Alex Machacek: Ultimate Guitar Techniques: Pentatonic Concepts:

[777wanabe]

why does everyone have to pick on the 80's??

[8123601]

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[8123601]

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[Poak2010]

barbedwireplayer - awesome thanks. I'm really diggin it..and the music of course lol

[ahindat2]

i like that he doesn't move his fingers away from the guitar neck. that bugs me from my playing. he used thin strings right?

[Poak2010]

What kind of guitar is he playing?

[barbedwireplayer]

@Poak2010 It's a godin

[Guitareben]

Give me you're tone and fingers... and ear...

[oscardelanada]

were can i get the DVD for free or buy it (wish i prefer the most). :) please tell me ;)

[lauriemonk]

@oscardelanada Link in description

[issy3]

His guitar is Godin Freeway SA that Mr.McLaughlin also uses

[darthmorbous]

pentatonic superimpotion is sooo old man, very very cool, but dont say you took it to the other level; great old news; i still love how this guy plays

[standalonee]

Is Alex explaining this lick in this dvd? 2:50

[avlis78]

what model is that guitar? it does look nice, sounds great too

[JerryLee87]

@avlis78 godin it is

[davydyyz]

i like his hair haha

[stoob1969]

this guy's got the laziest, smoothest, accurate and fantastic fingering I've seen

[morrisj1205]

showcasing like many of those 80's dvds?

[HendrixcommaMartin]

He looks a little like Benny Grebb.

[Nickiefive]

3:40 on just OMF

[stratoleft]

So therefore, what is the one thing everyone should have learned from watching this video? Well, the fact that Allan Holdsworth sounds like Allan Holdsworth and Alex Machacek sounds like Alex Machacek. If you learn nothing else from now on, don't ever forget that one simple lesson.

[straightwhiskey93]

fuck yea this guy taught me at git!!!

[taradead]

great player... but to sound like that. I'm pretty sure beginners are going to need to know something about all the modes, including the melodic and harmonic minors,...and, with that knowledge, you might not be considered a beginner anyhow

[jamierobinson777]

Alex was my private instructor at GIT last year, he's the mad scientist of guitar lol

[amschaefer257]

lolol at 1:38

[mustaine82]

can i get this kinf of tone on my Randall?

[bazzmx]

Not just fast. Face melting speed.

[durtmagert]

yeah picking at face melting speed doesn't equate into music, only guitar language. Listen to Coltrane is you want to hear pentatonic scales put to great musical use, but you probably wont.

[MrFigueroa007]

The new Holdsworth. This guy is great but i think he needs more development in his own tone instead of sounding like Holdsworth.

[stratoleft]

@MrFigueroa007 Alex doesn't sound like Allan at all. His approach and playing is different as well as his sound. You as well as many others on fusion.net loose as usual on this issue. It's amazing how many guitar "players" no nothing at all about sound. No wonder Allan got rid of the message board on the realallanholdsworth website. Anyways, I agree with Alex in that his video is superior in not using some circus shred fest competition like so many do.

stratoleft 1 minute ago

[lauriemonk]

@stratoleft Hi what / where is fusion.net?

[stratoleft]

@lauriemonk Actually it was called fusenet. A forum devoted to a bunch of geniuses trying to analyze Allan Holdsworth, and his supposed "influences". It was also an arena dovoted to sharing grievances against, as well as bashing fans of Ynwie Malmsteen, Steve Vai and Rush, as well as each other. Proof that trashy reality TV isn't just limited to television. Fortunately, it is now defunct, best gone and forgotten, before Allan had his own website made.

[oilkills]

Great player... great post!!!

Makes me wish I was a GIT student!!!

[aaronbergAPB]

This guy is cool. I'll have to look into this. Pentatonics aare great to manipulate. Great player!

[CRAIGARRR]

YEah!! Face melting speed!! Now that is my goal!

[OstropoloS]

Hmmm he played a part Gustavo Guerra's My Wife at the end :O

[toomanygittars]

He has obviously been influenced by Holdsworth. Smooooth legato.

Very nice tone (and I just adore those Godin guitars).

I really like listening to such things but not for too long, though - after awhile it's rather refreshing to switch over to something quite different and simple, like J.J.Cale or something.

[AgentOfSteel84]

Sound Feels so jazzy... very good!

[klined]

such creamy tone

[skok65]

Good stuff.

[YOUsnozeYOULOZE]

I love this man.

[magirecords2004]

I love his Fusion tone!

[rangusroung]

reminds me of some Scott Henderson style licks

[monkeyrg570]

ive got this dvd ...i rate it well

[krj85]

Yeah he can play , yeah he knows his theory but i dont like this guy's style,feel or sound,its just noise to me? but thats my own personal opion.

[kamotejin]

he was playing superimposed pentatonics that's why it sound weird... u myt hv a problem with your sound card or ur just an ignoramous....

[lauriemonk]

LOL... I prefer to think about this a musical journey. The journey into the fusion world is one of the best I ever made... and this is why I love this sort of playing so much. It does take some time to get there though.

[guitaristman23]

@lauriemonk id like to get there but don't know how have you got anyone advice?

[lauriemonk]

@guitaristman23 the journey to fusion is not something I can give you... all I know is something clicked one day for me on an old UK track Nevermore... I had heard it hundreds of before... Then this one time I flipped, I got it and bought every Holdsworth CD I could lay my hands on. Interestingly I found that it enabled me to listen to more popular music in a new light too.

[mustaine82]

@lauriemonk the excact same thing happened to me.i came across alien hip hop by planet x and i just fell in love with the hole thing. and i have allso listened to some music in a new light,

[krj85]

Don't you mean ignoramus? Which i'm not. There is nothing wrong with my sound card thanks. I know what he was playing,I was just saying its not for me,as I'm sure other styles arn't for you,I was just putting my own personal opinion to it,I know it takes a lot of time and dedication to play like this but it's just not me.

[stratoleft]

@krj85 You are one of the few who put this whole thing into perspective. Unlike so many in the fusion forums who pathetically tried to give their technical reasons as to why they didn't like Allan Holdsworth. The "arguments" went off into nowhere. Just as you don't prefer this approach, Alex's music struck a nerve with me because of style, feel, and sound. There isn't much out there that I would pay to go see, and I would order tickets to see Alex, although I doubt he would come here.

[skater15153]

you are always welcome to have an opinion haha you probably don't like many guys like Alan Holdsworth or Shawn Lane either though since they are also very much jazz fusion players

[ThreeLeggedMongoose]

such smooth playing, this guy knows what he's doing so well

[skater15153]

yah he does...considering he teaches at GIT with Paul Gilbert...ya he knows what's up haha

[peanutbuddha]

Shred all those pentatonics like crazy and pick in face melting speed. This dude is so cool

[dmnxCGi]

yeah lol, what's funny is that he didn't change expression much while saying that

[peanutbuddha]

Because face melting speed is pretty serious

[Nickiefive]

@peanutbuddha that made me rofl

[vetmusician]

@peanutbuddha he must of been talking about shawn lane.................LOL, but shawn lane had nothing but good things to say about this guy..........

[jittboy1]

around 2;53 very holdsworth sounding ,cool  stuff!!

[mdelr]

He's gotta a shady, ear-turner tone!

i just had a boner!...ooops!

It's great to still realize the existence of such

musicality in fusion, in someone like that dude has above...

you own it!!

[tyrian2097]

check out 3:42 have stuck some random dick

[stratoleft]

Grodin guitars.

[stratoleft]

I can't remember if the tune he does here is either Yellow Pages or Austin Powers. It's one of 'em.

[joetube112349]

like allan holdsworth !

[schemerlamp]

@joetube112349 There's no one like Holdsworth..

Holdworth made legato his signature and improved his style..

If you can play legato perfectly you still cant play like holdsworth

[KingTabor]

@schemerlamp one of the best statements I read about the master Allien!

[xgibsonxsgx]

pick in a face melting speed LOL XD

[Lydianshadow]

He's austrian

[lauriemonk]

He's awesome :P

[charlezurich]

He looks like David Bowie lol.

Ziggy Stardust wished he could play like that :D

[marquesjunior]

hey great playing

GOD bless you

5

stars!

[nickwellings]

Way cool.

[samgc14]

such relaxed speed, I love this fucking person who uploads this stuff.

[rmsolympic1]

Excellent phrase ' relaxed speed ' to describe his playing, particularly his fast playing. I might even call it speed that breathes, sounding so natural and organic.

[GreggaryPeccary]

A bit too relaxed. I like an intonated, edgy, metallic guitar sound. His tone is much too fuzzy

[persini]

he's awesome

[Thunder9513]

Very Cool! Awesome Actually!

[cripitsacrapple]

NO WAY!!!!

this guy is awesome cant believe hes with lick library!

gotta get this ASAP!