Marshall Harrison - Experimental Guitar - "Dynamic Economy (the Locust)"

[Shmucko21]

UGH HOW DO YOU DO THIS!!! This blows my mind, your coordination and just everything is fucking next level. I've been trying to do this for weeks and i can't even begin to do it.

[expressyourselfist]

Marshall,this is by far my most favourite video on youtube!!!!

[misery2951]

this reminds me of garbage. you have no skills,

[Fluffypopcicle]

@misery2951

Do better then.

[evolutionmb]

@misery2951 - HAHAHAHAHAHA, no skills, yeah right. You are completely clueless. Post a response so we can all see your tremendous playing and let the community judge.

[basenjiguitar]

HEY MARSHALL , I have a proposition you. Study both hands of Agustin Barrios Mangore, Paraguayan composer of classical guitar (considered the best of all time). Its a good study, en Mi mayor (E mayor)

[iamsexy1212]

hey marshall what is swybrid picking?

[YngwieAteMe]

@iamsexy1212

@Nickiefive

i believe it is a combination of hybrid picking and sweep picking, or at least that's what it sounds like to me.

[kingofkillings]

Is there anything to look out for when one attempts to play those string skipping bits with this particular technique?

[Nickiefive]

what is this swybrid technique exactly?

[Imparts6893]

Hey Marshall I have a question when did you come up with Swybrid picking?

[RozarSmacco]

@Imparts6893 It was early 2002 and I was the ranch in west Texas. I had the Holdsworth Guitar and there isn't much else to do at the ranch besides play guitar, hunt, drink in the beautiful scenery and wildlife. So I was done with the morning hunt and I sat down to play without plugging in because the Carvin AH is hollow and is fairly loud without an amp. The linear triads with huge position shifts from Vai's Eugene's Trick Bag have always been fun so I was experimenting with those and voila

[assfuck37]

this is like the only experimental thing ON youtube; and that's a shame

[element1988]

man thats some bad ass muting :O epic.

[MrUsedBooks]

Kind of reminds me of Black Angels by George Crumb.

[Rusti84]

stop wanking

[rouschno1]

Dude, your control over your instrument is like nothing I have ever seen before. Do you teach at all? That is some crazy sounding stuff, very pecussive also. Very impressive.

[TruNikkaz]

inhuman

i love this stuff

you need more study materials for me to gladly purchase marshall =]

[SconeMason]

nice sweep picking.

[partlyshady]

Ok, ive been trying to emulate your technique for quite a while.. Will you please answer a few questions? It would mean so much to me.. What kind of picks do you use? Is the base of your picking hand actually resting on the strings? I can't pick up near the neck pickup like you do without resting my hand in front of the bridge and on the strings.. (which causes unwanted string muting on the low strings). Any advice would be much appreciated.. thanks

[Cgolfsoccerguy]

holy shit?

[HeavenBelowMusic]

You are an alien!!!!!

[jKazej]

I wish I could do that.

I mean that's a whole other level of pissing off your neighbours.

[sikkiboy]

So nice,sounds a little like a 2cv diane engine revving at times

[hairlessdog101]

hey marshall in the start of the video when it looks like your doing four note per string lick on b before going to e are you doing the d d u u on the b then same on the e.....cuz when i do just the d on b then d u on e and u on b played im haveing a hard time doing the four note licks on one string

[nomis101uk]

your right hand seems like its putting in no effort at all. Do you hold your pick very very light?

[09kitty23]

he kinda resembles on the way i pick the guitar.. if i am not mistaken its not alternate picking totally.. its a mixed of 2-3 string sweep, hammer, pull and alternate. rather than doin alternate picking on every string change he sweeps it like either 2 string downstroke or 2 string upstroke with combination of hammer ons

[retrocareermelted]

the locust

[TechcoreIsSexy]

you are just INSANE

[SpaceAceTX]

May be selling my Ibanez USA Sabre (100% original) to purchase a new amp. It's a 1988 probably the best you've ever seen. I'll be posting pics this weekend with Ebay link.

[GenericInsect1979]

This sounds like it came from the demented mind of Robert Fripp, kudos to you sir!

[trex257]

Is that a P-90 in the neck position on that Ibanez like Paul Gilbert used to have in his pink Ibby back in the Racer X days? Pretty cool man.

[RozarSmacco]

yep...only its a seymour duncan sm-3n. I called their custom shop way back in '92 and asked what the heck that small chrome pickup was in the neck of PG's ibz in intense Rock. That's what they told me it was.....sm3n.

[ConnorShawMusic]

this is dope!!awesome

[seperra]

tee hee, that was fast. and crazy ;)

[MainTightSqueeze]

Excellent picking technique

[shreddlord]

i wonder where did the inspiration for this come from... you probably didn't sleep well...

[Ynger63]

Very cool!

It's some Economic- an Flatpicking, I guess.

Very well done...

[MercutioUK2006]

There are some moments in which you emulate the sound of an infuriated wasp hitting a windowpane repeatedly - but for the 4 note per string licks its up, down, up, down (cross to the e string with one stroke) up, down up (cross back to the b with one stroke again) as far as I can see while utilising that Greg Howe-esque finger barring.

(I could be wrong, I haven't played in years after picking up an injury)

[Phrygian12]

0:23 what exactly are you doing? your picking is what im talking about

are you doing two down strokes followed by two up strokes? or a two then one up and then 3 down?

(i blame the coffee im very tired lol)

[RozarSmacco]

it's just down-down-up-up, but I'm using some unorthodox shapes in the right hand. The highlight here (if there is one) is the coordination between the hands. Perfect synchronization while dynamically palm-muting is quite challenging (for me)

[Phrygian12]

unorthodox with your right or left hand?

i guess cause most of the time you always play with your wrist floating rather then having it sit on the bridge or what ever, the only time i see your wrist resting is when muting the lower strings. Im the same way and it feels a little awkward when palm muting on the same set of strings being picked.

what amazes me in this video and pretty much every other video of yours is your control.

[09kitty23]

dude check shawn lanes picking.. its pretty much similar

[ideosynchronicity]

@09kitty23 What? Lane's picking was strictly alternate. Some hybrid also, but this is on another level. Not to say that it's better, It's just something different.

It's a type of economy picking, but has a particular movement:

first chromatic lick is:

down-up-down-up(to start things up)

down-up-down-up

up-down-up-down

down-up-down-up

up-down-up-down

etc...

The rest is pretty much down-down-up-up

[trevskiw2008]

quite challenging for you? nothing challenges the legend himself marshall harrison!! i have see too many videos of you to know your one of the best, brett garsed even said himself that your a killer player.

your technique is nothing like i have ever seen it's perfect you are honestly like no one else i have ever seen, the most controlled player i have ever seen.

and your economy picking is mind blowing!!

is there any good books you would recommend for scale use and outside playing?

[Rg1527]

@RozarSmacco what part of your hand exactly are you muting with, ?