh yeah...here. I give up! This guy is awesome!
just plain fun to watch..so many styles and techniques. I bought the pack and even invested in a blue chip pick. Thanks for heads up on this guy Troy!
this guy definitely listened to paul gilbert growing up haha
What a talented musician! way above these sporty mindless and emotionless shredders
An example of pure mastery
Jesus christ, is he the country version of Martin Miller? That's some crazy picking!
+Petter Eriksson Not a crazy comparison - he and Martin came up together, and both represent a 21st century standard for what you can do with alternate picking, among other things.
That's cool :) I've noticed that I'm decently rubbish at alternate picking unless it's a decending run. Ascending runs are pretty much always economy picking for me if I want to do it at speed. By the way, did you ever have problems with your left hand speed? The left hand is my weakest point when it comes to playing.
I'm not particularly "fast" compared to the average player when it comes to raw hand speed, either left or right. I may be cleaner, but that's because our contribution to this conversation has mainly been accuracy techniques like pickslanting and crosspicking. If there are specific challenges related to finger speed I'm not aware of them, but hopefully we'll learn more about this over time as we collect more data.
I know that my picking hand sucks because I play also violin and so much higher speed. It is easier to play violin fast than guitar.
I have better left hand.
Great!
Best cross picker I've ever seen.I'd say better Yngwie,Vai,Eric Johnson,Al DiMeola,etc etc.Bonamassa is a quite a picker but I don't think this good.Yes I said it.This guy has mastered picking angles/string skipping .These are some difficult runs to play without sluring mutes over other strings to get where the note is.His constant repositioning of his wrist angle is advanced stuff.
This dude is one of the top 5 best players in the world! 😱
This guy is insane! He should end it by dropping his pick and simply walk out of the room with the guitar (especially if it's Troy's and not his).
All Troy could really do then is nod in agreement and clap.
screw next to volum knob is loose
4:02
Wow! That sounded SUPER cool o.O
Such spank. The cleanliness of his playing is unreal.
This stuffseems way beyond human capability. Who knew that starting with a mandolin could send your guitar picking frequency straight through the sound barrier? Techniques like sweep picking start to seem totally redundant when you're already able to pick at a rate which forces Troy to explain what's going on in terms that sound like quantum physics to mere mortals. But it's still a feast for the ears and eyes.
Haven't played that many notes in a 5 year period
by far, Andy Wood's style has been the biggest influence on how I now approach picking.
Does anyone know if Andy uses nails when hybrid (chicken) picking? Hard to tell but it looks like he's not. At best just a tiny bit.
With players like Andy you never get bored with my loving instrument called GUITAR!
amazing! perfect picking with awesome licks
I don’t know what just happened, but I feel the same way I did when I saw Yngwie for the first time and he played all solo no band the whole time. Feel like I have to grab a wall or somethin 😂
One of my top 5 players, up there with the best in my ears! So cool, love the diezel promo too!! Epic
The Lesson is... learn to play the Mandolin first:)
2:05 foreshadowing what was yet to come? “A Lie” ....what a killer picker! Cheers
Wow, I suddenly feel shittier about my guitar ability. He gets an automatic thumbs up for being so damn hateable.
The most complete guitarist I ever heard.
This guy is fantastic....very good playing.
I would love to learn from him, his fingers are like butter sliding through a hot pan.
John Slepski Andy now provides tutorials on his own TH-cam channel
Guys like this sure keep you humble
I'm on the internet and I'm left without word.. simply stunning. If I didn't see it with my own eyes I couldn't believe it.
Nice playing. Should listen to sharn tubs all great
Yup that's the pinnacle of picking imo
Most of us cannot even think that fast. Exceptional player.
hes not thinking though hes just going lol
This is how perfection looks and sounds!
Am I being wrong or Andy is really using upward pickslanting for higher speed licks, especially while picking the bass strings? I think this is caused by shifting the anchor (from bridge to the body), too.
Hello! I'm from Brazil. You would know where I can buy a holder like that to attach my cell phone to the guitar arm. I can not find it on ebay. Thank you and congratulations to the videos. They are great!
i need learn more about that
I've never been able to get my head around that style for some reason
This guy should really learn how to play guitar. He's just embarrassing himself.
I don't know how he faces himself in the mirror!
Either that was an insane, nonstop shredfest or one of the best editing jobs I've ever seen. I suspect it was the latter. What an incredible player!
+Chord TheSeeker He really played all that! It's a bit of a barrage when edited into in a montage like this, but in person Andy is still a non-stop juke box of styles and vocabulary.
Good lawd Andy your gonna make your guitar cry .
6:04 .... pour les débutants et amateurs 😁
Croyez moi ça enrichit .... 👍
Sinon visionné Karim Mansour 👏👏 le monstre extraterrestre 🇩🇿+ 🇫🇷...😁
+Troy Grady Hi may I know what kind of pick andy uses in this video?I know that he uses Bluechip, the CT55, but in this video it seems different...
As good as it get's with alternate picking.Joe Bonamassa has it too.Eddie,Yngwie,Steve Vai,Zakk etc..all great technicians but imho a step below at alternate picking compared to Andy and Joe.
If only I had 10% of his chops. I follow pretty much all the Suhr guitarist.
Tighten that screw already!
I will never recover after watching! Would somebody pick my chin up off the floor, I'm paralyzed:)
I give up. I suck at guitar
Holy shit. Incredible. He’s such a nice guy, too. I hate him. ;-)
Andy is the best!
And .. just sold everything
Fantastic video as always. Hey Troy, when will the Tommy Emmanuel video be up? I would love to see his right hand especially when using a flat pick.
What fun playing! Me like fun. Could listen for hours. Thanks for sharing! Z
I wish I could figure out how these guys get so much speed and articulation with wrist movements. I'm an elbow picker, like Vinnie Moore, and wrist movements just feel so sluggish to me. I can't grasp it, but I feel like I could gain more articulation if I mastered the movement.
So seriously HOW do you get the pick in and out of the strings without resistance slowing you down for speed? The 'drag' of the pick contacting the strings
I'll give you the practical answer and the technical answer. Practical answer first: this isn't really a significant issue that people have when trying to play fast. Nine times out of ten, when people come to us and say they "can't play fast", and they show us video of what they are doing, their problems have nothing to do with picking too hard, using too much pick, getting stuck on the string, or using motions that are too large. Instead, most of the time they are just using a slow awkward joint motion instead of a fast one. That's really the sum total of it. The technical answer: the pick glides across the string because it experiences a reduced angle of attack at the moment of string contact, less than 90 degrees, when it hits the strings. This is true of all picking motions and all pick grips. Otherwise the pick would stop completely when it hits the string. In plain English this means that part of the pick is angled (and this is the key) * compared to its direction of motion *. This can be accomplished by moving along a diagonal or semicicle * compared to the pick's orientation *, using edge picking, using grip flop, and using picks with rounded edges. For a thorough technical explanation you can check out this lesson in the Pickslanting Primer ( troygrady.com/primer/choosing-a-pick/chapter-6-angle-of-attack/ ). However, while this is all technically interesting, just keep in mind, none of this is almost ever the real problem. Most people do this stuff automatically. Instead, most problems are just people using slow joint motions that feel awkward instead of the good motions that feel easy and fast.
@@troygrady Thank you and thank you again for all you do!
Now I know why Lawrence Welk would say: "Wonderful! Wonderful!"
He uses a hybrid style but doesn't get the pop that James Burton could with a finger pick.
Should I really continue playing after watching this guy? What a fluid, technical, creative and versatile player. Andy really blew my mind. I always enjoy Levi's transcriptions. Hope to purchase this someday.
what amp is used for this endeavour?
While still giving full credit for the epic banjo-roll type licks and tasty hybrid picking, the thing that strikes me most is how efficient and effortless-looking Andy's wrist movement is when he's doing fast linear runs like 1:45, 3:47, 4:38 . Very strong resemblance to Paul Gilbert. And seemingly no (or very little) elbow movement on those runs. I suspect many people who describe themselves as "wrist deviation" pickers probably have more elbow movement or forearm rotation than they realize. But Andy seems to have a very "high purity" wrist deviation movement on his linear runs, unless there is something more interesting happening that's hard to observe. If you ever revisit the Biomedical Engineering labs in North Carolina, Andy would be a fascinating subject to "put under the microscope."
+severalpaperclips Definitely, Andy is a textbook deviation two way pickslanter. But there's plenty of forearm for pickslanting movements during inside picking, and even crosspick arpeggio playing in the Stoney Point example. For near-zero forearm or elbow you can think about Albert Lee or Molly Tuttle. Molly alternate picks everything with essentially only wrist movements. We'll see that coming up.
Troy Grady Really looking forward to the Molly Tuttle episode!
I totally agree. I am sure Andy did not start playing by thinking about how pure and precise his wrist or forearm movement was. He simply started playing that way from the start.
I think he does it wrong because ... because ... because ... umm ... no, fuck haha, man, that was just awesome!
show off !!!! just kidding burned all my guitars
It would be great if you could interview Chris Thile. I know he's not strictly a guitar player but I bet it would still be pretty illuminating
I wish I had a right hand like yours! Super cool camera Andy 👍🏻
Wow, this guy is an amazing player. Just saw his name listed on the Bijou website saying he was rolling through town. Checked out this video and was completely blown away. Can't wait to see this dude live now.
andy is just insanely talented and has next-level chope, but also plays melodically and tastefully. he also RIPs on mandolin and acoustic!
Really like this stuff, it is amazing. I like this hybrid picking more than thump pick and finger style. You can be more dynamic and snap the strings.
This is epitome of picking, thanks.
Andy playing is so crazy. Ps he must few guitarist that can play at speed without making a face hehe
Troy and Co. It appears he switches from DWPS to UWPS? Correct?
Does anybody know what type Blue Chip pick he is using for el guitar?
Now that what practice means
Please please please try to get a hold of Guthrie Govan. I'm looking forward to it.
Obscure Blues Riff sounded suspiciously like Cold Shot. And didn't The Hellecasters do a song called Orange Blossom something?
+cptnoremac That was indeed Cold Shot! Please excuse the guitar nerd humor. Orange Blossom Special is a bluegrass standard, and you're right, it looks the Hellecasters have done a version of it.
He may very well have the greatest right hand on the planet; simply freakish stuff.
Vulgar Display of Power (and musicality!)
why this is not in 60 fps?
btw great video, its rare to see guitar video that really focus on the right hand :)
Dude my next 50 bucks are going for this i must have this
"I wonder what it's like to be the best guitar player in the world?" Just ask Andy.
i don't if he is the most technically gifted guitarist or sergey golovin, they in the top for sure.
That was crazier than hell...
I thought such player does not exist.. 👽
This was freaking insane. This dude isn't human. Robot!!!