The Zakk on Live and Loud was a beast. Young, drunk, physically in his prime giving 1000 percent. He was the coolest and craziest player by far at the 89' Moscow Music Peace Festival. Jake E Lee is an awesome player and even he has commented that Zakk was an unbelievable talent when he got the Ozzy gig. He always gives him tons of respect when others try to dismiss him around him. I think the current biker viking Zakk of the last 20 years with the sludgy guitar tone and repeated licks actually detracts from how good this guy was in his first 7 years when he first hit the scene with Ozzy in 88.'
I first heard this song around 35 years ago, in 1988. I purchased the cassette tape, then, much later i picked up the CD. still love this song, and the entire album, no "filler songs" every track is very good.
He uses light gauge on the higher strings and thicker gauge on the lower strings. So it's not the strings that themselves that are too thick to snap, far from it. Doing fat vibrato and bends like that and still keeping the strings intact is very much technique.
@@MikaelLVexactly. It’s only 1 step bends at the most, but it’s not sudden so the tension isn’t insane. I still don’t know how the hell they stay in tune lol. Just gotta have the touch for it
@@diabeticmonkey I had to practice that with a metronome. Especially 1 step bends because it's so easy to bend those out of tune. Zakk does it effortlessly.
@@MikaelLV Same lol. Zakk and Jeff Loomis forced me to learn good vibrato when I started playing. It definitely isn’t easy, but Zakk’s so tough to nail
It's really not hard, just feels overwhelming because of how fast he plays it all, but as far as what he's doing, and how many notes are involved this is one of if not his easiest fast tempo solos ever.
'No Rest' came out during my freshman year... wore that thing OUT... what really hooked me was his pick harmonics, and tendency to single pick through crazy fast segments of solos...
One of my favorite solos by Zakk. The pattern is great practice to get your picking down. I've always found playing fast melodic leads incorporated into a practice routine more beneficial than just the regular patterns that sound bland and then using that muscle memory to jump into something that actually has a musical structure to it. I like to jump right in and have any sort of practice already infused into things I want to play.
There is one aspect that is just natural that Zakk doesn't even know. The arp sequence with the lead note has a jump. 10 to 12 arp. 12 to 14 arp. Which he doesn't demo. That little move if you don't do it puts you out of sync and is a tough picking change. You have to dn, dn up, (at 128th speed)dn up into dn up dn dn up. REALLY tricky.
Yeah, you're right, and it's honestly much easier to just play it using alternate picking, because this technique of his is not too fast in this case. That's how I learned the solo way back in the day, I honestly thought it was alternate picking and didn't know about the dn dn up thing. But then I had to cheat with pull-offs for the pentatonic run lol even though I could tell it was all picked, but it was just way too fast for me, and probably still is. But I was satisfied with the result, so I moved on to the No More Tears solo, where at the very end of it he uses the same three note, two string pattern kinda thing, but waaaaay faster. I just couldn't figure it out and gave up. I only learned how it's done recently, the dn dn up thing. It's just so awkward to me. But in No More Tears there's no way around it because it's so fast.
I remember when I heard this solo first time, I was like wtf is that Europe - Final Countdown? Obviously different technique, but still sound very similar at least if you are not professional guitar player..
He looks so young without the beard lol. I think this video is old somewhere between 1995 and 1999. He would have one been 28 to 32. The video is old school you can see the VHS grains bad ass though either way.
Glad you gave Angus props. His showmanship is so iconic that I find that it can detract from just how brilliant of a player he is. Like Mal has said, I don't believe Angus has got his just dues as how brilliant of a Rock guitar player he truly is. His bends and vibrato are some of the best I've ever heard. I'm not sure non guitar players realize how hard that stuff is to master compared to sweeps and shredding. Angus has some of the best leads in the game and most of it has always been improvised and used in the first couple of takes. Listen to the lead in songs like Ride On. His technique and note choice was already phenomenal and he was only around 20 when that was recorded. The entire Young family had music in their DNA.
@@mikeimmonen6619 I got into a habit after experimenting a bit, Of taking super cheap buckers putting some real powerful neodymium magnets in them and wax potting. And to tell the truth, they sound as fantastic as some of the real high end custom shop pickups.
He shows the ultra-fast pentatonic lick near the beginning three different ways. Which is it? Ten notes before the wah vibrato? Twelve? Fifteen? Twenty-one? Ha ha. I get the impression its 12 in a triplet feel on the album.
Zakk tunes his guitars by ear. In the video it's not half-step down and it's not standart E, something between, his guitar is a little bit out of tune. But on the original record guitar was tuned half-step down.
To jest szalenie trudne,można oglądać milion razy wpatrywać się w taby a i tak nic z tego nie wyjdzie.Cholera jak on to robi????Zakk chcę Twoją gitarę,plisss.
Not even close technique wise. Not bagging on John Norum,(he's great in his own right) but he's playing groups of 4 notes with a hammer on pull off thing. Try playing the triads in Zakks solo clean and to speed and then get back to me.
Zakk put this tune out in 89 so maybe it was the other way around, regardless I not looking up Europe the worst hairmetal band ever...hear me out on this, they took butt rocks most authentic element...it's sleaze, and threw it away in favor of some type of undeserved progressive street cred ala Yes or Asia but way gayer.
his playing is so cheesy. I'm not huge into lead guitar but I do know that Marty Friedman's solos on Megadeath's Rust in Peace will expand your mind into a higher dimension of consciousness. That album as a whole is incredible. Most of the stuff I listen to is much heavier but check out Ulcerate as well. Together we can end the cheese.
@@TheIdiotNamedJoe 100% agree I don't mind megadeath but for some reason their fans do think their on some other kind of level that no other band can achieve
"Just give it a little vibrato"
Zakk wylde
If I could’ve been one rockstar in the history of rock, it would have been Zakk during Ozzy years. He was soo damn cool.
He still is!
With the bell bottoms and that pinch harmonic...yeah, hard to be cooler than that
In terms of stage presence there are few guitarists who pulled off that kind of coolness like Zakk did.
@@chrish4751 What are you talking about?
The Zakk on Live and Loud was a beast. Young, drunk, physically in his prime giving 1000 percent. He was the coolest and craziest player by far at the 89' Moscow Music Peace Festival. Jake E Lee is an awesome player and even he has commented that Zakk was an unbelievable talent when he got the Ozzy gig. He always gives him tons of respect when others try to dismiss him around him. I think the current biker viking Zakk of the last 20 years with the sludgy guitar tone and repeated licks actually detracts from how good this guy was in his first 7 years when he first hit the scene with Ozzy in 88.'
i was blown away when i first heard this song.... probably 25 years ago if I remember correctly.
This is a great video... thanks for posting
I first heard this song around 35 years ago, in 1988. I purchased the cassette tape, then, much later i picked up the CD. still love this song, and the entire album, no "filler songs" every track is very good.
his attack on that pick action fucking hell, how aren't his strings snapping :) beast
He plays very thick strings like 60s and 70s
He uses light gauge on the higher strings and thicker gauge on the lower strings. So it's not the strings that themselves that are too thick to snap, far from it. Doing fat vibrato and bends like that and still keeping the strings intact is very much technique.
@@MikaelLVexactly. It’s only 1 step bends at the most, but it’s not sudden so the tension isn’t insane. I still don’t know how the hell they stay in tune lol. Just gotta have the touch for it
@@diabeticmonkey I had to practice that with a metronome. Especially 1 step bends because it's so easy to bend those out of tune. Zakk does it effortlessly.
@@MikaelLV Same lol. Zakk and Jeff Loomis forced me to learn good vibrato when I started playing. It definitely isn’t easy, but Zakk’s so tough to nail
awesome vibrato
''It really isn't all that hard'' he said
+skidrowrebel Rhythm of the first part is the hardest
It's really not hard, just feels overwhelming because of how fast he plays it all, but as far as what he's doing, and how many notes are involved this is one of if not his easiest fast tempo solos ever.
Lmao... Just takes 12hrs of practice a day for 5 yrs Zakk
😂😂
@@EduardoDepari yes yes ....im ketching my tail to learn to pick this part
Someone should sign this guy, he's pretty good 👍
he look like ozzy will hire him ..he seem like he can play....lol
I bet he only drinks milk.
what a boring and overused comment..
'No Rest' came out during my freshman year... wore that thing OUT... what really hooked me was his pick harmonics, and tendency to single pick through crazy fast segments of solos...
One of my favorite solos by Zakk. The pattern is great practice to get your picking down. I've always found playing fast melodic leads incorporated into a practice routine more beneficial than just the regular patterns that sound bland and then using that muscle memory to jump into something that actually has a musical structure to it. I like to jump right in and have any sort of practice already infused into things I want to play.
3:31 *throws guitar out of the window*
Stg I can play this lick by itself but jumping into it from the arpeggios is so damn hard
This is a fking GOD of rock, still I'm just 17 years old and this piece is like twicwe as old as me. And I still love it!!
this was the first "advanced" thing I learned on guitar in middle school played this dvd no nstop
The beast !! ♥️
Amazing man!!! One of the greatest
Miracle man*
His attack is just unreal
Зак Великий. МАСТЕР! Уважаю, реально, слушаю с 89 года. на гитаре лучше чем он редко кто может.
Im in the part of turning on the guitar and then i dont know what to do. easy
00:41 Legend
I'll love Zakk for EVER
Pretty accurate. Plays it just like zakk
After a while you'll get it down and then you can tear it up" 5 years and I still can't play the first part of that solo.
Great?! I just started working on it
Practice.
Zakk be you keep rocking
note how Zakk often rakes all the strings to get more attack in the sound.... his muting technique is 100% 👌
Niiiice solo zakk!
Screw ya, Wylde, I mastered your solo!
PD: Well, more or less...
That kills !!!!!!! 🤟🏻🤟🏻
ザック本人の解説が見れるのは良いですね😊
I remember when You got the gig. If remember correctly. Ozzy hated the Whah Whah peddal but ended up loving it
3:17 Sure no problem.. So damn easy.. I guess
I should have played guitar instead of high school like Zakk.
akk you got good talent .I love how you play Guiter
O melhor...
So good
Nice Zakk !
Всегда его уважал 🍺😆👍
The fucking man!!!
“A little vibrato” he says
😍😍😍
he plays guitar like a god. he should start a band and make some money
Killer
I'll have that down in no time.😅😅😢😢😂😂 not!! Love you Zakk
Hello The Best
Slowly turning into a Viking
3:40 how does he make that look as effortless as wiping as his own ass? God like.
There is one aspect that is just natural that Zakk doesn't even know. The arp sequence with the lead note has a jump. 10 to 12 arp. 12 to 14 arp. Which he doesn't demo. That little move if you don't do it puts you out of sync and is a tough picking change.
You have to dn, dn up, (at 128th speed)dn up into dn up dn dn up. REALLY tricky.
Yeah, you're right, and it's honestly much easier to just play it using alternate picking, because this technique of his is not too fast in this case. That's how I learned the solo way back in the day, I honestly thought it was alternate picking and didn't know about the dn dn up thing. But then I had to cheat with pull-offs for the pentatonic run lol even though I could tell it was all picked, but it was just way too fast for me, and probably still is. But I was satisfied with the result, so I moved on to the No More Tears solo, where at the very end of it he uses the same three note, two string pattern kinda thing, but waaaaay faster. I just couldn't figure it out and gave up. I only learned how it's done recently, the dn dn up thing. It's just so awkward to me. But in No More Tears there's no way around it because it's so fast.
Fuck yea
@0:33 that over the top vibrato invented heavy music
Thor rocks !!!
I remember when I heard this solo first time, I was like wtf is that Europe - Final Countdown? Obviously different technique, but still sound very similar at least if you are not professional guitar player..
The first 3 bars are basically the same sequencial note patterns.
He looks so young without the beard lol. I think this video is old somewhere between 1995 and 1999. He would have one been 28 to 32. The video is old school you can see the VHS grains bad ass though either way.
No one has a vibrato like Zakk, no one.
Angus/BB king/Darrell Abbott/slash/Steve Vai/jerry/Dave Sabo….there’s a few.
Glad you gave Angus props. His showmanship is so iconic that I find that it can detract from just how brilliant of a player he is. Like Mal has said, I don't believe Angus has got his just dues as how brilliant of a Rock guitar player he truly is. His bends and vibrato are some of the best I've ever heard. I'm not sure non guitar players realize how hard that stuff is to master compared to sweeps and shredding. Angus has some of the best leads in the game and most of it has always been improvised and used in the first couple of takes. Listen to the lead in songs like Ride On. His technique and note choice was already phenomenal and he was only around 20 when that was recorded. The entire Young family had music in their DNA.
Yea, you're in the band.
i actually prefer this zack. looks younger and baddasser. even tho i know he's like 20s or close older now
Time kicks us all in the sack.
I prefer me in my thirties.😎(as long as I don’t look in the mirror)
what i going back to ACDC LOL BUT HEY ACDC COOL AND FUN I AM NOT PUTING DOWN
I've got one simple question I've got a Gibson Les Paul studio 92' can you make all these crazy pinch harmonics with original Gibson pick ups?
With enough gain you can play anything with any guitar
@@mikeimmonen6619 ye but i think pinch harmonics sound better with emgs
@@tiagogomes4114 I kinda like the grittier sound of old school passives
Emgs just kinda sound flat to me
Oh well
@@mikeimmonen6619 I got into a habit after experimenting a bit,
Of taking super cheap buckers putting some real powerful neodymium magnets in them and wax potting.
And to tell the truth, they sound as fantastic as some of the real high end custom shop pickups.
No rest is under rated. As fuck.
He shows the ultra-fast pentatonic lick near the beginning three different ways. Which is it? Ten notes before the wah vibrato? Twelve? Fifteen? Twenty-one? Ha ha. I get the impression its 12 in a triplet feel on the album.
That three note arpeggio is hard. I can finger it but not pick it at that speed.
Perry Mason at 6:16
Whatever company makes his strings should make armor plating...those string have to be made of adamantium! LOL
Zakk. Just get it down. Tear it up. No better teacher.
2000 bls zakk. Before he turned viking lol. Miss the old bleach blonde bellbottom wearing zakk
Gnarly
What a picking and vibrato…
変態ですなあ。
That’s Cliff intro
Been practicing this song for 16 years. Started at 10. Still can't get the crazy ass fast pentatonic lick.
Same. NO ONE can play those fast pentatonics quite like Wylde- he has a very unique picking style
So basically Zakk gets those intense pinch harmonics by using the wha with them?
what year is this from?
probably 90s
If it is in the 90's, it is late 90's. Black Label Society formed in 1998.
1999. He's playing his Gibson signature model which debuted in 1999, and by 2000 he was growing the beard.
Jesus...
Только Гибсон может выдержать такие пытки. Бедный инструмент!
뭐앾 한국분이셨네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
He could have been the next Fabio if he didnt grow a beard
風呂入った後のザックみたいだ
小林信一さんがピックを投げました(笑)
超速ペンタ！
Titanium chords.
Strange to see zakk without a beard
Can play most of this fairly easy except that pentatonic shred bit, just seems impossible picking speed. Wow
Finally someone who can play it right.
Noise aplenty...
Give me a small break that's ridiculously hard and fast he stated when he was in diapers
3:30 that is not what you just showed us to do and you know it.
what tuning?
d standard
@@yonikup2865 no. Eb tuning. (1/2 step down)
Zakk tunes his guitars by ear. In the video it's not half-step down and it's not standart E, something between, his guitar is a little bit out of tune. But on the original record guitar was tuned half-step down.
@@SweetJesus50 this excactly it's almost like the dimebag tuning
ザックのソロ解説がすげーわかりやすい、でもピッキングがチート....
Anyone else ever notice that Zakk's guitar lessons are always either way too fast or way too slow?
Gibson guitars suit him well.
Original guitars with strange shapes are uncool.
According to Zaak, it’s not that hard
To jest szalenie trudne,można oglądać milion razy wpatrywać się w taby a i tak nic z tego nie wyjdzie.Cholera jak on to robi????Zakk chcę Twoją gitarę,plisss.
His technique was so much better back then...damn shame what he has become!
生音がペキペキうるさい
笑
It ain't that hard says the guy who shreds at the speed of light ha! 🤔
the beginning is a straight rip off of john norum's "the final countdown' solo......other than that good playing.
Actually it's not. But it does sound very similar. The riff on the final countdown is actually more difficult
Not even close technique wise. Not bagging on John Norum,(he's great in his own right) but he's playing groups of 4 notes with a hammer on pull off thing. Try playing the triads in Zakks solo clean and to speed and then get back to me.
The countdown solo has a pull on in there that Zakk isn’t doing, andZakk has a more robotic (in a good way) fretting technique
Zakk put this tune out in 89 so maybe it was the other way around, regardless I not looking up Europe the worst hairmetal band ever...hear me out on this, they took butt rocks most authentic element...it's sleaze, and threw it away in favor of some type of undeserved progressive street cred ala Yes or Asia but way gayer.
No, no, no. All wrong
Who does this guy think he is?
his playing is so cheesy. I'm not huge into lead guitar but I do know that Marty Friedman's solos on Megadeath's Rust in Peace will expand your mind into a higher dimension of consciousness. That album as a whole is incredible. Most of the stuff I listen to is much heavier but check out Ulcerate as well. Together we can end the cheese.
It's not cheesy, it's earthy, melodic and he is in touch with his roots of southern and classic rock. Awesome tone too.
God, I hate Megadeth fans.
You're an idiot dude. When u get at zaks level then u can talk
So hanger 18 isnt cheesy 🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@TheIdiotNamedJoe 100% agree I don't mind megadeath but for some reason their fans do think their on some other kind of level that no other band can achieve
He is terrible how can he embarase himself like that I'm a dam good player he is just terrible
John Sykes is shaking his head.
Someone go find him and teach Zach and John5.
Thanks.