Rusty Cooley - I Wish I Were a Viking

[frifasS]

0:30 wtf



[jojofriend62]

slow version sounds cooler (:

[93thrasher]

haha this is his yngwie tribute

[MADEINMAIDEN]

REMINDS A BIT OF YNGWIES -I AM A VIING..

[jazzpman]

Kick ass bro! Been working on fretboard autopsy vol2. Great stuff!

[eastwoodize]

I wish I were a Cooley..

[arrestedshrimp]

he seems like such a douche in person. what a terrible musician as-well

[TheRunikko]

@arrestedshrimp You can't even play the guitar dude, so shaddap!

[JTNorquay]

@arrestedshrimp He's an absolutely amazing musician. All of his videos are mainly him just wanking around at 600bpm, but listen to his music in his band Outworld, his solos are really tasty and beautiful.

[arrestedshrimp]

@JTNorquay no ive listened to his music and its all shred shred shred, sweep sweep sweep, not impressed

[JTNorquay]

@arrestedshrimp That also takes musicianship in case you didn't know. And actually listen to outworld. Because if that's all you think it is, then obviously you haven't.

[42littlebit]

@arrestedshrimp Actually...thats what i thought too. Until i went to take lessons from him. He is one of the nicest, down to earth, humble guys ive ever meet.

[amithabajan2]

such a great riff.

[amithabajan2]

such a great riff.

[2pacdragonforce]

how many strings on his guitar?

[displeasedflyinguy]

@2pacdragonforce

Seven.

[ArterialX]

Reminds me of Xerath

[deathscythekim729]

EMG and JACKSON's - DIMARZIO's and IBANEZ

[HstfSengir]

After hearing this I want to be a Viking too.

[jonathanbenaroche]

esp and jackson with emg is the shit!

[GootarDood]

Is that Yngwie Malmsteen's "I Am a Viking," just, improved?

[dejandjukic]

very malmsteeny

[aussieblacksnake]

fucken awsome.. i cant wait till i can play like that......

[darkslayer666999]

@lawrenceguitars thank you for saying that

[VikingBlood94]

I don't need to wish :D i am \m/

[CobHatecrewNor]

Cool riff, but a viking-riff should (in my opinion) sound more norwegian folkmusic inspired, since the vikings came from the cold north. This sounds way to egyptian to me.

[Roflmop]

What time signature is it? It sounds pretty weird, like 9/8.

[ProgressiveGuitarist]

@Roflmop From what I gathered it went 9/8, 10/8, 4/4, then maybe 10/8 or 11/8 again. This is excluding the fast run at the end, jsut for the four bars of the riff.

[lawrenceguitars]

for anyone who doesnt know, this is a spin off of the malmsteen song I am a viking

[thepunisher1995]

whats this im reading about dimebag being shit? thats bullcrap, yes i will admit compared to this guy he does suck, but the fact is dime did and still does influence so many people including me, the fact is he is probably better than most people who watch this vid. all im staying is he is awesome and so is rusty, no one realy cares who is better than who unless they just want to argue, or atleast i dontm i think their both fucking amazing.

[Fluffypopcicle]

i wish i were rusty cooley.

[slipknotsk8ter89]

I wonder what Yohan from Amon Amarth could write for this. That was a MEAN riff!

[greendrugdealer]

@slipknotsk8ter89 hell yeah, but johan is great, nowhere near rusty though

[Alejandro1313sixx]

THATS METAL!!!

[janderson2000]

This guy is a douche

[TheReclamation14]

fucking vikings, i wish i could shred like YOU!

[ohmyfine]

does anyone know what kind of guitar this is?!?!

[muffinsjustmuffins]

@ohmyfine that one is a jackson but he uses dean guitars now, specifically his signature model. obviously. i dont know the model of the jackson though

[Ind3c3ntXposur]

@ohmyfine its a Jackson guitar but probably with some of his trademarked pickups.

[fumpsee]

i wish i was a viking. that would be awesome.

[gnrcr]

If he wants to be a viking, he should join Amon Amarth.

[000metalhead000]

@gnrcr Amon could never keep up with mister Cooley.

[oompaloompaman5]

Is the title inspired by Yngwies "i am a viking"?

[TimJMorrison]

Yes. He says somewhere.... Probably at CFH's website. Don't remember.

[jan1080]

The riff sounds like it is as well hahah.

[JacobSijsma]

sounds a lot like the riff in bastards chain ( with souls so lame )

[TravisMaxima]

Come to think of it... So do I.

[Melermometal]

THE most underrated band in the history of metal

[eivindrew]

cool :P

[SevereRepugnance]

Cool riff, good stuff man

[svenjohnpetrucci]

this is like the coolest riff ever...

[LessthanJake14]

Listen to Xerath - Alterra, it uses the same scale and sounds brilliant too.

[swob0]

Lol you've all missunderstood me. This song ( Riffs ) Are AMAZING i love it and i love cooley.

[snakesuicide]

swob0 ur a fucking idiot man that tune rocks because i wish i were a viking 2

[JaffahProductions]

this sounds kickass

[beautifulmusical]

This is exactly what can be defined as "mental masturbation"

[beautifulmusical]

That is not a rhythm guitar part.... this guy doesn't know how to do anything other than play one note runs and shit like that..... sweep picks all of his solos..... smoke and mirrors...nothing more.

[laplaptop]

someone is a dumbshit.

[swob0]

Worst piece of crap i've ever heard. You know nothing about rhytmization.

[shreddakj]

You know nothing about spelling.

[swob0]

How can spelling even become a matter when it's a guitar video? Fucking idiot -.-

[shreddakj]

I was replying to a stupid comment with a stupid comment.

[ibanezxiphos700]

rhytmization? You have good knowledge of the english language. Please teach me your ways.

[swisskicks]

you know nothing about music

[EMER1CA350]

@swob0 Rusty Cooley doesn't need rhythm, because he's Rusty Cooley. Simple.

[CoolKwstas123]

haahhaahaahaahahah on 0:33 he is like "OOH I got the harmonic hmmmm lets rape the bar :P"

[TheEmptySilence]

were? you mean was? lol. all that shred has fucked up his grammer. lol. jk. all hail cooley. buy his ne rockhouse instructional dvd. Rusty f0r3v3r

[Sweepalicious]

What time signature this is in? In the tab, Rusty wrote it in what I can clearly hear... 5/4. And it's in Phrygian Dominant (5th mode of Harmonic Minor)

[descendancy8]

the scary part is is that at :39 that could still be one of Rusty's rhythm's O_o

[ronaldpettersen]

Sorry, I meant 4/4, 10/8 and 12/8.

[deldelda]

I think I heard a bar of 13/29 in there too.

[WheatDream]

how did he count that, im extremely confused, is it 8/12? I have never heard a count like this one before

[ExtremeBogom]

This wasn't actually from art of picking.

This was a separate lesson he did for chops from hell.

[shreddakj]

oh my bad.

[SpiritCrusher47]

Why are people determined to rip this guy up, he's an incredible guitarist and he writes good licks too.

[MisterWhatever200]

he is not just a good shredder. he is a fucking guitar GOD.

[narknate]

hes a good shredder

thats about it, he can't write a riff to save his life

[Rg1527]

I like this riff personally

[shreddakj]

me too.

[metalbards]

u suck !!!

[vectorcr21]

try buying one of his CDs, faggot. he is an excellent composer. or try listening to the song Dark Matter, Under the Influence, or the Butcher. and listen to the whole thing.

[narknate]

i do my research before i make a comment on a guitar player, the riffs arn't that great, they're technically advanced, but no elements of his riffs have that unexplainable factor that make guitarists like Dimebag Darrell great, why dont u think about something before u say it next time, instead of coming out and trying to sound educated and start calling names, that makes u the retarded fucked up faggot

[vectorcr21]

fuck dime. i personally find rusy's riffs great, whether how technical advanced or not. for example that repetitive asscention/descention thing he keeps doing in the song Dark Matter. its so beutiful.

[staticxfrk]

dimebag sucks if you think hes goof you suck to

[Zuneowner]

i wish i were a viking

[GuitarGodReborn]

I wish I were a viking, in my opinion is a sarcastic way of saying...im calling you out malmsteen.

[bhfam]

what scale is this?

[shreddakj]

It sounds like the riff is built off the harmonic minor to me.

[MehosPhace]

Write deff some harmonic. I was talking to my teacher about "I am a Viking" by Malmsteem and he showed me this lol

[shreddakj]

I am a viking has some awesome riffs too, ALSO built off harmonic minor haha!

[ibanezxiphos700]

at one point he has 3 notes a half step apart so it could be the hungarian minor

[ididregister]

if he was using not only technic skills at to make that distortion not to sound that shitty!!! dude just use the default preferences!)

[shreddakj]

That made no sense at all.

[FurbyParade226]

LOL What did you say!!??

[shreddakj]

To me or ididregister?

he wrote this

"if he was using not only technic skills at to make that distortion not to sound that shitty!!! dude just use the default preferences!)"

which makes absolutely no sense at all.

[FurbyParade226]

Thats what I'm sayin dude..that made no fucking sense lol hilarious actually

[shreddakj]

yea lol, english probably isn't his main language but its still pretty funny.

[ididregister]

sorry guys i guess i have missed some words while typing somehow...actually i was trying to..eh..type this: if he was using not only technical stuff and if his distortion wouldn't sound the way it sounds here which sounds as weird as that nonsense i was writting before...anyway english isn't my main language^_^

[GuitarFreakMoFF]

That legato, proved me that his huge shredding skills can actually come in good in a song.

[SchecterC1Shredder]

makes me want to buy another 7 to play it

[alagon]

Awesome riff!

[shreddakj]

yeah it makes me feel like fixing my 7 string up just so i can play it!