Dennis Cannizzo improvise on Tribal Tech Changes

[donottawaguitar]

neat oh i am likeing

[mattphelanguitar]

What is the backing track?

[toto1980]

Band in a box...

[toto1980]

danke an thomas für alles

[therealhitman]

Once, backstage before an Allen Holdsworth show, I slipped Allen 5 Quaaludes , a Tum's Antacid tablet and then used a specially designed vacuum to suck out his last shred of soul. I did this without his knowledge, and during the first set he sounded very 'laid back'. So at the break I slipped him 5 more Quaaludes, a powerful laxitive and kicked him repeatedly in the scrotum. The second set sounded just like this guy. Naaaaahhhh, I'm just kiddin! I don't know Allen Holdsworth!Great scales man!!

[MusiciansQuarters]

Good Stuff, Im stuyding this style and yea its tuff the timing is a stich the vibe feel the whole ten yards takes practice you did a great job, has that coltrane vibe keep it up!Any suggestions throw them my way please!

[kuhchicken]

Dennis, don't let the people who are too critical get you down, you have a great start. Try not playing, but rather singing, or scatting through these same changes. Then, pick up the guitar and play through this while still singing. Your musical ideas will improve almost instantly. Good luck with your career.

[lousarh]

I like this technical approach to improve scales coniugation. This is really good to achieve a natural fingers/mind relationship. Clearly, this is an exercise, not a piece of music. I do same things (with more sweeping licks and more groove taste) when I practice on my guitar. Also, I use BIAB too for backing track... ;-)

[some1innc]

congrats on memorizing your scales!

[therealhitman]

Classic. XD

[jdean9]

awesome cool style but not for 10 minutes. i guess maybe your half practicing or something and would do it a bit otherwise if you had a 2 minute solo part in a song in a gig or something

that "snake" rollercoaster effect running up and down, through cord changes seamlessly, pretty impressing. it would be cool if you did that as a part of a solo

[yagamei]

Great job man, this kind of video shows a lot more finesse than any of that sweep-picking death-metal crap.

[prandtastic]

Can someone please direct me to a place where I can learn more about changes. I mean yah I know II-V-I and tritone substitutions but I'd just like to find out more. Please, someone direct me to a good book or website or something. Thanks

[boogy1man]

As stated below, you have the scales down, just need to improvise with it more...playing is a little robotic for my taste

[merioli]

Pretty good. I too see the Holdsworth influence. But the solo isn't building anything - it sounds like a lot of Holdsworthish phrases put together.

too many 'programmed' chromatic runs. You can throw in chromatic passages without caring too much about each note, but when the same phrase repeats itself it becomes obvious that it's a habit rather than an idea - without a purpose or thought.

[JOMESTOWN]

Is that an Asstone amplifier?

[parasy7e]

Same tone, same scale (if only taken off for a moment), same rhythmn and same ambience. I do not like this, as he's mainly playing the same thing with a slight variation. This isn't intended as an emphasis of anything, but an insight. Some artists lack ideal with certain things.

[noteworker]

A well-performed technical exercise. But 8th/16th note phrases tend to get tiresome to the listener after a while. Granted, you're not playing with live musicians who would/should give you rhythmic/melodic ideas to play off of. That's why sometimes, when you practice, you just have to IMAGINE what the drums/bass/keyboards might throw your way to "talk to." Otherwise it's just "musical masturbation." You have talent. No question. Now use your "vocabulary" to say something cool. "Talk" to us...

[fasteez]

you sing nicely

[PotatoFro]

Along the lines of what everyone else here has said... you've obviously worked hard on this stuff. That being said - unless you were phrasing in this way for a particular reason, there's really no arch... or shape for that matter. There's a definitely movement to the way henderson phrases his solos in tribal tech, and although i don't want to sound cliche, i found myself longing for a slow start, climax, and come down.

keep it up.

[gareth68]

ryt youve masterd the scales n stuff.... now IMPROVISE ha

[bidibuloux]

nice sound !!

chechk my vids

[Paragons7]

I like your playing one of the only things I don't like is your tone it sounds to thin. Other than that I think you did good I think you can do a lot more with this song but I'm not going to correct you on your technique everyone else seems to busy doing that already.

[AdrienELC]

Oh well , I agree with diminishedlogic.

Playing scales is like to uprise a mountain , it's important to give it a "form".

[zergmachina]

sounds like a horn player.

[diminishedlogic]

you have moments of brilliant phrasing in this video. I'll agree with the others here and remark on the overall lack of of rhythmic and tonal dynamics. I can see the holdsworthian influence and i understand how important that highly compressed tone is to your playing but until you have those kind of rhythmic sensibilities at least consider using a less compressed tone and maybe grooving a little harder.

[boozito]

You do your homework...now star playin what on your heart.

some bendings will help you to feel

[ksmithdc]

Nice lines. Nice technique. Lose the piece of crap Ibanez and get yourself a better sounding guitar.

[bigtime9209]

strongly agree.

[santiago1guitarrista]

men,good but so much arpegios,you have to use your improvisation

[cesarodrigues1]

you should play larger intervals. arpeggios. try using dynamics. listen to john scofield, john coltrane, miles davis and bill frissel. these guys shape their lines beautifully. you should think about phrasing. say words, sentences, paragraphs. i urge you to listen to these people. they will teach you more than you'd ever read in a book.

[Gu1tar]

very cool but maybe add more rythmic pattern? like the other guy said sixteeths are ok but dont abuse them!

[05rsx]

very holdsworthish

[ropiyas]

I know sixteenths are fun to play, but if you abuse them...it starts to diverge with the musical purpose.

But good, nonetheless. Keep it up, man!!!

[Jasonjk74]

Nice.

[jbowne]

dude , you are talented

[Grassyassamigo]

i kinda disagree with the previous comment. solo sounds good. something that i would i chosen my self... maybe that's my i like it. hah.. check out my stuff if you want.i did a cover on a tribal tech tune called ominous.

[synthaxe]

you have a nice technique but you don 't play enough triads and arpeggios for this style of music!

[thedistortedguitar1]

I totally agree, there is too much scale playing. But it doesn't mean that there is no talent there.