Oh recently I’ve advanced beyond stupidity and now I’m really loving relying on sheer boneheadedness and outright wilful ignorance! (Better not watch anymore of these videos I guess if I want to keep this up)
Tom Verlaine’s solo on Marquee Moon is the one that I’ve always wanted to replicate, even if it sounds like he’s off key and off tempo… it’s just genius playing
I’m so happy that this guitar lesson exists. The intro solo is exactly the kind of guitar playing I like and have genuinely struggled to figure out how to do.
This is what ive been looking for! Im a metal guy, and im sick of everyone being so damn clean and technical. Id like to incorporate dissonance into my playing and incorporate it into a metal context.
*Me; a big brained guitarist*; "just play blues pentatonics with a ring mod, then you don't have to learn anything..."😂😂 Nah props man, you post some of the most consistently creative, entertaining and informative guitar based lesson content on youtube, and have done for quite some time and I really appreciate it. Thinking outside the "blues box" and checking some of my favourite guitarists, like Ron Ashton, McGeoch, Roland S Howard and Mark Ribot...no one else on YT is teaching this stuff, great stuff man, thanks for all the licks 🤟
A great subject for a video, and one that has always appealed to me. I like the idea of a chaotic sound, like maybe playing in time while you're falling down a flight of stairs or being tossed about in the surf.
I love the way that you have honed the art of dissonance and sonic weirdness to such a level of precision. My playing is so awful that tension, random and , sadly, predictably duff notes seldom achieve a level of what could be considered masterpieces. Cacophonous is a more accurate description. Thank you Adrian. Yours is the best guitar channel on TH-cam.
Marvellous stuff. Of course, you have immediately pin-pointed the glaring difference in our relative playing styles: Yours is stylish, artful and relevant. Mine is comically hamfisted and accidentally dis-artfully atonal. To deliberately misquote Eric Morecombe: All the wrong notes, and almost exclusively in the wrong order. Vive La Difference!
I'm reminded of Les Dawson on the piano, for those old enough to remember. He was actually a good pianist and it took a lot of skill to play that wrong.
Yes! I immediatly thought of them when he talked about the 2nd intervals, Duane Denison uses them in Then Comes Dudley, I think. I hope Adrian does a video (or better yet, videos) on them. Monkey Trick, Karpis and Rodeo in Juliet are the songs I most want to learn.
Love this. Usually just find happy accidents when I'm learning something or trying out different picking and strumming patterns to make it more interesting. Sometimes a simple pull off on one note in a bar chord or Josh Homme's drunken stumble technique. But these are some excellent ideas on how to think about this with intent. Thank you for sharing.
Great topic indeed! While the first players that come to my mind are Marc Ribot and Robert Quine, I think more recently Josh Homme has a truly original voice in this regard. Great stuff. Thanks
Love these types of vids about this type of playing. These'll be great fun to play and will certainly catch the ear of the listener. Brilliant teacher as always and Ive learnt so much from the channel.
🥰Thanks! I think I had emailed a request for a lesson like this. I figured of all the youtube guitar gods, you'd be the one to take it *this* seriously! Would love to learn more.
Brilliant video I’ve been playing around with this for years My wife will come in and say that sounds awful, and I tell her that’s right it’s supposed to! Every now and again I’ll find something that really works just by accident
My solos always sound like this 😅 great vid - a good balance of harmonic/disharmonic makes a song great. In germany 90ies they said „Auf Danzig, tanz ich!“ - i dance to Danzig - great shirt as always, Adrian
I comment on this video but it could be on any other. You always find interesting and varied things to teach. My respects and congratulations Adrian. Greetings from Argentina
This video is a perfect example for why I love your channel! Oh, and cool Danzig shirt...would you do a tutorial for a song from the first four albums?
What a great example and very interesting ideas. Some parallels to Neil Yound and Crazy Horse. :-) I really enjoyed your music, definitely! Very progressive and intelligent and cream for my ear. Amazing! Subscribed! (/from Germany)
Great as usual! This isn’t really my kind of thing but I certainly appreciate it. It’s hard enough for me to make good music sound good and play it straight… Very little time to try to cock it up without having to do so already 😆. The jazzmaster is a great weapon of choice for all kinds of music.
Dissonance instantly brings to mind the Mars Volta and the wonderfully wierd musical language of Omar Rodriguez Lopez. Aberinkula, Drunkship of Lanterns and Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus are treats to anyone who the acquired taste of dissonance. (+ Bonus Robotalk section of Take the Veil.)
Syd Barrett all over Piper at the Gates is great at dissonant guitar. Also John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees. Roland S Howard of The Birthday Party. Ry Cooder's playing on Beefheart's Safe as Milk. Alessandroni's work in Braen's Machine. Bruno Battisti D'Amario's mad playing for Morricone's Avant Garde band Il Groupo (see eg The Feed Back). Whoever(!) played on the great David Axelrod Warner recordings (the sleeve notes just list each as "musician").
love that one Adrian, wish we could collaborate on some ideas one day, by the way, how about 'five stop mother superior rain' by the flaming lips? being a ballad with some noise feedback that goes down pretty well doesn't it?!?!?! thanks so much for your content and music❤
I'm not sure quite how relevant this is, but I always thought The Slits did some interesting things with dissonance. Any chance of a video on the innovative work of Viv Albertine? Would she be the first female guitarist analysed on the channel? Do correct me if I'm wrong!
Can we get a comprehensive video on right-hand placement, planting/anchoring and different styles of strums? Like a James Williamson strum is very different to a Gang Of Four style strum or a Johnny Marr style strum..
Adrian, this is great. Are you familiar with the work of Marc Moreland on the first two Wall of Voodoo albums (Dark Continent and Call Of The West)? he has some of my favourite dissonant things i've ever heard, often in a sort of bastardised surf style, but there's a lot more to him than that. Also those dissonent notes that the B52s often used, amongst otherwise more conventional chord structures. Anyway, thanks for the video and i'd love to hear what you make of Marc Moreland. Wall of Voodoo's cover of Ring of Fire might just be my favourite cover version of all time.
Black midi is a perfect example of a band using of the dissonance. Listen to their song `welcome to hell’ for example. I love this band one best band these last years.
You are either a bonamassite or you're not......that is what I have found.....anytime I have looked for players to do something different.....they are either cookie cutter blues or Adam Jones bs.....
I have been relying on stupidity, but I am open to other methodologies :).
nicely played
Ignorance is my friend.
😂 same
Oh recently I’ve advanced beyond stupidity and now I’m really loving relying on sheer boneheadedness and outright wilful ignorance! (Better not watch anymore of these videos I guess if I want to keep this up)
I feel ya! Sadly, I’m just a truly incompetent guitarist …
Tom Verlaine’s solo on Marquee Moon is the one that I’ve always wanted to replicate, even if it sounds like he’s off key and off tempo… it’s just genius playing
I’m so happy that this guitar lesson exists. The intro solo is exactly the kind of guitar playing I like and have genuinely struggled to figure out how to do.
Sounds great, reminds me of something you might hear on the Twin Peaks third season
In that case, Eric Haugen's lessons on Marc Ribot and 'skronk' (Eric's own term, I think) could be of interest to you, too.
This is such a great topic.
Agreed! Just started watching and I am super excited.
This is what ive been looking for! Im a metal guy, and im sick of everyone being so damn clean and technical. Id like to incorporate dissonance into my playing and incorporate it into a metal context.
*Me; a big brained guitarist*; "just play blues pentatonics with a ring mod, then you don't have to learn anything..."😂😂 Nah props man, you post some of the most consistently creative, entertaining and informative guitar based lesson content on youtube, and have done for quite some time and I really appreciate it. Thinking outside the "blues box" and checking some of my favourite guitarists, like Ron Ashton, McGeoch, Roland S Howard and Mark Ribot...no one else on YT is teaching this stuff, great stuff man, thanks for all the licks 🤟
A great subject for a video, and one that has always appealed to me. I like the idea of a chaotic sound, like maybe playing in time while you're falling down a flight of stairs or being tossed about in the surf.
I love the way that you have honed the art of dissonance and sonic weirdness to such a level of precision. My playing is so awful that tension, random and , sadly, predictably duff notes seldom achieve a level of what could be considered masterpieces. Cacophonous is a more accurate description. Thank you Adrian. Yours is the best guitar channel on TH-cam.
Marvellous stuff. Of course, you have immediately pin-pointed the glaring difference in our relative playing styles: Yours is stylish, artful and relevant. Mine is comically hamfisted and accidentally dis-artfully atonal. To deliberately misquote Eric Morecombe: All the wrong notes, and almost exclusively in the wrong order. Vive La Difference!
I'm reminded of Les Dawson on the piano, for those old enough to remember. He was actually a good pianist and it took a lot of skill to play that wrong.
Wishing very much that I had just an ounce of Les Dawson’s skill…
And let's not forget Eric Morecambe who played all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order ☺
Don't let anyone under 60 join this thread!
His daughter said he would spend all sunday practising piano, and they would beg him to do the wrong notes.
was looking at Marc Ribot and Duane Denison the other day for some of this, great stuff
I really like the dissonance you get between a 3rd and 4th of a chord, especially used on a dominant V chord. Any half step dissonances can be cool
Reall useful lesson. Duane Denison used dissonance a lot in The Jesus Lizard. Would love if you could do a lesson on one of their songs. Amazing band.
Yes! I immediatly thought of them when he talked about the 2nd intervals, Duane Denison uses them in Then Comes Dudley, I think. I hope Adrian does a video (or better yet, videos) on them. Monkey Trick, Karpis and Rodeo in Juliet are the songs I most want to learn.
Love this. Usually just find happy accidents when I'm learning something or trying out different picking and strumming patterns to make it more interesting. Sometimes a simple pull off on one note in a bar chord or Josh Homme's drunken stumble technique. But these are some excellent ideas on how to think about this with intent. Thank you for sharing.
Adrian, if you make a video series how to write alternative songs it’s going to be a smash hit!
I really appreciate your attitude, mindset and taste in music.
Thank you so much.
Great topic indeed! While the first players that come to my mind are Marc Ribot and Robert Quine, I think more recently Josh Homme has a truly original voice in this regard. Great stuff. Thanks
Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band. Masters of this stuff.
Love these types of vids about this type of playing. These'll be great fun to play and will certainly catch the ear of the listener. Brilliant teacher as always and Ive learnt so much from the channel.
🥰Thanks! I think I had emailed a request for a lesson like this. I figured of all the youtube guitar gods, you'd be the one to take it *this* seriously! Would love to learn more.
There's such a great solo in Miracle Mile by Silkworm. It's exactly an acoustic guitar song with a blown out solo!
Sounds excellent, I'll check it out!
This is something I’ve been looking for forever, glad you were the one to make the video. Great as always
Huge fan of your channel. Love this topic. Thank you!
You just gave any level guitarist,a perfectly delivered lesson!,,,,
Love you style!!!!!
Great lesson Adrian!! Nothing annoying about your solo. That was great!! Thank you!
Good material and presentation, thank you!
Robert Quine is my dissonance king.
Wow, would never of had you down as a Danzig fan. (I only count the first 4 albums)
THIS IS GOLD 😀
Brilliant video
I’ve been playing around with this for years
My wife will come in and say that sounds awful, and I tell her that’s right it’s supposed to!
Every now and again I’ll find something that really works just by accident
This is fantastic!
Couldn't agree more about the modern players. It's all phenomenal technique seemingly at the expense of feel and the song!
My solos always sound like this 😅 great vid - a good balance of harmonic/disharmonic makes a song great.
In germany 90ies they said „Auf Danzig, tanz ich!“ - i dance to Danzig - great shirt as always, Adrian
I comment on this video but it could be on any other. You always find interesting and varied things to teach. My respects and congratulations Adrian. Greetings from Argentina
Chris Whiteley second album specially Oh lord my heart is ready now
Great video....as usual
Don't know Chris Whiteley but I must take a listen.
Or search for Long Way Around at House of Blues.
Great lesson. Watching with a lazy Sat breakfast :). Someone above mentioned the Jesus Lizard. They’d make a great lesson!
ring modulator is also a great effect to add some chaos
Glad you are still here
Derek Bailey was the master of that
He was indeed, love DB!
This is a great video. This is one of the missing links for me.
Loved this one Adrian. 8 miles high, definitive gaze, muscle in plastic, happy death men. Oh yes😀
Brilliant Vid Totally agree with you.....Now can you teach me how to play "My guitar gently weeps".???
This video is a perfect example for why I love your channel! Oh, and cool Danzig shirt...would you do a tutorial for a song from the first four albums?
QUINE LIVES HERE! or maybe Ivan Julian?
Yes, both heroes of mine!
We need more Voidoids vids
Marc Ribot 😉
Yep, no question.
Yeah, and maybe Robert Quine and Tom Verlaine while you're at it.
Came here to say the same.
A little Robert Quine; maybe a little Peter Laughner... love it.
The Cleveland - New York Axis, 1975
What a great example and very interesting ideas. Some parallels to Neil Yound and Crazy Horse. :-) I really enjoyed your music, definitely! Very progressive and intelligent and cream for my ear. Amazing! Subscribed! (/from Germany)
Great video. Side note, please begin offering face-to-face tuition in London again soon!
Great as usual! This isn’t really my kind of thing but I certainly appreciate it. It’s hard enough for me to make good music sound good and play it straight… Very little time to try to cock it up without having to do so already 😆. The jazzmaster is a great weapon of choice for all kinds of music.
Dissonance instantly brings to mind the Mars Volta and the wonderfully wierd musical language of Omar Rodriguez Lopez. Aberinkula, Drunkship of Lanterns and Cygnus... Vismund Cygnus are treats to anyone who the acquired taste of dissonance. (+ Bonus Robotalk section of Take the Veil.)
Love a bit of Les Dawson on the piano!
great lesson, thank you!
I just found the perfect octave fuzz for my cramps playing. Idiotbox Ron Swanson Super Fuzz, Univox clone.
You could have shown us to play the Adrian Belew solo from the Talking Heads song the great curve.
I fucking love you mate . I don't care who knows it .
Dementedness comes naturally to some people. Love it.
That was actually a pretty good solo!
Joey Santiago is the taste master of the unison bend
He’s a master of using dissonance in general. He uses a lot of outside notes.
Reminded me of Joey Santiago.
Syd Barrett all over Piper at the Gates is great at dissonant guitar. Also John Dwyer of Thee Oh Sees. Roland S Howard of The Birthday Party. Ry Cooder's playing on Beefheart's Safe as Milk. Alessandroni's work in Braen's Machine. Bruno Battisti D'Amario's mad playing for Morricone's Avant Garde band Il Groupo (see eg The Feed Back). Whoever(!) played on the great David Axelrod Warner recordings (the sleeve notes just list each as "musician").
love that one Adrian, wish we could collaborate on some ideas one day, by the way, how about 'five stop mother superior rain' by the flaming lips?
being a ballad with some noise feedback that goes down pretty well doesn't it?!?!?!
thanks so much for your content and music❤
Tastes like Richard Thompson!😊
This is fantastic
Sounds like my normal solos!
Brilliant !
Your Marc Ribot underwear is showing!
Excellent lesson, thank you-
I thought you were describing Bucketheads music which is awesome
TELEVISION!
I'm not sure quite how relevant this is, but I always thought The Slits did some interesting things with dissonance. Any chance of a video on the innovative work of Viv Albertine? Would she be the first female guitarist analysed on the channel? Do correct me if I'm wrong!
Marc Robot, Rowland S Howard and Nels Cline. That'll do.
and Bob Quine, of course!
The technical term is "skronk".
Wish there were more dissonant pop bands
A la East Bay Ray 🔥
Good job🎸👍
The band Brainiac instantly comes to mind.
Can we get a comprehensive video on right-hand placement, planting/anchoring and different styles of strums? Like a James Williamson strum is very different to a Gang Of Four style strum or a Johnny Marr style strum..
Adrian, this is great. Are you familiar with the work of Marc Moreland on the first two Wall of Voodoo albums (Dark Continent and Call Of The West)? he has some of my favourite dissonant things i've ever heard, often in a sort of bastardised surf style, but there's a lot more to him than that. Also those dissonent notes that the B52s often used, amongst otherwise more conventional chord structures. Anyway, thanks for the video and i'd love to hear what you make of Marc Moreland. Wall of Voodoo's cover of Ring of Fire might just be my favourite cover version of all time.
A bit like Tom Waits on Swordfish trombones.Also Dave Rawlings.
Black midi is a perfect example of a band using of the dissonance. Listen to their song `welcome to hell’ for example. I love this band one best band these last years.
Pleade do a tutorial on how to play i need somebody by the stooges 🥺🙏
That's on my list of to dos. Hope to get to it later in the year.
@@acpgyes!!! Thank you❤
Do it wrong to make it right!
Marc Ribot!!
Beautiful solo. Yes to tasteful dissonance, Is that an oxymoron?
Most my songs have unintensional stuff. I had no idea its wanted 😂
If sounds good it is good. That simply
Now I want to watch Black Books
Fab!!!
Dead by Pixies seems like it uses all these techniques. Great song.
Thumbs up for the danzig shirt
Can we please get The Hexx by Pavement
Cool Marc ribot vibes
Danzig lesson! John Christ! Come on!!!
Danzig!
Marc Moreland
Could you teach us a track by Alvvays?
This solo sounds to me like an extended intro to Radiohead - There, There
Adrian it’s time for a new replacements tutorial… hold my life?
You are either a bonamassite or you're not......that is what I have found.....anytime I have looked for players to do something different.....they are either cookie cutter blues or Adam Jones bs.....
Ain't it fun when you play with this kind of stuff
Brilliant!