MasterThatRiff! 53 - Paul Gilbert "Scarified"

[crusis01]

i've been looking for a good lesson for this song for weeks and you had me playing this in the time it took me to watch it, epic good job thank you so much

[lemmywasp]

he's Jeff Waters!!!!!!!!!!



[Narut0Kur0saki]

any tips on building speed?

[GabrielDhalaman2]

Marvelous teacher

[SuperGuitarNerd]

Am I the only one that actually finds the crazy string-skipping stuff much easier than the body of the actual main riff itself? :-/

[R0cker46]

Technical difficulties lesson please

[polosaint]

lolol the Auto Captions are hilarious

[stoob1969]

people who dislike are absolute idiots

[vetricelvan]

Can you show some other Paul gilbert riff that can be played by mere mortal like me

because this is just way too 'Paul gilbert' for me.

[aerosmith425]

dog this song is da shittt

420 THANKS YO

[35BRE]

Thank you! People like you make the complicated seem easy...

[MWRiff]

Something thats been bugging me for a while,

How do you get your palm muting at the same volume as regular picking?? How do you make it so subtle? :)

Great lesson its saved me alot of studying, thanks mate.

[mastertheguitar]

Mute nice and close to the string end at the bridge, gives a lighter mute. Moving further along the string towards the nut or applying more pressure will kill the string quicker and give a heavier mute. HTH :)

[Thehwchampionotw]

@mastertheguitar can you teach the outro for this song please,it's my fav part:)

[whitelotus808]

dude, youre my guitar lick master now . thanks for this vid, it helped me get these parts down. do you happen to have any steve vai songs? try and teach tender surrender or for the love of god. anyway, instead of the string skipping arpeggios, you can do it in a sweeping motion also. for ex: when you play 14 then 12 on the high e, then 14, 11 on the g, start from the d and hit 12, g11, 10 B and 10 on the high E. it comes out the same but I think its easier and faster.

[112358miau]

Do you start with an upstroke? I make all the reverse way, why do you do that, it's esasier for alternate picking?

[blitz92z]

i noticed that at the end of the part when you played to the original timing, your video and your audio was a bit out of sync and while you were teaching the riffs, the sound from your guitar was different from the part. i'm not trying to say that you're fake or anything cos i learned quite a bit from this vid and i thank you for that but i just noticed that tiny little error.

[mastertheguitar]

@blitz92z I record the audio for each section differently and record the audio separately. For the demo part I have just the amp mic'ed and for the actual lesson I use an ambient mic to record my voice and guitar. Everything is then edited together, video and audio, in Final Cut Express where I line up the audio waveforms to the camera audio. I've noticed sometimes that once things are uploaded to youtube there's a tiny bit of lag.

[blitz92z]

@mastertheguitar oh that explains a lot. thanks! anyway, you make really good videos. but i've noticed you make vids on songs by bands which are rather metallish and hard rock-ish (if i'm not wrong). ever thought of teaching the riffs of other songs of other genres? i'm pretty sure more people will watch your vids if you do so.

[mastertheguitar]

@blitz92z I tend to cover riffs from bands/artists I love which covers a wide range from rock to blues to jazz to funk to pop to metal, hard rock etc. You should see the list of riffs I would love to cover! :D It's just finding the time to do them :)

[blitz92z]

@mastertheguitar haha. i think i'll subscribe to your channel, hoping that those covers will come by and to make sure i don't miss them! :D

[BrUSomania]

Thanks dude. This helped a lot

[gwapogerone]

w/c is harder to play? technical or scarified?

[EMOHOLACAWST]

@gwapogerone

scarified

[UrSkulled]

@gwapogerone For me the string skipping in scarified is intense, Technical Difficulties, does require more technique.

[espChris93]

badass playing. one of the very few good lessons on this song ive seen. Its a tough one to get ahold of especially because of the rythym

[pobhockle]

Fantastic tutorial. Well explained, in good time and good editing. Thanks. Dunno if anyone else has said, but I'd pay for a full video tutorial of this song.

[Justiced83]

good!!

[oFIRESoHURTo]

i love this song and his accent is awesome xD

[Leonard5555]

this guy is a great teacher and i still can't play this fucking thing

[Boogie1188]

You need to post a video with the verse sections, all those arpeggios and such!

[Beauthegreat1]

I would actually pay like $50-100 to see that

[Beauthegreat1]

THANK YOU SO MUCH

[Erithlon]

nice video!

Do you experience lag/delay when you play in realtime with guitar rig. I get some Pretty anoying delay when i play with my line 6 pod into my pc with USB.

[RevilationGuitar91]

you must have ASIO supported sound card to get it working 100%

[grizzli1994]

Get driver called ASIO4ALL. IT will fix the problem, trust me

[N1nja32]

wow thanks so much for this vid!! been lookin forever for a lesson for this song!

[djbrosht]

he should start doing some full songs. that would be awesome

[BASSment7al7]

Try playing this on a bass with fingers!

[mastertheguitar]

Music is of course very dynamic and I'd hate for people to think it's all analytical and straight edges, but for these videos I think it helps to try and convey what's going on rhythmically for people to learn rather than just saying 'play this slow then fast' which could be too vague for some.

[0iGer0]

I'm sorry, it's just that i'm exhausted, i have all my exams coming this week and next week (music school). I just don't know how to exprss what i mean. Just accelerate the lick ... or just ask paul, because that' what my teacer did. He asked paul and paul answered him what i'm trying to say !!!!

So yeah, listen to te recording, perhaps he played triplets but definitly not live, or anywhere later.

[0iGer0]

2:36. That riff is not played like that. Paul plays a crescendo alternate picking lick. Starts slow and you go faster and faster to reach the beat ... that's all ... yeah i know what you think, but music isn't perfect dude ... He's not playing triplets he's just going faster and faster on that lick. How do i know that ? Guess how ..

[santiagoenbsas]

all this is great, i learn a lot, and i´m gonna keep learning, thank you

[TheClassicalist]

thx for clearing up the arpeggio part, been trying to figure out what's going on there for a long time, and the scores on the internet or even the official score just doesn't sound right. thx!

[Bigmakk14]

do a George Lynch mr scary lesson please

[LucasYahn]

hi guy!! I want to propose a challenge! and if you record a song of mine and I recorded a song of yours? what do you think?

[chigginnuckets]

hey, man, i dont mean to be stingy, but you haven't posted any new riffs on the site in a real long time. i look forward to new vids.

[mastertheguitar]

Busy with various music projects at the moment, normal service will resume soon!

[classicrockriffs]

Great playing - I really need to work on my alternate picking!

[avskrap]

It's called "MasterThatRiff!", not "MasterThatSong!".

[roytek444]

THANK YOU. U_U

[drporkchop234]

whyd you cut your hair?just kidding excellent hard and fun hanks bro

[tulliball79]

Thanks!! Great. Shur..Nice!

[aerosmith425]

thanks for this man. dude i subbed a long time ago but yeah you should do a bls riff and more pantera riffs

[shredderbeno]

hey check out my video response. I only watched this vid 30 mins ago so im still playing it quite slow but i just thought i'd show you how i was doing with it. By the way your videos are amazing. thanks!

[brandon5pennies]

i thought it was a half step down on the racer x version? e flat tuning.

[mastertheguitar]

Yeah was a 1/2 step down.

[1982r]

Cool video, I enjoy this song!

[interiorattack]

Great Job Mark. Your explanations are every bit as good as your playing ability!

[prydogga]

I love this song, I'm glad you did it, I know it but it's good to see you play it so well.

[Jinskee]

good job man, thank you!

[lauriemonk]

really great!

[shpazshpaz]

Great as always, Mark you rock!

[TheDarkKnight316]

AWESOME DUDE!!!

Keep rocking!!

[C0ldFart]

is that a rubber band at the head near the tuners?

[mastertheguitar]

It's a little homemade velcro string dampener :)

[SlayerPagey]

Haha, look in the tags: "bad hair"

That made me lol, great tutorial, again Mark. This looks hard but i'm going to try!

[WalkinDude91]

Great lesson as always. The timing on that main riff sounds pretty tricky. THANK GOD you actually explain the timing for these things unlike every other song lesson on youtube.

[harmonic12th]

Awesome......

[telemaster17]

Ha! Brilliant! I was just thinking Mark should do a lesson on this.

[feelee15]

great song!

[loveguitars]

Excellent Bro!!!!

[GaryT85]

man, keep getting - "an error occured, please try again later"

i dont wanna try later, i want to see this now, scarified is awesome