I don't think Jeff is playing this live in this video. String-syncing possibly? Notice at 1:58 how he grabs the Floyd and shakes it but yet, no trem in the pitch. So he either is "string-syncing" or performed this piece in more than one take and mixed the best takes together. That being said.....Jeff Loomis is one badass axe slinger!!
@TheAxe4Ever yeah haha you are right, I remember that Laiho's Are You Dead Yet EMG video had a video technicality where in between two shot transitions the position of his trem arm completely switched within 2 seconds :P its all over the comments
@dim3bagrules On a technical scale, there aren't many guitar players better than Loomis. Dimebag would pale in comparison. But the thing about Dimebag was that he never claimed to be a Scale God. He played what he felt, he played from his emotions, and that's what made him great.
@dim3bagrules No, they are too different as players. Dime was a pentatonic shredder, he basically played a very fast blues. Loomis on the other hand is much more steeped in the neo-classical school of shred. That being said, I believe Loomis to be a wastly more technical player.
@di1314....No 'you' just said it...'showing how fast he can play''..lol.is that all Jeff does in your pea brain..Any Blues you could mention would be 10 times more boring than Jeff.s worst tune...You can play probably play one or two SRV songs but could never dream of playing Jato Unit..and that makes you jealous..like all the terrified Jeff haters
Perfectly played, great tone. Yet somehow.....I lost interest about a minute into it. I think I'm just jaded by it all. At some point the awesomeness of the playing is under done by the lack of...."music".
why are you people trying to compare the neo classical playings of jeff loomis to blues players i will never know. Both genres contrast in both feel and technicality, its like comparing sister sledge to cream
Jeff Loomi's playing is ultra agressive, his talent and skill is god like, however I've felt his playing lacks emotion as well. I just never got really interested in his progressions and phrasing. Just kinda boring to me.
@sgmn8890 Why must you always diminish yourself in front of us ??
I never said that I was superior even though I shred and you don't doesn't make me superior to you...
And Clapton & SRV are good, never said the contrary, they're just technically not as good as Loomis and that's a fact stated by other fellow shredders, get over it !! who cares anyway
@MrFrothinger K, just to prove you wrong I listened to a few Vinnie Moore vids. His style's completely different, why is everyone trying to compare completely different guitar styles to eachother all the time. It's not a damn competition... JUST APPRECIATE MUSIC
@ZackAugustus - then you didn't listen to the right VM vids. His career spans nearly 25 years, and this music is massively reminiscent (to me) of the material on Mind's Eye - his first album with Shrapnel.
As for your CAPITALISED command to appreciate music, I do. I just say 'meh' when I'm not particularly impressed, as in this instance...
@sgmn8890 Never said there's no other style of guitar playing in the world, that's childish, now is that an "intelligent debate"
Look,I listen to every kind of music & i ll also listen to B182 if i want cuz i dont giv a shit about what people think and theres no genre that makes you "cooler" or "gayer"...
But when i listen to SHRED, technic is one of the elements i look for b/c shred is based on speed, technicity, innovative techniques amongst others.
@sgmn8890 Never said I ONLY listened to that, but I DO listen to solos with crazy scales, shred, arpeggions etc. because I appreciate both the melody of it and the technicity... If you're one of those pricks that think listening to metal or shred makes you a macho than you must have a VERY small penis
Really to the music/hardness argument. Clapton's songs are technically easier to play, but can you get the same feel?? Idk... Jeff Loomis has great licks blah blah blah... My favorite guitarist John Petrucci can do both just fine. Listen to what you will, comment what you like, but this is music and music can be done in many different ways. Let it be...
@qtipbluedog The whole feel argument is as unrelevant as the hardness one...
Feel is subjective, maybe for you Clapton has more "feeling", maybe for someone else Loomis has more
As for hardness, it is a criterion for some people (including me) because once you reach a certain level on an instrument you tend to look for something more technical
It doesn't mean that i don't listen to Clapton, Bob Marley or whatever
But shred by definition is based on speed & technicity....
@cjalmighty..I love Batio too and I get what your saying..but I guess maybe the solo album and the body of Nevermores work compared to Batios less marketable but awesome instrumentals ..Angelo is badass -way faster than Jeff even..but c mon Jeffs rythms are boss..and I didnt like Nitro so they dont count for much
@BadassNickname...Because Jeffs tunes are way harder to play than all the Claptons etc makes Jeff a 'better'' guitarist ...whether it sounds good to you or not is obviously 'subjective . I wasmt talking about subjectivity rather ability and that is measurable and Jeff wins
To the attention of people stating that difficulty isn't the most important but that FEEL is:
Just because it's hard doesn't make it good but it doesn't make it NOT good either...
Maybe for you a good solo is like a blink 182 solo; but for us a good solo is one wth sweeps, arpeggios, crazy scales etc while still preserving melodicy which is wat JL does... There is FELL in his solos, but you need to be technically advanced (guitar playing wise) to get this FEEL... Get over it !
@BadassNickname You are so stupid... Just because it's hard doesn't make it good but it doesn't make it NOT good either...
Maybe for you a good solo is like a blink 182 solo; but for us a good solo is one wth sweeps, arpeggios, crazy scales etc while still preserving melodicy which is wat JL does
@BadAssNickname...Music is often 'judged' by how difficult it is to perform you total moron. So you say that popularity is the deciding factor to an artists level of musicality ,..then what about Milli Vanilli for instance ?.. B B King might be popular but his boring blues are easy to play.. Loomis tunes are much harder to play..thats what were talking about .buy a dog named clue
@nneevveerrmmoorree "boring blues", you said it all there. Just a douchebag showing how fast he can play, what's good with that? BB King, Clapton and SRV they made music, they didn't just show off :)
@dii1314 jeff loomis is making music in this video stfu both of you already blues and shred have pretty much nothing in common enjoy the video or gtfo
@Novecento..uh we were saying that Clapton and the like known for 'feel' playing could never play an average Loomis tune in their wet craziest dream .Thats because Loomis tunes are much more technically difficult to play than say 'Layla' or any bullshit SRV tune. Bratta doesnt impress me much and Nuno turned into a major league sissy years ago
@xXxKeLeVrAxXx dude, listen to the fucking backing track, that's mostly all 7 string. He wrote the rhythm parts to you know. Also, he was in a band calledl Nevermore which was a lot of 7 string.
I realize that Loomis is good and all, but why do people praise him? Someone give me an example of why he is better than say, Corey from Trivium or Michael Angelo Batio.
His feel is in the fact he's played guitar for years, loves to play and is obviously passionate. The fact he's having to stop himself moshing surely shows you he's feeling it.
People who say this has no feeling is because it has fast lead parts. Everyone expresses a feeling differently from BB King style blues to insane shred like Jeff Loomis and Broderick, Becker, and so forth. I have learned many of these techniques and love it and stand by Loomis's side by utilizing these techniques to express. Without techniques and understanding the intstrument its like having a car with no steering wheel. If you had these techniques you would utilize them as well, dont lie.
@soloistchris666 EEEhmm, I just don't get what you mean. It's possible to play fast with feeling, or fast with no feeling. You can play slow with feeling, or slow with no feeling. This guy plays with no feeling (for me, of course; about the feeling, everyting is subjetive). I think Malmsteen or Gilbert or Petrucci got much more feeling, and they play fast as hell. This guy just doesn't.
hahaha see there I go again!! I dont know how many times Ive seen this video the whole album is awesome!!!!! how many of you guys are off to see him on tour!!! its gonna be so damn sweet!!!! :D
@xXxKeLeVrAxXx This entire song is in a key on that 7th string... if he barely uses it then why does he specifically go back and forth between a 6 and 7 string? Cuz he uses it for nearly the entirety of the song
Meh. This type of shredding was done a zillion times in the 80s by so many guitarists; Impelliteri, Malmsteen, Becker, V.Moore, Gilbert, and on and on. It reached its apogee in Shawn Lane. Can't see anything here that hasn't been done a thousand times before. He's very good no doubt, but not an original lick anywhere. Check out Sonny Landreth doing 'Uberesso' if you want to see something original.
@nneevveerrmmoorree Completely different genres with a completely different approach to music. This all about skill and those players wanted to evoke emotion with their audience.
Again with the ''feeling'' argument ?? lol ...Loomis has feel whenever one of his superior tunes require it.-such as Azure Haze or The Passenger..but for sure these so called feel masters like .. B BKIng Eric Clapton etc could never ever play more than a few moments of any Loomis tune .All of the 'Feel'' notes are easy as fuck to find and play
don't hire a fucking pornstar if you dont want to shuv your dick in every hole of her body, hire a queer to fuck you gently. can't stand awesomeness then fuck out of jeff loomis area and go watch gayporn.
@Ethiopianman777 I honestly do not think Clapton would be able to play this That doesn't mean Clapton is worse than Loomis, I just don't think he can play like this.
@dii1314 this is alot more than just showing off, some people play guitar as a passion, the more you learn about scales modes and interactions that occur in all music ("neoclassical shit") your become sensetive and you can hear more, what sounds like lots of random notes to some, are the same patterns in your typical chords but accented at different times, dont let foul mouthed super fans turn you off of it, theirs alot of musical talent here, listen to a song by nevermore like Born
@nneevveerrmmoorree So you're saying that the "Feel" notes are easy as fuck to find and play. Strange enough, "Feel" players like Dimebag, Nuno Bettencourt or Vito Bratta are so few when there are millions of shredders out there all ready to use that stupid harmonic minor over and over and sweep the same diminished and 7th arpeggios just to impress! Come on, use your mind before talking!
jeff loomis is different than most shredders... he doesnt just shred, he shred musically. theres a lot of musicality in his playin. the vibrato is my fave part of his playing
@SixT4 the feeling of chaos is very prevelant in metal. just because a song doesnt have a shit load of bends and slow licks to a piano backing track doesnt mean it doesnt have emotion. metal is one of the most emotional genres. the genre of anger, sarrow, chaos, happiness, sex, among other things. very diverse indeed
@SixT4 Exactly. All this talk about feeling and such, Loomis has done stuff like that in the past. His solo in The Heart Collector for example, or Narcosynthesis. Sometimes you gotta let loose... and this is Loomis letting all hell break loose :)
i wonder what his shredding would be like if he actually tried lol....though the universe might implode, and create a big bang 5 times i a row if he did so i kinda hope he doesnt but regardless awesome song! \m/ \m/
@amazingfantasy66 I think it's perfect the "brutal shred" as you say, but that many guitarists do, but few manage to reach beyond virtuosity. Anyway I respect your opinion.
@FecklessCretin sucks? k lets not be arrogant now. Loomis is 1000000000x better than you and he does play with emotion. He has a unique style that ur ears are probably not use to hearing.
@UnderwhelmingPlywood And who are you to contradict me?. I've heard thousands of guitarists and I know when something has no feeling. But I did not say it is bad and if you think this will be remembered you are very wrong. I did not say no lie but at least you can respect my opinion.
@MetalproF1 "And who are you to contradict me?" Yeah, that really refutes my argument. Your opinion isn't fact and you don't know when something has feeling or not no matter how many guitarists you have watched. Your idea of feeling isn't the same for everyone. You can think what you want about the music itself, but don't act like you know things you don't and basically can't know.
Static and boring! All this did was make me want to listen to Friedman and Becker!
tritonseventyfive 12 hours ago
Jeff Loomis is cool.
skat4evr9 16 hours ago
Does anyone know the scales he uses?
Abyssvx 2 days ago
@Abyssvx I'm hearing a lot of harmonic minor, among many other things.
iam18ish 2 days ago
@iam18ish That's the scale I'm wanting to learn. Thanks man!
Abyssvx 2 days ago
Have my babies Jeff. Do it now.
DaemoniumCC 2 days ago
4:36 nice beafy riff picking.
MrGuitarTormentor 2 days ago
HEY, idiots, stop comparing guitarists. Say who you LIKE the best, not who IS the best. There is no "best". Now only 17 million vids to go.
maddogwilson1 3 days ago 5
WHAT A FAG HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
MIKEPEARTNOY 3 days ago
I wonder if that 'Boss Phaser Pedal' is the only effect is uses live too
ddollard 4 days ago
this guys a beast
bithgik1 4 days ago
looks like he uses pretty light strings
someone0209 5 days ago
why doesn't he do stuff like this in nevermore?
Ivan4131994 6 days ago
I don't think Jeff is playing this live in this video. String-syncing possibly? Notice at 1:58 how he grabs the Floyd and shakes it but yet, no trem in the pitch. So he either is "string-syncing" or performed this piece in more than one take and mixed the best takes together. That being said.....Jeff Loomis is one badass axe slinger!!
TheAxe4Ever 6 days ago
@TheAxe4Ever I think it's the latter. But nice job on noticing!
BvOBart 5 days ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jeff Loomis
@TheAxe4Ever Yeah, nice job!
Justin141415 5 days ago
@TheAxe4Ever yeah haha you are right, I remember that Laiho's Are You Dead Yet EMG video had a video technicality where in between two shot transitions the position of his trem arm completely switched within 2 seconds :P its all over the comments
GreenDayRoxer1 4 days ago
I can play this in my sleep...and then my alarm goes off and i throw it at the wall for interrupting the best dream i have ever had
dh152004 1 week ago 2
Sure, it's good … but Dimebag would've done it better.
dim3bagrules 1 week ago
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Eagerly awaiting eminent shitstorm
BatteryChef1 1 week ago
@dim3bagrules sorry but no he would not have ...this guy is on a whole other level XP
SirotaKurcina 6 days ago
@dim3bagrules On a technical scale, there aren't many guitar players better than Loomis. Dimebag would pale in comparison. But the thing about Dimebag was that he never claimed to be a Scale God. He played what he felt, he played from his emotions, and that's what made him great.
solidiquis1 5 days ago 2
@dim3bagrules No, they are too different as players. Dime was a pentatonic shredder, he basically played a very fast blues. Loomis on the other hand is much more steeped in the neo-classical school of shred. That being said, I believe Loomis to be a wastly more technical player.
Blargaha 4 days ago
@Blargaha Dime might have based alot of stuff on pentatonics but I'd say he was more a user of chromatics than anything else.
Benjiinsanity 3 days ago
3:26 DAT FACE!!
ZeromintisSerob 1 week ago
Hey! Check my cover of this song at =AS8q79LS9V8& !
master877 1 week ago
@di1314....No 'you' just said it...'showing how fast he can play''..lol.is that all Jeff does in your pea brain..Any Blues you could mention would be 10 times more boring than Jeff.s worst tune...You can play probably play one or two SRV songs but could never dream of playing Jato Unit..and that makes you jealous..like all the terrified Jeff haters
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 week ago
beautiful guitar
DAH369metho 1 week ago
Perfectly played, great tone. Yet somehow.....I lost interest about a minute into it. I think I'm just jaded by it all. At some point the awesomeness of the playing is under done by the lack of...."music".
MrDarinWarren 1 week ago
I thing he is signifficanly on lower level than Marty Friedman ,Andy Timmons and our lovely Steve Vai!
MsDavo123 1 week ago
imagine this song as an rpg battle theme , IT WOULD BE FREAKING BADASS!!!!!!!
armario96 1 week ago
kinda boring....
hotcakez101 1 week ago
I hope to god i dont make those faces when i play.
69Awesomesauce 1 week ago
@69Awesomesauce Once you have feeling in your playing you can't help it.
UnderwhelmingPlywood 1 week ago
listen to this heartless and souless piece of human wreakage, he is in need of psychiatric intervention
COMMUNISTPHILOSOPHY 1 week ago
jeff makes the same faces i make on the crapper
ELinktricTears 1 week ago
synyster gates can't get even close.
SpearShark 1 week ago 2
too much power for my ears, just perfect!
Astorod17 1 week ago
i prefer Tosin Abasi, this guy here is good but the song has a more power metal feeling which i dont like
1Heretic 1 week ago
Ok he has a good technic.But what else?
MsDavo123 1 week ago
@MsDavo123 Pure groove metal is what he has sir..........
Calibur43 1 week ago 3
@MsDavo123 He makes great music. He has amazing tone too!
megaluisdeth 1 week ago
Haha try pressing the 2 key repeatedly during the video!
milan9191 2 weeks ago
@milan9191 i don't get it?
xImpendingChapelxAAF 1 week ago in playlist Favorite videos
This live versions sounds so much more amazing than the studio.
dynastus100 2 weeks ago
jeff looks like sam totman with blonde hair from far away
nova495 2 weeks ago
why are you people trying to compare the neo classical playings of jeff loomis to blues players i will never know. Both genres contrast in both feel and technicality, its like comparing sister sledge to cream
manticore117 2 weeks ago
look its a human form of mufasa, his guitar allows him to roar.
jbrook51 2 weeks ago
Lacks unique creativity. I hear Yngwie as likely only influence, the sweeps, trem, bends... great technique though.
Arazmo 2 weeks ago
@Arazmo yngwie plus a 7th string,minus the douchebag attitude and fatness and accent. But he can still write. One word: Nevermore.
metalbassistjd 2 weeks ago
Jeff Loomi's playing is ultra agressive, his talent and skill is god like, however I've felt his playing lacks emotion as well. I just never got really interested in his progressions and phrasing. Just kinda boring to me.
joblo1978 2 weeks ago
wonder if his hair ever gets caught in his guitar strings? O_o
RTGuitar1 2 weeks ago 50
@RTGuitar1 Hahaha probably, I know mine always did. I still miss it though...
Warheart11 1 week ago
7 strings ?? oO
Mickr4 2 weeks ago
That's nice and all, but the real question is, can he play smoke on the water?
himl994 2 weeks ago
@TheEliminator1992 Haha aka same thing haha
sipinflames 2 weeks ago
wow he has a schecter and long hair, hes such a good musician...
LeoLovesNature 2 weeks ago
Anyone else think he looks like a serial killer? Pretty ba
sipinflames 2 weeks ago
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nah, he looks like he's from Menasha Wisconsin lol
TheEliminator1992 2 weeks ago
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ayybudayy 2 weeks ago
@sgmn8890 Why must you always diminish yourself in front of us ??
I never said that I was superior even though I shred and you don't doesn't make me superior to you...
And Clapton & SRV are good, never said the contrary, they're just technically not as good as Loomis and that's a fact stated by other fellow shredders, get over it !! who cares anyway
TheCerealkillas 2 weeks ago
Doesn't his hair disturb his playing? :D
mpalin11 2 weeks ago
I wonder if there really is a stage behind that door...?
furiousdean 2 weeks ago 47
@furiousdean actually where he was playing in this video was the stage
OnkelTomAngelripper1 1 week ago
@OnkelTomAngelripper1 lick my precious penis
alexkordes46539 1 week ago
jeff loomis is a badass. and whoever dont like this has no feeling in their soul.
nokomisnichols 2 weeks ago
Meh. Vinnie Moore was doing this in 1988...
MrFrothinger 2 weeks ago
@MrFrothinger K, just to prove you wrong I listened to a few Vinnie Moore vids. His style's completely different, why is everyone trying to compare completely different guitar styles to eachother all the time. It's not a damn competition... JUST APPRECIATE MUSIC
ZackAugustus 2 weeks ago
@ZackAugustus - then you didn't listen to the right VM vids. His career spans nearly 25 years, and this music is massively reminiscent (to me) of the material on Mind's Eye - his first album with Shrapnel.
As for your CAPITALISED command to appreciate music, I do. I just say 'meh' when I'm not particularly impressed, as in this instance...
MrFrothinger 2 weeks ago
is jeff still with nevermore?
neilorourke71 3 weeks ago
@neilorourke71 no... but he is in Sanctuary
Rolfy1336 2 weeks ago
@sgmn8890 Never said there's no other style of guitar playing in the world, that's childish, now is that an "intelligent debate"
Look,I listen to every kind of music & i ll also listen to B182 if i want cuz i dont giv a shit about what people think and theres no genre that makes you "cooler" or "gayer"...
But when i listen to SHRED, technic is one of the elements i look for b/c shred is based on speed, technicity, innovative techniques amongst others.
If ur too stupid to get that
TheCerealkillas 3 weeks ago
@sgmn8890 Never said I ONLY listened to that, but I DO listen to solos with crazy scales, shred, arpeggions etc. because I appreciate both the melody of it and the technicity... If you're one of those pricks that think listening to metal or shred makes you a macho than you must have a VERY small penis
TheCerealkillas 3 weeks ago
Really to the music/hardness argument. Clapton's songs are technically easier to play, but can you get the same feel?? Idk... Jeff Loomis has great licks blah blah blah... My favorite guitarist John Petrucci can do both just fine. Listen to what you will, comment what you like, but this is music and music can be done in many different ways. Let it be...
qtipbluedog 3 weeks ago
@qtipbluedog The whole feel argument is as unrelevant as the hardness one...
Feel is subjective, maybe for you Clapton has more "feeling", maybe for someone else Loomis has more
As for hardness, it is a criterion for some people (including me) because once you reach a certain level on an instrument you tend to look for something more technical
It doesn't mean that i don't listen to Clapton, Bob Marley or whatever
But shred by definition is based on speed & technicity....
TheCerealkillas 3 weeks ago
@TheCerealkillas LOL unrelevant
EvilPopsicleDog 3 weeks ago
Every comment is a response.
OnlyTheSunCanFly 3 weeks ago
@cjalmighty..I love Batio too and I get what your saying..but I guess maybe the solo album and the body of Nevermores work compared to Batios less marketable but awesome instrumentals ..Angelo is badass -way faster than Jeff even..but c mon Jeffs rythms are boss..and I didnt like Nitro so they dont count for much
nneevveerrmmoorree 3 weeks ago
@BadassNickname...Because Jeffs tunes are way harder to play than all the Claptons etc makes Jeff a 'better'' guitarist ...whether it sounds good to you or not is obviously 'subjective . I wasmt talking about subjectivity rather ability and that is measurable and Jeff wins
nneevveerrmmoorree 3 weeks ago
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To the attention of people stating that difficulty isn't the most important but that FEEL is:
Just because it's hard doesn't make it good but it doesn't make it NOT good either...
Maybe for you a good solo is like a blink 182 solo; but for us a good solo is one wth sweeps, arpeggios, crazy scales etc while still preserving melodicy which is wat JL does... There is FELL in his solos, but you need to be technically advanced (guitar playing wise) to get this FEEL... Get over it !
TheCerealkillas 3 weeks ago
@BadassNickname You are so stupid... Just because it's hard doesn't make it good but it doesn't make it NOT good either...
Maybe for you a good solo is like a blink 182 solo; but for us a good solo is one wth sweeps, arpeggios, crazy scales etc while still preserving melodicy which is wat JL does
TheCerealkillas 3 weeks ago
I used to have a cheaper black shecter that looked just like that.
Lamb00FGoD 3 weeks ago
@BadAssNickname...Music is often 'judged' by how difficult it is to perform you total moron. So you say that popularity is the deciding factor to an artists level of musicality ,..then what about Milli Vanilli for instance ?.. B B King might be popular but his boring blues are easy to play.. Loomis tunes are much harder to play..thats what were talking about .buy a dog named clue
nneevveerrmmoorree 3 weeks ago
@nneevveerrmmoorree "boring blues", you said it all there. Just a douchebag showing how fast he can play, what's good with that? BB King, Clapton and SRV they made music, they didn't just show off :)
dii1314 1 week ago
@dii1314 jeff loomis is making music in this video stfu both of you already blues and shred have pretty much nothing in common enjoy the video or gtfo
OnkelTomAngelripper1 1 week ago
what pedal is he using?
metallicaslayer1 3 weeks ago
@Novecento..uh we were saying that Clapton and the like known for 'feel' playing could never play an average Loomis tune in their wet craziest dream .Thats because Loomis tunes are much more technically difficult to play than say 'Layla' or any bullshit SRV tune. Bratta doesnt impress me much and Nuno turned into a major league sissy years ago
nneevveerrmmoorree 3 weeks ago
@xXxKeLeVrAxXx dude, listen to the fucking backing track, that's mostly all 7 string. He wrote the rhythm parts to you know. Also, he was in a band calledl Nevermore which was a lot of 7 string.
xXxH4L0PHR33KxXx 3 weeks ago
I realize that Loomis is good and all, but why do people praise him? Someone give me an example of why he is better than say, Corey from Trivium or Michael Angelo Batio.
cjalmighty 3 weeks ago
I enjoyed it.
7A35 3 weeks ago
terrible, music, just terrible.
StiansNorskeNyheter 3 weeks ago
@StiansNorskeNyheter Then don't fucking listen to it.
freakfreak12345 3 weeks ago
His feel is in the fact he's played guitar for years, loves to play and is obviously passionate. The fact he's having to stop himself moshing surely shows you he's feeling it.
IsaacDeanMusic 3 weeks ago
People who say this has no feeling is because it has fast lead parts. Everyone expresses a feeling differently from BB King style blues to insane shred like Jeff Loomis and Broderick, Becker, and so forth. I have learned many of these techniques and love it and stand by Loomis's side by utilizing these techniques to express. Without techniques and understanding the intstrument its like having a car with no steering wheel. If you had these techniques you would utilize them as well, dont lie.
soloistchris666 3 weeks ago 44
@soloistchris666 EEEhmm, I just don't get what you mean. It's possible to play fast with feeling, or fast with no feeling. You can play slow with feeling, or slow with no feeling. This guy plays with no feeling (for me, of course; about the feeling, everyting is subjetive). I think Malmsteen or Gilbert or Petrucci got much more feeling, and they play fast as hell. This guy just doesn't.
icobos 1 week ago
@soloistchris666 I agree with you, thats the reason of why i hate joe satriani.
vgnachoneitor 1 week ago
one of the best guitarists of all time man
snowstef69 3 weeks ago
yes but can he play smoke on the water?
tzatziki89 3 weeks ago
Jeff Loomis new disc: Plains of Oblivion in April 2012!
PPRUVIAN 3 weeks ago 29
@PPRUVIAN
I KNOW, I CANT FREAKING WAIT!!!
DanMasLynn 3 weeks ago
hahaha see there I go again!! I dont know how many times Ive seen this video the whole album is awesome!!!!! how many of you guys are off to see him on tour!!! its gonna be so damn sweet!!!! :D
MegadethAcdclover 3 weeks ago
Hair meet strings.
theyetidude 3 weeks ago
That tone is so fucking sterile.
TheIVVPLabs 3 weeks ago
why 7 strings.. he barely used the 7th
xXxKeLeVrAxXx 3 weeks ago
@xXxKeLeVrAxXx He still used it none the less
AngelOfNight9 3 weeks ago
@xXxKeLeVrAxXx This entire song is in a key on that 7th string... if he barely uses it then why does he specifically go back and forth between a 6 and 7 string? Cuz he uses it for nearly the entirety of the song
MrPipirupi 3 weeks ago
@xXxKeLeVrAxXx
most of the riffs he makes he always uses 7th just not much for his leads!!! so damn awesome though :D & he does go back & forth!!
MegadethAcdclover 3 weeks ago
O:< mygod
EmbeddedIntoYou 3 weeks ago
Mikael Akerfeldt "Cos we no... Jeff L O O miss"
cjds18 3 weeks ago
floyd rose on a 7 string... THATS ONE BRAVE MOTHAFUCKA :D
GhHolocaust 3 weeks ago
Meh. This type of shredding was done a zillion times in the 80s by so many guitarists; Impelliteri, Malmsteen, Becker, V.Moore, Gilbert, and on and on. It reached its apogee in Shawn Lane. Can't see anything here that hasn't been done a thousand times before. He's very good no doubt, but not an original lick anywhere. Check out Sonny Landreth doing 'Uberesso' if you want to see something original.
GreenDistantStar 3 weeks ago
@GreenDistantStar Or Buckethead
AngelOfNight9 3 weeks ago
Eric Clapton could not play this well ..or fast..or he wouild have shown us by now that he could. Neither could SRV Santana or Les Paul
nneevveerrmmoorree 3 weeks ago
@nneevveerrmmoorree Completely different genres with a completely different approach to music. This all about skill and those players wanted to evoke emotion with their audience.
SavageDutchman 3 weeks ago
these riffs and lines are killer omg
maidenrules13 4 weeks ago
1:02 am I hearing some James Murphy influence in there maybe? This guy rips, love his stuff
J0SlAH 4 weeks ago
So... shredding-makes-fun guys actually grow their hair in order to provide muting of the lower strings while playing a solo?
ivanspecs 4 weeks ago
Well that makes me feel like a piece of shit for even picking up a guitar. Ridiculous.
QuincyStandback1 4 weeks ago
Fuck yeah
phantomhead100 4 weeks ago
Plenty of feeling, an intense burning as my face melts off.
theguywithguitars 1 month ago
....pwned.
b3nf1tzg3ra1d 1 month ago
blonde chris broderick
IbanezShredz55 1 month ago
@IbanezShredz55 no chris broderick is the brunette jeff loomis...
OremanDteam2008 1 month ago
Anyone know if there's an intro tutorial anywhere?
TheHaiiiJuan 1 month ago
jason becker lick at 1:37
DjavidDjarmon 1 month ago
1:36 whammy baaaaar ♥
lucaballesi 1 month ago
meh...
mastrorj68 1 month ago
That intro is fucking sweet
TheHaiiiJuan 1 month ago
GRosOOOOOOO
DemonoidPhenomenon86 1 month ago
JEFF LOOMIS FACE MODE >:(
Clyman974 1 month ago
everytime I go on youtube, i cant log out without looking at this atleast once or more!!
such an awesome guitarist!!
MegadethAcdclover 1 month ago
3:01 to 3:06 this sequence reminds me of another song... can anyone remember?
filipi346 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
@filipi346 I think you mean Miles of Machines.
Maelst0rm 1 month ago
@Maelst0rm nah, actually it was Serrana, by Jason Becker.
filipi346 1 month ago
Sounds so Marty Friedman style...
TheCerealkillas 1 month ago
@TheCerealkillas
Well one of his biggest influence is Marty & those arpeggios he does are marty like, except jeff also thrwos in neo-classical, but isnt this great :D
MegadethAcdclover 1 month ago
@MegadethAcdclover Yeah, Marty is awesome dude, watch the video where he schools Paul Gilbert...
TheCerealkillas 3 weeks ago
war kinda music, if ur ever killing listen to this
V340E419 1 month ago
Is that green pedal ibanez tubescreamer??
ironguitardac 1 month ago
Again with the ''feeling'' argument ?? lol ...Loomis has feel whenever one of his superior tunes require it.-such as Azure Haze or The Passenger..but for sure these so called feel masters like .. B BKIng Eric Clapton etc could never ever play more than a few moments of any Loomis tune .All of the 'Feel'' notes are easy as fuck to find and play
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 month ago 7
@nneevveerrmmoorree fucking pussys where's the feeling:
don't hire a fucking pornstar if you dont want to shuv your dick in every hole of her body, hire a queer to fuck you gently. can't stand awesomeness then fuck out of jeff loomis area and go watch gayporn.
laiholapso 1 month ago
@nneevveerrmmoorree Eric Clapton could definately play this, but he would have to adjust to the style change, but he's definately got the chops.
Ethiopianman777 4 weeks ago
@Ethiopianman777 I honestly do not think Clapton would be able to play this That doesn't mean Clapton is worse than Loomis, I just don't think he can play like this.
mardgn81 4 weeks ago
@Ethiopianman777 Clapton could definitely not shred like that....
TheCerealkillas 3 weeks ago
@nneevveerrmmoorree Thank you! That feeling shit is just an excuse for people who can't play.
SuperBspb 3 weeks ago
@SuperBspb Yeah, right, SRV can't play, Randy Rhoads can't play. Yeah, right. Quit your neoclassical metal shit, is f*cking your brains up
dii1314 1 week ago
@dii1314 this is alot more than just showing off, some people play guitar as a passion, the more you learn about scales modes and interactions that occur in all music ("neoclassical shit") your become sensetive and you can hear more, what sounds like lots of random notes to some, are the same patterns in your typical chords but accented at different times, dont let foul mouthed super fans turn you off of it, theirs alot of musical talent here, listen to a song by nevermore like Born
Bransen52 1 week ago
@nneevveerrmmoorree So you're saying that the "Feel" notes are easy as fuck to find and play. Strange enough, "Feel" players like Dimebag, Nuno Bettencourt or Vito Bratta are so few when there are millions of shredders out there all ready to use that stupid harmonic minor over and over and sweep the same diminished and 7th arpeggios just to impress! Come on, use your mind before talking!
Novecento 3 weeks ago
FAAK ... Dave Mustaine PLEASE PEASE PLEASE this guy would sound so good on a Megadeth album
joseynovember 1 month ago
@joseynovember Dave Mustaine+ Chris Broderick+ Jeff Loomis= Deadly record
metalrulez907 1 month ago
@metalrulez907 he actually tried out to play in megadeth but at the time they said he was too young
coffmtyl000 1 month ago 2
jeff loomis is different than most shredders... he doesnt just shred, he shred musically. theres a lot of musicality in his playin. the vibrato is my fave part of his playing
ShreddyKrueger19 1 month ago
@ShreddyKrueger19 Agreed my friend!
d1am0nd8 1 month ago
fucking love it
MatKiller1197 1 month ago
121 is a JUSTIN BIEBER FANS
ecwtable 1 month ago
There's a lot of feeling in this. The feeling is GOD DAMN CHAOS MOTHERFUCKERS.
SixT4 1 month ago 53
@SixT4 the feeling of chaos is very prevelant in metal. just because a song doesnt have a shit load of bends and slow licks to a piano backing track doesnt mean it doesnt have emotion. metal is one of the most emotional genres. the genre of anger, sarrow, chaos, happiness, sex, among other things. very diverse indeed
ChaosBurnsWithin 1 month ago
@SixT4 Exactly. All this talk about feeling and such, Loomis has done stuff like that in the past. His solo in The Heart Collector for example, or Narcosynthesis. Sometimes you gotta let loose... and this is Loomis letting all hell break loose :)
djg0603 4 weeks ago
badass ..............i love jeff loomis
maidenrules13 1 month ago
the feeling down here... is just the "brutalness" and all the agression... its just cool, you feel like nothing can stop you, like warcry.
toogi88 1 month ago
i wonder what his shredding would be like if he actually tried lol....though the universe might implode, and create a big bang 5 times i a row if he did so i kinda hope he doesnt but regardless awesome song! \m/ \m/
perilousmetal40 1 month ago
it seems i have found a very underrated guitarist :P
KingButtCheekz 1 month ago
Great player, great technique but have no feeling...
MetalproF1 1 month ago
@MetalproF1 There's no time for "feeling" when your busy obliterating faces with pure unrelenting brutal shred.....
amazingfantasy66 1 month ago 48
@amazingfantasy66 I think it's perfect the "brutal shred" as you say, but that many guitarists do, but few manage to reach beyond virtuosity. Anyway I respect your opinion.
MetalproF1 1 month ago
@amazingfantasy66 which is why it sucks.
FecklessCretin 1 month ago
@FecklessCretin sucks? k lets not be arrogant now. Loomis is 1000000000x better than you and he does play with emotion. He has a unique style that ur ears are probably not use to hearing.
amazingfantasy66 1 month ago
@MetalproF1 Who are you to say what has feeling and what doesn't?
UnderwhelmingPlywood 1 month ago
@UnderwhelmingPlywood And who are you to contradict me?. I've heard thousands of guitarists and I know when something has no feeling. But I did not say it is bad and if you think this will be remembered you are very wrong. I did not say no lie but at least you can respect my opinion.
MetalproF1 1 month ago
@MetalproF1 "And who are you to contradict me?" Yeah, that really refutes my argument. Your opinion isn't fact and you don't know when something has feeling or not no matter how many guitarists you have watched. Your idea of feeling isn't the same for everyone. You can think what you want about the music itself, but don't act like you know things you don't and basically can't know.
UnderwhelmingPlywood 1 month ago
@UnderwhelmingPlywood aha ok ok, the prize for you ;)
MetalproF1 1 month ago
@MetalproF1 how can yo