Aside from his EXPERTISE, his talent... This guy seems to be such a gentleman. He speaks with great eloquence and passion. He just seems like a really nice person even outside of music.
Mental imagery applied in music really is a thing. There are tons of papers and researches about it. Whether you're imagining how your hands should move when you're playing, or imagining different kinds of images that represent your sound/music, it differs from person to person. What John said about standing on a mountain and having birds come out of his guitar was actually personal to him. And he shared that to everyone. What an awesome human being.
Tom Waits once described Marc Ribot as his go-to guitarist because he can say things like "Marc, play this piece like your hair's on fire and he does it."
You can naturally see that he is a beautiful person by the way he looks, smiles and approaches to the community. Such a good inspiration to the music world.
This just popped up on my recommended and I clicked it. I didn't realize it was Ola's channel lol. I think it's cool when a professional guitarist shares stuff like this. There's no finish line, everyone's still pushing forward with their skills.
Wow! The timing couldn't be better. Because I've been struggling with my sound for years. And that finally, after listening to John's advice, I put my energy back in the right place, and I just found it right before my recording. So, thank you very much, Mr. Petrucci. I'm very grateful. Playing with the right sound changes everything. It is both a feeling of freedom and power.
I share his opinions on how everything should sound even though I do experiment a bit. It's one reason I started using DiMarzio pickups. Not his models but they still have that dry thing he described in the video. I would like to see the delay pedal demo though
I'm fortunate enough to have seen DT twice on their first tour and their soundcheck on both. To this day John's clean tone was the best live clean tone I've ever heard. He had a huge refrigerator-sized rack and he really knew what sound he was going for even back then; it was epic. Mind you they weren't famous yet and Pull Me Under had just been released on the radio, so seeing them as a relatively unknown new band touring clubs was really mind-blowing.
Very thoughtful approach, he knows exactly what he wants to achieve with his tone. His tone is not what I go for but saying that, I’m a happy user of Majesty guitar. Great, versatile instrument- not just for those who want to sound like John. Thanx for sharing that video!
Petrucci does the perfect demo of why an FX loop is your best friend. Vintage amps have great tone but they're very one dimensional w/ no FX loop. Sure, you can run various non dist effects in front of the preamp along w a dist pedal, but it tends to get muddy. Try a clean boost pedal in your FX loop. It will blow your mind. It will boost your signal volume up with minimal effect on your tone so its great for solos that cut through the mix. Click off your dist pedal and click on your clean boost in the loop and it FATTENS up your clean tone big time. Then tweak your tone between your amp gain and master and your guitar volume for each configuration w pedals on and pedals off until you reach a happy medium on the amp settings. These are really cool work arounds that don't cost a lot of $$$. You just need a good amp with an FX loop and a couple of really well made pedals.
As far as the noise gate comment goes, yes, it's best not to use one for further clarity but sometimes you have to use one out of necessity. A high gain amp in a small space will never stop feedbacking without a gate to keep it in check and choke it out. Nobody uses a gate because they want to, it's almost always out of necessity.
I was just checking out a line6 HD500x JP *clean* patch I hadn't used in a while. I was like "Dang that's good John". I love volume roll off but that one went back into the arsenal instantly and works well with the guitar volume.
I think with the current proliferation of drive pedals and small combo users, a lot of us who are not using the head to get the overdrive tone are using the delays in front of the amp. Cool session. What a masterful player and cool guy John is!
Some great tips here indeed. One thing that took me time to learn was that less is more on the distortion side. We tend to hear thick distortion and try to dial that in only to have it be way too much. Dialing it back you get that sweet spot. I’ve heard many isolated tracks of EVH and was astounded at just how clean his brown sound was. It def had hair on it but it was not as dirty as it came out with the whole band pumping along with him. Loved the effects commentary JP shared here. Brilliant.
I think people overstate how clean EVH's brown sound was. I hear a ton of distortion and compression there. Unchained and Mean Street are chuggy as hell. It's not a lot of preamp distortion, but it's a lot of power amp distortion.
good approach for metal guitars, for hard rock tho a reverb is a must when playing rhythm...you're not using too much gain so you need to make that sound wider.
I use a bit of gate or compression just to take the squeal off sometimes. I try not to use them but it depends on how nutso distortion u want. Dry is always baseline then its the direction you want to go...
2:22 - time at which Ola nods off during the John Petrucci Master Class, lol. 😴 💤 😂 Ola was really jet lagged. He def didn’t think the class was boring cause Ola is all about tone. Don’t get it twisted! ✈️ 😉
mind blown with putting chorus in front of VS in the effects loop of the amp. Honestly in 20 years of piddling around with guitar I've never tried it......
Regarding chorus. The formulation I always had given to me was, you choose between chorused distortion, or distorted chorus. And the implication was distorted chorus bad. But, I don’t know, man; I think Petrucci used a distorted chorus on the solo in, the Gershwin piece on LTE three, and it sounded amazing. Both have validity.
It's cool to see this sample of teaching by a mega virtuoso such as JP. I've hesitated going to one of these camps thinking that my guitar skills are nowhere near even a fraction of his skill, and attending would not only be too humiliating, but also pointless. This video makes me wonder if my skill level might not be a problem and I might even benefit from attending. Any thoughts from anyone about this would be very helpful.Thanks!
@@orshy1 wow, but also very cool that these stellar musicians can do their thing, yet make guitar players of all skill levels feel welcomed. Thanks for your insight!
Excellent approach!! I love his use of visualisation... Definitely going to try to use that more 😎👍 Years ago I already picked up another JP tip, namely: to tighten up your sound, just dial back the gain a bit! And since then I've always kept my high gain rhythm sound 'clean' and to the point anyway - no reverbs anywhere in my signal: I leave thát to the FOH. But I might use a noisegate in the FX loop on my amp, just enough to clean things up a bit when playing live. Never in the studio though, just like compression: that's all done after during production.
Godammit. Zakk Wylde is one of my favorite players and I love his use of chorus. Yet it NEVER occurred to me he put it before the distortion... **sigh** I feel like a dumbass who should have thought of doing that a long time ago If I got this valuable information from this short video of one of Petrucci's classes, imagine the library of information available for those attending.
Keep in mind on the first couple Ozzy albums the chorus was a Yamaha spx90 on the symphonic setting which would’ve been applied after he recorded it, ie put it in the loop. The chorus in front is what he did live
Petrucci is the bob ross of metal
yup. lil happy birds!
Dare dare. You're right.
Great analysis 👍
His next song is gona be titanium white
Paints happy 🎶 🎵
Aside from his EXPERTISE, his talent... This guy seems to be such a gentleman. He speaks with great eloquence and passion. He just seems like a really nice person even outside of music.
I was just going to allude to everything you just said, but what you said could not be said better. 1000% agreed👍🏼👍🏼
As someone who has been playing for over 30 years. This guy represents the best of us as guitarist. What a freakin' treasure
As someone who has been playing for 45 years, I'm inclined to agree with you.
Totes ma goats. Spot on.
As someone, it is true.
petrucci and his band are so overrated its not even funny. what the hell are you people smoking!
@@Mike-pv3hg Yet here you are, Still watching videos of him...
This guy is just amazing, all of these years playing awesome music and he still knows how to "talk" as a teacher....
1. Knows how to talk
2. Like a human being, not a celebrity
3. Teaching, but not in a condescending way
4. Humble as always
5. John is just awesome!
This is because he tends to *think* while doing things. You know, "why i am doing this and that".
He should be playing for a geat band like dream theater.. I’m sure he will be thriving there…
@@g_pazzini lol, simple humor.. love it lol *cheers*
Devin Townsend laughing about keeping the crunch tone dry.
Mental imagery applied in music really is a thing. There are tons of papers and researches about it. Whether you're imagining how your hands should move when you're playing, or imagining different kinds of images that represent your sound/music, it differs from person to person. What John said about standing on a mountain and having birds come out of his guitar was actually personal to him. And he shared that to everyone. What an awesome human being.
Singers do this constantly, sometimes too much lol
That's awesome, how JP describes how he visualizes sounds when he's looking for the tone!
00:14 "Whatever i show you here today....... DON`T TRY THIS AT HOME " ...... came into my mind when i listen 🤣🤣🤣
Exactly, hahahahaha
So warm and down to Earth guy, John Petrucci is amazing!
Tom Waits once described Marc Ribot as his go-to guitarist because he can say things like "Marc, play this piece like your hair's on fire and he does it."
Big fan of Marc Ribot
I remember reading about Rob zombie getting frustrated with Jay Yuenger cause he couldn't figure out how to explain the noises he heard in his head
@@Durkhead I always wondered if Zombie played an instrument. I mean if you don't you have to relegate what you get to people who do.
I've seen Ribot live, as he's simply a force of nature... 🤘😎
You can naturally see that he is a beautiful person by the way he looks, smiles and approaches to the community.
Such a good inspiration to the music world.
This just popped up on my recommended and I clicked it. I didn't realize it was Ola's channel lol. I think it's cool when a professional guitarist shares stuff like this. There's no finish line, everyone's still pushing forward with their skills.
Wow! The timing couldn't be better. Because I've been struggling with my sound for years. And that finally, after listening to John's advice, I put my energy back in the right place, and I just found it right before my recording. So, thank you very much, Mr. Petrucci. I'm very grateful. Playing with the right sound changes everything. It is both a feeling of freedom and power.
I share his opinions on how everything should sound even though I do experiment a bit. It's one reason I started using DiMarzio pickups. Not his models but they still have that dry thing he described in the video. I would like to see the delay pedal demo though
I'm fortunate enough to have seen DT twice on their first tour and their soundcheck on both. To this day John's clean tone was the best live clean tone I've ever heard. He had a huge refrigerator-sized rack and he really knew what sound he was going for even back then; it was epic. Mind you they weren't famous yet and Pull Me Under had just been released on the radio, so seeing them as a relatively unknown new band touring clubs was really mind-blowing.
John Petrucci really is an awesome guitarist AND teacher!
Very thoughtful approach, he knows exactly what he wants to achieve with his tone. His tone is not what I go for but saying that, I’m a happy user of Majesty guitar. Great, versatile instrument- not just for those who want to sound like John.
Thanx for sharing that video!
Them Majesties are a thing of beauty but are pricey...
Petrucci does the perfect demo of why an FX loop is your best friend. Vintage amps have great tone but they're very one dimensional w/ no FX loop. Sure, you can run various non dist effects in front of the preamp along w a dist pedal, but it tends to get muddy. Try a clean boost pedal in your FX loop. It will blow your mind. It will boost your signal volume up with minimal effect on your tone so its great for solos that cut through the mix. Click off your dist pedal and click on your clean boost in the loop and it FATTENS up your clean tone big time. Then tweak your tone between your amp gain and master and your guitar volume for each configuration w pedals on and pedals off until you reach a happy medium on the amp settings. These are really cool work arounds that don't cost a lot of $$$. You just need a good amp with an FX loop and a couple of really well made pedals.
I dont understand what you are saying but you are totally correct! 😂
@@MrKingTheStrongestManOnEarth just remember - tweaking is the key. Not twerking, tweaking😆
This is great! Love John and his music. Lot's of insights and cool tones. Thanks for this!
This is great content for 'The Great Unwashed' who could never afford to attend, thanks John & Ola 🤘
As far as the noise gate comment goes, yes, it's best not to use one for further clarity but sometimes you have to use one out of necessity. A high gain amp in a small space will never stop feedbacking without a gate to keep it in check and choke it out. Nobody uses a gate because they want to, it's almost always out of necessity.
I second this. A "Dimebag" like high gain distortion NEEDS some kind of gate. If not, you get way too much feedback.
Best Guitarist EVER... seen them live in Roma in 1994 and followed the band since
John is an amazing teacher.
He is a true enthusiast ! Hi John love from France
I was just checking out a line6 HD500x JP *clean* patch I hadn't used in a while. I was like "Dang that's good John". I love volume roll off but that one went back into the arsenal instantly and works well with the guitar volume.
I think with the current proliferation of drive pedals and small combo users, a lot of us who are not using the head to get the overdrive tone are using the delays in front of the amp. Cool session. What a masterful player and cool guy John is!
Legend, guitar God and infinite inspiration. His jokes are awesome too.
Awesome Ola! More from JP pleaseeee! 🔥
I like how he used images and words to describe guitar tones.
It was great to follow his train of thought
Life-changing words from my man JP 👏👏
Some great tips here indeed. One thing that took me time to learn was that less is more on the distortion side. We tend to hear thick distortion and try to dial that in only to have it be way too much. Dialing it back you get that sweet spot. I’ve heard many isolated tracks of EVH and was astounded at just how clean his brown sound was. It def had hair on it but it was not as dirty as it came out with the whole band pumping along with him. Loved the effects commentary JP shared here. Brilliant.
Too much gain, bass and not enough mids -- the bedroom guitarist's curse.
@@KRayxKodessA lol. Well said.
I think people overstate how clean EVH's brown sound was. I hear a ton of distortion and compression there. Unchained and Mean Street are chuggy as hell. It's not a lot of preamp distortion, but it's a lot of power amp distortion.
@ola englund thanks for uploading this. 🙏
man i need more... this is great!
Damn, 5 classes of 1.5 hours each? That's insane! I would have guessed 2 classes. Amazing event!
Thank you for sharing what would otherwise be inaccessible!
You are a legend for uploading this video, thanks for sharing!!
This was great love to see John is such a guitar nerd ( in a good way)
good approach for metal guitars, for hard rock tho a reverb is a must when playing rhythm...you're not using too much gain so you need to make that sound wider.
ya sounds too harsh for rock
Thx Ola!! Also funny trying to describe a dry crunch tone in a super reverby room but he gets his point across.
Seen him years ago in a masterclass in Rotterdam, it was great!
Very excellent demonstration
I use a bit of gate or compression just to take the squeal off sometimes. I try not to use them but it depends on how nutso distortion u want. Dry is always baseline then its the direction you want to go...
I thought it was going to be all rich guy BS , but loved that birds on top of the mountain metaphore
The riff at 8:40is this from a song or just JP free time playing?
The riff is amazing and it’s stuck in me heed 😂
Metropolis pt. 1
@ thank you 🙏
Man, tysm for sharing OLA
2:22 - time at which Ola nods off during the John Petrucci Master Class, lol. 😴 💤 😂
Ola was really jet lagged. He def didn’t think the class was boring cause Ola is all about tone. Don’t get it twisted! ✈️
😉
in my first list of guitarists for me he is spectacular and a good man
John Petrucci: “Here I am going to show you where to find the best tone.”
*unzips pants*
mind blown with putting chorus in front of VS in the effects loop of the amp. Honestly in 20 years of piddling around with guitar I've never tried it......
That analogy was great but I wish he had described the sounds a bit more, like what he hears or sees while playing each one.
The Trooch is a wizard. Dude has killer tone. THICC and juicy. Not over-cooked. Like a good steak.
@stopthehomo8811
I would love to attend this.
I attended 2.0 a few years back, amazing experience. Even got to preform a dream theater medley infront of JP himself!
Regarding chorus. The formulation I always had given to me was, you choose between chorused distortion, or distorted chorus. And the implication was distorted chorus bad. But, I don’t know, man; I think Petrucci used a distorted chorus on the solo in, the Gershwin piece on LTE three, and it sounded amazing. Both have validity.
Melhor guitarrista desse planeta!!! ✍️🌵
Awesome info from a master.
7:45 George Lynch classic chord sequence
This is so awesome really enjoyed watching this Thank you!!
It's cool to see this sample of teaching by a mega virtuoso such as JP. I've hesitated going to one of these camps thinking that my guitar skills are nowhere near even a fraction of his skill, and attending would not only be too humiliating, but also pointless. This video makes me wonder if my skill level might not be a problem and I might even benefit from attending. Any thoughts from anyone about this would be very helpful.Thanks!
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One of the dudes asked what an effects loop even is, so I think it's safe to say anyone could benefit from attending.
@@orshy1 wow, but also very cool that these stellar musicians can do their thing, yet make guitar players of all skill levels feel welcomed. Thanks for your insight!
loved that guitar so much.. very unique..
John, that's not a "gank", we call it "A FCKN CHUG!"
Many Thanks Ola!
Interesting… All that gain in the crunch channel and without a noise gate? No noise through his amp at all? Can anyone confirm that?
Petrucci speaks I listen 😍
guys if you have more footage of the classes please post for those of us who could not attend.
AWAKE album is the metal of all sounds
Thank you for sharing this ❤❤❤❤
Waiting for that guy to overdub this video for Psycho Exercises 5
He played so heavy the moon temporarily moved closer to the earth and caused a tsunsmi.
Awesome video. Where was this when I started! Zakk Wylde uses the Univibe I believe which is close to the Chorus after distortion for sure.
3:48 Damn, he said it!
Excellent approach!!
I love his use of visualisation... Definitely going to try to use that more 😎👍
Years ago I already picked up another JP tip, namely: to tighten up your sound, just dial back the gain a bit!
And since then I've always kept my high gain rhythm sound 'clean' and to the point anyway - no reverbs anywhere in my signal: I leave thát to the FOH.
But I might use a noisegate in the FX loop on my amp, just enough to clean things up a bit when playing live. Never in the studio though, just like compression: that's all done after during production.
That's inspiring to me. Gives me something more to shoot for. Thanks for posting.
the beach analogy was difficult to understand at first, but when John started demonstrating his sounds it finally made sense.
Awesome !!! thanks for sharing !!!
John Petrucci is such a sweet guy!
Godammit. Zakk Wylde is one of my favorite players and I love his use of chorus. Yet it NEVER occurred to me he put it before the distortion... **sigh** I feel like a dumbass who should have thought of doing that a long time ago
If I got this valuable information from this short video of one of Petrucci's classes, imagine the library of information available for those attending.
I have always liked the modulation fx before distortion, and disliked it after distortion..too synthy or ''artificial'' for my taste
@@abheceshabemuskk3531after is definitely more polished and hair metal, which i also like in certain applications. just two very different sounds.
Move it all over a chain, tweak it until something sounds good-sometimes it works
Keep in mind on the first couple Ozzy albums the chorus was a Yamaha spx90 on the symphonic setting which would’ve been applied after he recorded it, ie put it in the loop. The chorus in front is what he did live
Killer video Ola.
How much to attend this whole clinic?
あ！尊敬して止まない、ペトルーシ様だ！🙀🥰🥰カッコよすぎるな～🥰🥰🥰🎸🎸
Sounds like what Devin Townsend was talking about on the Rick Beato interview.
Is the second part that he mentions on TH-cam?
Ola should have changed his rhythm tone to the metalzone going through the effects loop of the randell satan
Now THAT would be a Metal tone!
But, will it chug??🤘🧐🤣
Thanks for uploading this, Ola! 🤘 Personally, I’d love to see more Fredrik Akesson and Guthrie Govan footage, please. 🙏❤
So in Petrucci's mind, while he's playing guitar, he's a Disney princess
MasterChief of Guitar
Very informative! Thanks friend
hey ola, is there an all star jam clip?
i didn't even know this was ola, i just clicked on the video. i was like "camra man drunk!!", im drunk rn lol
Yep I just heard the OU812 spund
Reliving camp *happy cry*
@Ola England Bro Ola, how can i watch the full video?
Why was the effects loop question cut off?
man, that dude must be such a nice person
man that beard???? but i raised my 2 kids with images and words,,and awake----nothin compares to this day,,,,he is an amazing talent
Wheres the part 2?
thats so cool, wish i could of gone
The jam with Zakk kicked so much butt
Yes , yes , and yes again to the reverb comment.
Man he reminds me that after 25 years, i should still pack it up and move on
6:00 Petrucci should be using PRS Guitars 😃😃
I always used the visual part for creating in general
Hi Ola. Do you think John was using an Axe-FX in this video?