cliffs of dover intro - instruction

[djpuffs]

what kind of lesson is this

[screechkid116]

Hey, at 1:29 to 1:33 you forgot one, the first one, which isn't bent.

And before anyone says I don't know what I'm talking about, listen to the Ah Via Musicom studio version, there are three distinct plays of that motive.

[cnskene]

@screechkid116 This guy is correct, I was about to make the very same comment. It's E D B *A D B* (Then the bend to the B on the third string). Not to take anything away from tritonefascination--this is a very informative video, and his articulation is great.

[coolgabe1234]

i think it was a good video but i didnt learn anything cause you didnt really teach anything you just played it slowly. and the lighting was too bad quality for me to follow along by watching you play. just for future videos those are some things to improve on.

[Ichigi000]

very great tutorial! thanks for giving of ur time to do this!

[joeperryfan13]

thanks!

[christiangisafag]

tabs would really help

[giarolight]

what effects you are using?

[DirtyGhettoOmellete]

dang tht one riff you said was symetrical is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooo fun to play omg i love the sound and how the flow feels eric johnson=genious

[kdoublez1]

tab please!!!!!!!!!

[Nebula1941]

WAY to dark in the begining but still that was great

[oOoKhaledoOo]

I can't bend the 15 fret high e string , well actually i can't bend any on high e string neither can i bend the b string , THEY GET MUTED SO HARD , and if i tried to bend a bit they will get broken , DOES any know how to fix this problem ??????

[fastfingers0]

shawn lane hoodie? great playing, too! its helped me to learn new techniques!

[themike199509]

eres una pinche varota parada en la guitarra!!!!

[MisterMusic87]

the bit at 4:25 << do you pluck the high e sting with your finger?

and does a scalloped fretboard make playing easier?

[guitarguy974]

whats a scalloped fret?

[heyfuckyou1997]

i have a bigger dick than you

[iceagex]

i love your sound, soooo much <3

[StringzOfFury]

the symmetrical string skipping part is so damn hard

[sonnic1995]

you play it perfect dude!

[lolzjuanito]

Hey wut tone settings do u use wen playing that?

[goryluis]

awesome sound dude!!! you're great guitar player !!!

[GeroWannaKeks]

one two three four one to three one .. xDD

[screechkid116]

Serious question to the video maker: What's your setup? Are you using a Butler Tube driver or what? I use an 808 tube and it's not even close.

[screechkid116]

Yay, I was the 400th "thumb-upper".

[PabloKleinMusic]

Hey man! What pickups are you using on this video??

[roytek444]

i love your guitar

[flyingwhitetiger135]

Your fucking amazing

[bEfkake]

hey man, how does the lacquer on the fretboard effect the playability?

[CanadaRoksEh]

how long did it take you to perfect that? I have been playing for a few months so my fingers can't even move that fast but i just wanted to know.

[tritonefascination]

@CanadaRoksEh ya know, its just a song ive been messing around with for a long time. i play some of it, then quit... then pick it back up after a handful of years. my fingers dont move as fast as eric's did during the time that he recorded this. he definitely had some blazing pentatonic speed. just be patient, and dont expect anything to happen overnight. i recommend buying a program like "transcribe!" to slow the tempo down. play along at a slow speed and build up over time.

[AXEFUZZER75]

@tritonefascination NICE ONE MAN!!

[musicfunkydude]

Sorry to learn youve been ill man,hope youre on the mend , us normal human guitar players need you lol !!finaly nailed that lick at  1.30, ive known for years i was missing something and i finaly got it from you, many thanx

[cowsayingmoo102]

Did you scallop the whole fretboard?

[tritonefascination]

@cowsayingmoo102 nah, i purchased it that way, although i have scalloped an entire fretboard myself before... i dont recommend trying that!

[guitarconasor]

Nice chops and great lesson.

[Webb2Webb2]

You are the frickin' man, bro. Thank you, because I have been speed licking (tastefully of course, haha) my way through this for years, and now that I'm divorced, I have time to learn it correctly from you!

[rockdisipline]

your awesome ,i like you tone, well done cheers!

[iamtyler4life]

i love you

[zxxkcxxz]

Most tutorials aren't too fast for me but It's just too much work to keep up with you bro.. You're amazing tho. Nice guitar playing.

[201guitar]

I've seen this video many times in other places, and whoever this guy is, he is the only one I know of that can 'really' play this song other than Eric. I don't know who he is, or anything about him, but I suspect he is an expert if not master with the guitar.  Scalloped frets? No, that is not going to make you a pro at all. In fact, scalloped frets take some getting used to in the first place. there are advantages and disadvantages, but will not make you an overnight pro with this stuff.

[tritonefascination]

@201guitar haha thank you very much... although i am no guitar master! i went through a period of being very sick and i had alot of time to practice and post videos. the scalloped frets do take some getting used to, but once you have it they are alot of fun to play on. thanks again.

[mawhaw234]

@tritonefascination Period of being very sick? Very sick at playing guitar you mean ;) (Sick meaning awesome by the way lol)

[JC26ification]

great class man, i was wondering if you could help me out with the amp settings. i got an epiphone sg standard with the volume knobs and two tone knobs for the rhythm and treble pickups. my amp has master volume, gain, preset distortions i guess (tube drive, metal stack, metal, distortion, overdrive, accoustic), bass, middle, treble, effects (chorus, flanger, phaser, tremolo) and add-on effects if you ever have any of those one (delay or reverb). would u mind telling me what u used? thanks

[tritonefascination]

@JC26ification with this kind of tone, you really need to accentuate bass and mid frequencies, and roll off the treble. its best if your amp can achieve a good smooth distortion on its own, and then push it with some sort of overdrive. sounds like tube drive would be the best. look into purchasing a good fuzz pedal or a bb preamp (by xotic), for example to push the drive in the amp. other than that its just a bit of reverb and delay.

[JC26ification]

@tritonefascination thanks man, ill try to get a good tone with this :)

[gridvista55]

great explanation guy. cool lesson. illustrated well tkd

[VitoStudiosXD]

whats a scalloped fret?

[98MGS]

Would anyone out there advise playing this without a pick? I've tried it with a pick, and absolutely cannot play this at normal speed with it.

[robodanman]

the last 2 notes in the intro i think should just be a bit more high pitched but still amazing!

[freakstupid11]

i think its technically g major..but same thing :D

[guitar4evr24]

what amp and effects are you using, sounds sooo good

[krazzekilla21]

its a beast lesson, only suggestions i would have are to put tabs using the captions youtube gives you, and to get a better camera thanks :)

btw ur just 4 seconds over how fast he plays it, which is awesome.

[TheInvalidChronicles]

is that yngwies guitar?

[ChristianEvolution]

thats the same guitar style yngwei malmsteen likes

[ChristianEvolution]

scalloped frets are better for fast bending and fast playing

[dudefrombarrie]

dude....that was awesome. great that you broke it down like you did. I am going to learn this intro if it kills me. I will use this video to do just that.

Thanks

[ihavetherock]

jam on man. :)

[TMF58]

Excellent guitar tone.

[Pontisto]

that's malmsteen style guitar, even the frets are scaloped

[kevland1]

Wonderful playing a beautiful sound. Just great.

[msh68789]

is tht the yingwe model?

[xisayg]

you shoudn't have scalloped your frets, it brings down the guitars valuie

[SirBurnsicus]

is this in standard tuning?

[guitarfreak8900]

awesome vid, Ive been learning this intro and I can play it but not quite the correct way... I still cant get the string skipping part down, are you supposed to just pick each note? or are you using a different technique?

[bosnaisgreat]

@guitarfreak8900 if u want to know how to string skip for example ACDC-Thunderstruck go to the B string and play this

(everything is on B)

0-4-0-6-0-4-0-6

0-5-0-7-0-5-0-7

0-4-0-6-0-4-0-6

0-5-0-7-0-5-0-7

so string skipping is basicly u play a note then strum a open note then play a note agian :D hope this helped ya=]

[DTorDeath]

@bosnaisgreat I think there's some confusion in your post re: string skipping. Thunderstruck doesn't have string skipping in it (i think you're referring to a pedal tone). String skipping involves literally skipping over an adjacent string to continue a riff e.g. moving from the low E to the D then to the B.

Paul Gilbert is awesome at this technique check out his vids

[metalskaterkid]

That last e minor phrase and the arpeggios fuck me up at full speed. . .=[ oh well practice practice practice

[kcdc91]

awsome m8

[willprich]

what's your setup to get this sound?

[Dy1anandLouis]

amazing

[Dy1anandLouis]

soooooooooooooo hard!!!!!

[MAD8RAD]

not much of a tutorial:( good playing tho.:)

[rokyn2000]

@MAD8RAD If you can´t learn the intro from this, it´s way to early for you to learn the song. That´s just my opinion :P

[MAD8RAD]

@rokyn2000 yeah well i learned it. but from a guitar pro tab. and i would apreiciate you kept your "opinions" to youself because you dont know me. im only saying man.

[rokyn2000]

@MAD8RAD Im not gonna keep my opinions to myself just because you tell me to so gtfo =.=

[pendleton58]

Okay yeah definitely can't play this hahaha.

[kirk6542]

wath is scalloped

[xisayg]

Thank you my friend. Now i will show-up my friend with ease :)

[Beetivoro]

what guitar is that?

[musicfunkydude]

Hi mate, back for my regular fix, love this!! question, with a scalloped guitar is it possible to push chord shapes out of tune as the difference between the string and the fretboard is higher than normal i would imagine,i love the way you can get a great hold of the strings but at the risk of dodgy tuning im not sure, hope you can help,cheers George, SCOTLAND uk.

[XXsilentsnipe357XX]

Nvm i read the description

[XXsilentsnipe357XX]

Dude you are awesome at playing the song no doubt but that wasnt really teaching it was more if a this is me playing the song in slow mo please put up anothervid with detailed inatructions. Thanx man btw 5 stars for good playing

[H16U3R4]

no pongas el guitar we no ma,

asi hasta yo we jejejejeje

[GuitarLordChels]

nice playing, sick!

[BillyKush187]

to those that want to learn it without watching the video and want to complain. Learn some music theory and it makes perfect sense. Pick up a book and read it!!

[calamaya48]

dammit! broke my e string!

[acosebede]

@calamaya48 fuck me too :/ 0.10 is hard to bend, 0.9 breaks :/

[tritonefascination]

@acosebede there may be a problem with your bridge or nut if the string keeps breaking. .09's shouldnt break. good luck!

[onemanbandful]

@calamaya48 :( me too...

[YOU23DUH]

@calamaya48 haha don't know whether to thumb it up or down

[steveraz]

Wow that is spot on, I don't know what these other people are talking about, great lesson, 5 stars here

[jey12345]

5* for the Yngwie Malmsteen strat. :D

[olijay96]

i wanna learn HOW TO PLAY IT not watch how it is played!!!

[jemshredder666]

holy crap you dont help at all man

[lmlevine]

Dear whomever you are - thank you!!! I've learned a lot from you, much more to go. I hope you get a camera again and post more videos. Your Cliffs of Dover intro and other pieces of C of D are great - how about a start to finish instruction of the whole piece after the intro? Sounds like you know this, but anyone who posts a negative, just hope they grow up, and you have no need to apologize for anything.

[dudefrombarrie]

Excellent post, smoothest cover out there bro thanks

[AciDXRaiN27]

the neck isnt just scalloped, thats an Yngwie guitar. :)

[atmdaddy]

yep that necks been scalped, now he can only sell to yngwie fans. Good esplainin and lesson though. Alot of good guitar players dont make good teachers but this dude does.

[caxco93]

@atmdaddy whats a scalped neck? i cant find it on google

[atmdaddy]

@caxco93 Scalloped neck. I was being funny calling it scalped. The fretboard is taken way down in between frets which alot of ppl think ruins the guitar unless your an Yngwie fan.

[graveyardjunkies]

is that neak scolpoed

[4lifeguitar]

@whydoesitmatter1994 Also for bending vibratos it's a good idea to practice fretting a note and using vibrato on it with 3 fingers. It's like bending vibrato but without the bend. It's a lot easier and it involves the same technique. Trust me it helps a ton

[whydoesitmatter1994]

I can never get good fucking vibrato on bends. I always sound like i just cant bend to the right note. Anyone got any tips?

[musicfunkydude]

1/always support your bending finger with 2 other fingers behind it so you have the power to control your vibrato.2/fret the note you aiming for then you can go a fret or 2 below the that note and you be able to hear the correct pitch to bend up to,hope this helps, btw this guy is amazin eh!

[whydoesitmatter1994]

I think I may have just not been vibrating fast enough so it sounded funny. Thanks for the tips

[vanir33]

@whydoesitmatter1994

Take people like ERic Clapton. When they practice, they spend the biggest chunk of thier time just practicing thier bends, because in blues, bends are so essential. It's one of the few techniques in guitar that MUST come from muscle memory. So the only way to truely good bends is practice

[krazzekilla21]

@whydoesitmatter1994 practive listing to the guitar and playing the notes you hear(playing by ear) it should work :)

[VitoStudiosXD]

@whydoesitmatter1994 do it till your finger pops. then keep doing it :)

[hummosa]

@whydoesitmatter1994

Same problem here! I just don't know how to do it right. So you oscillate your fingers back and forth but is it around the note? or is it going lower and then back to the right note? How far are the oscilations? What muscles do you push upward with and against what? Lots of question for a seemingly easy move! No clue.

[acosebede]

@whydoesitmatter1994 get new strings - nines, and don't listen to assholes who reccomend thicker ones. they probably don't know what bend is

[666heavymetaladdict]

@whydoesitmatter1994 Practice

[jamanursula]

@whydoesitmatter1994 yes ...bend the note to the next step you are reaching..pause a small bit then start vibrato ..other wise you sound like kirkhammet feel...listen to george lynch and jeff beck for a whole month solid and that will cement your feel along with loads of practice an record yourself alot too

[EADZB4ME]

That's awesome , How about a tone lesson! Give it up for that tone. Its dead on. What are you using man? Pickups, amp, EFX, etc????

[bratwurstsalad]

Great playing and the lesson I thought was really good. If you're playing Cliffs of Dover (or Eruption or whatever) you should be good enough that you don't need to be told every fret position of every single note. You should be able to figure out a pattern when played slowly. I especially appreciate the counting of the 5-5-4-6 signatures at the low position of the scale. That helped a lot.

[system331]

sickk playing. I wannna learn that little bit after. The one with the little solos in between the strumming

[BullhornGuy]

Great playing...terrible lesson. I can't believe it's rated so high.

No discussion of what's picked ...what's a hammer on or a pull off - waste of 6 minutes.

[LiquifiedGrapeness]

what the fuck!! if u dont know basic guitar u shouldnt be learning CLiffs of Dover. a hammer on is

lets say u play the open E string, then u press ur finger on the 1st fret without strummming again. If ur tht stupid ill send u a vid

[BullhornGuy]

Your name should be "LiquifiedGrapesForBrains."

Are you that stupid that you can't read? Where in my comment do you get the idea that I am wondering what a pull-off is? It plainly laments the fact that the lesson does not address right hand technique i.e. "No discussion of what's picked..."

If you'ld like I could send you a link to Rosetta Stone. It might help with your ability to read...grapes for brains!

[TheRealDavidGray93]

what pickups u got on ur strat?

[acosebede]

thank you so very much

[Joe33slcm]

Man you're awesome playin' ..

[yungbubbabush]

nice man!!! you got the tone down perfectly!!!

[c4ss0k4]

friggin awesome (:

[rickyEe2494]

to dark manXD

[masterpick007]

no mames que bien tocas we

[guitargod749]

really good this helped a lot

[electricladyland91]

how long does it take most people to learn this?

[rockmanX117]

really man... a malmsteen strat?

[Gregrg7]

\m/

[brostomper]

do you ever notice that you accidentaly sharp notes when you play with a scalloped fingerboard?

[nicaperformer]

Thank you,you are very Good Men!!!

[Rebelcommander6]

To anyone who plays guitar: I'm considering buying and learning to play, but would it be smarter to start on a 6 string instead of a 7?

[jonnnyyb3]

yes you should buy a 6 string, if at anything a 7 string will get in your way or confuse you at first.

good luck!

[Rebelcommander6]

Thanks for that.

[zachhartwell]

yes, start with a 6, unless you are just trying to start out playing meshuggah-type stuff, then it might be easier to get a foundation in that by starting with a 7 or maybe a custom 8 like they have.

[Rebelcommander6]

What type of stuff? (Never heard of them)

[zachhartwell]

look up Pineal Gland Optics.

[fiskungen]

aye ofc ^^

[ghoust360]

yeah

[c4cereal]

of course

[TheRandomnessofAandP]

i still play my 6. everyone i know does too. not much point in a 7

[spikebarnett]

Did the guitar come with all of the frets scalloped? I usually see them with only the higher frets scalloped.

[tritonefascination]

yea, this model has scalloped frets across the board

[kirk6542]

@tritonefascination what is scalloped

[firelightguitarist]

@tritonefascination awesome... next guitar i get, i'm going to scallop all the frets above the 9th (including the 9th)

[AugieGK4life]

@spikebarnett its the Yngwie Malmsteen signature guitar im pretty sure, he always has all of his frets scalloped

[tritonefascination]

look at the post right above this one, i just killed two birds with one stone ;)

[superkellerman8D]

I have a Strat. Can you tell me your amp settings and guitar settings?

[tritonefascination]

the guitar is going through a johnson millennium with a tube driver (volume and drive slightly less than halfway up, bass and treble set at zero). reverb and delay built into the amp's preset. guitar is simultaneously running through a fender deville with a big muff pi and an mxr 1500 delay. not sure of the settings in this path. amps running together using tonebone jx-2

[rednut416]

cant here him speakin propoly

but good

[MrMusicMan34]

Your off the fucking hook mate. Good Shout. How long have you been playing ?

[tritonefascination]

i got my first guitar almost 15 years ago, but i would play for a year, then not play for 4 years, so its hard to say haha. i really only play off and on. i may play for 3 or 4 days straight then not play for a month or longer.

[butterp7]

Damn!! Respect dude!!

[DomoArigato100]

Great Playing on the Yngwie Strat®!

[grazi747]

what effects do u use on the amp

[geetuargwad]

hey just a question, are the areas in between frets on your fingerboard curved slightly up? the way the light hits them makes it look so....would there be a function for that?

[tacodude1]

yeah, thats called scalloped

[stephengotpower]

yeah it seen as generally making faster style playing easier i think- but dont go trying to do it yourself unless you know what you're doing

[sahilm9]

Actually, scalloping makes playing fast a bit harder than usual. It helps in pulling off a neat vibrato just by varying your finger pressure on the string. It also seems to improve the general tone of the string.

[jesusRules4eva]

thanks you very much!

[XdeathXknightX1992]

if i aint mistaken id say you were Eric Johnson yourself 100% great video and thx :)

5/5

[wowaddict11111]

yay i finally got it but i practiced so much my calluses peeled off a little bit

[jpc1971]

Great video man. perfect explanations and demos of each section

[scaler456]

like the SAME!?!?!!?!??!?!?!?

!

[FudgeDumplings]

your fucking good.

[AraGuitar]

holy shit!! was that you? your tone is PERFECT!! FUCKING PERFECT!!!

[tankbrute6]

i like this video cause it moves at the speed i like. i hate people who say every fret name and everyting. its easier to do it byear, and position. thanks so much

[utubedonil]

good lesson guy ... continue show us yours abilities for us ... we need study verry hard XD to stay like you .... see yah... good bless you ...

[spatchycat]

you actually sound 99% on with thetone...most on here are no where close....GOOD VIDEO!

[jjtop3650]

dude its the duck. ive always wanted one cuz yngwie is the rock god. im gettin a scalloped fretboard at least later YEAH!!