I think, that his vibrato in the beginning is too wide, and it sounds like he's out of tune. Fast licks are very good, but that melody in intro really sucks because of th reason above.
@Beenyad its a matter of taste, shred isnt boring to me because im a shredder... blues rock, etc is boring as shit to me because its not my taste...also i find it difficult to listen to musicians that i could play circles around, its just not inspiring
I think the whole emotion thing is just a defense mechanism to justify an inability to play at this level. Honestly, I can see their point but I see it on a lot of artists who actually are capable of writing 'emotional' sounding music despite the speed they're going at, it's all in the feel of a lead and how it compliments a song. Rusty is one of the few people who can actually throw such feeling into his music, and often does. People need to analyze before they criticize.
@TheLoopback i know right!!! it fucking pisses me off that people who dont work ANYWHERE near as hard as Rusty and a select few, get all the damn attention, this guy definitely deserves it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Alot of people bash ol' rusty on his playing. This is just the way he plays. As a guitar player myself I can tell you rusty has devoted ALOT of time into his playing.
Playing fast, playing slow, it all shows expression in one way or another. To corner a certain style of music and "point fingers at it" stating that it's not music or what ever excuse your using is pointless, Cuz in the end your actually only hurting yourself as a musician, for a good musician has a ear for all music.
you guys need to stop being faggits and just watch the damn video who cars if hes a textbook guitarist or not hes and besides its better to learn that way than read faggit as tabsthat get you know where
it's not everything but it is impressive to play 16th notes at a 220 bpm. I personally prefer slower beautiful music but I still think it's impressive to play fast.
everyone who can't shred says that this playing is shit. all guitarists that can do only pentatonics realise that: you are just fucking jealous for this amazing technique. Rusty's playing fast because he likes it and he has deep in his ass what you think about it. Even Jason Becker said that Rusty is fucking cool player so fuck off...
@HuberttXXX17 I think Rusty is a good player and all i can shred but my god kid. People dont get jelous of people they dont personaly know. Humans dont think like that. Ever occur to you that it playing guitar doesnt make your opinion on guitarists matter more? Many shredders arent crazy about rusty. Its all about preference. Stop sucking Rusty's cock
@xPurpleDrinkx9001 sucking cock? haha you are funny. Rusty is one of the best shredders nowadays, his technique is phenomenal. I play guitar for 7 years and I know what i'm talking about. There are many good players that would never face Rusty's technique. I'm not crazy about him definitely but I can see his big amount of talent and his class and guys that deny this are pissing me of
Rusty is my teacher, I can't tell you the level of trepidation I feel in his presence, I have been playing guitar for 9.5 years and infront of him I feel like a noob LOL.
I have a one hour lesson with him every Friday.
All that said, Rusty is a God amongst mankind; a very humble and friendly one too.
I agree with most, that he is a little too extreme for any other than the shred community. His note choices can be too harsh sometimes. But wow, what a player, i can't wait to get his Instructional DVD pack.
Not that hard to do what he does buy a metronome turn ur brain off and turn the metronome on , practice the same scale for like 3 hours a day every day minimum of 3hours a day.
This doesn't sell anymore at all ,but what all these crazy shredder guys do now are clinics and seminars I don't see a point in practicing 10hr a day just for that unless u really enjoy shredding. Rusty has the right intentions and loves guitar but his music is rubbish i must say even when he improvises most of it is rubbish .
right on but its good to know this stuff except you dont really need it anymore like u said 86-87 long hair listening to puppets dying to be malmsteen.....20 years practice u become malmsteen except no talent
Emotion is the connection the player gives to the audience if the audience feels it, they say its there, if they dont, they say it isnt. People always thinks their opinions are facts.
OMG this man is dedicated! i think im going to quit my full time job so i can attempt to be as good as Rusty Cooley someday in the distant..... distant future lmao!
people rip on cooly for just shredding but if you look at him u can tell he having loads of fun. wouldent you want to play what u like regardless of what others think. and besides who elese is playing as fast and and as CLEAN as him loomis maybe or Mmills orMAB ther all just havin fun and worked reall hard to get this good
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Amazing. Rusty is one of the best technical guitarists i´ve seen, but i think that he has become a victim of his own hability. Everythink i hear from him is fast solos, and this is a thing that anyone can do. All you have to do is lock yourself in your bedroom and play 24 hours a day. He would be great if he just stop playin fast and think why he is playing that shitty fast solos if he can make people happy with just a few notes. Melody is uppon speed, just listen to Stevie Ray or Jimmy Page.
he doesnt want to play like that.. simple as.. and people who appreciate his music dont give 2 shits about people sayin this shit.. as far as we're concerned the emotion he convays through his speed and the lick he plays using that speed is what we like..
what exactly is Emotion? i mean come on seems like every kid that sees some one play fast the first thing that comes out of their mouth is "theres no feeling" or "no emotion"
im not even really a fan of RC(in fact i dont even know how i ended up here) but come on you kids grow up and learn that not every one expresses Emotions the same way as others.
must be be some horrible musicians if you think playing Slow and bends automatically make you playing with Emotion.
@Phrygian12 personally i think that''playing with emotion'' is not necessarely slow and bending notes, is more the way your choosing the notes for the '' solo '' and the wath you plat yi !!
@Phrygian12 no but guitarists like rusty use like 1000 notes to express their emotion when you can find a guitarist like jeff beck who can get his feeling across with like 5. but i know what your trying to get across.
page wouldnt event touch this,page's stuff can be played even by kids,you know what songs the guitar teachers learn to young kids???led zeppelin songs or lynyrd skynyrd and stuff like that,, this song can be played only by Rusty not even by guitar teachers,so shut up with emotion and shit emotion my ass emotion is for emos
phrasing = what notes, how, and when, how fast, how slow, what kind of feeling, subtle inflections, vibrato (too much to mention)
Some people may dissagree on the distinction between the two, but this is the distinction more commonly recognised.
To further explain, I would say that Vai has beautiful phrasing, as does Mattias Eklundh, as does Frank Gambale, as does Petrucci in his written solos on the Images and Words album.
oh I understand now, so yeah I think I agree with you, this guys has very good chops.Then my favorite phrases are played by the great Uli Jon Roth, I know, Im a neo classical freak :-P
Petrucci always have great phrasing man :P! Listen to Repentence... if its not enough for you to say its great phrasing :O i wonder what it is for you to phrase XD!
plus improvisation on live at budokan : In the name of god is great for phrasing... man your out of the track :P! And sorry i think Rusty use great phrasing too... Yeah he is centered for "chop" like you said dunno why "chop"? anyway he do some great music and that what matter. The goal is to sound good. Every musician know that.
Petrucci never truly improvises. A lot of it is worked out before hand, and when its not, it shows.
And although a musicians primary aim is to sound "good", opinions of what sounds good vary massively from one person to the next. This is one reason we have different genres of music, different styles of playing, and different instruments.
This is possibly also the reason why my opinion differs from yours :)
Not a single musician would go up on stage and do something without worked before hand. Improvising is only things that are worked before hand (Scale, pathern, appregios etc...) mixed Together. So saying Petrucci never improvise would say that "every damn guitarist" doesn't improvise. And Great phrasing is also a technique worked over the years. I know some kind of what you mean. We can call it experience if you want but Petrucci does have this experience :P!
i Disagree. when he is phrasing i feel it. Also that i guess its about taste. That why we can't really say someone is good at phrasing without someone to disagree.
That is so False sorry man... But hendrix used A WHOLE LOT of theories in his improvisation, BB King IS ALL about Blues scale. Shawn lane have a large palette, but sorry you can't play what you didn't practice that a PHYSICS law! sorry man to have to smack you down to the earth, But EVERY improvisation is something you already worked out before but mixed with imagination. Also to be good at improvising you have to practice it. So what you are saying is False,
Obviously it is rare for a musician to be completely random in improvisation. Scales and theory etc are things that we learn in order to express ourselves as musicians. Improvising is one of these ways.
Unless you are some mindless shredder, it is unlikely your improvistation will consist of simply running up and down scales and arpeggios.
Scales and arpeggios are not music, but musical constructs, or concepts.
So to say that JUST because someone uses notes from a scale, that their improvisation is all worked out before hand, is quite idiotic.
Sure one or two melodic ideas you may have played before, but improvisation is not merely about "your training and other similar stuff". Or for a musician its not anyway.
Also, to say that practising improvisation means that when you improvise it is all worked out, is stupid.
Now, about the heroes comment. That's actually quite rude, and if I'm not mistaken, you are the one protecting Rusty Cooley from my simple observations.
Furthermore, if improvisation for you does not involve aural skills, emotion or feel, then we are surely talking about two different things.
That the idea man. And don't insult my style, you didn't saw me play yet its quite insulting because i said imagination too. And about saying improvising is setting befor hand, Its not stupid its true... no matter how you see it, you still have something before. You know the key and so one...
Anyway to proove you wrong Petrucci did close to an entire album with LTE with improvisation, plus look out his dvd he show some good tricks how to improvise.
"Scales and arpeggios are not music, but musical constructs, or concepts." I've never seen something out of Scales and apregios from BB king. Sorry i Respect a very large number of guitarist, its just that i feel like every good musician know how to improvise. Like Rusty he already did a fusion improvisation at a Demonstration. like i said i'm defending him because Feeling and argument about phrasing is JUST about taste. You can like it and not like it. That make it pointless to arguing.
yeah! LTE album are great! But i would be suprised if someone like Petrucci wasn't very good at improvising. Anyway you see it when he is improvising his style tend to be more jazzy.
I don't listen a lot of fusion. Jazz stuff is only nice when played in my opinion. but the fusion improvisation mixed fusion with metal. So i like it very much!
But i understand you to protect your heroes.. that kind of what i'm doing. But man sorry, Improvisation isn't about "aural skills" or "emotion" or "feel" or anything. Its about your training and other similar stuff... that sad but that how its working in music.
when i improvise im thinking about the current key, then i know my scales so automatically ill know how to stay in key, then i use my ears to tell myself how i wanna move around. improvising is just based on guidelines.
if anyone just picks a guitar up and says there improvising most of the time its boring and bland, thats why these dudes are awsome. not rusty tho he just plays to fast for it even to matter what hes actually playing
I challenged Rusty to a duel, but he wanted me to cut off a finger to make it fair for him : ) Maybe next time. You're F**king awesome Rusty!!! His new instructional DVD's are incredible as well.
This guy has monster skills. This is not my type of music, but I appreciate his abilities. He is extrodinary. One simply cannot play an instrument much (if any) faster than this. His muscle memory in his fingers must be down to the nanosecond to pull this off with no mistakes. That took years of practice to get that good.
The funny thing is as he gets older, these aren't the types of songs he can keep on playing and playing well into his lifetime. His fingers have got to give up one day.
Batio is 53, and Roy Clark is 75. And my piano teacher is in her 90's and she can still shred the ivory. If he takes care of himself, he'll rip till he dies.
If you don't like Rusty, simple solution.. Don't watch his vids because your brain obviously doesn't have the capacity to understand music that isn't main stream.
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It's probably more the case that most people can't really groove to endless major and minor arpeggios. It's boring. I'm sure you can agree a whole album's worth of constant scale running gets old very quickly. The singer for Outworld is really annoying, too.
that's a really, really, really retarded thing to say. most people listen to music for pleasure, not to understand the theory behind it. metal is also not the only kind of music that isn't mainstream. take your idiocy elsewhere.
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haha this is fucking stupid
hes very fast but hes not expressive and just playing fast arps over the coresponding chord. he needs to learn about feel and taste i dont care how fast he is.
I think, that his vibrato in the beginning is too wide, and it sounds like he's out of tune. Fast licks are very good, but that melody in intro really sucks because of th reason above.
VladislavKhemy 2 weeks ago
Well I wish I was God :/
wakkagonemad 2 months ago
fuck yeaaa that was some sick ass shitttttt...straight training ...i have to get of internet now and practice=o
Brandiumx 6 months ago
I hear plenty of emotion in this solo.
GoreSmasher 7 months ago
Most people who insult shredding like this do so because they don't have the skill to do it themselves. Guitar envy. Cooley is incredible.
GoreSmasher 7 months ago
People say "i like people that play with emotion, not play fast" but the truth is, there's more than one effing emotion people.
CroGTheCrappyPaladin 9 months ago
Rusty is a bad motherfucker,end of story,hands down one of the best in the world
artificialtribe666 1 year ago
I don't necessarily think that emotion makes you a better player but shred still is boring as shit 99% of the time.
Beenyad 1 year ago
@Beenyad its a matter of taste, shred isnt boring to me because im a shredder... blues rock, etc is boring as shit to me because its not my taste...also i find it difficult to listen to musicians that i could play circles around, its just not inspiring
6EELZE6U6666 10 months ago
@6EELZE6U6666 Yeah I can see what you mean. I just think it's boring when everything begins to sound like white noise.
Beenyad 10 months ago
I think the whole emotion thing is just a defense mechanism to justify an inability to play at this level. Honestly, I can see their point but I see it on a lot of artists who actually are capable of writing 'emotional' sounding music despite the speed they're going at, it's all in the feel of a lead and how it compliments a song. Rusty is one of the few people who can actually throw such feeling into his music, and often does. People need to analyze before they criticize.
ShowNoMercy502 1 year ago
Sweeping @ 0:58 sounds like Jason Becker
MichaelSDeJesus 1 year ago
@DegraDeadlock yep 'racer x' ya nimrod
bally28 1 year ago
homage to 'Racer X 1987 Scarified'...which is better.
/watch?v=iOW_-OESnq0&feature=related
bally28 1 year ago
I took lesions from him when i was 13 and yes he is as good as he thinks he is.
He does a shred warmup called "The Shred Manifesto"
To all of you who think shredding is easy, its not
filwathen 1 year ago
wow,love that style,a blend of old school,watch out malmstein???Next time in chattanooga,tn I would love to see you,....u rock man,,...
jefffkenney654 1 year ago
Rusty is great! Support Rusty! He deserves it, the guy worked hard to get here. This should be the mainstream and not Lady CACA!
TheLoopback 1 year ago
@TheLoopback i know right!!! it fucking pisses me off that people who dont work ANYWHERE near as hard as Rusty and a select few, get all the damn attention, this guy definitely deserves it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
StadiumArcadium1234 1 year ago
if you think he is just shredding and showing off then just close your eye and listen...
technique and skills can seem to distract from thee melody they achieve
mickey007r 1 year ago
Just curious... does anyone else think his vibrato is ridiculous? It's a shame for such a great player to have such bad taste.
carvetop 1 year ago
@carvetop i agree his vibrato is absolutely retarded and gross. i don't no much about this guy but he clearly knows how to play the guitar tho haha.
100percentguitarded 1 year ago
Alot of people bash ol' rusty on his playing. This is just the way he plays. As a guitar player myself I can tell you rusty has devoted ALOT of time into his playing.
toml71 1 year ago
@toml71 exactly the point...
bally28 1 year ago
he.. just.. doesn't stop... shredding...
AndreasZimmerman 1 year ago
really sad that he never had time to learn how to make music,beside working on his technic.
Achtelnote 1 year ago
@Achtelnote This is music that he wrote so what do you mean?
retards52 1 year ago
well song if nothing special but technique of sweeping is bad-ass
vrstoslav 1 year ago
that guitars so awesome
shame its so expensive :S
miserablemonkey 1 year ago 2
Playing fast, playing slow, it all shows expression in one way or another. To corner a certain style of music and "point fingers at it" stating that it's not music or what ever excuse your using is pointless, Cuz in the end your actually only hurting yourself as a musician, for a good musician has a ear for all music.
viarossnsteve 1 year ago 6
you guys need to stop being faggits and just watch the damn video who cars if hes a textbook guitarist or not hes and besides its better to learn that way than read faggit as tabsthat get you know where
BigHappy17420 2 years ago
this guy is just a textbook guitarist..nothing more.
iLoveOlivaMunn 2 years ago
@iLoveOlivaMunn
aaand are you any better than him?
if not then just shut up.
nealys 2 years ago
you must be a very enlighten individual, good for you.
iLoveOlivaMunn 2 years ago
he may be a textbook guitarist but he does it incredibly faster than 95% of the guitarists in the world which makes him something more.
ffzelda 2 years ago
yup cuz speed is everything when it comes to guitar playing.
iLoveOlivaMunn 2 years ago
it's not everything but it is impressive to play 16th notes at a 220 bpm. I personally prefer slower beautiful music but I still think it's impressive to play fast.
ffzelda 2 years ago
word, I love when people play smart and say that some guitarists only can play fast, it's retardedly stupid.
WizeRetard 2 years ago
@iLoveOlivaMunn
well whatever he dose its working, hes more well known than you so maybe you need to stop bitching and moaning about it and go wash off your shame.
WilliamBonneau 1 year ago 5
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if you consider that bitching and moaning then you need to rethink about your perception of reality.
iLoveOlivaMunn 1 year ago
@iLoveOlivaMunn
I dont care to get life lessons from some random fag on you tube, and you are bitching about his playing..
WilliamBonneau 1 year ago 4
true
iLoveOlivaMunn 1 year ago
hes 100 times better then you will ever be so whats your argument against him again?
SK8toTRE 1 year ago
no argument, there never was, so im assuming you cant read.
iLoveOlivaMunn 1 year ago
greeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeat !
VicRattlePushead 2 years ago
Take away his technique, his speed, his phrasing and his vast knowledge of musical theory, and he's got nothing.
Oink84 2 years ago 4
@Oink84 so take away all things that make up a musician in general? take away his guitar as well and he'll definitely have nothing ;)
TK672 2 years ago
I think it was sarcasm.:L
BleedingLlama 2 years ago
Best comment lol.
BleedingLlama 2 years ago
@Oink84 LOL
avishay224 2 years ago
worlds fastest guitarist? :p
RevilationGuitar91 2 years ago
@RevilationGuitar91
Actually Shawn lane is. He did 18 notes per seconds.
shadowknight132 2 years ago
Cooley is an amazing guitarist. Too bad his playing lacks any soul whatsoever.
LeoTehFacemelter 2 years ago
next month the shredrobot will be released and all the shredders will be outdated...the only thing the shredbot cant do is write good music...
Blackshire 2 years ago 3
everyone who can't shred says that this playing is shit. all guitarists that can do only pentatonics realise that: you are just fucking jealous for this amazing technique. Rusty's playing fast because he likes it and he has deep in his ass what you think about it. Even Jason Becker said that Rusty is fucking cool player so fuck off...
HuberttXXX17 2 years ago 29
@HuberttXXX17 i can't shred but i like him, though i 'd like to shred like malmsteen
!!!
ALeXVai4eVeR 9 months ago
@HuberttXXX17 I think Rusty is a good player and all i can shred but my god kid. People dont get jelous of people they dont personaly know. Humans dont think like that. Ever occur to you that it playing guitar doesnt make your opinion on guitarists matter more? Many shredders arent crazy about rusty. Its all about preference. Stop sucking Rusty's cock
xPurpleDrinkx9001 7 months ago
@xPurpleDrinkx9001 sucking cock? haha you are funny. Rusty is one of the best shredders nowadays, his technique is phenomenal. I play guitar for 7 years and I know what i'm talking about. There are many good players that would never face Rusty's technique. I'm not crazy about him definitely but I can see his big amount of talent and his class and guys that deny this are pissing me of
HuberttXXX17 7 months ago
Chuck Schuldiner was a much better musician than Rusty Cooley is
dannyzahl 2 years ago
that made me laugh
ibanezxiphos700 2 years ago
really u think so? i prefer rusty, but y chuck is cool
Bastubeer 2 years ago
@dannyzahl you cant compare tham but yeah chuck is awesome
MikleShnikle 10 months ago
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secretosdelshred 2 years ago
dominion is such a kick ass song
descendancy8 2 years ago 10
Where in Chattanooga was this shot?
yngwie4malmsteen 2 years ago
thank)
ShredderESP 2 years ago
what is this song?
ShredderESP 2 years ago
the song is called dominion.
jgrawl6 2 years ago
quel baltringue.
Morpheusneon 2 years ago
God.. man.. Seriously.. That dude make me cum instantly.
I wanna be like him:D
DreamusMusic 2 years ago 3
dont we all, lol... even the haters wanna be him
ibanezxiphos700 2 years ago 2
LOL what would you do if he were your teacher?
Which is the case for me lol
Rusty is my teacher, I can't tell you the level of trepidation I feel in his presence, I have been playing guitar for 9.5 years and infront of him I feel like a noob LOL.
I have a one hour lesson with him every Friday.
All that said, Rusty is a God amongst mankind; a very humble and friendly one too.
MortaniusTaijou 2 years ago
personal teacher? like person to person?
dude, i wish i could have lessons with rusty...
mschap24 2 years ago 2
I agree with most, that he is a little too extreme for any other than the shred community. His note choices can be too harsh sometimes. But wow, what a player, i can't wait to get his Instructional DVD pack.
7stringdragon 2 years ago 3
Not that hard to do what he does buy a metronome turn ur brain off and turn the metronome on , practice the same scale for like 3 hours a day every day minimum of 3hours a day.
6691alexb 2 years ago
I agree,But why would you do this 10 hrs a day then put it in your music..Thats not Creative at all...!
and it's dated 87-88...The general public would never take to this again like they did in the mid 80's
joeydahlia 2 years ago
This doesn't sell anymore at all ,but what all these crazy shredder guys do now are clinics and seminars I don't see a point in practicing 10hr a day just for that unless u really enjoy shredding. Rusty has the right intentions and loves guitar but his music is rubbish i must say even when he improvises most of it is rubbish .
6691alexb 2 years ago
I wonder if he ever heard of Malmsteen,Vito Bratta..George Lynch..
hahaha
joeydahlia 2 years ago
Though i appreciate his teckness i completely agree with you
longination 2 years ago
you know.......maybe he is a little too extreme.......but he'll still shred until your face lies in a pool at your feet.
dreadininja 2 years ago
Just Horrid..to stiff for 21st Century
I date this aroud 86-87 just when guitar was killing itself
joeydahlia 2 years ago
right on but its good to know this stuff except you dont really need it anymore like u said 86-87 long hair listening to puppets dying to be malmsteen.....20 years practice u become malmsteen except no talent
6691alexb 2 years ago
if you read his face,he is in pain... it's that bad...very bad guitar video
joeydahlia 2 years ago
what do you mean?
Oraite 2 years ago
there are faces you may make to go with the music your making, then there is the faces you make that the music actualy made you do.
cyphernyquist 2 years ago
He plays so fast it's not even enjoyable. Fucking impressive, though.
bengroebe 2 years ago 3
lol I love his playing just not his malmsteen vibrato
Aurelius27x 2 years ago
I love Dominon its such a cool rusty cooley song right up there with dark matter, under the influence and war of the angles
descendancy8 2 years ago 2
2:30 is an awesome lick
Aurelius27x 2 years ago
MOTHER FUCKER! DUDE!
paulywaly22 2 years ago
1:44 is full of emotion
Emotion is the connection the player gives to the audience if the audience feels it, they say its there, if they dont, they say it isnt. People always thinks their opinions are facts.
fenderbender92 2 years ago 4
wooooooooo tn babaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy
braedenkg1234 2 years ago
OMG this man is dedicated! i think im going to quit my full time job so i can attempt to be as good as Rusty Cooley someday in the distant..... distant future lmao!
GuitarFromHell13 2 years ago 2
Phrygian12, i totally agree with you, there are many ways to express emotions, even with speed stuff...
jonasgatto 2 years ago
people rip on cooly for just shredding but if you look at him u can tell he having loads of fun. wouldent you want to play what u like regardless of what others think. and besides who elese is playing as fast and and as CLEAN as him loomis maybe or Mmills orMAB ther all just havin fun and worked reall hard to get this good
almostam97 2 years ago 2
This guy is AMAZING, but he's good also a play rhythm guitar? mmmh...I would want to hear him to play a Dying Fetus song!
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Amazing. Rusty is one of the best technical guitarists i´ve seen, but i think that he has become a victim of his own hability. Everythink i hear from him is fast solos, and this is a thing that anyone can do. All you have to do is lock yourself in your bedroom and play 24 hours a day. He would be great if he just stop playin fast and think why he is playing that shitty fast solos if he can make people happy with just a few notes. Melody is uppon speed, just listen to Stevie Ray or Jimmy Page.
VH5150VH 2 years ago
he doesnt want to play like that.. simple as.. and people who appreciate his music dont give 2 shits about people sayin this shit.. as far as we're concerned the emotion he convays through his speed and the lick he plays using that speed is what we like..
steflotti105 2 years ago
what exactly is Emotion? i mean come on seems like every kid that sees some one play fast the first thing that comes out of their mouth is "theres no feeling" or "no emotion"
im not even really a fan of RC(in fact i dont even know how i ended up here) but come on you kids grow up and learn that not every one expresses Emotions the same way as others.
must be be some horrible musicians if you think playing Slow and bends automatically make you playing with Emotion.
Phrygian12 2 years ago 45
haha so true.
The recipe for showing off emotion is to send your head backward with the mouth opened in awe and eyes close= There it is emotion! haha
CarcPazu 2 years ago
dont agree with disliking Rusty but agree on everything else
BZG07 2 years ago
well said !
sdylte 2 years ago
@Phrygian12 Right on, nicely said :)
EvoPogo 1 year ago
@Phrygian12
100 Right%
jani14jani 1 year ago 2
@Phrygian12 its' because the kids are too busy listening to their parents and not making their own minds up
glassprisoner417 1 year ago
@Phrygian12 personally i think that''playing with emotion'' is not necessarely slow and bending notes, is more the way your choosing the notes for the '' solo '' and the wath you plat yi !!
vicpic666 1 year ago
@Phrygian12 YESSS!!! Finally an intelligent comment
GuitarsOfArp 1 year ago
@Phrygian12 no but guitarists like rusty use like 1000 notes to express their emotion when you can find a guitarist like jeff beck who can get his feeling across with like 5. but i know what your trying to get across.
GavinClementMelanson 1 year ago
@GavinClementMelanson that just shows he doesn't have deep emotions or long ones either hahahahah
SaintNate1 1 year ago
@SaintNate1 lol agreed (Y) :P
GavinClementMelanson 1 year ago
@Phrygian12 emotion? Are you gay or something?
ultimateinfinite 1 year ago
@Phrygian12
True. Music is art. Art is interpretation. Comparing musicians especially based on their "Emotions" is unfair and bullshit.
blekdood 1 year ago
"all you have to do"? the man dedicated his life to practicing. that's no easy feat, man
mickiew4 2 years ago 5
page wouldnt event touch this,page's stuff can be played even by kids,you know what songs the guitar teachers learn to young kids???led zeppelin songs or lynyrd skynyrd and stuff like that,, this song can be played only by Rusty not even by guitar teachers,so shut up with emotion and shit emotion my ass emotion is for emos
max14jackass 2 years ago 3
ur queer
staticxfrk 2 years ago
what are you bitches babbleing about?
if you are imrovising, it is wise to stay in the same key first, then move to a different key and then return to the first
sometimes 3 keys
but you want to go from the sub-ordanint key to the dominant key and back
darkperson6669 2 years ago
this guy has an awesome picking and vibrato. Also his licks are monsters!
magafi1984 2 years ago
boring like hell
Edwinmauzao 2 years ago
they should my a g3 with 7 string shredders, rusty cooley jeff loomis and chris storey.
staticxfrk 2 years ago
HEY!!!! I was there at that summer workshop. I even got a private lesson from Rusty and he signed my guitar.
SandwichNoob 3 years ago
Anyone else think his vibrate is a bit....much
Rg1527 3 years ago
I'm going to buy "Fretboard Autopsy", Rusty's in it.
Drillsback 3 years ago
so..much..good
bloodjunkie1911 3 years ago
I will only put this guy to play with jason becker and jeff loomis, the only guitarists that are worthy of playing with this guy or viceversa
AlanJoseph8708 3 years ago
Hardly. This guy only has chops, no phrasing.
shredicon86 3 years ago
What?I thought I knew what those to words mean until now, explain yourself what u mean by that?
AlanJoseph8708 3 years ago
No worries.
Chops = technical prowess
phrasing = what notes, how, and when, how fast, how slow, what kind of feeling, subtle inflections, vibrato (too much to mention)
Some people may dissagree on the distinction between the two, but this is the distinction more commonly recognised.
To further explain, I would say that Vai has beautiful phrasing, as does Mattias Eklundh, as does Frank Gambale, as does Petrucci in his written solos on the Images and Words album.
shredicon86 3 years ago
oh I understand now, so yeah I think I agree with you, this guys has very good chops.Then my favorite phrases are played by the great Uli Jon Roth, I know, Im a neo classical freak :-P
AlanJoseph8708 3 years ago
Excellent post.
Despond 2 years ago
Petrucci always have great phrasing man :P! Listen to Repentence... if its not enough for you to say its great phrasing :O i wonder what it is for you to phrase XD!
ilikeshred 2 years ago
I beg to differ. Just listen to his attempts at improvisation on the G3 tour.
He definately spends a lot of time writing his solos for the records.
Also, I have already stated examples of the elements which constitute phrasing.
shredicon86 2 years ago
plus improvisation on live at budokan : In the name of god is great for phrasing... man your out of the track :P! And sorry i think Rusty use great phrasing too... Yeah he is centered for "chop" like you said dunno why "chop"? anyway he do some great music and that what matter. The goal is to sound good. Every musician know that.
ilikeshred 2 years ago
Petrucci never truly improvises. A lot of it is worked out before hand, and when its not, it shows.
And although a musicians primary aim is to sound "good", opinions of what sounds good vary massively from one person to the next. This is one reason we have different genres of music, different styles of playing, and different instruments.
This is possibly also the reason why my opinion differs from yours :)
There is an old swedish proverb that says:
Taste is like your butt. Divided :)
shredicon86 2 years ago
Not a single musician would go up on stage and do something without worked before hand. Improvising is only things that are worked before hand (Scale, pathern, appregios etc...) mixed Together. So saying Petrucci never improvise would say that "every damn guitarist" doesn't improvise. And Great phrasing is also a technique worked over the years. I know some kind of what you mean. We can call it experience if you want but Petrucci does have this experience :P!
ilikeshred 2 years ago
I almost cant be bothered to correct this but...
"Not a single musician would go up on stage and do something without..."
Actually this is false. Thats exactly the definition of IMPROVISATION. The goal for many is to be able to play what you hear in your head.
Hendrix, BB King, Shawn Lane, Frank Gambale, ALL improvise in this way.
The rest of your argument kind of fails in light of this, so no need to adress that here.
shredicon86 2 years ago
Also, while phrasing may in many cases come from experience, phrasing in itself is not experience.
For a perfect example, ljust ook at this guy. He's been playing for decades, and his phrasing sucks.
Monster technique though.
I can guess where his woodshedding hours went...
shredicon86 2 years ago
i Disagree. when he is phrasing i feel it. Also that i guess its about taste. That why we can't really say someone is good at phrasing without someone to disagree.
ilikeshred 2 years ago
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shredicon86 2 years ago
That is so False sorry man... But hendrix used A WHOLE LOT of theories in his improvisation, BB King IS ALL about Blues scale. Shawn lane have a large palette, but sorry you can't play what you didn't practice that a PHYSICS law! sorry man to have to smack you down to the earth, But EVERY improvisation is something you already worked out before but mixed with imagination. Also to be good at improvising you have to practice it. So what you are saying is False,
ilikeshred 2 years ago
Obviously it is rare for a musician to be completely random in improvisation. Scales and theory etc are things that we learn in order to express ourselves as musicians. Improvising is one of these ways.
Unless you are some mindless shredder, it is unlikely your improvistation will consist of simply running up and down scales and arpeggios.
Scales and arpeggios are not music, but musical constructs, or concepts.
shredicon86 2 years ago
So to say that JUST because someone uses notes from a scale, that their improvisation is all worked out before hand, is quite idiotic.
Sure one or two melodic ideas you may have played before, but improvisation is not merely about "your training and other similar stuff". Or for a musician its not anyway.
Also, to say that practising improvisation means that when you improvise it is all worked out, is stupid.
shredicon86 2 years ago
Now, about the heroes comment. That's actually quite rude, and if I'm not mistaken, you are the one protecting Rusty Cooley from my simple observations.
Furthermore, if improvisation for you does not involve aural skills, emotion or feel, then we are surely talking about two different things.
Then again like I said earlier:
Taste is like your butt. Divided.
shredicon86 2 years ago
That the idea man. And don't insult my style, you didn't saw me play yet its quite insulting because i said imagination too. And about saying improvising is setting befor hand, Its not stupid its true... no matter how you see it, you still have something before. You know the key and so one...
Anyway to proove you wrong Petrucci did close to an entire album with LTE with improvisation, plus look out his dvd he show some good tricks how to improvise.
ilikeshred 2 years ago
"Scales and arpeggios are not music, but musical constructs, or concepts." I've never seen something out of Scales and apregios from BB king. Sorry i Respect a very large number of guitarist, its just that i feel like every good musician know how to improvise. Like Rusty he already did a fusion improvisation at a Demonstration. like i said i'm defending him because Feeling and argument about phrasing is JUST about taste. You can like it and not like it. That make it pointless to arguing.
ilikeshred 2 years ago
Your wording is'nt clear on the BB King thing, but he is famous for using his blues box if thats what you're saying.
Rustys fusion improvisation was appalling. Seriously. Go listen to fusion, then listen to that.
Also, "good" phrasing is phrasing which holds the listeners interest. Sure speed can do that, but only for so long. Surely we can agree on that much.
I'll leave the whole "feeling" debate alone, as its far too vague and misunderstood.
shredicon86 2 years ago
Anyhoo, if you like Rusty's phrasing, you like Rusty's phrasing.
As I have said before, at least twice;
Taste is like your butt. Divided.
And I'll take your word for the LTE album, that was intended to be a fun project :)
shredicon86 2 years ago
yeah! LTE album are great! But i would be suprised if someone like Petrucci wasn't very good at improvising. Anyway you see it when he is improvising his style tend to be more jazzy.
ilikeshred 2 years ago
I don't listen a lot of fusion. Jazz stuff is only nice when played in my opinion. but the fusion improvisation mixed fusion with metal. So i like it very much!
ilikeshred 2 years ago
But i understand you to protect your heroes.. that kind of what i'm doing. But man sorry, Improvisation isn't about "aural skills" or "emotion" or "feel" or anything. Its about your training and other similar stuff... that sad but that how its working in music.
ilikeshred 2 years ago
when i improvise im thinking about the current key, then i know my scales so automatically ill know how to stay in key, then i use my ears to tell myself how i wanna move around. improvising is just based on guidelines.
if anyone just picks a guitar up and says there improvising most of the time its boring and bland, thats why these dudes are awsome. not rusty tho he just plays to fast for it even to matter what hes actually playing
hatedrivesus 2 years ago
In addition, any robot can be programmed to have awesome chops.
But only a living thing can possess great phrasing.
shredicon86 3 years ago
G3 in 2005? wow... you didn't saw the same dvd as i then XD!
ilikeshred 2 years ago
tool...
staticxfrk 2 years ago
That's as good as you can get at lead guitar. Amazing chops! TIM
timrothintoeternity 3 years ago
I challenged Rusty to a duel, but he wanted me to cut off a finger to make it fair for him : ) Maybe next time. You're F**king awesome Rusty!!! His new instructional DVD's are incredible as well.
RustyCooleyFearsMe 3 years ago
that run at the end is insane...
the whole goddamn thing is insane
jakethecooldude 3 years ago
This guy can't be human.
SoloDude95 3 years ago
That is because he is gooderer than Herman Ri!
bernhardtsen74 3 years ago
HOT CHICK!
dennervideos 3 years ago
This guy has monster skills. This is not my type of music, but I appreciate his abilities. He is extrodinary. One simply cannot play an instrument much (if any) faster than this. His muscle memory in his fingers must be down to the nanosecond to pull this off with no mistakes. That took years of practice to get that good.
taghl 3 years ago
holy hell! 2 min is brutal
ibashred 3 years ago
my girlfriend thinks he is an sexy alien
Lubial 3 years ago
The funny thing is as he gets older, these aren't the types of songs he can keep on playing and playing well into his lifetime. His fingers have got to give up one day.
GazPots 3 years ago
Well he's 40 now..
DeathBringer769 3 years ago
Still a good few years left i'd imagine.
Gaz.
GazPots 3 years ago
Batio is 53, and Roy Clark is 75. And my piano teacher is in her 90's and she can still shred the ivory. If he takes care of himself, he'll rip till he dies.
SanusRequiem 3 years ago
That's REALLY bad
Edwinmauzao 3 years ago
what? you trying to play the first note of this and failing horribly? yea it is
staticxfrk 2 years ago
If you don't like Rusty, simple solution.. Don't watch his vids because your brain obviously doesn't have the capacity to understand music that isn't main stream.
LivingD3adB3at 3 years ago
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It's probably more the case that most people can't really groove to endless major and minor arpeggios. It's boring. I'm sure you can agree a whole album's worth of constant scale running gets old very quickly. The singer for Outworld is really annoying, too.
polishcomedy 3 years ago
You're a cunt.
AnotherEric 3 years ago
Name calling doesn't change the truth.
polishcomedy 3 years ago
The "truth", as you're calling it, is an opinion, and is nothing definite.
edusty2010 3 years ago
I commend you on your civility.
polishcomedy 3 years ago
Why thank you :)
I've always said a tiny difference of opinion is really nothing to fight about.
edusty2010 3 years ago
Its amusing when someone actually makes an intelligent statment using proper grammer and the first response he gets is "You're a cunt".
Bravo internet. Bravo.
At least there were no spelling mistakes.
GazPots 3 years ago
that's a really, really, really retarded thing to say. most people listen to music for pleasure, not to understand the theory behind it. metal is also not the only kind of music that isn't mainstream. take your idiocy elsewhere.
cearp09 3 years ago
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haha this is fucking stupid
hes very fast but hes not expressive and just playing fast arps over the coresponding chord. he needs to learn about feel and taste i dont care how fast he is.
ilrs 3 years ago