Rusty Cooley - The Art of Picking

[Exitwound72]

Ahh, the aquarium screensaver… I remember those days...

[RhythmSoundNoize]

DAMN!!!!!!



[aTOUCHofEV1L]

YOU HAVE AN AMAZING...wallpaper, your wallpaper is really nice, your guitar playing really cool too!

[deepb609]

A lot of you guys will probably just dismiss this as noise but this dude's speed is jaw-dropping

[deepb609]

don't try this at home......!!!

[deepb609]

a machine.....

[superdanlewis]

love the tone!

[jimmyleppard6]

he's good....but he's nowhere near 2 Gods of guitar...Shawn Lane and Jason Becker...no one can touch them....no one can come close to what they were able to do...

[dylansfg]

@jimmyleppard6 thats not true

[jimmyleppard6]

@dylansfg excuse me? I see you are drunk cause you have no idea what you are talking about. Please take a rest and put your thoughts together and then we can talk business. After you take a rest, I want you to give me 5 reasons why that's not true. And I assure you, you will lose.

[dylansfg]

@jimmyleppard6 well basically although shawn lane and jason becker are both ridiculously good to say that no one (bearing in mind there are a few billion people in the world) can ever surpass them is just a very unrealistic thing to say

[jimmyleppard6]

@dylansfg few billion people out of which many are kids, newborns, elders and women. second thing, listen to becker's stuff..he composed masterpieces with guitar at the age of 15. if you honestly can't hear the emotions and feelings in his playing, you have no musical ear. jason lives for music. that's the only thing that keeps him alive right now. shawn is untouchable in speed but that doesn't matter. his feelings and playing are more than unique.

[MarcusFenixtheMan]

@jimmyleppard6 becker is a martyr he's good yes but even in his prime he wasn't this good, same reason people think dimebag and hendrix are untouchable gods of guitar

[vip1691]

@MarcusFenixtheMan Exactly.Once a musician dies he automatically becomes a pioneer, a great master in his field, a talented musician etc.Few are the the cases where all these actually apply.

[MKV1383]

@dylansfg indeed. thinking for a few seconds and i can already tell to myself of 10 guitar musicians i like all the way over becker or lane. Hell, i can even think of 10 guitar players i prefer over those 2 while still staying inside the neoclassical-shred-metal genre. becker is cool, but he ain't nothing off world. and i dislike rusty, as much as i dislike m.a. batio. circus performers.

[metalbohne]

always alternate picking

very cool but a little bit difficult cause the sixtuplets the whole time

[yothegmanyo]

gu1tarN0oB this guy could sleep with ANY chick he wants

[Niallphillips]

haha, thats stupid and obviously not true

[TimJMorrison]

No, he couldn't sleep with any chick...

His wife would kill him :P .

[Fluffypopcicle]

@TimJMorrison

sorry dude, but nobody can kill rusty :P

[Jnkeps]

@Fluffypopcicle Chuck Norris can.

[Fluffypopcicle]

@Jnkeps

no, nobody can. the boogieman checks his closet for chuck norris, but chuck norris checks his closet for rusty cooley...and buckethead.

[Jnkeps]

@Fluffypopcicle lmao

[exatone]

@Fluffypopcicle PAUL FUCKING GILBERT KILL RUSTY...:)

[Fluffypopcicle]

@exatone

no, not even close. they're too different to compare anyways. the noly way to compare them is in speed and technicality and reusty pwns paul gilbert in both of those factors.

[exatone]

@exatone for me Paul is the best shredder ever... but is my opinion!!!

[gu1tarN0oB]

poor guy....he wasted his life to sound like a broken game boy..i feel bad for him..

[metalbohne]

@gu1tarN0oB shut the fuck up

BITCH

[dee2706]

Gu1tarN0ob is right....unfortunately this guys tone sounds like a wasp in a jam jar!  Plus what he is playing has zero value musically. Sure its very quick but there is a reason hes not as well known as vai, satiani or malmsteen, he has no sound of his own..just a warble!!

[Steve128967]

this is from an instructional DVD you dumbass. it isn't supposed to be music.

[dee2706]

Stevie....doesnt matter..check out all of his other vids on you tube, instructional or not...it all sounds the same...just one big warble noise coming from his guitar!

[Steve128967]

Not really, since mode/scale-wise he is one of the most diverse players there is.

[dee2706]

OK - listening to this little ditty...I would say he's playing D Dorian Warble, E Phrigian Warble, and maybe a Locrian warble thrown in for good measure.  Stevie, the guy can play faster than I could ever dream to play...but has a lot to learn about composition and phrasing in his playing.

[Steve128967]

According to the man himself, on his solo album and Outworld CD, he used over 20 scales, most of them diverse. His composition is pretty advanced too, listen to the extended tonality in Dark Matter. And I would say his phrasing is fine based on the same song.

[dee2706]

Dude...I see by your profile you do have good taste...vai, becker, malmsteen, ...all recognisable playing styles...I just cant put this guy up there with great guitarists like those!

[Steve128967]

Like I said, I think he has good phrasing when he chooses to use it, but I would say he's as good as those players even on the basis of just technique. He has a great understanding of music and theory in general and can do other styles (including jazz) even if his recorded output is just metal.

Though I would say Shawn Lane, Guthrie Govan and Holdsworth etc. etc. are better than Rusty. And maybe have a little better technique, too...

[TimJMorrison]

I agree Shawn Lane had better technique, but I thing Govan and Holdsworth are more varied in their technical application rather than having better technique.

Rusty's just a metalhead and there's nothing wrong with that ;-) .

[dee2706]

he wants to get himself a decent guitar...with an action that is higher than a tenth of a millimetre....so you actually have some sustain and resonance to your sound and you can hear what he's playing..sorry but all i hear is a warble!

[JobForAMaxboy]

@dee2706 thats coz obviously your deaf. lol

[dee2706]

on a serious note....i am not knocking the guy too much...i respect how much effort he has put into his guitar playing..he just does not stand out on his own....if i heard him on the radio and i would never be able to say..."thats rusty cooley"..hes just a clone guitarist

[Fluffypopcicle]

@dee2706

listen to his music you dumbshit and name ONE musician that sounds like rusty cooley's music. check out his dark matter album.

[dee2706]

@Fluffypopcicle , Looking at your profile you seem to have great taste in metal music and guitarists, except for this particular guitarist that is. And your right, I cannot think of any other guitarist who makes a "warble" sound quite like this one, he has his own sound for sure. I will check out the Parp & Clatter album and let you know what I think. Thanks dude!

[Fluffypopcicle]

@dee2706

parp and clatter? lol. rusty's music is without a doubt an acquired taste for most people and tbh it will come across as just noise for most people for a very long time if not forever. there is music theory in his music though and his music is actually quite melodic, it's just that his tone is so cold...i prefer tones that are warm like dimarzios, rusty's tone hurts my ears sometimes and at times ruins the music depending on the mood im in.

[dee2706]

And he's rated by........wait for it himself!!

[tochon9]

cansate wn...

[Killerguitarest]

great teacher, great player. i found you can even ask him questions to get video responses on Fret12. it's awesome!

[Windbreaker9]

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa­wn

[Heretican666]

cool screensaver :)

[Bigschwang]

i think he's about to attain orgasm

[oilkills]

CUSTOM GUITAR HAS 7 STRINGS (wider neck)

[fritzcopper]

go buckethead

[eliottphilwil]

...He's not Buckethead

[OfAllTheyHad]

yea ur right.... he actually bothers to put emotion into his playing

[BrennanFace]

wow are you fuckin stupid???

[longinus101]

Hmm this guitar looks kind of big on him. Too big! He must be a short guy.

[Airwave99]

Shred without a head.. I know this is just a demonstration, but I just can't stop my hand from writing this:P

[JacksonGuitars230]

It's not even a demonstration its a finger exercise dumbass.

Listen to 6:00 into the grey tide by outworld. You will love it anyone who dosen't have chills and just gets so into it when they hear it shouldn't have an opinion about guitar anyways.

[JRBain7]

I'm sorry, but that is an absurd, childish statement. Not everyone likes the music that you like. I find John Petrucci's solos from Lines in the Sand and Octavarium to be hugely moving. That doesn't mean you do. As for what you mentioned, for me, it does absolutely nothing. To my ears, that is the attempt of a guitar player that never plays anything slow to play a melodic solo. I do not like it at all. Music is an art form, and one man's meat is another man's poison.

[JacksonGuitars230]

You obviously misinterpreted me anyways. The reason this IS shred without a head is because it is a finger exercise, and finger exercises are easy and repetitive to help people learn.

Rusty Cooley, as said in my last post, wrote a very very melodic solo for "The Grey Tide" by Outworld.

If you truly like Petrucci you will appreciate it a lot.

Which reminds me, I am just a true fan. I cannot apologize for coming to the defense of one of my favorite guitarist. I hate youtube trolls.

[JRBain7]

Finger exercises are good. That wasn't the purpose of my comment. I think the solo from "The Grey Tide" is absolutely horrible. Like I said, it sounds to me like the attempt of a guitar player who stopped practicing anything other than fast 'shred' exercises 20 years ago. All I'm saying is, you might like it, but not everyone does, and you can't expect them to just because you do.

[JacksonGuitars230]

Alright I respect that.

[JRBain7]

Thanks. Accordingly, I respect your right to like Rusty Cooley - Please do, with my best wishes.

[cheeseygod]

xMatthias when i play i don't anchor my hand either, I'm no where near as fast as rustey but I'm not slow either. in my opinion not anchoring your hand gives you more freedom to move your wrist while playing, which does help give you slightly more speed, try it if you play, trust me :D it takes a while to get used to though.

[TheTheifInYourHead]

i'm no guitarist, but.... what the hell is anchoring your hand?? (don't worry, i understand music talk lol)

[tru3m3talh3ad]

wtf? 5000 views? deserves at least a million

[TheTheifInYourHead]

i love the little lick at 0:54, best bit in the whole thing

[jpmatrixfan88]

I agree

[xMatthias]

how is he picking like that without having his hand anchored? o.O

[TAZ8593]

Because he is god of supershred

[keeponshredding]

francesco fareri shred more or like him!

[sacamano79]

most people don't anchor, MAB being an exception.

[newthings158]

is there tab or anything to learn this exercise?

[6rosebudX]

yes...on ultimate guitar

[newthings158]

cool, I've already picked up most of his CDRoms, they're excellent!

[dinoBMXidiot]

that was yust about perfect. 100%

no necesarily the notes he used but I didnt se him messd up a bit

wether the scale or arpegio was "musical" or not

[OutShoneGod]

I can do that......lol...

NAAATTT (lol borat style)

[zxcxcvcvbvbnbnmnm]

wow now how many notes was that???

[3nambpam3]

I heard a recorded interview with Rusty too, and it was such a shame he had to come across like a total dick. Nobody likes a wanker. Just shut up and play.

Paul Gilbert forever!

[boeyaka]

omg paul gilbert roflcopter

[ShreddoMundo]

fuck no man....rusty's such a cool guy, and is really passionate about his music. hes a sick teacher, and when he does interview's is really genuine and informative..

[3nambpam3]

Sometimes he sounds great and sometimes very rough around the edges and lacks the finesse of a Gilbert or Greg Howe. I heard all this Rusty stuff the other day and thought "Yeah, pretty fast, but that's about it". Then I put on some Eric Johnson and it was like "Wow, Eric is alot more musical, has sooo much more class and has serious tone".

[arizacd]

francesco fareri is faster than rusty cooley

[TheTrinity777]

Wow that's pretty cool! It's not really the speed that impresses me though; it's that he can keep it going that long!!

[zeekee]

is faster than michalagnelo

[tamboid12]

I taught rusty Cooley

[kingofsouls]

One of my inspirations :)

[01ckedwards]

rusty is the best ever u two gays that said boaring are just gay as.

[cowcrusher]

+1 if i could have that technique I'd be awesome, I'm not a full shredder like him but just the technique on guitar that he has would be nice ;)

[yayayair]

yeah.. boring(yawn)

[blakhaus]

One word, BORING!!

[jongpilyun]

Gee, you find a picking drill boring. How profound. Do you go up to a world class violinist playing chromatics as a warm up and tell them it's boring?

Stop being a douche. It's called "ART OF PICKING".