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Your story of Randy coming into the BAND (which had been started by John Osbourne and Bob Daisley) was wrong. John was in America hoping to find a possible guitarist to work with going through Don Arden's list of guitarists. There Dana Strum insisted an audition with Randy, but the 10 second thing is some bullschitt, probably Osbourne history rewriting again. Anyway, whatever else is said Randy didn't immediately get the job as the guitarist for The Blizzard of Ozz band because John flew back to England where he and Bob played with different guitarists but Bob said those guitarists weren't world class. John talked about Randy and Bob was adamant they'd have Randy flown over to England and only after Bob played with Randy did they know they had found "the man for the job". Then obviously began the collaborating songwriting between Bob and Randy plus the inputs of John. At the time when most songs had been written Bob brought in Lee Kerslake who completed The Blizzard of Ozz band (soon to be hijacked into being just "an Ozzy Backing Band") and he also became a part of the songwriting especially for Diary Of A Madman. He was not only a great drummer but also a good singer and pianist. All due kudos to Randy, John, Lee and also Jake who in turn relit the 'extinguished torch', but without Bob, the BOO band's music would not have come to existence and "the audition and decision" did not take only 10 seconds and wasn't only John's decision at one moment.
Same here, you can barely find anyone or anything regarding his music anywhere. It sucks because his music was very well thought out and purposeful. You would think more people would take the time to dissect his discography so we can understand randys thought process. I love other shredders but nothing will ever be as captivating as randy’s composition. Everyone just puts notes in random orders trying to play fast and flashy, or their progressions just arent appealing to hear. But the way the osbournes left randys legacy to die off in the 80’s, everyone likes to say randy is amazing but not really mean it which leads to the mysterious aura of randy.
Randy was a once in a lifetime guitar player! I don't think anyone will ever get close to what he did, unfortunately. But I'm grateful I was there to experience his magic while he was here, and saddened beyond belief to hear the day he left this world.
@@1wickedgroove he is an all time A leaguer who unfortunately will never know the profound impact he had on millions who are touched by his music. His family can know though...
Randy will always be my favorite guitarist. I recognized his brilliance immediately. Randy was never given a proper opportunity to record his dream album. Randy had to play music to fit Ozzy’s voice and style. We will never know his true greatness. At least we have two albums of pure power and style.
Thats not really true. Ozzy wasnt writing songs and then having randy make the songs behind them. It doesnt normally work like that. Especially for a guitar player.
he really was ahead of his peers and he helped produce those first two albums....his ear really helped the sound on the album. Ozzy caught Randy triple tracking solos ones day, told Max Norman not to let him do it since they did not have budget for it. When Ozzy heard the finished product he never said another word knowing Randy was now the captain of the ship
Everybody claims Randy made ozzy,but everyone already knew who ozzy was,nobody was claiming what a great guitarist quiet riot had,which was randy,ozzy made randy,randy didn’t make ozzy lmao
@tommilitello198 people claim Randy and Bob saved Ozzy and that's absolutely true, they wrote music that gave him credibility. Ozzy was viewed as being washed up when he was fired. Randy absolutely was viewed as a great guitarist in Quiet Riot, why do you think Dana Strum raved about him. They were one of the top local bands because of him.
Randy Rhoads changed my life from the moment I heard him way back on an import 45 single release of Crazy Train even before the Blizzard of Oz came out stateside in 1980. I was 13 years old and it was like entering a whole new dimension! I didn't know what it was at the moment but I knew there was something really special about what I had just heard and it wasn't long before me and my brothers realized it was THAT GUITAR! He inspired me to pick up the guitar and I still jam to this day because of him! THANK YOY RANDY RHOADS! I WILL OVE YOU FOREVER! Gotta mention Uli Jon Roth and Gary Moore too! Great video!
That’s awesome. One of the things I’ve noticed about Randy is that he seemed to play as good as if not better live compared to the studio. Dimebag was the same way, whereas guys like EVH play very very sloppy live, a ton of missed and wrong notes
Diary of a mad man is the one that does it for me, just something about how it's put together and the chords he used, it's a master piece in my opinion, I still get chill bumps on my arms when I hear it.
Oh wow. As a huge RR fan in the early 80's and later I was mixing a demo with a band and wrote a solo for an original song and I closely mimicked the solo for SATO (ok I sorta stole some of it note-for-note 02:28- 02:34) haha. But to read someone appreciates that solo as much as I did (and still do) gives me goosebumps. Thanks!
Unless you are a gifted speed demon. I found this way effective over the years. Hardly trying. I've passed my peers. Because I never focused on speed only Quickness
40 years later and I'm still learning new things about Randy. Thanks for this phenomenal presentation. There's a reason this mans work tugs at the heartstrings of so many people. His incredible composition just moves me, still. Let alone his incredible prowess on his instrument. An incredible body of work in sadly a very short period of time. Salut!!
I could not have said it better. Technical proficiency of lead guitarists of all genres has improved significantly over the decades, but Randy certainly would have continued to help those techniques evolve and would have incorporated them into his own playing. But where Randy was truly unique and a once in a lifetime talent was his compositional genius, his very unique way of going someplace with rhythm or melody that even an experienced musician would not expect... and it's glorious. His musical thoughts were always complete with remarkable segues into the next phrases. His feel for timing and dynamics is still largely unmatched, knowing when to build to a crescendo, then rest, then explode again fully resolving everything. His music was so satisfying emotionally. He brought a classically inspired fire and passion to every note he played with his guitar screaming or crying at will. Even subtle things like the opening into to Diary of a Madman, where in the opening phrase he deliberately falls behind the beat then in the second measure plays on the beat - to me insinuating the lyrics of losing your mind. Genius. Simple, two note harmonic flourishes like in the middle of You Can't Kill Rock and Roll are little bits of emotional ear candy for me, still to this day. I'm always moved when I listen to his music. The simple solo from Tonight is both moving and majestic, and makes the song... I could go on... he will be forever missed. And appreciated!
@@Mike-eq4ky FINALY...SOMEBODY WHO GETS "IT:"...if you listen to the guitar seminar he did in Pennsylvania a month or so before the accident, early in the session, some kid asks him about how he approached his solos in his songs...and Randy clearly states..."WELL..ITS ABOUT THE MOOD OF THE SONG...WHATS THE SONG ABOUT...ALOT OF PLAYERS SIMPLY THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES AND JUST PUT IT ALL OUT THERE"...and hes right...thats what guys like EVH and rest never understood. Great players but simply miss the whole point of the music and the SONGS. EVH was the king of the flash guitar, no doubt, but thats all he did..its was all the same...2 verses, he goes wild and crazy on his solo, a final verse, and that was it...over and over. Some of Rhoads greatest soloing was the end of the songs,,,the fade outs becuase hes playing the END OF WHAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT...people simply just dont get that. One great example.. YOU CANT KILL ROCK AND ROLL is a very meloncholy, emotional song about some life experiences...and Randy closes it out with incredible "melonocholy, emotional" playing and it is effin amazing...just beautiful stuff. Sure do wish i could have heard or found another guy that thought and played that way, but i never did....and i looked for over 40 years....42 years later and i still listen to his work like it was just released...and still love every minute of it...
Randy is my all time favorite guitarist, i started playing guitar because I wanted to learn how to play "Crazy Train" I often wonder what he would be doing right now, how many more amazing songs he would've blew our minds with. Gone way too soon, but his music will live forever in all of us. Thank you Randy
i know that at the end of his life, he was getting very attractive offers to play on other peoples records...he was very excited about that. Can you imagine??...the possibilities boggle the mind. Its all so frustrating...
I’ve been playing since I was 11, I am 55 yrs old. My whole life I’ve had to hear how Eddie Van Halen was the best. Okay, okay we know how great he was but after learning the simplicity of finger tapping, Eddie, to me was great because of his EXTREMELY unique tone. I ALWAYS argued that Randy was better because of his classical influence and introduction to Metal. The GREATEST SOLO EVER IS ON REVELATION MOTHER EARTH. Too bad it was never a popular song. Thank you for explaining what would fumble trying to say to my fellow Guitar players!!!
Ed was a mad scientist who created the term brown sound, he chased sound and tone. randy was about writing a great song. BOO and DOAM are not as popular because they are heavier and darker, Crazy train was the closest to a poppier song. Van Halen was doing a cover or two an album.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oraclethere's nothing wrong with doing covers ed had unique take on each of them. plus that was mainly dave who made those decisions.
Randy wasn't dying to leave Quiet Riot because of a feud. He was extremely hesitant leaving the group. He just felt he was destined to do more than what they were doing at the time, so he tried out for Ozzy and got the gig. The departure from Quiet Riot and his surrounding group of friends was very emotional. He was really comfortable in the Quiet Riot family. His gf was part of that crowd, and everyone was just super close. They had a pact to never break up and eventually drive the band to super success, but he got the Ozzy gig, and they all supported and encouraged him to go. If he didn't get the Ozzy gig for some unfathomable reason, I don't think he would've really cared because he wasn't unhappy there. After joining Ozzy and living in England or on the road touring, he would get very home sick. He wasn't a saint, but he didn't party nearly as hard as Ozzy, so he filled his time in England and on the road, taking lessons from random teachers. Also, although he enjoyed playing and writing with Ozzy, he didn't enjoy playing the Black Sabbath tunes that Ozzy was expected to perform. He recorded Ozzy's two best solo albums. Nothing Ozzy did after even comes close, and that's because he had Randy fucking Rhoads playing guitar on them. Unfortunately, Randy died tragically due to an idiotic pilot doing idiotic things. His musical vocabulary was so vast, and we only really know him from those two albums. It's really sad. He undoubtedly would've gone on to do great things. -RIP Randy Rhoads
@chatsworthosbornejr I know. You're not telling me anything I don't already know. I've been a big-time Randy fan since the 80s and loved Ozzy forever. He didn't write anything in Sabbath either. Geezer did. Although Ozzy did come up with some melody lines for the vocals. His voice is so unique and instantly identifiable. Maybe the most identifiable voice in rock. My favorite band is The Who. Roger Daltrey is the lead vocalist, but he never wrote anything either. Pete Townshend was the brain behind all the "rock operas" and concept albums. I honestly don't think there's a rock composer out there that can hold a candle to Townshend's writing. Obviously, that's just my opinion, but I feel it holds true in reality as well. Cheers, man. 👍
@JesseJames-wj8ft ah yes, you're right. He wrote one song for Sabbath. But that's it, and they have quite a lot of songs in the Ozzy years. Back to The Who, Daltrey actually did write a deep cut called "See My Way." He also cowrote "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere," with Townshend. It's safe to say that he, like Ozzy, isn't a writer, although Daltery did have a few solo albums where he attempted to write songs. Both grade A singers, but not writers.
@@BostonWhoFan515 For sure. Elton John & Elvis for that matter, probably more singers that sang and never wrote than not. Writ is so damn good both lyrically and musically, I think I saw an interview with him some years back and said he was so pissed and hurt with management screwing them that the words almost wrote themselves but apparently, thats all he had in him. Hard to believe but he also said that he felt intimidated and even bullied by his bandmates, basically told to shut up and sing. With that atmosphere and his well known spiraling substance abuse, a wonder BS lasted as long as they did in original form
@JesseJames-wj8ft I'm a guitarist, and I absolutely love Tony Iommi. The riff master. Love him to the moon and back, but he was a bit of a bully when it came to Sabbath. Through all their incarnations. He definitely ran that band with an iron fist. Management screwed them as well, but I agree, Ozzy was kinda told to just shut up and sing. Tony needed Geezer for the lyrics, but Bill Ward got shafted by Tony, too. I can't keep talking bad about the guy, though. I really admire his longevity as a bad ass riff lord.
@Rattlesnake Well said, Rhoads 20 ish or so songs I will listen to because they are just soooo awesome and majestic , raw at the same time, his playin is truly extraordinary, ..VH im turned off by his arrogance, like calm down, there are literally a million bedroom guitarist as good and better, VH Too me is boring really 10 songs mayby that im impressed by a little, turns out , Yes Ed was a very good musician but had pretty much a gimmick, like his solo in VH concerts was the same for 20 yrs, yes very cool , luv cathedral and eruption but , never changed it up adding new sections, always was perplexed by that same solo for decades at the shows...anyway..Yikes the music Rhoads would of done...Peace too both of em RIP
I actually think if that quote often and makes me just cringe with eddys narcissism. How could you just speak of the dead like that especially your main competition. I bet he was so happy Randy died
@@taylorkent2395 yup...he was very very arrogant...Rhoads " tapping" on say flyin H A...was way more musical than any VH..which was lets gets blitz on booze and go wild, ..now im all for spontaneous feel ect...but fact is this.." tapping" was happening way before modern music industry machine and guitar hero propaganda...Too me Rhoads was so good in making beautiful unique music..raw, percise , majestic...probally could not of cared less about what the vh bros thought...Rip RR..EVH...peace
At the time, no one applied theory to rock like Randy... However, no one PLAYED like Eddie. Randy's playing was far more steeped in theory than Eddie's playing. Eddie's playing was heavily pentatonic based and more poppy and bluesy as a result.
“You Can’t Kill Rock & Roll”, “Believer” and my #1 favorite Randy song…”Tonight” are soooo so amazing. I always turned up the volume at the end when he is still soloing. Chefs kiss 😘 🤌
Dude! I am watching your video and I am wanting to pull out my notebook and take notes like I am a college student 😂 Raising my hand: “So what you’re saying is…………..” Great stuff! I love music and would give anything to understand music the way you do. Science, Math, Theory, philosophy and the Phycology of Music being able to not only describe the mechanics but to deconstruct the music like a chemist. Wow!
I have an 82 alpine white Les Paul Custom, and a few years ago a local music store had in the Randy Rhoads Marshall head and slant cabinet, so of course I wanted to give it a try. Full Disclosure, I suck on guitar, but when it comes to Geddy Lee licks, I am home. Anyhow, in the small amp room in the store, it was literally impossible to sit near the amp and make adjustments; this was clearly an amp made for arenas, where the sound would have lots of space to escape into. At 1 or 2, you would be correct to say this is one of the worst sounding guitar amps ever made; tinny, brittle, blech. However, at around 6 (with the first channel pinned and the second one. the 6, acting as a master volume), the amp started to come into its own. The power tubes were able to breath and pump, the low end started to emerge, and if I was anything but a chump guitar player, I might have been able to do it justice.... lol To agree with your point, it sounded beautiful at a very loud volume. :-)
Man that’s so awesome. I grew up loving classical music as my Mom listened to it almost exclusively. I like a lot of rock and metal and to me Randy was not only the most interesting to listen to and on top of that he could play as good as if not better live compared to the studio. EVH was incredibly sloppy live
I was born in 1986 so sadly Randy had passed before I was even born. In late 99' - early 2000 when i was 13 I picked up guitar. I grew up hearing Crazy train and flying high again with all the ozzy radio classics we all know and love on the radio. I always dug those tunes but it was surface level interest. When i was about 20 I did a deep dive on the 1st two Ozzy records and fell in love with both records. I have studied Randys playing ever since. Ive always been a MASSIVE guitar nerd and Randy is easily one of my favorite guitarists ever. Easily one of my biggest influences for my own original playing. Blizzard and Diary are sacred records to me and will forever be sacred. I am super Greatful for the 2 records we have from him, I only wish Randy had been able to really spread his wings and show what he was truly capable of composing and playing before he had passed
The compositions Randy put together at such a young age are genius… If Randy had lived no guitarist past, present, or future would be able to come close to his ability!
I missed seeing him live because of a storm in the Northeast, his death was only weeks later and I as many was devastated losing this insanely talented once in a lifetime musician. I'm 61 and still crank both of those legendary records that too this day gives me the chills during his amazing solos. Always good to see him get the respect he so wholeheartedly deserves.🤘✝️ RR 🎸
musically, the jump randy makes on the second ozzy album is crazy. The venomous beauty of that tone, that subtle mastery of adding additional hooks in the middle of end of riffs like on S.A.T.O.. Total banger, why is that not in regular radio airplay?
Thank you so much for this video, Randy will always be my reason for learning the guitar. His composition and mastery of skill with the instrument has always given me chills since i was a child. His musical talent will live on forever.
Randy, from the day, I was introduced to him from one of my 2 best friends in his 1970 Chevelle (via cassette of Blizzard if Ozz) cruising around in the snow as teenagers, he pops in the cassette and I mean like five minutes into this classic album I can still remember saying “who did Ozzy get on guitar?” I was blown away at like 17 years old, people sometimes mention Eddie Van Halen, but for me, it was Randy, it was like jaw-dropping genius fretboard magic. From that moment on, 40 something years later he is still the master of metal. I’ve always loved the playing of Ace Frehley also, it’s so raw yet his solos fit so well with the songs. If you have not seen “10,000 Volts” his new single, watch it!! His playing has matured, maybe not faster or more technical but he knows where he’s going, he has smoothed out the edges and perfected his own sound without ever having a lesson, which is an amazing accomplishment if you play guitar. It is not easy, especially when you learn on your own, 100%, so you have your own unique sound. No one can ever duplicate no matter how good they are. Since only you move your fingers, bend, hammer and flow, going only by your own thoughts and imagination. I’ve been playing since 8th grade and I am now 57, I’m not great by any means, but no one can duplicate my playing. I think it means so much more when you do it yourself since all of the sound is yours, I always thought “who wants to cover other peoples songs? It’s already been done. I don’t want to sound like someone else. I did find out one thing many years ago the key is practice, practice, practice Put down that stupid ass phone, Facebook, the “news” ha, and treat your guitar like your wallet, it’s always there with you, and when you come up with a good riff, record it, so many times I’ve forgotten a great moment the next day. Sorry for the long post, I hope just one kid will read this and think “he’s right, I want that sound, that tone that no one else has” and who knows he may become the next guitar God We need them because guitar gods are a dying species, very few still exist I don’t mean GOOD guitar players, I mean That, truly, unique rare sound that inspires you to purchase and continue to play no matter how frustrated you get for the rest of your life. TIP OF THE DAY: Don’t buy a guitar based on what your guitar hero plays, or what someone suggests go to a large guitar store with a massive selection, and spend the day playing as many as you are want. The neck is extremely important. Make sure it fits your hand like it was made for you, for instance, small hands, think Ibanez. Never settle, if you don’t find it, go back the next day and start over until you feel a connection, it will just feel right and you will know it’s the one 🇺🇸😃👍🏻
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Regarding the Diary intro, I've heard a story from a few different places that Randy was working on that Leo Brouwer piece with a private classical tutor while on tour. Ozzy apparently heard it, came into the room and said to use that in their song.
At which point Randy should have said ummmm.... A Cuban composer named Leo wrote it. I was just playing it as an exercise. Plagiarism is very tempting to others as it is an easy way to "create" something. At least Randy changed the way he plucked the arpeggios that Leo had came up with...
Excellent work. Thank you. This is why he was so memorable to so many people who had no idea about classical chord progressions and pentatonic scales. The beauty of the sound jumped out at you. Revelation is the best guitar solo I’ve ever heard. This video you made is EXACTLY why Eddy Van Halen annoyed me to no end when he kept saying in interviews that Randy copied EVERYTHING from him. It’s so insulting and childish jealousy.
It’s sad not many know who Randy is nor give him the credit he deserves, well many recognize him as a player, not a lot recognize his true genius, I believe if his life hadn’t been cut so short, we would’ve seen Randy grow into a phenomenal musician (which he already was at the time). He would’ve with no doubt been one of the top 5 guitarists in the world, in my personal option he already is, LongliveRandy🤘🏽🤘🏽
Hi Sorry I happen to disagree here Randy has become very well known and now that he is in the Rock hall of fame his Name is now even more connected with new Guitarists/Musicians.
@@robg8784 I believe so as well, however I feel people are more familiar with guitarist like Dimebag, EVH, Hendrix, Stevie ray vaughn, slash, etc etc. the big names. However I have seen Randy’s name come more into light recently, I am simply stating that I wish his name was thrown around on the level of those big names in the guitar scene, I can see why it isn’t though since he lived such a short life, Randy is my favorite guitarist though and is the reason I play today🤘🏽 I will always spread his name and share his great he is as long as I live 🤘🏽🤘🏽
he should be a household name next to Ed van Halen he really did help change a genre and move it forward. Anyone who does not have Diary of a Madman is missing out and has failed as a music fan
@@robg8784 he is not the household name Ed van Halen is, and he should be. And he had lived he probably does become a name people are more familiar with, withing metal and guitar circles he is a giant.
Great video. I'm 62 and I remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard Crazy Train. It blew me away. Randy for sure turned the world upside down with guitar back in the day.. Everyone, me included were using pentatonic licks mostly and blues based rock barre chords, etc.. So, everything you said was absolutely true! Randy was taken too far from us. Sad. Great video brother. Thanks man, and regards from the heartland. South Central Indiana. USA Tim
I just wanted to say the same what you had written. I remember exactly where I was & who I was with when I first heard Crazy Train. It just took over my attention completely.
The riffs with the minor 7th are the following: 7:48 Unholy confessions by Avenged Sevenfold 7:54 Parallels by As I Lay Dying or Scream Aim fire by Bullet for My Valentine (what is this artist and song)? 8:11 My Curse by Killswitch Engage RIP Randy Rhoads
I’ve watched a lot of videos on Randy Rhoads and thought this would be another video that has already been done. But no, this goes very in depth to the music theory of his style and I really do appreciate that.
Dude... he had the BEST control over dynamics, timing... know when to rest and when to rock. When to let the music breath, and then build to a frenetic crescendo. Not many can to that no mater how great their chops are! He knew how to add FIRE, build drama, then resolve and even offer a musical epilog. He will always be my favorite guitarist for those reasons.
Personally i dont mesure musicions like this, but to me he is one of if not the greatest metal guitarist, since he has everything i want in a song, namely the goosebumps he can create, and this is mostly from only 5 or so songs i really like from him ozzy and the gang. Tho, i think also, whille its obvious, it should be noted that the basist, pianist and ozzy had great contributions as well, since he isnt a one man band, although im sure he could have pulled that off too. What di you think about this discussion on the potencial plagerism ? Personally, in the case of diery, i do think that since he did change the articulation, even when the voicings and progression is the same, its not that bad. Now if he had ripped it straight out, that would have been kind of a cheep thing, but even then i wonder how much an author owns the notes they arrange. Legaly, if it were a classical peace from 150 years ago, more oftain than not, it wouldnt have been copywritten, so he could have straight up taken things from them, and personally, i do think that at that point ( 150years later) any arrangement of notes is fair game, and perhapse that last 50 years is too much as well. Still i wouldnt like an exact take of the peace, and it should still be changed up significantly in my opinion. But cirtain melodic or harmonic segments of classical peaces can searve as inspiration for the developement of more musical idea on top of, so id give that kind of thing. In my personal songwriting Ive taken parts of already made songs from the doors, and then wrote myown lyrics on top, then changed the harmony and melody alltogether untill it was no longer a doors song, so thats how i like to do it sometimes when im out of ideas . This kind of thing is good to just get into the flow of things i think, because if you try to add ontop of something you already think is great, than youll have an easier time expressing what you like, and youll instantly know whether it fits or not, since you understand the estetic of the basis.( or at least that what i think happens) Anyway, have a good day
Thanks so much. The most comprehensive video with some great guidance into the scales and classical pieces utilized by the late great Rhoades. I wish I'd learned at a much younger age to focus on scales in practice. A few weeks ago I'd seen that Randy used Hungarian Minor so I've been practicing this. Suffice to say that one isn't tapping into the metal unless they're relaying a sense of tension. For MANY of the fiercest riffs and grooves, that dissonance from the flatted fifth and flatted second is there. Randy cleared this path and without your video I wouldn't have thought of Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Sharing this video! Keep up the good work!
Outstanding video my friend.... Randy's death was a tragic blow to music and in my belief the reason why we have this useless "binary" computer-generated generic non melodic garbage labeled music. Thank you for breaking down Randy's EXTREME talent in the best way possible , sir. Very refreshing and i salute you All the best, Ej from Tx
I get angry every time I think of this man and the senseless way he died. The lesson is to be very wary of stupid people. Do not put your life in their hands.
@@schrammguitars I knew a woman who said she saw him here in Feb 1982 and he was playing where she could see him on the stage. The cool part was she said she'll never forget how HIGE his sound was and that when she finally ACTIALLY saw him his guitar ( think she meant the headstock) was "towering" above him.... Such a shame
Great vid. I indeed had noticed the Leo Brouwer thing. I recall digging Dairy Of A Madman back in the day, thing is, i started playing classical guitar a couple of years after that and when i reached the Etude 6 by Brouwer i was like "Damn, the harmony is exactly the same". And when i say exactly the same, i mean it. Only a couple of chords being voiced in a different way but at the end of the day it is the same. And Randy had a huge classical guitar influence, voices say hadn't he died, he would have gotten away from Ozzy and kept on mastering the classical guitar. Brouwer etudes are from the 1950's and are some of the most important works for the instrument. Given the fact Randy was alive from that time all the way to the 1980's i think it is safe to assume he knew the Brouwer works one way or another. Punchline: When i practice classical guitar i play one round of Etude 6 and one round of Madman. Hehe Greetings
Etude was a warm up exercise for Randy, Ozzy heard it and told him to write a song around it, that is where the genius is, the intro is a small part. I call it the Stairway to heaven of Metal
You did an amazing job with this presentation! Thank you! Apart from other neo-classical metal players, Randy made his complex, layered music catchy to the lay-person’s ear. I’d say poppy even. That’s a real art because you can play modes fast over chord voicings and have it sound very bland. Even though he had all this complex musical knowledge he still remembered to make it accessible. What a gift. I’d be curious what you could put together for Elliott Smith’s music?
people often think complexity portends how good someone is, when in fact the truly talented simplify things and the songwriting separates them from their peers
Great video! When I first heard Randy Rhoads I knew I wanted to play guitar. The song that stuck out to me the most was revelation mother earth, that was my introduction to classical music pretty much. Since then I have started going to classical concerts by myself and with my grandmother. I cannot get enough. Randy was as the kids say the "top g" of his era musicly.
I never heard Eddie play anything that sounded like The Solos in Over the Mountain, Diary of a madman or Mr. Crowley, Ed was too busy playing all his double stop riffs and beach party music, while Randy was writing serious metal….he was doing stuff no one was doing.
Absolutely. I think Eddie was a great guitar player but he wasn’t in the same ballpark of Randy. If anything EVH was kind of a 1 trick pony. I think Randy’s guitar playing holds up over 40 years later. I grew up listening to both rock as well as a lot of classical music. I’ll even say that I think Randy could have been a composer. His chord progressions and scales that he uses fits the song so well and never get old. You can absolutely say that they’ve stood the test of time.
Why Randy got into that tiny plane with that drugged up pilot is certainly beyond me. Is there anything that Randy played that you didn't simply fall in love with? So consistent. Blizzard, and Diary by all accounts are "perfect" albums with the songwriting. There isn't a bad song on either of them and so melodic. Few musician's/guitarists have that claim to fame.
Excellent content. I appreciate anyone who dives this deep into RR’s work and analyzes it. Though most everything in the video was over my head , it leaves many subjects and details that I can explore and learn more about. And your playing is top notch, btw. Many thanks, and I gladly “subbed”, looking forward to checking out more of your content. Cheers!
Just imagine what the third studio album would of sounded like. Hard to believe it could be any better than diary but it would’ve been. We all know that diary was rushed. And If Randy wasn’t rushed for the third album, all I can say is OMG!!!
The third album would still have been Speak of the Devil, but it would have been Randy instead of Brad Gillis. It would mean that we would have heard a lot more Sabbath songs in Randy's style, and based on what we eventually received in the Tribute album with Iron Man, Children of the Grave, and Paranoid, we would have been gifted with a far larger collection of amazing and unique renditions of Sabbath songs. Brad Gillis did a very good job, but as good as he is, he is no Randy Rhoads. It is uncertain if there would have ever been another studio album after that, because Randy was already talking about leaving the band to focus on classical guitar, and also didn't want to play more Sabbath songs, so the promise to deliver the live Sabbath album would have taken up his final commitment to another album.
@@briangisler1981 it would have been awesome to have had another Randy studio album, but based on interviews with other band members, it sounded like that it would have been a solo classical guitar album. Still would have been awesome though.
Thank you so much for this thoughtful analysis. I truly feel blessed to have seen him live. My face melted for most of the night awed by his raunchy, heavy, filthy rhythm playing with sick and sometimes dissonant fills and then he would launch into an incredibly clean solo that was ferociously fast. Gives me chills now trying to articulate what I heard!
Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth and others were using "classical" scales in the 1970s. Not to take away from the greatness of RR, but truth should be shown.
love this video. drawn out in the most useful way, to understand why Randy was so influential. It sheds light on how to create a resurgence of his approach (that I think if he had lived longer, he would have been able to convey. But you've nailed it.
I'm pretty sure there are timpanis on Revelations as well. I'm pretty sure Randy pointed out getting the intro from Diary from a classical etude. My high school band teacher once told us, "Good composers borrow, but great composers steal."
Ozzy heard Randy playing it one day and told him to use it in a song, and Randy probably not thinking anything about it, wrote a song but we also know he write the song while watching a documentary on the holocaust. I mean the genius is taking the Brouwer piece and turning it into a masterpiece. Randy was a great composer.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Randy was aware of the Brouwer composition way back before he met Ozzy in his Quiet Riot days. Randy used it as a warm-up exercise. Randy started playing his modified versions of it, and Ozzy heard Randy riffing on it, and wanted to turn it into something. When the song was finished getting composed, Ozzy changed his mind and didn't want to record it because he thought it wasn't him, ... LOL. Ozzy said that in an interview, that after they wrote it, he changed his mind and didn't want to record it.
@@BeyondOurSolarSystem i know, this is why they call me the Rhoads scholar on van halen newsdesk.... No, the issue is Ozzy could not come up with a melody for the vocals, Lee Kerslake helped out. He thought it was too complicated. Are we sure how long Randy knew of it, I mean he had not resumed classical guitar until he started touring with Blizzard of ozz
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle I saw it or heard it in an interview. Either Quiet Riot bassist Kelle Garnie said so in an interview to Guitar World, or Randy said it himself in a rare obscure interview. Possibly Kevin Dubrow revealed this in one of his candid interviews about Randy. I wish I could remember the exact source. All you have to do is listen to Randy's two albums from Quiet Riot, the live solo on "Laughing Gas", and go through all the live concert recordings of Randy with Quiet Riot from way before Randy joined Ozzy, and you will hear so much of the origins of his recordings with Ozzy on the two albums getting played out in Randy's QR years. Randy made statements in interviews that he wanted to incorporate more of his Neoclassical playing into those Quiet Riot recordings, but the Record company wouldn't let him. If you go through all of the interviews from Kelle Garnne, Kevin Dubrow, and Rudy Sarzo, and Randy himself, on everything about Randy and how he composed and recorded everything for Ozzy, you will eventually find out what I'm saying is true. Either Randy, or someone who lived with Randy and witnessed it, stated that Randy used to use that Leo Brouwer riff to warm up with all the way back to his Quiet Riot days. The source may have been Randy's own mother, Delores Rhoads. I'm really sorry that I can't give you the exact source. Diary of a Madman is one of my most favorite songs in the entire history of music. Randy Rhoads is my most favorite guitar player. I play guitar and compose my own guitar tracks. I hold all my compositions up to the standard set by Randy Rhoads. I hold every album up to the standard set by the Diary of a Madman album. The Diary of a Madman album is a perfect 10, and I judge every album by this standard, be it rock, metal, hard rock, alternative, grunge, noise rock, new country, blues, pop, hip hop, etc etc. There is no way that I got this wrong. I tend to remember what was said more than who said it. Cheers!!
That's what they mean by "good composers borrow, but great composers steal": a "good" composer will add a piece of music, as is, as an obvious nod to the original composer. A "great" composer will take it and sort of try to "mask" it so it isn't so recognizable. I would argue that Randy changed it enough to make it his own. It's not the chord progression you copyright. It is the journey you take through it. There are only so many progressions you can play.
Thank You,,, Great Tribute to Randy's Genius, so nice of you to bring up Revolation (Mother Earth) I hardly ever here anyone talk of it on TH-cam.... Refreshing!!!!
GREAT VIDEO brother. Clearly you are up on your theory which is something that Randy was very well versed in. The irony of that intro is that it originated back at the school where Randy taught, as a finger warm up exercise for some of his students. And, I say this having been one of those students who started every lesson with that Crazy Train lick, what I though at the time it was just a goofy exercise he came up with on the spot. Having said that, after three years of studying with Randy I can tell you that was ingrained in my head. So, when I was in my car, three years after Randy had left to join Ozzy and I heard that same pattern on the radio, it kind of freaked me out. But, it went on to be legendary. Who would have thought? Not me at the time. Randy, to this day, was the best teacher of any kind I ever had in my life. RIP RR.
This video was fantastic in its last half when the analysis really got deeper. Revelations Mother Earth sticks so deeply in my heart and bears infinite repetition because of its intricacy and it’s harmonic richness. Those ‘aha!’ moments in the brain when a unique chord substitution defies expectation in an electrifying way or the ‘ahhhh…’ moment when an oddly dissonant passage finally resolved after extended suspension are all things that give Rhandy’s playing immortality.
Great breakdown.....excellent video! I hit 9th grade when Randy passed away.....broke my heart. I live very near Randy's grave...been there many times and always leave him a pick.....
New sub, thanks for the content. I really enjoyed your video and found it interesting, informative and entertaining. I like your style of presentation and look forward to watching more of your videos..
Nice work sir. I have also noticed that guitar players like Alex Lifeson and Steve Howe were classical guitar students and also very innovative players. Thanks for not saying away from the theory stuff. Good work🤘
Love the forensic analysis. Straight-forward and with minimal theory and jargon. Even if there is no direct connection between two pieces of music it is fun to discover their similarities but even more interesting when there is a direct connection that isn't obvious.
I can relate. I have been playing since 19 and took some lessons, but have been studying theory for 40 years. I am 64 now, and I struggled mightly with making sense of theory, and one day I got it, but now I am too old to wow people with playing, but I still hope to write some music. I like metal, classical, folk, etc. Just remember my friends, your discoveries may have been discovered by others, less fortunate than you.
Fantastic video. Im a big randy fan. Hes the reason i started playing. Diary of a madmam is absolutely identical to that classical cat you mentioned. Great video. Top drawer
Randy was absolutely brilliant, he was the reason I got hooked on guitar. Imagine what he could have accomplished if he had not been taken from us so early.
Great video! I'd add that Randy's love for the minor 6th (i.e. Aoelian flavour) was a signature in his licks as well, such as the lick after the first chorus in Crazy Train (and many other places). He loved spicing up a standard blues lick with the minor 6th. (In the 1980s, I had a mail order guitar course where it said Randy added the flatted fifth to blues licks. This is quite common and I was confused for YEARS before I realized it was likely a typo and meant to be flatted/minor 6.)
Rhoads became my guitar hero when my parents got me the Tribute cd when I was 14, freshman in high school. I immediately started playing guitar and his play style is the funnest to emulate.
Randy was the best guitarist out at his time. Randy completely changed the game. He created modern metal guitar. He got me interested in playing and learning classical guitar. I studied that for years.
Who knew.. sometimes drugs CAN lead to miraculous decisions.. 😂 I say this in jest, not judgement btw, i was and still am an addict, just to less bad stuff these days. Just alcohol and nicotene. Im ok with that though because im not killing myself as fast as i used to be. Maybe one day ill get past it. Wish me luck i guess. RIP RR and i wish ozzy some peace of mind. Hell of a life. I can relate Edit: also, i wrote this after a minute or two, but watching more i just wanna say, great video bro. Your knowledge of music is something different in the ocean of pointless youtube videos you actually have something to add. Im no "musical expert" but i at least love good music 😂
This is really deep stuff. I am an adult and would like to play the guitar. Do you have such a course for the beginner? I'm a huge Rhoads fan. Thanks for making this very informative video.
I remember the first time I ever heard Randy Rhoads, I was about 14 and saw a documentary about Ozzy which featured the 'Tribute' version of Crazy Train. I decided there and then to learn to play guitar. I spent 25 years playing in bands as a result, so Randy has been a huge influence on my life and I can't imagine what it would have been like without him. Thank you Randy Rhoads, you will always be remembered!
Thanks so much for showing us the parallels among Randy Rhoads' compositions in Black Sabbath and the work of classical composers. It demonstrates how powerful and how many applications some music theory will allow you.
SO Dana Strum is the one who delivered Randy to Ozzy, Randy's mom told him to go audition. However, when Ozzy returned to the U.K. he was jamming with another guitar player and a drummer. Jet Records wanted Ozzy to form a british band, which would become Blizzard of ozz. It was a fortuitous meeting with Bob Daisley and asking him to come back to jam that got Randy back in the fold,, Bob told Ozzy he needed a world class musician if he wanted to get serious about a band. THis is where Ozzy called David Arden and asked him to fly Randy out, after jamming with Bob, they both looked at each other and said: I like the way you play
I study piano and with his mom being a pianist and teacher I find it interesting. I viewed videos of classically trained pianist playing "Crazy Train" on piano - so cool! RIH Legend Randy Rhoads
Loved those chords in Diary of Madman, but after those chords when the high gain kicks in, really sets it off. I didn’t know until this video about the other guy.
I just got a matte black R.R Jackson guitar i ordered..ive wanted one idk..for 10yrs or so..outta all of the guitars ive owned..its by far my favorite..its also my first Jackson..i should have switched to them along dam time ago..the guitar is light.. comfortable to play..i would absolutely recommend it over any other guitar
Thank you for doing such a cool analysis and respectful tribute to my all time favorite metal lead guitarist! I will now be following you closely as your love for music and knowledge are reflected nicely in a bassist btw coz growing up I could never find or afford a left hand cello
Randy was a iconic guitarist. Regardless of how young Randy was when he died, Randy was one of the greatest musicians of his time. Very innovative and a inspiration for tons of aspiring musicians. RIP Randy 👍❤️🎸
I seen him in San Francisco just months before he died . To me he is the best that ever lived . I can only imagine what he would be like today . Perfection
A Friend And I Were Fortunate To See Randy Rhoads On The Blizzard Of Ozz Tour Back In 1981. This Took Place At The Long Beach Arena In California. It Was An Experience Like No Other! Motorhead Opened.
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Time stamps:
0:00 the beginning
5:24 the famous minor 6th interval (Crazy Train)
9:37 the BIG guitar solo with relative keys
11:46 Flat 5 - The Best Neoclassical Song EVER???
16:19 BACH and DEE
17:18 spicy chords
18:52 Leo Brouwer and Diary of a Madman
22:16 Francisco Tarrega
Oh Hell Yeah he was and still is my favorite long story short The Best think of that sound with early 80s Technology smh
Your story of Randy coming into the BAND (which had been started by John Osbourne and Bob Daisley) was wrong.
John was in America hoping to find a possible guitarist to work with going through Don Arden's list of guitarists. There Dana Strum insisted an audition with Randy, but the 10 second thing is some bullschitt, probably Osbourne history rewriting again. Anyway, whatever else is said Randy didn't immediately get the job as the guitarist for The Blizzard of Ozz band because John flew back to England where he and Bob played with different guitarists but Bob said those guitarists weren't world class. John talked about Randy and Bob was adamant they'd have Randy flown over to England and only after Bob played with Randy did they know they had found "the man for the job". Then obviously began the collaborating songwriting between Bob and Randy plus the inputs of John. At the time when most songs had been written Bob brought in Lee Kerslake who completed The Blizzard of Ozz band (soon to be hijacked into being just "an Ozzy Backing Band") and he also became a part of the songwriting especially for Diary Of A Madman. He was not only a great drummer but also a good singer and pianist.
All due kudos to Randy, John, Lee and also Jake who in turn relit the 'extinguished torch', but without Bob, the BOO band's music would not have come to existence and "the audition and decision" did not take only 10 seconds and wasn't only John's decision at one moment.
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I appreciate anything I can find about Randy. He became my favorite guitarist the very first time I heard him way back in '81...
Same here, you can barely find anyone or anything regarding his music anywhere. It sucks because his music was very well thought out and purposeful. You would think more people would take the time to dissect his discography so we can understand randys thought process. I love other shredders but nothing will ever be as captivating as randy’s composition. Everyone just puts notes in random orders trying to play fast and flashy, or their progressions just arent appealing to hear. But the way the osbournes left randys legacy to die off in the 80’s, everyone likes to say randy is amazing but not really mean it which leads to the mysterious aura of randy.
Randy was a once in a lifetime guitar player! I don't think anyone will ever get close to what he did, unfortunately. But I'm grateful I was there to experience his magic while he was here, and saddened beyond belief to hear the day he left this world.
@@1wickedgroove he is an all time A leaguer who unfortunately will never know the profound impact he had on millions who are touched by his music.
His family can know though...
Randy and Kelly riding around in a car Not long after he became know saw. Bumper sticker saying RandyRhoadsRocks. Randy ask. Do they know us?
It should have been the other way around Randy should be here an Ozzy gone but for some reason that didn't happen
Randy will always be my favorite guitarist. I recognized his brilliance immediately. Randy was never given a proper opportunity to record his dream album. Randy had to play music to fit Ozzy’s voice and style. We will never know his true greatness. At least we have two albums of pure power and style.
Sgt. grinch? Didn’t expect to see you here
real
Diary of a Madman was brilliant.
Thats not really true. Ozzy wasnt writing songs and then having randy make the songs behind them. It doesnt normally work like that. Especially for a guitar player.
Randy's was way ahead of his time and just to have 2 mainstream albums out there. The guy is a legend who to this day his riffs stand up to anything
he really was ahead of his peers and he helped produce those first two albums....his ear really helped the sound on the album. Ozzy caught Randy triple tracking solos ones day, told Max Norman not to let him do it since they did not have budget for it. When Ozzy heard the finished product he never said another word knowing Randy was now the captain of the ship
Everybody claims Randy made ozzy,but everyone already knew who ozzy was,nobody was claiming what a great guitarist quiet riot had,which was randy,ozzy made randy,randy didn’t make ozzy lmao
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@tommilitello198 people claim Randy and Bob saved Ozzy and that's absolutely true, they wrote music that gave him credibility. Ozzy was viewed as being washed up when he was fired.
Randy absolutely was viewed as a great guitarist in Quiet Riot, why do you think Dana Strum raved about him. They were one of the top local bands because of him.
@@andrewfraser4376 what does that mean
Randy Rhoads changed my life from the moment I heard him way back on an import 45 single release of Crazy Train even before the Blizzard of Oz came out stateside in 1980. I was 13 years old and it was like entering a whole new dimension! I didn't know what it was at the moment but I knew there was something really special about what I had just heard and it wasn't long before me and my brothers realized it was THAT GUITAR!
He inspired me to pick up the guitar and I still jam to this day because of him!
THANK YOY RANDY RHOADS! I WILL OVE YOU FOREVER!
Gotta mention Uli Jon Roth and Gary Moore too!
Great video!
I was lucky to see Randy back in 1982 in February... One month before he died and he gave us a hell of a show.
That’s awesome. One of the things I’ve noticed about Randy is that he seemed to play as good as if not better live compared to the studio. Dimebag was the same way, whereas guys like EVH play very very sloppy live, a ton of missed and wrong notes
@RobertSmith-le8wp yes. Randy was something else... I still play his liks on my guitar
Diary of a mad man is the one that does it for me, just something about how it's put together and the chords he used, it's a master piece in my opinion, I still get chill bumps on my arms when I hear it.
it's masterpiece as is the album
top ten metal track of all time
no one better
Masterpiece!
Agreed. Diary of a Madman is without doubt the heavy metal masterpiece of all time.
Randy’s solos for “S.A.T.O.” “Tonight” And “Diary of a Madman” are pure gold.
all A -league stuff
Oh wow. As a huge RR fan in the early 80's and later I was mixing a demo with a band and wrote a solo for an original song and I closely mimicked the solo for SATO (ok I sorta stole some of it note-for-note 02:28- 02:34) haha.
But to read someone appreciates that solo as much as I did (and still do) gives me goosebumps. Thanks!
Funny SATO Is ez and I'm mediocre. The secret to me choosing solos that are built by sections. Enter SATO. Peace
Unless you are a gifted speed demon. I found this way effective over the years. Hardly trying. I've passed my peers. Because I never focused on speed only Quickness
My first Somebody get me a Dr VH. Good starter. Very sectional like Legos. All you gotta do is remember the pieces. Puzzle
40 years later and I'm still learning new things about Randy. Thanks for this phenomenal presentation. There's a reason this mans work tugs at the heartstrings of so many people. His incredible composition just moves me, still. Let alone his incredible prowess on his instrument. An incredible body of work in sadly a very short period of time. Salut!!
I could not have said it better. Technical proficiency of lead guitarists of all genres has improved significantly over the decades, but Randy certainly would have continued to help those techniques evolve and would have incorporated them into his own playing. But where Randy was truly unique and a once in a lifetime talent was his compositional genius, his very unique way of going someplace with rhythm or melody that even an experienced musician would not expect... and it's glorious. His musical thoughts were always complete with remarkable segues into the next phrases. His feel for timing and dynamics is still largely unmatched, knowing when to build to a crescendo, then rest, then explode again fully resolving everything. His music was so satisfying emotionally. He brought a classically inspired fire and passion to every note he played with his guitar screaming or crying at will. Even subtle things like the opening into to Diary of a Madman, where in the opening phrase he deliberately falls behind the beat then in the second measure plays on the beat - to me insinuating the lyrics of losing your mind. Genius. Simple, two note harmonic flourishes like in the middle of You Can't Kill Rock and Roll are little bits of emotional ear candy for me, still to this day. I'm always moved when I listen to his music. The simple solo from Tonight is both moving and majestic, and makes the song... I could go on... he will be forever missed. And appreciated!
@@Mike-eq4ky FINALY...SOMEBODY WHO GETS "IT:"...if you listen to the guitar seminar he did in Pennsylvania a month or so before the accident, early in the session, some kid asks him about how he approached his solos in his songs...and Randy clearly states..."WELL..ITS ABOUT THE MOOD OF THE SONG...WHATS THE SONG ABOUT...ALOT OF PLAYERS SIMPLY THINK ABOUT THEMSELVES AND JUST PUT IT ALL OUT THERE"...and hes right...thats what guys like EVH and rest never understood. Great players but simply miss the whole point of the music and the SONGS. EVH was the king of the flash guitar, no doubt, but thats all he did..its was all the same...2 verses, he goes wild and crazy on his solo, a final verse, and that was it...over and over. Some of Rhoads greatest soloing was the end of the songs,,,the fade outs becuase hes playing the END OF WHAT THE SONG WAS ABOUT...people simply just dont get that. One great example.. YOU CANT KILL ROCK AND ROLL is a very meloncholy, emotional song about some life experiences...and Randy closes it out with incredible "melonocholy, emotional" playing and it is effin amazing...just beautiful stuff. Sure do wish i could have heard or found another guy that thought and played that way, but i never did....and i looked for over 40 years....42 years later and i still listen to his work like it was just released...and still love every minute of it...
Randy Rhoads, lives forever. Miss this guy what could have been rest in peace, my brother, and I miss you bad.🎸🎸🎸🙏🌹🌹🙏
Randy is my all time favorite guitarist, i started playing guitar because I wanted to learn how to play "Crazy Train" I often wonder what he would be doing right now, how many more amazing songs he would've blew our minds with. Gone way too soon, but his music will live forever in all of us. Thank you Randy
i know that at the end of his life, he was getting very attractive offers to play on other peoples records...he was very excited about that. Can you imagine??...the possibilities boggle the mind. Its all so frustrating...
I’ve been playing since I was 11, I am 55 yrs old. My whole life I’ve had to hear how Eddie Van Halen was the best. Okay, okay we know how great he was but after learning the simplicity of finger tapping, Eddie, to me was great because of his EXTREMELY unique tone. I ALWAYS argued that Randy was better because of his classical influence and introduction to Metal. The GREATEST SOLO EVER IS ON REVELATION MOTHER EARTH. Too bad it was never a popular song.
Thank you for explaining what would fumble trying to say to my fellow Guitar players!!!
Ed was a mad scientist who created the term brown sound, he chased sound and tone. randy was about writing a great song. BOO and DOAM are not as popular because they are heavier and darker, Crazy train was the closest to a poppier song. Van Halen was doing a cover or two an album.
I agree with you.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oraclethey said Brown sound was originally to describe Alex's drum. Weird
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oraclethere's nothing wrong with doing covers ed had unique take on each of them. plus that was mainly dave who made those decisions.
Randy was better
Randy wasn't dying to leave Quiet Riot because of a feud. He was extremely hesitant leaving the group. He just felt he was destined to do more than what they were doing at the time, so he tried out for Ozzy and got the gig. The departure from Quiet Riot and his surrounding group of friends was very emotional. He was really comfortable in the Quiet Riot family. His gf was part of that crowd, and everyone was just super close. They had a pact to never break up and eventually drive the band to super success, but he got the Ozzy gig, and they all supported and encouraged him to go. If he didn't get the Ozzy gig for some unfathomable reason, I don't think he would've really cared because he wasn't unhappy there. After joining Ozzy and living in England or on the road touring, he would get very home sick. He wasn't a saint, but he didn't party nearly as hard as Ozzy, so he filled his time in England and on the road, taking lessons from random teachers. Also, although he enjoyed playing and writing with Ozzy, he didn't enjoy playing the Black Sabbath tunes that Ozzy was expected to perform. He recorded Ozzy's two best solo albums. Nothing Ozzy did after even comes close, and that's because he had Randy fucking Rhoads playing guitar on them. Unfortunately, Randy died tragically due to an idiotic pilot doing idiotic things. His musical vocabulary was so vast, and we only really know him from those two albums. It's really sad. He undoubtedly would've gone on to do great things. -RIP Randy Rhoads
@chatsworthosbornejr I know. You're not telling me anything I don't already know. I've been a big-time Randy fan since the 80s and loved Ozzy forever. He didn't write anything in Sabbath either. Geezer did. Although Ozzy did come up with some melody lines for the vocals. His voice is so unique and instantly identifiable. Maybe the most identifiable voice in rock. My favorite band is The Who. Roger Daltrey is the lead vocalist, but he never wrote anything either. Pete Townshend was the brain behind all the "rock operas" and concept albums. I honestly don't think there's a rock composer out there that can hold a candle to Townshend's writing. Obviously, that's just my opinion, but I feel it holds true in reality as well. Cheers, man. 👍
@@BostonWhoFan515 Not true, Ozzy wrote "The Writ" off Sabotage, lyrics are pure genius and for sure based off a true story
@JesseJames-wj8ft ah yes, you're right. He wrote one song for Sabbath. But that's it, and they have quite a lot of songs in the Ozzy years. Back to The Who, Daltrey actually did write a deep cut called "See My Way." He also cowrote "Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere," with Townshend. It's safe to say that he, like Ozzy, isn't a writer, although Daltery did have a few solo albums where he attempted to write songs. Both grade A singers, but not writers.
@@BostonWhoFan515 For sure. Elton John & Elvis for that matter, probably more singers that sang and never wrote than not. Writ is so damn good both lyrically and musically, I think I saw an interview with him some years back and said he was so pissed and hurt with management screwing them that the words almost wrote themselves but apparently, thats all he had in him. Hard to believe but he also said that he felt intimidated and even bullied by his bandmates, basically told to shut up and sing. With that atmosphere and his well known spiraling substance abuse, a wonder BS lasted as long as they did in original form
@JesseJames-wj8ft I'm a guitarist, and I absolutely love Tony Iommi. The riff master. Love him to the moon and back, but he was a bit of a bully when it came to Sabbath. Through all their incarnations. He definitely ran that band with an iron fist. Management screwed them as well, but I agree, Ozzy was kinda told to just shut up and sing. Tony needed Geezer for the lyrics, but Bill Ward got shafted by Tony, too. I can't keep talking bad about the guy, though. I really admire his longevity as a bad ass riff lord.
Randy's solo for Goodbye To Romance off of the Tribute album,is in my opinion, one of the greatest live guitar solos ever recorded.
Tribute Album is so exhilirating. It is phenomenal.
it really is..that solo just SOARS...just dripping with emotion and feeling...he was the best ever.
Rhoads too me is a more enjoyable listen than Van Halen...way more musicality, Ed said Randy ripped everything off from him, which is just dumb.
@Rattlesnake Well said, Rhoads 20 ish or so songs I will listen to because they are just soooo awesome and majestic , raw at the same time, his playin is truly extraordinary, ..VH im turned off by his arrogance, like calm down, there are literally a million bedroom guitarist as good and better, VH Too me is boring really 10 songs mayby that im impressed by a little, turns out , Yes Ed was a very good musician but had pretty much a gimmick, like his solo in VH concerts was the same for 20 yrs, yes very cool , luv cathedral and eruption but , never changed it up adding new sections, always was perplexed by that same solo for decades at the shows...anyway..Yikes the music Rhoads would of done...Peace too both of em RIP
I actually think if that quote often and makes me just cringe with eddys narcissism. How could you just speak of the dead like that especially your main competition. I bet he was so happy Randy died
@@taylorkent2395 yup...he was very very arrogant...Rhoads " tapping" on say flyin H A...was way more musical than any VH..which was lets gets blitz on booze and go wild, ..now im all for spontaneous feel ect...but fact is this.." tapping" was happening way before modern music industry machine and guitar hero propaganda...Too me Rhoads was so good in making beautiful unique music..raw, percise , majestic...probally could not of cared less about what the vh bros thought...Rip RR..EVH...peace
I love Eddie, but he thought EVERYBODY ripped him off. He was like Gene Simmons with a guitar.
@@FortressofShred So True
Randy was light years ahead of his time. No one was plying like he did before he came out. To me, he is the goat for rock guitar.
At the time, no one applied theory to rock like Randy... However, no one PLAYED like Eddie. Randy's playing was far more steeped in theory than Eddie's playing. Eddie's playing was heavily pentatonic based and more poppy and bluesy as a result.
“You Can’t Kill Rock & Roll”, “Believer” and my #1 favorite Randy song…”Tonight” are soooo so amazing. I always turned up the volume at the end when he is still soloing. Chefs kiss 😘 🤌
I love how you STILL hear Randy's work everywhere....ALL the time! Crazy Train is still played constantly. I think he would be proud :)
you can really have fun with that song i do
Dude! I am watching your video and I am wanting to pull out my notebook and take notes like I am a college student 😂
Raising my hand: “So what you’re saying is…………..”
Great stuff! I love music and would give anything to understand music the way you do. Science, Math, Theory, philosophy and the Phycology of Music being able to not only describe the mechanics but to deconstruct the music like a chemist. Wow!
I saw him live 3 times and his guitar sound was compressed and sounded beautiful at a very loud volume. He is a Legend 💪!
Nice! That’s awesome
Lucky.
I have an 82 alpine white Les Paul Custom, and a few years ago a local music store had in the Randy Rhoads Marshall head and slant cabinet, so of course I wanted to give it a try. Full Disclosure, I suck on guitar, but when it comes to Geddy Lee licks, I am home.
Anyhow, in the small amp room in the store, it was literally impossible to sit near the amp and make adjustments; this was clearly an amp made for arenas, where the sound would have lots of space to escape into. At 1 or 2, you would be correct to say this is one of the worst sounding guitar amps ever made; tinny, brittle, blech.
However, at around 6 (with the first channel pinned and the second one. the 6, acting as a master volume), the amp started to come into its own. The power tubes were able to breath and pump, the low end started to emerge, and if I was anything but a chump guitar player, I might have been able to do it justice.... lol
To agree with your point, it sounded beautiful at a very loud volume. :-)
I'm so jealous of you!
Man that’s so awesome. I grew up loving classical music as my Mom listened to it almost exclusively. I like a lot of rock and metal and to me Randy was not only the most interesting to listen to and on top of that he could play as good as if not better live compared to the studio. EVH was incredibly sloppy live
I was born in 1986 so sadly Randy had passed before I was even born. In late 99' - early 2000 when i was 13 I picked up guitar. I grew up hearing Crazy train and flying high again with all the ozzy radio classics we all know and love on the radio. I always dug those tunes but it was surface level interest. When i was about 20 I did a deep dive on the 1st two Ozzy records and fell in love with both records. I have studied Randys playing ever since. Ive always been a MASSIVE guitar nerd and Randy is easily one of my favorite guitarists ever. Easily one of my biggest influences for my own original playing. Blizzard and Diary are sacred records to me and will forever be sacred. I am super Greatful for the 2 records we have from him, I only wish Randy had been able to really spread his wings and show what he was truly capable of composing and playing before he had passed
Steve Howe was doing this in Yes way back in 72. Randy did the same but in metal. It’s great stuff.
The compositions Randy put together at such a young age are genius… If Randy had lived no guitarist past, present, or future would be able to come close to his ability!
ahead of the curve..changing the game, all-time A:leaguer
Dammit I wish he was still here. I can't imagine how good he'd be today. The outro solo of Mr Crowley made me a guitarist.
100%! Time is what Randy needed and sadly he didn’t have.
😂😂😂
@@Sabbath-f9k the beta emojis for what reason? this is for adults
I missed seeing him live because of a storm in the Northeast, his death was only weeks later and I as many was devastated losing this insanely talented once in a lifetime musician. I'm 61 and still crank both of those legendary records that too this day gives me the chills during his amazing solos. Always good to see him get the respect he so wholeheartedly deserves.🤘✝️ RR 🎸
musically, the jump randy makes on the second ozzy album is crazy. The venomous beauty of that tone, that subtle mastery of adding additional hooks in the middle of end of riffs like on S.A.T.O.. Total banger, why is that not in regular radio airplay?
Thank you so much for this video, Randy will always be my reason for learning the guitar. His composition and mastery of skill with the instrument has always given me chills since i was a child. His musical talent will live on forever.
Randy, from the day, I was introduced to him from one of my 2 best friends in his 1970 Chevelle (via cassette of Blizzard if Ozz) cruising around in the snow as teenagers, he pops in the cassette and I mean like five minutes into this classic album I can still remember saying “who did Ozzy get on guitar?” I was blown away at like 17 years old, people sometimes mention Eddie Van Halen, but for me, it was Randy, it was like jaw-dropping genius fretboard magic. From that moment on, 40 something years later he is still the master of metal.
I’ve always loved the playing of Ace Frehley also, it’s so raw yet his solos fit so well with the songs. If you have not seen “10,000 Volts” his new single, watch it!! His playing has matured, maybe not faster or more technical but he knows where he’s going, he has smoothed out the edges and perfected his own sound without ever having a lesson, which is an amazing accomplishment if you play guitar. It is not easy, especially when you learn on your own, 100%, so you have your own unique sound. No one can ever duplicate no matter how good they are. Since only you move your fingers, bend, hammer and flow, going only by your own thoughts and imagination.
I’ve been playing since 8th grade and I am now 57, I’m not great by any means, but no one can duplicate my playing. I think it means so much more when you do it yourself since all of the sound is yours, I always thought “who wants to cover other peoples songs? It’s already been done. I don’t want to sound like someone else. I did find out one thing many years ago the key is practice, practice, practice Put down that stupid ass phone, Facebook, the “news” ha, and treat your guitar like your wallet, it’s always there with you, and when you come up with a good riff, record it, so many times I’ve forgotten a great moment the next day. Sorry for the long post, I hope just one kid will read this and think “he’s right, I want that sound, that tone that no one else has” and who knows he may become the next guitar God
We need them because guitar gods are a dying species, very few still exist I don’t mean GOOD guitar players, I mean That, truly, unique rare sound that inspires you to purchase and continue to play no matter how frustrated you get for the rest of your life.
TIP OF THE DAY: Don’t buy a guitar based on what your guitar hero plays, or what someone suggests go to a large guitar store with a massive selection, and spend the day playing as many as you are want. The neck is extremely important. Make sure it fits your hand like it was made for you, for instance, small hands, think Ibanez. Never settle, if you don’t find it, go back the next day and start over until you feel a connection, it will just feel right and you will know it’s the one 🇺🇸😃👍🏻
I appreciate the tons of work you did to release this video. Thanks a lot!
Thanks for taking the time to make this video. Regarding the Diary intro, I've heard a story from a few different places that Randy was working on that Leo Brouwer piece with a private classical tutor while on tour. Ozzy apparently heard it, came into the room and said to use that in their song.
Wow very interesting! It would make some sense.
At which point Randy should have said ummmm.... A Cuban composer named Leo wrote it. I was just playing it as an exercise. Plagiarism is very tempting to others as it is an easy way to "create" something. At least Randy changed the way he plucked the arpeggios that Leo had came up with...
Also, there was a lawsuit in progress which was dropped after Randy's death.
Excellent work. Thank you. This is why he was so memorable to so many people who had no idea about classical chord progressions and pentatonic scales.
The beauty of the sound jumped out at you.
Revelation is the best guitar solo I’ve ever heard.
This video you made is EXACTLY why Eddy Van Halen annoyed me to no end when he kept saying in interviews that Randy copied EVERYTHING from him.
It’s so insulting and childish jealousy.
One of my top 3 favourite guitar players, Randy Rhoads, Brain May and Yngwie malmsteen
It’s sad not many know who Randy is nor give him the credit he deserves, well many recognize him as a player, not a lot recognize his true genius, I believe if his life hadn’t been cut so short, we would’ve seen Randy grow into a phenomenal musician (which he already was at the time). He would’ve with no doubt been one of the top 5 guitarists in the world, in my personal option he already is, LongliveRandy🤘🏽🤘🏽
Hi Sorry I happen to disagree here Randy has become very well known and now that he is in the Rock hall of fame his Name is now even more connected with new Guitarists/Musicians.
@@robg8784 I believe so as well, however I feel people are more familiar with guitarist like Dimebag, EVH, Hendrix, Stevie ray vaughn, slash, etc etc. the big names. However I have seen Randy’s name come more into light recently, I am simply stating that I wish his name was thrown around on the level of those big names in the guitar scene, I can see why it isn’t though since he lived such a short life, Randy is my favorite guitarist though and is the reason I play today🤘🏽 I will always spread his name and share his great he is as long as I live 🤘🏽🤘🏽
@@randyrhoads8252 yes Sir well put Massive Randy Fan as well..Thanks for the Reply
he should be a household name next to Ed van Halen he really did help change a genre and move it forward.
Anyone who does not have Diary of a Madman is missing out and has failed as a music fan
@@robg8784 he is not the household name Ed van Halen is, and he should be. And he had lived he probably does become a name people are more familiar with, withing metal and guitar circles he is a giant.
Great video. I'm 62 and I remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard Crazy Train. It blew me away. Randy for sure turned the world upside down with guitar back in the day.. Everyone, me included were using pentatonic licks mostly and blues based rock barre chords, etc.. So, everything you said was absolutely true!
Randy was taken too far from us. Sad.
Great video brother.
Thanks man, and regards from the heartland. South Central Indiana. USA
Tim
I just wanted to say the same what you had written. I remember exactly where I was & who I was with when I first heard Crazy Train. It just took over my attention completely.
The riffs with the minor 7th are the following:
7:48 Unholy confessions by Avenged Sevenfold
7:54 Parallels by As I Lay Dying or Scream Aim fire by Bullet for My Valentine (what is this artist and song)?
8:11 My Curse by Killswitch Engage
RIP
Randy Rhoads
I’ve watched a lot of videos on Randy Rhoads and thought this would be another video that has already been done. But no, this goes very in depth to the music theory of his style and I really do appreciate that.
This man played with a boatload of feel to boot. Don't ever discount this
folks.
This is a very interesting analysis. Good job.
Dude... he had the BEST control over dynamics, timing... know when to rest and when to rock. When to let the music breath, and then build to a frenetic crescendo. Not many can to that no mater how great their chops are! He knew how to add FIRE, build drama, then resolve and even offer a musical epilog. He will always be my favorite guitarist for those reasons.
Hands down Randy Rhoads is the best guitarist that ever lived 🎸 such a sad loss
Personally i dont mesure musicions like this, but to me he is one of if not the greatest metal guitarist, since he has everything i want in a song, namely the goosebumps he can create, and this is mostly from only 5 or so songs i really like from him ozzy and the gang.
Tho, i think also, whille its obvious, it should be noted that the basist, pianist and ozzy had great contributions as well, since he isnt a one man band, although im sure he could have pulled that off too.
What di you think about this discussion on the potencial plagerism ?
Personally, in the case of diery, i do think that since he did change the articulation, even when the voicings and progression is the same, its not that bad.
Now if he had ripped it straight out, that would have been kind of a cheep thing, but even then i wonder how much an author owns the notes they arrange.
Legaly, if it were a classical peace from 150 years ago, more oftain than not, it wouldnt have been copywritten, so he could have straight up taken things from them, and personally, i do think that at that point ( 150years later) any arrangement of notes is fair game, and perhapse that last 50 years is too much as well.
Still i wouldnt like an exact take of the peace, and it should still be changed up significantly in my opinion.
But cirtain melodic or harmonic segments of classical peaces can searve as inspiration for the developement of more musical idea on top of, so id give that kind of thing.
In my personal songwriting Ive taken parts of already made songs from the doors, and then wrote myown lyrics on top, then changed the harmony and melody alltogether untill it was no longer a doors song, so thats how i like to do it sometimes when im out of ideas .
This kind of thing is good to just get into the flow of things i think, because if you try to add ontop of something you already think is great, than youll have an easier time expressing what you like, and youll instantly know whether it fits or not, since you understand the estetic of the basis.( or at least that what i think happens)
Anyway, have a good day
Thanks so much. The most comprehensive video with some great guidance into the scales and classical pieces utilized by the late great Rhoades.
I wish I'd learned at a much younger age to focus on scales in practice. A few weeks ago I'd seen that Randy used Hungarian Minor so I've been practicing this.
Suffice to say that one isn't tapping into the metal unless they're relaying a sense of tension. For MANY of the fiercest riffs and grooves, that dissonance from the flatted fifth and flatted second is there. Randy cleared this path and without your video I wouldn't have thought of Sweet Dreams by the Eurythmics. Sharing this video! Keep up the good work!
Outstanding video my friend....
Randy's death was a tragic blow to music and in my belief the reason why we have this useless "binary" computer-generated generic non melodic garbage labeled music. Thank you for breaking down Randy's EXTREME talent in the best way possible , sir. Very refreshing and i salute you
All the best,
Ej from Tx
Thanks Ej
I get angry every time I think of this man and the senseless way he died. The lesson is to be very wary of stupid people. Do not put your life in their hands.
I saw Randy two months before he died in concert with Ozzy here in Fresno,CA
@@schrammguitars I knew a woman who said she saw him here in Feb 1982 and he was playing where she could see him on the stage. The cool part was she said she'll never forget how HIGE his sound was and that when she finally ACTIALLY saw him his guitar ( think she meant the headstock) was "towering" above him....
Such a shame
@@AidanHalm
You bet anytime
All the best
Thanks for making this video. Sheds some light on what made Randy special. But there is A LOT more to be said about this guy. He was a guitar wizard.
Randy one of the all time greats
Randy and SRV was taking way too soon! Randy was a musical genius
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I lived this when it went down and your video encapsulates it better than anything I have seen. Great job Aidan.
he did a nice job with the analysis
Great vid. I indeed had noticed the Leo Brouwer thing. I recall digging Dairy Of A Madman back in the day, thing is, i started playing classical guitar a couple of years after that and when i reached the Etude 6 by Brouwer i was like "Damn, the harmony is exactly the same". And when i say exactly the same, i mean it. Only a couple of chords being voiced in a different way but at the end of the day it is the same. And Randy had a huge classical guitar influence, voices say hadn't he died, he would have gotten away from Ozzy and kept on mastering the classical guitar. Brouwer etudes are from the 1950's and are some of the most important works for the instrument. Given the fact Randy was alive from that time all the way to the 1980's i think it is safe to assume he knew the Brouwer works one way or another.
Punchline: When i practice classical guitar i play one round of Etude 6 and one round of Madman. Hehe
Greetings
Etude was a warm up exercise for Randy, Ozzy heard it and told him to write a song around it, that is where the genius is, the intro is a small part. I call it the Stairway to heaven of Metal
According to Rudy Sarzo Randy saw a Holocaust documentary that features the music and got the idea from there.
Hey, Aidan - this video was extremely well put together. You've got a great grasp of music theory and explain it well. Appreciate the content.
You did an amazing job with this presentation! Thank you! Apart from other neo-classical metal players, Randy made his complex, layered music catchy to the lay-person’s ear. I’d say poppy even. That’s a real art because you can play modes fast over chord voicings and have it sound very bland. Even though he had all this complex musical knowledge he still remembered to make it accessible. What a gift. I’d be curious what you could put together for Elliott Smith’s music?
Thanks! I think Elliott is a great idea.
people often think complexity portends how good someone is, when in fact the truly talented simplify things and the songwriting separates them from their peers
Great video! When I first heard Randy Rhoads I knew I wanted to play guitar. The song that stuck out to me the most was revelation mother earth, that was my introduction to classical music pretty much. Since then I have started going to classical concerts by myself and with my grandmother. I cannot get enough. Randy was as the kids say the "top g" of his era musicly.
I never heard Eddie play anything that sounded like The Solos in Over the Mountain, Diary of a madman or Mr. Crowley, Ed was too busy playing all his double stop riffs and beach party music, while Randy was writing serious metal….he was doing stuff no one was doing.
Absolutely. I think Eddie was a great guitar player but he wasn’t in the same ballpark of Randy. If anything EVH was kind of a 1 trick pony. I think Randy’s guitar playing holds up over 40 years later. I grew up listening to both rock as well as a lot of classical music. I’ll even say that I think Randy could have been a composer. His chord progressions and scales that he uses fits the song so well and never get old. You can absolutely say that they’ve stood the test of time.
Aiden, Nice job! Thanks for discussing and linking to my article!
Wow thank you so much! Really an honor for you to watch this. Thank you for your research 🙏
Why Randy got into that tiny plane with that drugged up pilot is certainly beyond me. Is there anything that Randy played that you didn't simply fall in love with? So consistent. Blizzard, and Diary by all accounts are "perfect" albums with the songwriting. There isn't a bad song on either of them and so melodic. Few musician's/guitarists have that claim to fame.
Excellent content. I appreciate anyone who dives this deep into RR’s work and analyzes it. Though most everything in the video was over my head , it leaves many subjects and details that I can explore and learn more about. And your playing is top notch, btw.
Many thanks, and I gladly “subbed”, looking forward to checking out more of your content.
Cheers!
Just imagine what the third studio album would of sounded like. Hard to believe it could be any better than diary but it would’ve been. We all know that diary was rushed. And If Randy wasn’t rushed for the third album, all I can say is OMG!!!
The third album would still have been Speak of the Devil, but it would have been Randy instead of Brad Gillis. It would mean that we would have heard a lot more Sabbath songs in Randy's style, and based on what we eventually received in the Tribute album with Iron Man, Children of the Grave, and Paranoid, we would have been gifted with a far larger collection of amazing and unique renditions of Sabbath songs. Brad Gillis did a very good job, but as good as he is, he is no Randy Rhoads.
It is uncertain if there would have ever been another studio album after that, because Randy was already talking about leaving the band to focus on classical guitar, and also didn't want to play more Sabbath songs, so the promise to deliver the live Sabbath album would have taken up his final commitment to another album.
Yes speak of the devil was going to be Randy and it would’ve been incredible but I said third studio album not live .
@@briangisler1981 it would have been awesome to have had another Randy studio album, but based on interviews with other band members, it sounded like that it would have been a solo classical guitar album. Still would have been awesome though.
Yes. I wish ozzy would put out live jams. Has to be a few. Out there
@@briangisler1981Please edit that "would of." 🙏
Thank you so much for this thoughtful analysis. I truly feel blessed to have seen him live. My face melted for most of the night awed by his raunchy, heavy, filthy rhythm playing with sick and sometimes dissonant fills and then he would launch into an incredibly clean solo that was ferociously fast. Gives me chills now trying to articulate what I heard!
Michael Schenker, Uli Jon Roth and others were using "classical" scales in the 1970s. Not to take away from the greatness of RR, but truth should be shown.
Very true! Those guys are gods in their own right
love this video. drawn out in the most useful way, to understand why Randy was so influential. It sheds light on how to create a resurgence of his approach (that I think if he had lived longer, he would have been able to convey. But you've nailed it.
I was born in 1981. I heard Randy and Aerosmith / Metallica growing up.
Crazy Train came from Steve Miller's swingtime when Greg Leon played it for Randy and Randy changed it and sped it up and added a few things to it.
Love how this guy is explaining and showing us the intervals and the difference! Excellent!
I'm pretty sure there are timpanis on Revelations as well. I'm pretty sure Randy pointed out getting the intro from Diary from a classical etude.
My high school band teacher once told us, "Good composers borrow, but great composers steal."
Ozzy heard Randy playing it one day and told him to use it in a song, and Randy probably not thinking anything about it, wrote a song but we also know he write the song while watching a documentary on the holocaust.
I mean the genius is taking the Brouwer piece and turning it into a masterpiece. Randy was a great composer.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Randy was aware of the Brouwer composition way back before he met Ozzy in his Quiet Riot days. Randy used it as a warm-up exercise. Randy started playing his modified versions of it, and Ozzy heard Randy riffing on it, and wanted to turn it into something. When the song was finished getting composed, Ozzy changed his mind and didn't want to record it because he thought it wasn't him, ... LOL. Ozzy said that in an interview, that after they wrote it, he changed his mind and didn't want to record it.
@@BeyondOurSolarSystem i know, this is why they call me the Rhoads scholar on van halen newsdesk....
No, the issue is Ozzy could not come up with a melody for the vocals, Lee Kerslake helped out. He thought it was too complicated.
Are we sure how long Randy knew of it, I mean he had not resumed classical guitar until he started touring with Blizzard of ozz
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle I saw it or heard it in an interview. Either Quiet Riot bassist Kelle Garnie said so in an interview to Guitar World, or Randy said it himself in a rare obscure interview. Possibly Kevin Dubrow revealed this in one of his candid interviews about Randy. I wish I could remember the exact source.
All you have to do is listen to Randy's two albums from Quiet Riot, the live solo on "Laughing Gas", and go through all the live concert recordings of Randy with Quiet Riot from way before Randy joined Ozzy, and you will hear so much of the origins of his recordings with Ozzy on the two albums getting played out in Randy's QR years.
Randy made statements in interviews that he wanted to incorporate more of his Neoclassical playing into those Quiet Riot recordings, but the Record company wouldn't let him.
If you go through all of the interviews from Kelle Garnne, Kevin Dubrow, and Rudy Sarzo, and Randy himself, on everything about Randy and how he composed and recorded everything for Ozzy, you will eventually find out what I'm saying is true.
Either Randy, or someone who lived with Randy and witnessed it, stated that Randy used to use that Leo Brouwer riff to warm up with all the way back to his Quiet Riot days.
The source may have been Randy's own mother, Delores Rhoads.
I'm really sorry that I can't give you the exact source.
Diary of a Madman is one of my most favorite songs in the entire history of music. Randy Rhoads is my most favorite guitar player. I play guitar and compose my own guitar tracks. I hold all my compositions up to the standard set by Randy Rhoads. I hold every album up to the standard set by the Diary of a Madman album.
The Diary of a Madman album is a perfect 10, and I judge every album by this standard, be it rock, metal, hard rock, alternative, grunge, noise rock, new country, blues, pop, hip hop, etc etc.
There is no way that I got this wrong. I tend to remember what was said more than who said it.
Cheers!!
That's what they mean by "good composers borrow, but great composers steal": a "good" composer will add a piece of music, as is, as an obvious nod to the original composer. A "great" composer will take it and sort of try to "mask" it so it isn't so recognizable. I would argue that Randy changed it enough to make it his own. It's not the chord progression you copyright. It is the journey you take through it. There are only so many progressions you can play.
Thank You,,, Great Tribute to Randy's Genius, so nice of you to bring up Revolation (Mother Earth) I hardly ever here anyone talk of it on TH-cam.... Refreshing!!!!
GREAT VIDEO brother. Clearly you are up on your theory which is something that Randy was very well versed in. The irony of that intro is that it originated back at the school where Randy taught, as a finger warm up exercise for some of his students. And, I say this having been one of those students who started every lesson with that Crazy Train lick, what I though at the time it was just a goofy exercise he came up with on the spot. Having said that, after three years of studying with Randy I can tell you that was ingrained in my head. So, when I was in my car, three years after Randy had left to join Ozzy and I heard that same pattern on the radio, it kind of freaked me out. But, it went on to be legendary. Who would have thought? Not me at the time. Randy, to this day, was the best teacher of any kind I ever had in my life. RIP RR.
Stumbled into and subsequently rediscovered Flying High Again. Such a brilliant tune. Now here I am on a Randy Roads tangent.
This video was fantastic in its last half when the analysis really got deeper. Revelations Mother Earth sticks so deeply in my heart and bears infinite repetition because of its intricacy and it’s harmonic richness. Those ‘aha!’ moments in the brain when a unique chord substitution defies expectation in an electrifying way or the ‘ahhhh…’ moment when an oddly dissonant passage finally resolved after extended suspension are all things that give Rhandy’s playing immortality.
Excellent! Very well done, I really enjoyed that. Extremely well presented. Great playing too! 🤘🎶
Thank you!
Awesome work man, I've been looking for someone that understood Randy's Genius Guitar work and this really nails it! 👍😎👍
Great video. Always been my favorite. Great seeing a classically trained guitarist analyze his music
Thanks for the video Aidan! Great Job!!
Thanks!!
Thanks for your expert Annalise on classical music to explain this all,Randy was really something different.
Great breakdown.....excellent video!
I hit 9th grade when Randy passed away.....broke my heart.
I live very near Randy's grave...been there many times and always leave him a pick.....
went their once, fantastic experience...surreal on many levels
New sub, thanks for the content. I really enjoyed your video and found it interesting, informative and entertaining. I like your style of presentation and look forward to watching more of your videos..
Beautiful Video. Thank you very much. Informative!!
Nice work sir. I have also noticed that guitar players like Alex Lifeson and Steve Howe were classical guitar students and also very innovative players. Thanks for not saying away from the theory stuff. Good work🤘
Love the forensic analysis. Straight-forward and with minimal theory and jargon.
Even if there is no direct connection between two pieces of music it is fun to discover their similarities but even more interesting when there is a direct connection that isn't obvious.
I can relate. I have been playing since 19 and took some lessons, but have been studying theory for 40 years. I am 64 now, and I struggled mightly with making sense of theory, and one day I got it, but now I am too old to wow people with playing, but I still hope to write some music. I like metal, classical, folk, etc. Just remember my friends, your discoveries may have been discovered by others, less fortunate than you.
Fantastic video. Im a big randy fan. Hes the reason i started playing. Diary of a madmam is absolutely identical to that classical cat you mentioned. Great video. Top drawer
Wow. Halfway through and love your video. Love the theory explained, subbed.
Randy was absolutely brilliant, he was the reason I got hooked on guitar.
Imagine what he could have accomplished if he had not been taken from us so early.
all time A leaguer
Great video! I'd add that Randy's love for the minor 6th (i.e. Aoelian flavour) was a signature in his licks as well, such as the lick after the first chorus in Crazy Train (and many other places). He loved spicing up a standard blues lick with the minor 6th. (In the 1980s, I had a mail order guitar course where it said Randy added the flatted fifth to blues licks. This is quite common and I was confused for YEARS before I realized it was likely a typo and meant to be flatted/minor 6.)
Fascinating RRR
Rhoads became my guitar hero when my parents got me the Tribute cd when I was 14, freshman in high school. I immediately started playing guitar and his play style is the funnest to emulate.
You explained the theory very well, you've earned a subscriber
Thanks!
Randy was the best guitarist out at his time. Randy completely changed the game. He created modern metal guitar. He got me interested in playing and learning classical guitar. I studied that for years.
Who knew.. sometimes drugs CAN lead to miraculous decisions.. 😂
I say this in jest, not judgement btw, i was and still am an addict, just to less bad stuff these days. Just alcohol and nicotene. Im ok with that though because im not killing myself as fast as i used to be. Maybe one day ill get past it. Wish me luck i guess. RIP RR and i wish ozzy some peace of mind. Hell of a life. I can relate
Edit: also, i wrote this after a minute or two, but watching more i just wanna say, great video bro. Your knowledge of music is something different in the ocean of pointless youtube videos you actually have something to add. Im no "musical expert" but i at least love good music 😂
Loved this. Great musical analysis of Randy Rhoads and what he brought to the table musically and why his influence was so strong.
This is really deep stuff. I am an adult and would like to play the guitar. Do you have such a course for the beginner? I'm a huge Rhoads fan. Thanks for making this very informative video.
Hey, please send me an email ahalm093@gmail.com
I remember the first time I ever heard Randy Rhoads, I was about 14 and saw a documentary about Ozzy which featured the 'Tribute' version of Crazy Train. I decided there and then to learn to play guitar. I spent 25 years playing in bands as a result, so Randy has been a huge influence on my life and I can't imagine what it would have been like without him. Thank you Randy Rhoads, you will always be remembered!
you and millions and of others...all time legend
Thanks so much for showing us the parallels among Randy Rhoads' compositions in Black Sabbath and the work of classical composers. It demonstrates how powerful and how many applications some music theory will allow you.
I'm 57 and I still listen to the whole Diary of Madman album just to listen to Randy's riffs
SO Dana Strum is the one who delivered Randy to Ozzy, Randy's mom told him to go audition. However, when Ozzy returned to the U.K. he was jamming with another guitar player and a drummer. Jet Records wanted Ozzy to form a british band, which would become Blizzard of ozz. It was a fortuitous meeting with Bob Daisley and asking him to come back to jam that got Randy back in the fold,, Bob told Ozzy he needed a world class musician if he wanted to get serious about a band. THis is where Ozzy called David Arden and asked him to fly Randy out, after jamming with Bob, they both looked at each other and said: I like the way you play
I study piano and with his mom being a pianist and teacher I find it interesting. I viewed videos of classically trained pianist playing "Crazy Train" on piano - so cool! RIH Legend Randy Rhoads
Loved those chords in Diary of Madman, but after those chords when the high gain kicks in, really sets it off. I didn’t know until this video about the other guy.
What a great player ! Miss you Randy !
I just got a matte black R.R Jackson guitar i ordered..ive wanted one idk..for 10yrs or so..outta all of the guitars ive owned..its by far my favorite..its also my first Jackson..i should have switched to them along dam time ago..the guitar is light.. comfortable to play..i would absolutely recommend it over any other guitar
Great video ,man. Well done!
Thank you for doing such a cool analysis and respectful tribute to my all time favorite metal lead guitarist! I will now be following you closely as your love for music and knowledge are reflected nicely in a bassist btw coz growing up I could never find or afford a left hand cello
he is an all time A leaguer
Thank you! That was extremely informative. I will check out some of the classical inspirations that helped form some of Ozzy's best!
Randy was a iconic guitarist. Regardless of how young Randy was when he died, Randy was one of the greatest musicians of his time. Very innovative and a inspiration for tons of aspiring musicians. RIP Randy 👍❤️🎸
Thanks. I just realized I can learn and play that Tarega etude in an hour and have not learned any of his stuff yet.
Nice! Love some Tarrega
One of the saddest days Randy passing. A gift we were blessed to enjoy.
Very well put together video. Very interesting, thank you.
I seen him in San Francisco just months before he died . To me he is the best that ever lived . I can only imagine what he would be like today . Perfection
A Friend And I Were Fortunate To See Randy Rhoads On The Blizzard Of Ozz Tour Back In 1981. This Took Place At The Long Beach Arena In California. It Was An Experience Like No Other! Motorhead Opened.
A huge impact is an understatement regarding Randy.