I'll learn the blues when blues guys start learning metal. You gotta get out of your lame pentatonic boxes and 12 bar cut and paste rhythms sometime, fellas! I like blues, I can play blues, but the condescending attitude bothers me. Blues style playing isn't the only style of guitar playing with 'emotion' and 'feeling.' Just because you don't understand shred/metal/whatever doesn't mean it is devoid of emotion.
people who cant even play anything but muddy bugging metal crap stop hating on gambale and others by labling them as mindless shredders this is soul ! nothing any screamo.hardcore band could ever get a sense of frank is so right people these days should be learning the blues govan ,moore, holdsworth etc
im 21, and done exactly what the guy said... jumped into metal and all the usual iron maiden, nirvana, metallica well known songs. gets boring after a while, I want to be a bit more unique, so Im going to completely re-learn, but starting with blues. Problem is, I dont know where to turn for inspiration....hendrix, but well, he just cannot be immitated.
@addicted2guitar90 and just to add I dont find it boring. Everytime I get an opportunity to play, its in front of an older audience, which gets me stuck really, and its quite frustrating when you don't have the knowlege!
@25zeppelins Amen Son House is a monster, technique wise one can know he never "practiced properly" but he is so free in the way he plays what he plays.. kinda like Hendrix :P COOL!
@Pierceher Kind of like Guthrie who just played all day. drinking and smoking like chimney. He never took lessons or used a metronome. Yet he is the most montrous player at the moment. Not a style that he can't play.
Wish Frank would cook up a blues cd! I would be at the head of the queue to hear that! In fact, I'd be at the head of the queue for another Tony Muschamp record. still a favourite in my pile! This man is 100 proof guitar player.
Points well taken. There is so much speed these days with guitarists. It is amazing to watch - for a moment. But speed is empty calories - junk food, unless it is in the context of something larger. Notes, fast or slow, should say something profound. BB King is very sparse in notes but each one can be spellbinding. I was never anywhere near to being bored at his shows.
So true. I've been teaching for years, and just about every young kid comes with a electric guitar and wants to either play Metallica or AC/DC. The only ones who have ever really found their way in music and guitar are the ones who listened when I taught them blues. Everything rock and roll revolves around the blues. The chord progressions, solos, scales, rhythm. It's the root of all. Once you understand the blues everything else comes 100% easier.
@CamHawesMusic011 So where would you recommend a beginner (like myself) start with playing the electric guitar that wants to learn the blues? Scales? Chords? My goal is to play the blues in all facets, whatever that means and to play it with some soul. Not robotic, but something that comes from within. Thanks for your advice!
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR nice argument, japan is superior in music... thats an argument.
Back to the point
hes a legend of the guitar, if it wasnt for frank gambale a lot of the music we have today wouldnt exist. STEVE VAI WAS TAUGHT BY FRANK GAMBALE. show some respect for guitar legends, even if u dont know who they are and they teach something you dont want to learn. they know what they're doing, thats why they are who they are.
PD: try to grow up and come up with a better argument next time.
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR lmao... just as i thought.... how old are you? and why are you even watching this video and afterwards posting an offensive comment aganst FG if you're not even mentally capable to have a mature argument without saying the word "fag" (btw it FAGG) or "virgin" or making punny jokes about other people's problems?
anyway lets end this now, your not worth wasting the time to try to explain, you have no manners nor even respect to other people.
@CamHawesMusic011 I love the blues too and mostly agree with you, but ac/dc isn't a bad place to start learning simple things. Angus has good phrasing and a lot of there older music is based around blues riffs so I'm not sure what you mean. And yes mrusedbooks... scott henderson is good ;)
I have been to rock and alternative songs and my favorite the was Slash (GNR) and Metallica, but when I have met Frank Gambale's Guitar Technique 1 & 1, and Chop Builder everything has changed. I believe I must learn all the things Sir Frank Gambale has wrote and said.
I think he's referring to Kirk Hammet vibrato, because at the polar opposite is the metal vibrato king, George Lynch, and that's totally acceptable and downright beautiful.
Frank is a monster and I've enjoyed his music for over 20 years. A very talented and down to earth guy. Just mind blowing some of the stuff he plays that I've tried to learn over the years with very little success. LOL
@whatshendrix What do you mean "spin"? No I've never heard any of them, similar licks sure, but all music is "similar" if you don't tend to the details?
"similar licks sure, but all music is "similar" if you don't tend to the details?" - that's what I meant by saying that he puts his own spin to the licks :)
No "feel" ? This guy has chops your pee brain couldn't comprehend in a fucking millenium. He's regarded as one of the best Fusion players in the world. No one gives a flying fuck if he's not pure blues because no bedroom dwelling pentatonic "blues purist" like yourself could ever attain a shred of the talent nor feel he has. Get off your high horse and think before you speak next, bloody hell.
Dimebag had bluenotes in his solos and fit exquisitely over the heaviness of Panteras music. Frank was being nice to the general populous of metal I'm sure he knows a poser when he hears one.
Although Frank is a fabulous guitar player, "Blues" is something he should avoid. This was totally lacking in, "Feel" and "Heart"........Seriously, Frank's take on the, "Blues" came across as incredibly white and corn bread. I dont think SRV would have given a clinic on metal and shredding..........This was quite awful, no soul at all. The main thing about some of these guitar, "Shredders" is the fact that they do lack soul when it comes to the, "Blues"........
@Pjaynes781 Show us your chops???? His blues playing is good and he is illustrating some very important points here. Metal kids get too swept up in speed, end up with sloppy technique and could do with being a lil more melodic in their phrasing
by calling him an arrogant turd, you missed the point of this entirely. hes not known for being a blues musician, so again, this video isnt for people whose only influence is with the blues.
@JewsInUranus His being an arrogant turd is just a fact, his being a crappy blues player is also a fact. I get the, "Point" but, Gambali needs to stick with the sweeps and shreddin in he's known for. The, "Blues" is not his "Bag".
@JewsInUranus Just telling it the way it is, that's all. I never once denied the fact the Gambali is a good guitarist. What I have said is this, Gambali, like the other, "Shredders" need to stay away, FAAAAAAAAAAAR away from the blues. They make themselves look very, "White" and, "Cornbread" when they try to get, "Bluesy".
i wouldnt necessarily consider gambale a shredder. yes, he shreds, but mostly that term is meant for people who play heavier or at least metal influenced music. fusion/jazz isnt really known for headbanging.
@shadowknight132 Jazz did not originate from the blues. It began with black musicians in New Orleans putting their syncopated spin on 19th century marches. Now, there is considerable overlap between the blues and jazz, but the latter did not come from the former.
Oh I did not know that. After watching so many shows on Jazz, they made it seem like jazz came from the blues because they use the blues a lot in jazz. Although, I'm half right that jazz players shouldn't stay away from the blues.
@Hoopermazing oh shit, it's the oldest person alive! this man, was actually there. he knows how jazz originated. listen to hoopermazing, seriously, because he literally is the worlds last living link to early jazz. since he was living in 1910, he can speak with factual accuracy about how jazz began.
@Bassist10288 Based on what? The cakewalks played on plantations during slavery were a much more direct ancestor of jazz... as were the marches of John Phillip Sousa. Ragtime is probably its immediate ancestor. The blues is mere a musical cousin, and the form was developed by the same population group, more or less. But, I see no evidence of the development of jazz hinging upon the blues.
@Hoopermazing look it up dude. there's evidence everywhere. It's like saying rock and roll would have existed without the blues, it's crazy. Musicians are people who listen, and what you listen to influences you. Blues came before Jazz, thusly, Jazz artists listened to Blues. It shaped their style, no question.
@Hoopermazing actually, jazz is born from the cooperation between creole people and african americans. after the jim crow laws, stating that every colored man had equal rights(none), the creole peolpe started jamming with the africans. The creole learned classical training and the africans mastered rithm. together they came up with jazz. Learned that from my jazz history lessons.
@TheNeverendingfire I recently had a conversation with Archie Shepp and he had an interesting insight about this as well. Around the late 19th c. there was a huge civic band craze in this country and it died out a few decades later which put plenty of band instruments into pawn shops. Recently freed African Americans who now had some expendable income got many of these instruments at prices they could afford and this contributed to the borth of jazz as well.
@Hoopermazing Jazz origins: On the age of 7, one time Chuck Norris sat down and played the piano and he "accidentally" pressed a wrong key. This is how jazz was born...
Fuck this guy has the feel of BB King with the jazz swagger of Lorne Lofsky or Pat Martino. That's why I love Fusion it's blues that swings with jazz, the best of both worlds. Gambale is such a monster at this stuff too.
@adamhull1966 yeah it's true! Metal started with Blues. So if you know blues, it will give you a very good base for almost any kind of music and makes it alot easier to master
@Anarchyffan yeah you're right, i haven't been in the 70's-80's so i don't know where metal came from, but by listening to other people it kind of came out of hard rock i think
@Anarchyffan Black Sabbath , the "first" Metal band , was originally a blues band . And I'm not talking about the influence of classical music (Malmsteen , Randy Rhoads .....)
@TheGumboVariator Don't talk to me about Sabbath, I know Sabbath like the back of my hand and I can tell you that there are more classical undertones than blues ones. For example, the tri-tone and many of Sabbath's minor progressions. L2 music, noob.
I like what he says - his technique is awesome. But I like to do all types of vibrato ... um whatever is appropriate for the song ... choking a chicken if necessary!!!
Hey how about somebody writing a song called "choke the chicken"... all sorts of connotations there!
He certainly has his own take on the blues, I'm not saying one is better than the other, but for someone to preach phrasing and play some of the speed licks he wails out in there seems hypocritical. Someone ask BB king if the lick at 2:50 is blues, he'd probably say yes with a confused look on his face
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machinegunlicks 3 days ago
I'll learn the blues when blues guys start learning metal. You gotta get out of your lame pentatonic boxes and 12 bar cut and paste rhythms sometime, fellas! I like blues, I can play blues, but the condescending attitude bothers me. Blues style playing isn't the only style of guitar playing with 'emotion' and 'feeling.' Just because you don't understand shred/metal/whatever doesn't mean it is devoid of emotion.
Wes919 1 week ago
people who cant even play anything but muddy bugging metal crap stop hating on gambale and others by labling them as mindless shredders this is soul ! nothing any screamo.hardcore band could ever get a sense of frank is so right people these days should be learning the blues govan ,moore, holdsworth etc
dmohr7 1 week ago
the anti-aliasing on his head sucks. still great video man !
HoriaAkiroh 1 week ago
i don't wanna play anymore...
bcorderov 2 weeks ago
TABS TABS TABS??????????????
dmohr7 2 weeks ago
I miss the wig he used to wear.
shitmandood 3 weeks ago
He's a great player, but why is his tone always so nasty?
OzziePerch 1 month ago
im 21, and done exactly what the guy said... jumped into metal and all the usual iron maiden, nirvana, metallica well known songs. gets boring after a while, I want to be a bit more unique, so Im going to completely re-learn, but starting with blues. Problem is, I dont know where to turn for inspiration....hendrix, but well, he just cannot be immitated.
addicted2guitar90 1 month ago
@addicted2guitar90 and just to add I dont find it boring. Everytime I get an opportunity to play, its in front of an older audience, which gets me stuck really, and its quite frustrating when you don't have the knowlege!
addicted2guitar90 1 month ago
1:00 Zakk Wylde's vibrato to a T. His earlier guitar work with Ozzy... perfect vibrato and great tone. Nowadays... I think it's all terrible.
Nickhead87 1 month ago
Frank is one of the best players in the world hands down and master teacher too. Kids, watch, listen and LEARN!
nighthawk584 1 month ago
I like when the cunt smiles at 1:51. You can tell he's enjoyin just fuckin aboot wi his guitar
rob756 2 months ago
Man i hate the blues, but if Frank Gambale says it i will shut up, listen and obey :)
Pierceher 2 months ago
@Pierceher
Oh, God!
I just can´t believe you don´t like the Blues, man!
Blues is everything.
brazilianguitarlover 2 months ago
@brazilianguitarlover well.. my ears like them, i would kill for their skills and musical knowledge , but it just doesnt reach my soul at all..
Pierceher 2 months ago
@Pierceher
I understand you.
brazilianguitarlover 2 months ago
@Pierceher Just listen to some old school blues, like Son House or something. Hard not to reach your soul there.
25zeppelins 2 months ago
@25zeppelins thanks for the suggestions, im always open to new inspirational music :P
Pierceher 2 months ago
@25zeppelins Amen Son House is a monster, technique wise one can know he never "practiced properly" but he is so free in the way he plays what he plays.. kinda like Hendrix :P COOL!
Pierceher 2 months ago
@Pierceher Kind of like Guthrie who just played all day. drinking and smoking like chimney. He never took lessons or used a metronome. Yet he is the most montrous player at the moment. Not a style that he can't play.
francisco444 1 month ago
Awesome playing, sir! :-)
margovallen 2 months ago
Don't worry about those guys Frank, they're just into pissing contests.
They're the sort of guys who frequent you tube and spray the words 'best' and 'fastest' behind.
Samsgarden 2 months ago
Wish Frank would cook up a blues cd! I would be at the head of the queue to hear that! In fact, I'd be at the head of the queue for another Tony Muschamp record. still a favourite in my pile! This man is 100 proof guitar player.
hogsbelly63 2 months ago
i saw your name on some dv mark products was wondering if thats what you use in your videos
heydudemansup 2 months ago
so how do I learn these "blues"
dankspanktank 3 months ago
So true...
Larry Carlton!
daindo91 3 months ago
Uncle Fester can really shred the guitar!!
MrDrummerguy33 3 months ago
1:01 he's referring to rusty cooley lulz
kalabiandarkness 3 months ago
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Zakk Wylde fuck his daughter in high school so he is pissed off and play only little vibrato ! :D
pantera488 3 months ago
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pantera488 3 months ago
I love the way he says "or something else..."
inefficient 3 months ago
Points well taken. There is so much speed these days with guitarists. It is amazing to watch - for a moment. But speed is empty calories - junk food, unless it is in the context of something larger. Notes, fast or slow, should say something profound. BB King is very sparse in notes but each one can be spellbinding. I was never anywhere near to being bored at his shows.
sseklof 3 months ago
straight to metal... or something else LOL
zantoine 3 months ago
which DVD is this taken from?
josemontenegro777 4 months ago
This is so not fair
9Iamthewalrus 4 months ago
no need to learn blues when you got dime!
Bjouesbijou 4 months ago
@Bjouesbijou Dime learned blues
MjXllcommando 3 months ago
So true. I've been teaching for years, and just about every young kid comes with a electric guitar and wants to either play Metallica or AC/DC. The only ones who have ever really found their way in music and guitar are the ones who listened when I taught them blues. Everything rock and roll revolves around the blues. The chord progressions, solos, scales, rhythm. It's the root of all. Once you understand the blues everything else comes 100% easier.
CamHawesMusic011 4 months ago 10
@CamHawesMusic011 So where would you recommend a beginner (like myself) start with playing the electric guitar that wants to learn the blues? Scales? Chords? My goal is to play the blues in all facets, whatever that means and to play it with some soul. Not robotic, but something that comes from within. Thanks for your advice!
locoken 2 months ago
@CamHawesMusic011 your some faggot guitar teacher who just teaches kids the blues when they DONT WANT TO? your terrible
TheBestGuitarSoloEVR 1 month ago
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR
how appropriate of you to say....
gtrrobster 1 month ago
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR its frank fucking gamballe dude... show some respect <-<
em0p0wa 1 month ago
@em0p0wa says the virgin who loves japan!
TheBestGuitarSoloEVR 1 month ago
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR nice argument, japan is superior in music... thats an argument.
Back to the point
hes a legend of the guitar, if it wasnt for frank gambale a lot of the music we have today wouldnt exist. STEVE VAI WAS TAUGHT BY FRANK GAMBALE. show some respect for guitar legends, even if u dont know who they are and they teach something you dont want to learn. they know what they're doing, thats why they are who they are.
PD: try to grow up and come up with a better argument next time.
em0p0wa 1 month ago
@em0p0wa your a fag! japan is also superior in getting hit by tsunamis ya faaaaaag!
TheBestGuitarSoloEVR 1 month ago
@TheBestGuitarSoloEVR lmao... just as i thought.... how old are you? and why are you even watching this video and afterwards posting an offensive comment aganst FG if you're not even mentally capable to have a mature argument without saying the word "fag" (btw it FAGG) or "virgin" or making punny jokes about other people's problems?
anyway lets end this now, your not worth wasting the time to try to explain, you have no manners nor even respect to other people.
I'll ttyl when u've grown up.
em0p0wa 1 month ago
@em0p0wa says the person whos a fag!
TheBestGuitarSoloEVR 1 month ago
@CamHawesMusic011 I love the blues too and mostly agree with you, but ac/dc isn't a bad place to start learning simple things. Angus has good phrasing and a lot of there older music is based around blues riffs so I'm not sure what you mean. And yes mrusedbooks... scott henderson is good ;)
sgmann09 1 month ago
Thank you very much Frank!!!!
danielepintaldi 5 months ago
What the name of the whole video, clinic, hotlicks... ??
diazluisdiaz 5 months ago
That tone is quite impressive besides his skills and phrasing
diazluisdiaz 5 months ago
Sir Frank Gambale, really you are one of most versatile guitarist. If not no. 1 and next to Jimmy Hendrix...
elybuendia64 5 months ago
I have been to rock and alternative songs and my favorite the was Slash (GNR) and Metallica, but when I have met Frank Gambale's Guitar Technique 1 & 1, and Chop Builder everything has changed. I believe I must learn all the things Sir Frank Gambale has wrote and said.
elybuendia64 5 months ago
That is tone!
cpage07 5 months ago 3
haha Zakk Wylde had chicken for breakfast! \m/
niah7510 5 months ago
haha, he nearly said 'chocking the chicken' 1.04
peacefrog1916 6 months ago
Blues is the Roots...the rest are the Fruits
threeamax 6 months ago
Beautiful Vibratto
danielstevan26 6 months ago
that tone makes me wanna play right now...
chechoguitar112 6 months ago
Did he just refer to Zakk Wylde's vibratos? Hahahaha.
FerdieBeer 6 months ago
Thanks Frank for reminding me how much I still suck! Anybody know where this video came from... where to buy it?
learningshack 6 months ago
His tone is so smooth.
littleleaf96 6 months ago
F.G. is definitliely one of the best ever>>>>>>>>>>>>>O'kay now I'll say it: Frank,!!! You're the best ever!!!
johnhwilliams 6 months ago
1:01 Zakk Wylde gets OWNED!
itsthearistocrat 6 months ago
just saw him with return to forever 4 tonight
blew my god damn mind
jamiebmxrider 7 months ago
great exampe...
how to build like that?
irvanzworld 7 months ago
I really need an album of that style of guitar playing.
And since Frank doenst play that groovy on his albums, any tips?
Account3of7 7 months ago
@Account3of7 Try listening to some Scott Henderson.
MrUsedBooks 7 months ago 7
Of course ALL "ROCK SCALES" are THE BLUES........ THERE JUST PLAYED HARD, FAST, THRU A MARSHALL STACK !!!!!!!!!!!!...... LONG LIVE THE BLUES !!!!
muppy1100 7 months ago
His licks are synonymous with that head of his -- smoooth and slick. :P
Big0il 7 months ago
I think he's referring to Kirk Hammet vibrato, because at the polar opposite is the metal vibrato king, George Lynch, and that's totally acceptable and downright beautiful.
DougFCKNSteele 7 months ago
FRANKIE.... Your the liicks that make licks.. B
RO !!!!!!
muppy1100 7 months ago
What a great picking technique that is!
superagnitio 8 months ago
Real metalheads have no issue playing blues, or at least the guitar savvy ones.
xD0NKEYx 8 months ago
Your right, it came from jazz players playing around with the 5th position and going from there...then came the blues. GOOD POINT
Dking863 8 months ago
Uncle Fester shreds man.
Danazawa 8 months ago
Great guitarist, but the australian/american accent just... I dunno, catches me off guard
windows98sucks 9 months ago
The ingenious guitarist the master!
romfedor 9 months ago
Frank is a monster and I've enjoyed his music for over 20 years. A very talented and down to earth guy. Just mind blowing some of the stuff he plays that I've tried to learn over the years with very little success. LOL
SIXSTRING63 9 months ago
wohhoo, way to go Frank!
MrMemag 9 months ago
...and at the end, he smiled <3
svanur75 9 months ago
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Blues is gay. Jazz is good.
trevorftard 9 months ago
Blues is great. The style can fit perfectly in metal solos if used right, and it's very fun to play :)
ThaThing1337x 9 months ago
amazing musician.
RJiminez51 10 months ago
HE IS PHRASING EVERYTHING SO WELL I NEVER HEARD ANY OF THESE LICKS BEFORE!!!
vincentizghra 10 months ago 2
@vincentizghra
Of course you have - he just puts his own spin to them :)
whatshendrix 9 months ago
@whatshendrix What do you mean "spin"? No I've never heard any of them, similar licks sure, but all music is "similar" if you don't tend to the details?
vincentizghra 9 months ago
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@vincentizghra
"similar licks sure, but all music is "similar" if you don't tend to the details?" - that's what I meant by saying that he puts his own spin to the licks :)
whatshendrix 9 months ago
his accent is fucking weird
musicbookmusicbook 10 months ago
@musicbookmusicbook
hes australian, but his been in america for yonks.
gamz4tlol 9 months ago
1:15 that phrasing. Very tasty!
burmanmusic 10 months ago
Uncle Fester is pretty good
zekiepoo13 10 months ago 3
His tone is so awesome and he gives a lovely explanation on how quality is better than quantity on the guitar.
ShortFingeredShreder 10 months ago 2
Im a metal player and wanted to be able to play blues for quite a good while :)
omeganukestrike 11 months ago
That was polite squealing
YummyBananaFish 11 months ago
yertle the turtle plays guitar??
DuhJeffmeister 11 months ago
@Pjaynes781
No "feel" ? This guy has chops your pee brain couldn't comprehend in a fucking millenium. He's regarded as one of the best Fusion players in the world. No one gives a flying fuck if he's not pure blues because no bedroom dwelling pentatonic "blues purist" like yourself could ever attain a shred of the talent nor feel he has. Get off your high horse and think before you speak next, bloody hell.
skeetv123 11 months ago 3
Holy sweet god- listen to that tone!
CheersElephant 11 months ago
did he say scream?? none of tha was scream man
dobsonone 11 months ago
Where is this from? Like a dvd of some sort?
cbkehoe91 11 months ago
I love the sound of his attack.
headlesssoldier 11 months ago
suck it nerdy metal heads,and deep purple is far away from metal
juliovac 11 months ago
Long live Deep Purple, Sabbath, Gambale, metal and fusion!
McLeod54 11 months ago
The man speaks truth. Black Sabbath were originally a blues band.
snackajack117 1 year ago
obey mussolini!
Alejandro4891 1 year ago
That was a very good example!!!
RS358 1 year ago
check my videos, im a young fusion player influenced by gambale
TomRichardson92 1 year ago
that's incredible
semotty 1 year ago
Dimebag had bluenotes in his solos and fit exquisitely over the heaviness of Panteras music. Frank was being nice to the general populous of metal I'm sure he knows a poser when he hears one.
GameLevelEditor 1 year ago
@GameLevelEditor Yeah, i loved PanterA thanks to Dimebag bluenotes.
Dimebag was really the man.
dimebagplan 11 months ago 2
Fuck metal in its meth-smoking trailer-trash ass.
Hoopermazing 1 year ago
couldn't agree more. Great player
QuistTV 1 year ago
"A lot of guys nowadays haven't learn really blues, they went straight to metal or.... or something else, you know..." LOL
This guy is a guitar monster. Super video!
Oh, and BTW I will never strangle a chicken again!
SuperSolaris 1 year ago
WHAT AMP HE IS USING HERE???????
JesusWorship7 1 year ago
I have to gree with Pjaynes781.
The first few licks are great, then it gets more and more stupid. Not the blues I like.
kleinebudde 1 year ago
GOD I love Frank Gambale.
xjustxkidsx 1 year ago
STUDYING....
kayary 1 year ago
That face and that playing just don't go together...
brycesizzle122591 1 year ago
when did uncle fester learn the guitar?
TeamSchwarznegger 1 year ago
And I have this man's signature on my backpack.. oh yeah.
ianidinuse 1 year ago
Joe DiRita???
2taintme 1 year ago
Although Frank is a fabulous guitar player, "Blues" is something he should avoid. This was totally lacking in, "Feel" and "Heart"........Seriously, Frank's take on the, "Blues" came across as incredibly white and corn bread. I dont think SRV would have given a clinic on metal and shredding..........This was quite awful, no soul at all. The main thing about some of these guitar, "Shredders" is the fact that they do lack soul when it comes to the, "Blues"........
Pjaynes781 1 year ago
@Pjaynes781 Show us your chops???? His blues playing is good and he is illustrating some very important points here. Metal kids get too swept up in speed, end up with sloppy technique and could do with being a lil more melodic in their phrasing
Strange0ne 1 year ago
@Strange0ne My, "Chops" are on my channel. And sorry Mr dude, he's blues, "Chops" are spoiled. Get real friend.
Pjaynes781 1 year ago
@Pjaynes781
i think you missed the point of this video and for whom it was directed to.
JewsInUranus 1 year ago
@JewsInUranus No, not really, Frank Gambali comes across here as an arrogant turd. He needs to stay far away from the Blues.....
Pjaynes781 1 year ago
@Pjaynes781
by calling him an arrogant turd, you missed the point of this entirely. hes not known for being a blues musician, so again, this video isnt for people whose only influence is with the blues.
JewsInUranus 1 year ago
@JewsInUranus His being an arrogant turd is just a fact, his being a crappy blues player is also a fact. I get the, "Point" but, Gambali needs to stick with the sweeps and shreddin in he's known for. The, "Blues" is not his "Bag".
Pjaynes781 1 year ago
@Pjaynes781
lol, i always laugh at you blues elitist.
JewsInUranus 1 year ago
@JewsInUranus Just telling it the way it is, that's all. I never once denied the fact the Gambali is a good guitarist. What I have said is this, Gambali, like the other, "Shredders" need to stay away, FAAAAAAAAAAAR away from the blues. They make themselves look very, "White" and, "Cornbread" when they try to get, "Bluesy".
Pjaynes781 1 year ago
@Pjaynes781
i wouldnt necessarily consider gambale a shredder. yes, he shreds, but mostly that term is meant for people who play heavier or at least metal influenced music. fusion/jazz isnt really known for headbanging.
JewsInUranus 1 year ago
@JewsInUranus True, I was generalizing.
Pjaynes781 1 year ago
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shadowknight132 1 year ago
@shadowknight132 Jazz did not originate from the blues. It began with black musicians in New Orleans putting their syncopated spin on 19th century marches. Now, there is considerable overlap between the blues and jazz, but the latter did not come from the former.
Hoopermazing 1 year ago 18
@Hoopermazing
Oh I did not know that. After watching so many shows on Jazz, they made it seem like jazz came from the blues because they use the blues a lot in jazz. Although, I'm half right that jazz players shouldn't stay away from the blues.
shadowknight132 1 year ago
@Hoopermazing oh shit, it's the oldest person alive! this man, was actually there. he knows how jazz originated. listen to hoopermazing, seriously, because he literally is the worlds last living link to early jazz. since he was living in 1910, he can speak with factual accuracy about how jazz began.
flipadiddle 10 months ago
@Hoopermazing thats true and i found out jazz came out of the african american community dowb south like goerigia..(sorry if i spell that wrong).
MDefsquad9 8 months ago
@MDefsquad9
Louisiana, mainly.
legendofzelda101 8 months ago
@legendofzelda101 ya thats true just looked it up.
MDefsquad9 8 months ago
@Hoopermazing I doubt that jazz would exist without blues.
Bassist10288 8 months ago
@Bassist10288 Based on what? The cakewalks played on plantations during slavery were a much more direct ancestor of jazz... as were the marches of John Phillip Sousa. Ragtime is probably its immediate ancestor. The blues is mere a musical cousin, and the form was developed by the same population group, more or less. But, I see no evidence of the development of jazz hinging upon the blues.
Hoopermazing 8 months ago
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Bassist10288 8 months ago
@Hoopermazing look it up dude. there's evidence everywhere. It's like saying rock and roll would have existed without the blues, it's crazy. Musicians are people who listen, and what you listen to influences you. Blues came before Jazz, thusly, Jazz artists listened to Blues. It shaped their style, no question.
Bassist10288 8 months ago
@Hoopermazing actually, jazz is born from the cooperation between creole people and african americans. after the jim crow laws, stating that every colored man had equal rights(none), the creole peolpe started jamming with the africans. The creole learned classical training and the africans mastered rithm. together they came up with jazz. Learned that from my jazz history lessons.
TheNeverendingfire 7 months ago
@TheNeverendingfire I recently had a conversation with Archie Shepp and he had an interesting insight about this as well. Around the late 19th c. there was a huge civic band craze in this country and it died out a few decades later which put plenty of band instruments into pawn shops. Recently freed African Americans who now had some expendable income got many of these instruments at prices they could afford and this contributed to the borth of jazz as well.
thmsjordan 7 months ago
@Hoopermazing Jazz origins: On the age of 7, one time Chuck Norris sat down and played the piano and he "accidentally" pressed a wrong key. This is how jazz was born...
MrRockonman 6 months ago
@MrRockonman Chuck Norris might have accidentally invented being corny, but that's about it.
Hoopermazing 6 months ago
@shadowknight132 Kind of Blue has almost nothing to do with blues music my friend
fishqwer 6 months ago
pause at 1:02
fishqwer 1 year ago
Fuck this guy has the feel of BB King with the jazz swagger of Lorne Lofsky or Pat Martino. That's why I love Fusion it's blues that swings with jazz, the best of both worlds. Gambale is such a monster at this stuff too.
skeetv123 1 year ago
holy crap he has great tone
MrYungsan 1 year ago 2
He looks miserable....
biofear182 1 year ago
@biofear182 ma fottiti!
drudoooox 1 year ago
I'm so far out of the loop in the speed world hahaha, my good things happen at 45 bpm
SupairDup 1 year ago
What styles can´t he play?
GuitarsOfArp 1 year ago
I love that tone!!!!!!!!! Anyone knows how to set guitar rig 4 for a tone like that??
PatoC1982 1 year ago
Sooooo sweet!
TheDragonInn 1 year ago
im a drummer, but i really like listening to him- he's a very nice guy and what he says is revelant to any instrument.
adamhull1966 1 year ago
@adamhull1966 yeah it's true! Metal started with Blues. So if you know blues, it will give you a very good base for almost any kind of music and makes it alot easier to master
Saimenism 1 year ago 27
@Saimenism Sorry, but metal actually came from metal that was more classically influenced, not blues. Rock started with blues though...
Anarchyffan 1 year ago
@Anarchyffan yeah you're right, i haven't been in the 70's-80's so i don't know where metal came from, but by listening to other people it kind of came out of hard rock i think
Saimenism 1 year ago
@Saimenism Metal didn't start with any genre.
Anarchyffan 6 months ago
@Anarchyffan Black Sabbath , the "first" Metal band , was originally a blues band . And I'm not talking about the influence of classical music (Malmsteen , Randy Rhoads .....)
TheGumboVariator 6 months ago
@TheGumboVariator Don't talk to me about Sabbath, I know Sabbath like the back of my hand and I can tell you that there are more classical undertones than blues ones. For example, the tri-tone and many of Sabbath's minor progressions. L2 music, noob.
Anarchyffan 5 months ago
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TheGumboVariator 5 months ago
@Anarchyffan Black Sabbath WERE originally a blues band.
turnbacktime 5 months ago
@turnbacktime Thank you for trying to explain that to this retard .
TheGumboVariator 5 months ago
@TheGumboVariator I guess he doesnt even know the back of his hand, lol
turnbacktime 5 months ago
@Anarchyffan listen to planet caravan and then tell me thats not blues
9Iamthewalrus 4 months ago
most of the players do the "chicken thing"... and most of the players can replace the zacc or kirk - there's nothing special about them
kykah01 1 year ago
what sort of guitar i that?
thatbrettokid 1 year ago
@thatbrettokid
it's his signature Yamaha AES... i think
Fraseshotjonson 1 year ago
I like what he says - his technique is awesome. But I like to do all types of vibrato ... um whatever is appropriate for the song ... choking a chicken if necessary!!!
Hey how about somebody writing a song called "choke the chicken"... all sorts of connotations there!
frethouse 1 year ago
tone god
robotfamilygchicken 1 year ago
Where is the tab for that first lick. That rocked, I guess I could just learn it by ear...
gteamer 1 year ago
Popular music has lost the blues, which is it's roots.
Without the blues modern music is lost.
Said!
Learn it, know it, live it, love it.
It'll pay you back a billion fold.
LOVE
isbass 1 year ago
omfg his SOUND (Y)(Y)(Y)
JeffJefferson95 1 year ago
I won't be satisfied with my life until I can play at least a quarter this well. That sounds amazing.
gumbymofugga 1 year ago
He certainly has his own take on the blues, I'm not saying one is better than the other, but for someone to preach phrasing and play some of the speed licks he wails out in there seems hypocritical. Someone ask BB king if the lick at 2:50 is blues, he'd probably say yes with a confused look on his face
SupairDup 1 year ago