I will never understand how guys like Kurt Cobain & the like are considered so great and such a big influence, and great players like this are hardly known.
technically, thrash was Venom, but Metallica and the other "big four" popularized it.. comparable to Meshuggah and the djent movement, where Periphery popularized it. Old Metallica was amazing, new metallica, not so much (imo). Metalhead = your primary genre of choice is metal. This does not mean you ONLY have to listen to metal and other genres are shit, it just means, in your spare time, you would generally choose to listen to metal.
for me andy is the sum of all guitar legends. steve vai plus paul guilbert plus yngwie malmsteen plus john petrucci plus zakk wylde plus joe satriani plus eric johnson i s equals to andy james.he is the best of all the best!
Tosin? Incorporating jazz? How is that new? Have you ever fucking heard of Dream Theater? Or John Petrucci? That fucker went to SCHOOL for that shit. He incorporated it into metal. Andy is an amazing player, his ingenuity isn't necessarily in anything new but the rediculous amount of soul he puts into his work. Even when he shreds you get feeling from it. You cannot tell me ONCE that he is not one of the best if not THE best active musician. His stuff with Sacred Mother Tongue is amazing. :P
behold the arctopus. tony danza tapdance extravaganza. dysrythmia. many arms... relative to those kinds of bands animals as leaders is as smooth and melodic as it gets. personally i see more talent in playing styles like that than in stuff like this, but thats not to take anything away from andy james. i really enjoy his music and he is an amazing guitar player and a bad ass song writer. but its kinda hard to be really impressed after watching colin marston play a war guitar
They're all equally good guitarists, but in terms of technical lead shredding the stuff I've seen from Andy while being scaley and "repetitive" by the standards of some, it's still seems to be much harder then most of the stuff I've seen from Loomis. And that's saying a lot because Loomis is a fucking shred god. But I do agree it's hard to compare because they do have styles that are pretty different.
"Better than Loomis" is really subjective. Their styles are different so they can't really be compared. Personally i feel Jeff's stuff is less repetitive and scaley whereas Andy's phrasing is really awesome, but i feel his strength isn't in his soloing or sweeping if you wanted to directly compare his soloing to Jeff's. I'm also biased to Jeff's style because I like thrashy neo-classical sounding things and i play a 7 string. That aside I respect all virtuoso guitarists equally. Andy is AMAZING!
I like Jeff Loomis , not because of HOW he plays or the techniques he uses , its more about the idea that he just plays what I want to hear come out of a guitar ... I think its more important to recognize feel over technical skill , that is why some people call hendrix and page " the best" guitarist rather than saying "my favorite". Probably because most people do not understand the difference.
This guy is mind blowing in his own right , reading the comments I have deduced that I can share an opinion here and not get flamed.The way I see it , is MOST guitarists favor a certain grouping of notes OR try to emote something... its not all just about what is being played. Not to sound cosmic , but all of these guys understand the science behind what they do as much as they understand the math. To say that one is better than the other is not fair. To say that you favor one over the other is
And in turn, I agree with you ;) You might be right about the Weightless thing. However, I think it depends on one's perspective. I think of that album as AAL working out a bit of a new sound and Tosin is using more of his Wooten technique and so on. I love Weightless for the sound and I love the first album for how ground breaking it is. But you couldn't be more right about hard work to get where they are. Musician's vs people's musician is probably more a matter of style/genre maybe?
I agree to you mate.. first album was great, but look at weightless .. he just undid all the good work he did previously. Whereas Andy took his playing, composition skills and overall arrangement a notch higher. I see tosin as a muscian's musician and Andy as people's musician (still not for the average listener). All Im saying is they both have worked hard to be where they are.. but they need more such good work coming to establish their reputation in this dying industry.
It's all subjective, I disagree with Jimmy Page being considered a musician at all let alone a good one, he got high and wrote songs, so did Hendrix, congratulations on what buying drugs? But that's only my opinion and people disagree with me as much as they disagree with your statement. There are people that would argue Dan Kantor of the Justin Beiber band (forgive me for saying his name on an Andy James video PLEASE) is the best guitar player in the world and honestly there's no solid proof
well they are know because they played what people wanted to hear. And lets be honest: beside guitarrists not many people like to hear only guitar songs or songs in which the guitar is the main instrument. For example Slash and Kurt Cobain didnt play that much. Basically someone that's plays for about 3/4 years and pratices regularly is easily better than both of them. But there are also guitarrist with not that much technique but who make great guitar solos: Gilmour, Clapton, Page and such.
Because those people changed the way people thought about music, society or life in general. Andy is incredibly good, however, his approach is not a game changer. Just look at Tosin Abasi. Breaching through the confines of progressive metal by incorporating jazz theory, electronica and popularizing the 8 string. He's changing musicians' lives because he changed the game. Andy is an awesome player but that's it, for now anyway. I'd love to see Andy become such a legend. His doors are open.
Unfortunately its because music is one of those things that everyone listens to but few actually take the time to really appreciate it. Just like sports cars. You can ask 100 guys if they like sports cars, 90 will say yes, only about 10 will actually own one, and maybe 4-5 will actually know anything significant about them. Same reason why Kesha can have successful "music" career.
Not a game changer? Name one other guitarist who did what he did when he started doing it? Honestly, I've never come across a single guitarist who successfully fused those intricate musical styles and techniques before him. And this is not coming from a "fucking djent fan", but from someone who actually has a lot of Charlie Hunter albums :)
i guess u got the point right, i really dig Tosin and the AaL stuff, but for driving around in the car i prefer something easier like andy cause i cant pay the attention needed to hear the full potential of Tosin. just choose the right music to the right time^^
it does mute the open strings, so they dont ring when they arent supposed to. if you go down further than the fret you put it, you can simply push it over the nut and it doesnt disturb at all.
I´ll tell you why and it will make your life little more complicated if you´ll try to explain the same thing to anyone else. Here´s the thing:most of a people don´t have a music hearing! There. I said it
new favorite guitarrist!!!!!!! i mean really! not david gilmour, or alexi laiho, or dave mustaine or kirk hammet, because you're all of them plus an awesome guitarrist yourself, all rolled into one! :D
@jeffsond LOL cause thats like the biggest deal in the world, especially when theres starvation and poverty around the world you go and complain about a note that nobody would really notice
Fuck yeah you can actually listen to this guy. Some of the other players you throw their CD in on the way to work and it sounds like your trapped in a cage with 50 parakeets on redbull
It's easy to understand him, he pins the guitar to himself and rapes the strings with his fingers then after he's done he lights up a smoke and asks the guitar if it was good for it too.
Lol at comparing Andy James to Tosin Abasi. Don't get me wrong, Andy is an extremely talented and clean player, but his music is boring frankly. His playing revolves around a shit ton of scale and triplet runs, diminished tapping/sweeping & the occasional melody. It just isn't interesting imo. Players like Tosin Abasi, Poland, Govan, Lane, Dimebag, Ron Thal & Vai have much more interesting playing. Andy has nutso consistency I'll give him that. God forbid I actually have an opinion though.
l used 8 strings before l knew who meshugga was. l don't really care for "djent" anyway though. There are no "game changers" Just people playing what they want to.
It's alright. The finish is pretty common and cookie cutter looking. If you wanna see gorgeous guitars, look up Daemoness and Mayones. Those are pretty guitars.
I know. you can notice by the way i wrote the sentence, that i was joking and just trying to point out that he doesn't use it nearly as much as most guitarists.
Andy is the best. I would kill (well, maybe not kill, just hurt a little bit) to play like that. There is not a cover he can't play as good as the original.
Yes, Dimebag. You can tell it's him every time you hear his playing because he's got a unique style that puts him apart from others. Just like the others I mentioned plus a few more. Andy just sounds like a more refined version of about 100 different shredders on youtube, how dull.
Not really, It's all personal preference. I don't like Malmsteen either, because all I hear is shred, shred, noodlefest. Boring doesn't necessarily mean there's nothing going on in the song, it just mean it doesn't do anything for me when I listen to it.
Your comment was not a critic! That was an insult. And if you think you can know someone even without mate him, it's showing a fear weakness from you. And if you see hate everywhere like you mention you should consult a psychologist to see what's wrong in your life! Stop hating and things will come to you effortless. I hope you will catch the message through my words.
I will never understand how guys like Kurt Cobain & the like are considered so great and such a big influence, and great players like this are hardly known.
Kurt and andy are great, just in different areas
Genial
para que sirve la liga negra que tiene en la guitarra?
what's the point of that black rubber in the guitar?
your face reminds me of david drainman of disturbed
Thought he was gonna play A7X's Burn It Down. :/
What's the name of this song? :]
@jeffsond some weirdo will try to count the 176th note and will let me know it wasn't a g note.
he played 1 note per every human being living in the earth in 4 minutes
Bump for 2024, found this when I was in high school and have loved it ever since. Glad things have went well bro
You're wrong when you can shred like this. Your hair just burns away, this price you pay for being that good.
Andy James is a fantastic guitarist :)
technically, thrash was Venom, but Metallica and the other "big four" popularized it.. comparable to Meshuggah and the djent movement, where Periphery popularized it. Old Metallica was amazing, new metallica, not so much (imo).
Metalhead = your primary genre of choice is metal. This does not mean you ONLY have to listen to metal and other genres are shit, it just means, in your spare time, you would generally choose to listen to metal.
for me andy is the sum of all guitar legends. steve vai plus paul guilbert plus yngwie malmsteen plus john petrucci plus zakk wylde plus joe satriani plus eric johnson i s equals to andy james.he is the best of all the best!
I don't have the 24 space on my gryph!!!!
0:55 how does he shred so fast and perfectly!
I know it's not a recording trick because I've seen him shred just as clean live!
Tosin? Incorporating jazz? How is that new? Have you ever fucking heard of Dream Theater? Or John Petrucci? That fucker went to SCHOOL for that shit. He incorporated it into metal.
Andy is an amazing player, his ingenuity isn't necessarily in anything new but the rediculous amount of soul he puts into his work. Even when he shreds you get feeling from it. You cannot tell me ONCE that he is not one of the best if not THE best active musician. His stuff with Sacred Mother Tongue is amazing. :P
behold the arctopus. tony danza tapdance extravaganza. dysrythmia. many arms... relative to those kinds of bands animals as leaders is as smooth and melodic as it gets. personally i see more talent in playing styles like that than in stuff like this, but thats not to take anything away from andy james. i really enjoy his music and he is an amazing guitar player and a bad ass song writer. but its kinda hard to be really impressed after watching colin marston play a war guitar
They're all equally good guitarists, but in terms of technical lead shredding the stuff I've seen from Andy while being scaley and "repetitive" by the standards of some, it's still seems to be much harder then most of the stuff I've seen from Loomis. And that's saying a lot because Loomis is a fucking shred god. But I do agree it's hard to compare because they do have styles that are pretty different.
"Better than Loomis" is really subjective. Their styles are different so they can't really be compared. Personally i feel Jeff's stuff is less repetitive and scaley whereas Andy's phrasing is really awesome, but i feel his strength isn't in his soloing or sweeping if you wanted to directly compare his soloing to Jeff's. I'm also biased to Jeff's style because I like thrashy neo-classical sounding things and i play a 7 string. That aside I respect all virtuoso guitarists equally. Andy is AMAZING!
I like Jeff Loomis , not because of HOW he plays or the techniques he uses , its more about the idea that he just plays what I want to hear come out of a guitar ... I think its more important to recognize feel over technical skill , that is why some people call hendrix and page " the best" guitarist rather than saying "my favorite". Probably because most people do not understand the difference.
This guy is mind blowing in his own right , reading the comments I have deduced that I can share an opinion here and not get flamed.The way I see it , is MOST guitarists favor a certain grouping of notes OR try to emote something... its not all just about what is being played. Not to sound cosmic , but all of these guys understand the science behind what they do as much as they understand the math. To say that one is better than the other is not fair. To say that you favor one over the other is
And in turn, I agree with you ;) You might be right about the Weightless thing. However, I think it depends on one's perspective. I think of that album as AAL working out a bit of a new sound and Tosin is using more of his Wooten technique and so on. I love Weightless for the sound and I love the first album for how ground breaking it is. But you couldn't be more right about hard work to get where they are. Musician's vs people's musician is probably more a matter of style/genre maybe?
I agree to you mate.. first album was great, but look at weightless .. he just undid all the good work he did previously. Whereas Andy took his playing, composition skills and overall arrangement a notch higher. I see tosin as a muscian's musician and Andy as people's musician (still not for the average listener). All Im saying is they both have worked hard to be where they are.. but they need more such good work coming to establish their reputation in this dying industry.
It's all subjective, I disagree with Jimmy Page being considered a musician at all let alone a good one, he got high and wrote songs, so did Hendrix, congratulations on what buying drugs? But that's only my opinion and people disagree with me as much as they disagree with your statement. There are people that would argue Dan Kantor of the Justin Beiber band (forgive me for saying his name on an Andy James video PLEASE) is the best guitar player in the world and honestly there's no solid proof
well they are know because they played what people wanted to hear. And lets be honest: beside guitarrists not many people like to hear only guitar songs or songs in which the guitar is the main instrument. For example Slash and Kurt Cobain didnt play that much. Basically someone that's plays for about 3/4 years and pratices regularly is easily better than both of them. But there are also guitarrist with not that much technique but who make great guitar solos: Gilmour, Clapton, Page and such.
Because those people changed the way people thought about music, society or life in general. Andy is incredibly good, however, his approach is not a game changer. Just look at Tosin Abasi. Breaching through the confines of progressive metal by incorporating jazz theory, electronica and popularizing the 8 string. He's changing musicians' lives because he changed the game. Andy is an awesome player but that's it, for now anyway. I'd love to see Andy become such a legend. His doors are open.
Unfortunately its because music is one of those things that everyone listens to but few actually take the time to really appreciate it.
Just like sports cars. You can ask 100 guys if they like sports cars, 90 will say yes, only about 10 will actually own one, and maybe 4-5 will actually know anything significant about them.
Same reason why Kesha can have successful "music" career.
Not a game changer? Name one other guitarist who did what he did when he started doing it? Honestly, I've never come across a single guitarist who successfully fused those intricate musical styles and techniques before him.
And this is not coming from a "fucking djent fan", but from someone who actually has a lot of Charlie Hunter albums :)
i guess u got the point right, i really dig Tosin and the AaL stuff, but for driving around in the car i prefer something easier like andy cause i cant pay the attention needed to hear the full potential of Tosin. just choose the right music to the right time^^
it does mute the open strings, so they dont ring when they arent supposed to. if you go down further than the fret you put it, you can simply push it over the nut and it doesnt disturb at all.
I´ll tell you why and it will make your life little more complicated if you´ll try to explain the same thing to anyone else. Here´s the thing:most of a people don´t have a music hearing! There. I said it
new favorite guitarrist!!!!!!! i mean really! not david gilmour, or alexi laiho, or dave mustaine or kirk hammet, because you're all of them plus an awesome guitarrist yourself, all rolled into one! :D
@jeffsond LOL cause thats like the biggest deal in the world, especially when theres starvation and poverty around the world you go and complain about a note that nobody would really notice
Fuck yeah you can actually listen to this guy. Some of the other players you throw their CD in on the way to work and it sounds like your trapped in a cage with 50 parakeets on redbull
It's easy to understand him, he pins the guitar to himself and rapes the strings with his fingers then after he's done he lights up a smoke and asks the guitar if it was good for it too.
Lol at comparing Andy James to Tosin Abasi. Don't get me wrong, Andy is an extremely talented and clean player, but his music is boring frankly. His playing revolves around a shit ton of scale and triplet runs, diminished tapping/sweeping & the occasional melody. It just isn't interesting imo. Players like Tosin Abasi, Poland, Govan, Lane, Dimebag, Ron Thal & Vai have much more interesting playing. Andy has nutso consistency I'll give him that.
God forbid I actually have an opinion though.
l used 8 strings before l knew who meshugga was. l don't really care for "djent" anyway though. There are no "game changers" Just people playing what they want to.
It's alright. The finish is pretty common and cookie cutter looking.
If you wanna see gorgeous guitars, look up Daemoness and Mayones. Those are pretty guitars.
I know. you can notice by the way i wrote the sentence, that i was joking and just trying to point out that he doesn't use it nearly as much as most guitarists.
Andy is the best. I would kill (well, maybe not kill, just hurt a little bit) to play like that. There is not a cover he can't play as good as the original.
Yes, Dimebag. You can tell it's him every time you hear his playing because he's got a unique style that puts him apart from others. Just like the others I mentioned plus a few more.
Andy just sounds like a more refined version of about 100 different shredders on youtube, how dull.
Es para evitar que la guitarra haga sonidos cuando estas tocando..(tener limpieza al tocar) :)
saludos
Not really, It's all personal preference. I don't like Malmsteen either, because all I hear is shred, shred, noodlefest. Boring doesn't necessarily mean there's nothing going on in the song, it just mean it doesn't do anything for me when I listen to it.
well, i agree on the kurt cobain part, and andy has more talent on his fingertips than the whole of kurt, but this tune is just boring.
I am trying so hard not to pick from my elbow because I like the sound better, but god damn it is hard for me to pick like Andy James!
@cedguitar123 Think he uses a Zoom haha, not sure what model though. watch his band's studio diary's and it shows you the pedal briefly
that black rubber works as a palm mute so that you only hear what he's playing and not some background other string interferience.
@wstone2010 you obviously arnt wealthy if you share those informations with the internet. noone talks about finances in public!
Has nothing to do with how complex you riffs are it how good you are at song structure. All solos are is showoffing.
I think he's concerned with executing the technique mostly.But of course being a musician should be more than that...
Tosin isn't a gamechanger at all. He's just impressive to a bunch of fucking djent fans that have never heard jazz.
Feel a little Gilbert vibe, for some reason... Oh well, he said he is inspired by Gilbert, a lot... Thats why I guess.
Am I the only one to think Andy's tone is really synthetic? I mean his playing is great but is tone, not so much.
Haha it happens to people that don't here really fast amazing solos a lot. Used to happen to me all the time.
LOL, yet Andy has done videos in the style of all those players you just mentioned up to scratch with anything they would play...
that's a hair band man,he uses it to cut unwanted noises,ok?Sorry about my poor english.
One luv man.
It helps mute the strings you aren't playing so they don't ring out. It makes soloing sound cleaner
God forbid he uses his pinky, the universe would implode if he did, or so the legend says.
What's that thing on the 3rd fret and why did he push it when he started tapping at 1:45?
Guitar Hero Tribute brought me here :P
but where do you exactly position it? or it's just wherever on the neck you don't play?
i was waitin for that high e to break at about 51 sec
@faridzayish Pretty sure Andy James has more talent in his left nut than both guitarists for A7X.
His bends are so fucking precise it's scary. As well as EVERYTHING else he does.
3:39 the black thing is on the first frets and then its back on the third frets
Who the hell did teach this beast???
+Uncle Jackie himself :)
My grandma!
mno789 I have an offer for your grandma then 😂
lmao
can anyone in the world play cleaner than him? lmfao, he doesn't really need that hair thing
@lucianollica
It's his own song. From his self titled album. the song is called Burn It Down
Verry nice... But at 1:07-1:12 it's funny to see your face, moving your mouth
lol man its a hair band. i dont know how it works but it helps with the tone.
I don't get it. All Kurt ever did was whine, play powerchords and shoot up
nobody gets any recognition nowdays except crappy pop and rap singers with no talent.
@BlahBlahEffingBlah if i could play this i wouldnt give a damn about the wrong note..
The 176th note which was a g note wasn't held long enough. Sorry Andy, try again. ;P
@tonydoerfer1 hairband on his guitar.... :) + awsome talent and lots of practice :p
@PerDevil It's by Andy's band, Sacred Mother Tongue I believe.
he mimics synyster gates guitar style, look that up, youll be impressed
@faridzayish Lol, personally, I think Andy is a lot better then Gates!
like si pensaste que era el burn it down de avenged sevenfold
It's a gorgeous guitar, but personally I'd prefer it with a 6 in line headstock.
@ShadowDante58 Of which band then, it's houndred's of songs named Burn it Down
can you licklibrary please tell me whats andy james gear and setting in this vid
So where are the damn tabs, i am going crazy, there are no tabs!!!!!!
I agree after hearing a few AAL songs they all seem about the same.
@JulianSmells He covered many a7x songs on LickLibrary DvDs...
what is that thing he moved from the guitar? A mobile fret?
andy james is the shit.. jus amazing outta this world .. :)
This is the first time my ears have been fucked by sound.
Can anyone tell me the name of the guitar his playing on?
@MetAlndrea just kidding man, in fact im tabbing it out;)
its funny how the best melodic shredder in the world is hairless
thanks i didn't realize at first ;) I will try it too xD
This guy should try the other pickup from time to time.
Thumps up if you want Metal Soloing Techniques VOL 4!!
What distortion pedal uses someone would have an idea?
maldito le boy a robar los dedos buajaa buajaja
He's got a double-jointed pinky, I think
If playing like that doesn't get you laid there's no hope
3:39 - 4:41 bobble moves from 1st fret - 3rd???
Thought he was gonna play A7X's Burn It Down. :/
Gousbump each time! Awsome playing!!! This guy have a cumputer memory!!
He plays one song and you talk about computer memory...What do you say when he plays a concert? You noob!
And you´re the kind of person who can´t live with critic...So all is hate!
Your comment was not a critic! That was an insult. And if you think you can know someone even without mate him, it's showing a fear weakness from you. And if you see hate everywhere like you mention you should consult a psychologist to see what's wrong in your life! Stop hating and things will come to you effortless. I hope you will catch the message through my words.