Alex Skolnicks "Detroit Rock City" Guitar Lesson

[AXXXDEAN]

had nothing to do with detroit rock city except he mentioned it ,,waste of my time

[topdog2328]

he seems really different in this video from others

[JohnMcD19]

Genius. 

[njodar98]

great video.stop it at 0:30

[ExOs308q]

I love the Scorpions.

[topdog2328]

@ExOs308q me too! but didnt he say it was a by Kiss?

[ExOs308q]

@topdog2328 I don't remember why I said that, but I believe he makes a reference to the Scorpions in the video lol. I know it's by KISS.

[BeatBay]

I'm a jazz guy and i never thought good about metal player but this guy is just awesome. great melodic, harmonic ideas and dynamic phrases from mr. skolnick

[Colargolator]

How can you not like a lesson like that? It's just interesting for any musician!

[chickabuka]

Great playing and some sick tone, when everyone was listening to metallica in the 80's, I was listening to testament, practice what you preach, one of the best records of all time.

[kiloch]

watch?v=OYDH6-vqH1c

[KISS1975]

That was a lesson? That was a tease!

[H057IL3]

4:46 I wanna learn that!!!

[typeonegfr]

Dam i'm 40 i saw this guy with Testament in Montreal in 86 ;o) let the good time rollssssssssssssssssssssssssss­sssssss

[typeonegfr]

Dam i'm 40 i saw this guy with Testament in Montreal in 96 ;o) let the good time rollssssssssssssssssssssssssss­sssssss

[WelcometoMidnight]

What guitar is he using?

[TheDistortionist]

@WelcometoMidnight Heritage. They're based in the old Gibson factory in Kalamazoo.

[WelcometoMidnight]

@TheDistortionist

Thank you.

[WhenTheMoonFalls]

king of the crazy playing faces

[bleki26able]

shut up and play!!!!!bla bla bla

[BenPilon]

Another great student to the legendary guitarist Joe Satriani! Awesome!

[xxmetallicax]

he dont even know what is kiss-Detroit Rock City

[HiOctane62]

gay

[HonRevPTB]

Total fuckin rip off! I listened to Alex talk for 6 minutes only to find out it's an add to goto a different website where they'll charge ya. Come on man. Alex is a guitar playin muther fucker tho!!!

[ferociouspokemachine]

in every video it seems that he's looking right through you.

[RicksTunes]

I feel that I just wasted 6 minutes of my live waiting to hear version of Detroit in jazz and got nothing. The only lesson I got was, if they haven't by the halfway mark move on.

[chapkoark]

he's a musical genius. always interesting to listen to him. the guy "dreams" melodies, can you get any better that that?

[Tomankk]

I WANNA PLAY JAZZ NOW¡¡¡

[coversolo]

Guitar World Magazine ROCKS !!

[heero7yui]

his voice is cute :P

[13howlers]

alex is so amazing.......

[MrTruthNLies]

man does he grind his teeth when he plays that's strange!! but great playing.

[FenderrMann]

he talks a little too much.

[WhenTheMoonFalls]

great player, great vid, creepy playing face

[heero7yui]

@WhenTheMoonFalls lol dude just watch his playing..not his face :P

[jajoosp]

he looks like adam jones

[dimgrav]

@jajoosp Yes, when I saw him I thought the video title was wrong :P

[MartyFriedmanRulez66]

@jajoosp I said the same thing first time I saw him :P He's now my fav guitar player, him and Adam lol

[artillery666]

post the rest of the lesson damn it!!!

[piemanzeppelin]

yes, because Kiss is sooo metal. Kiss are such tools

[GreatestSoloEver]

Don't talk shit about kiss dude. Kiss is awesome.

[Learninsomegeetar]

what a beast..haha

[cast390]

Whats wrong with the right side of his face,did he have a stroke or something?

[kesx]

@cast390 Nah that's just the way he is.

[strabbs1]

is that a heritage guitar hes playing? they seem to crop up a lot now marty scwartz plays one

[cakire82]

Yes it is. He is endorses them.

[hellopeople4567]

too much talking

[kaboom6899]

scorpions, no one like you

[BlackDiamond351]

seen this cat live :)

[MireWolf29]

Skolnick is GOD!!!

[GuitarMeastro]

sucked... hard...

[rickyjshiznit]

u did?

[Malteboy777]

This is not a "guitar lesson" .. Seriously guitarworld.. Pull yourself together and do some editing in these videos!!!

Show some of this guy, then show what he can teach us instead of just choosing some random 5,59 part of his DVD!!

[radomu1]

amazing

[ptdatnurpipensmkit]

thats fuckin awesome

[dobby240]

great video but i dont really see why this is a guitar lesson :s it was more of a "this is how i figured this idea out" sort of vid

[suihkubad]

That's more helpful than "put your finger here and then move it to here and..."

[dobby240]

good point, but you know what i mean :P

[musloco]

one of my favorites guitar players, damn this man can do anithing he want...

[code933k]

F*ck!! That first rhythm was practically Bossa Nova. Very nice and sweet accents.

[MrROTD]

join Richard Cheeses band it would be perfect lol

[megaluisdeth]

Cool I'm glad Alex is doing that Trio! Now I get to see Glen Drover live!

[domdabombabc]

Detroit city rock isn't metal, it even says rock in the title.

[BlackDiamond351]

yeh no shit

[MrDirectGraffiti]

yes shit indeed

[JerichBlakk]

the world of music might have started with Classical..and morphed into a sad...Blues but the music world is connected by JAZZ!!! Alex is killer ...check out Jimmy bruno worlds greatest Jazz guitarist!!

[jazzpman]

jazz concepts are so useful and can be implemented into almost anything

[Earnhardt12345]

Cool!

[jfrockon]

I like this guy, a lot of talent, regular guy image and zero attitude about it. A consummate musician.

[ZYVZX]

Alex Skolnick has the same speech rhythms

as Obama, notice that? Lots of pauses

and starts and stops in his speaking.

[Mo7Vsta]

whoaa hearing some of the testement riffs then hearing him play jazz its like, wtff how can this smooth jazz player be in a heavy metal band??

[DangerHaiVoltage]

I laughed my ass off when he said "Living, breathing, and eating Jazz."

[BLS1313666]

Alex KILLS at everything.

[L3DZ3PPl1N818]

turn up the guitar

[neodam22]

Nice

[kls4life]

Talk about variety! Is there a style that this guy can't play??

[Steve128967]

No. Except for an unusual combination of samba-grind and Norwegian black metal.

[bobtheatog]

Lmfao

[Stratplayer05]

@Steve128967 If such a thing exists I must find out about it.

[Steve128967]

@Stratplayer05 It does, it's just so obscure you've never even heard of it.

[xPrisonOfTheMindx]

@kls4life

yes, technical death metal. i'm sure he'd have a hard time with ignominious and pale

[ELEMENTALW1]

@xPrisonOfTheMindx he is better than muhammed hands down and more experienced too. So necrophagist would be a peace of cake for him =)

[xPrisonOfTheMindx]

@ELEMENTALW1

better in what sense?

I like alex skolnick's playing and i respect him as a musician, but how is he better than muhammed? HE is more versatile than muhammed but i'm sure he would have a hard time with the aforementioneed song.

[ZurabMelua]

@kls4life flamenco?

[lezpol4168]

Hell yea