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  • que musica é essa q ele toca pra demostrar a primeira tecnica?

  • @sbgrox11 it is a well built guitar that he helped design to fit his own preferences, like the volume control for instance, but you can do that on any electric guitar, whammy bar or not.

  • You can eliminate the unwanted strings by muting the lower ones with right hand thumb resting on them and higher ones with spare left hand finger touching them. Depending on which finger are you "smacking" with. Check the competition video on my channel! Thanks!

  • yay saw this guy live

  • look tom.. no whammy!

  • This guy can play so good. pity he spends a lot of time farting around with this shit.

  • A long long time ago I had attended a guitar "camp" at the Raleigh Music Academy in NC... Anyway at some point I was able to play his guitar.. His action from what I remember was very high, as well as having a heavier gauge string set.. They could have been 11's but may have been 10's.. Not very sure.. But that guit is sooo resonant it's ridiculous. But it was easier to pull natural harmonics with the action higher as to not hit the fret....

  • really want to know how he's creating harmonics like that with such control without letting any other strings ring out. i tried doing what he does, i.e smacking the stings where simple harmonics are and all i got was a load of nasty string noise :( would be nice if there was a camera pointing down the neck

  • wassup mother fucker! Lol.. hehehe great stuff here lots of crazy ideas...

  • What's the name of the song he's trying to mention at like 2:12 ish?

  • How the HELL does he come up with this stuff? XD He's fantastic.

  • Nothing against dimebag but Mattias just has so much more control and mastery over harmonics...

  • "Hey what's up mother fuckers..." LOL WTF

  • How the hell does he do those squeels? starting a minute in.

  • @rujiel17 bring floyd bar down and let go fast, immediately tap string at harmonic point with your left hand. Squeeeeeeeeeee!

  • This guy is one of my influences on guitar!

  • I didn't anything different from what Steve Vai have been doing for years.

  • @brunogalba steve vai doesn't really play metal. this guy does.

  • @rujiel17 That's true, I agree with you. But it wasn't my point. There's a lot of people complementing this guy, as if he was doing something absolutely new, and I don't think so. He picked up many techniques developed by other guitarrists (like Vai) and used it into Metal. It doesn't make him a bad player, I just don't think he's a pioneer. Peace.

  • @brunogalba Vai and Satch hammer on natural harmonics, Mattias hits the harmonic and makes it sound like a whammy pedal, but its just natural harmonics, and his sound is very different to anything i have heard, most swedish guitarists are pioneers when they get very successful outside their own country, Yngwie J. Malmsteen (Yngve Malmsten) is another great example of this =]

  • @F4TB0Y69 wow! great explanation. Well, I'm not a guitar player, just a listener. So, If you say so, I'll take it as the the truth. I can't argue with you. :) Peace! PS: I love Yngwie, the first guitar hero that really thrilled me.

  • @brunogalba thanks man, yeah I love Satch and Vai aswell, alot of virtuoso inspires me, my big influences are the likes of Dimebag, Buckethead, Bumblefoot, Jeff Loomis and Rusty Cooley, some of them guys are proper crazy, yeah Yngwie's knowledge of music and how he creates his songs/compositions is truly something to marvel at, his love for Beethoven, Bach and Paganini and such really flow in his music, I learned ALOT of versatile techniques from him, but I learn a lot from all music =]

  • ...

    WoW

  • Tone comes from your hands more than the amp.

  • You don't need any pedals, all of your tone should come from your amp. That's why tubes are the way to go. IA just happened to figure out where every single harmonic is on the guitar and probably really worked at it to make them sound so crispy.

  • how the fuck does he locate all of those notes using only harmonics!? and he executes them perfectly!!!

  • love the code for this video

    uk KARGO-Oho!!

  • "because it's 2008, we have to move on!"

    let us listen to him, artists everywhere! =D

  • Say you wrote a, semi-poppy song. or you can do CHUGG CHUGG CHUGG xD

  • anyone can do these techniques just some pickups and amps suck and make them sound crap

  • Sounds like clangers!

  • I saw him live up close and talked to him various times and he doesnt use anything apart from a wah for fancy effects and some distortion (mostly amp sometimes via pedal when the amp is too small)

  • man! I know he uses his sig distortion pedal , but fuck!!! how is he playing those harmonics with a simple slap? I can't I tried like 1,000 times >.< maybe it's my guitar

  • haha he does a perfect firetruck at 3:55

  • he uses a sustainer, of course...

  • @chechoguitar112

    Nope, he doesn't... Just one hell of a left hand technique

  • @mrbullseye he uses almost nothing. laney, amt fatal tube and a crybaby.

  • @chechoguitar112

    his signature distortion pedal gives him all the sustain he needs and makes those harmonics sound like demon babies

  • cool story bro

  • that's music?!?!

  • whats with these swedish people?? Is it the water there??? jesus!!!

  • how cool is this guy

  • 4:10

    Nah, that's cool bro.

    I'm broke as shit :-D.

  • Hey wasap mother fakers - AKJAKJKJAKJAKJAKJAKJKJAKJKJ lmao xD

  • the second frett, its hard do get the overtones to come out right everytime, for me anyway, really nice for big bends sort of, to use overtones, i learned it from mattias utube videos, thank you for that mattias :)

  • dont need no stinkin pedals! 4:07

  • My fucking god

  • he's a great player, but he uses harmonics way too fucking much from what I've seen. I'm getting headaches. <.<

  • so its called disonance. ive always like doing that on the guitar.

  • yep, it's when a certain is played over or near a note that is tense and seems like it requires a resolution, such as going back to the key centre or the home note. dissonance is often a flat second, major 7th (melodic minor) or a flat five. when notes 'gel', or sound like they fit, such as fifth notes, it's called consonance. it's all about the ratio of both frequency relative to one another, like an octave is double the frequency of the lower note.

  • @terrykimd wow, you're really an expert. thank you for sharing. i will remember that. :-)

  • nah not quite, but i've taught a few ppl and get a lot out of it, the more ppl with that sort of knowledge, the more great music is made, so i'm all for it :-)

  • 3:03 omg thaths fantastic !

  • ..and i'm here wondering to myself "how this guy is crazy!!"

  • MATTIAS "IA" Rock´SSSSSSSs

  • Yep. Thrashman1990 is right actually. He's a lil cocky...ha but it's true. :-)

    If you've listened to IA much you'd know it's not just "gain" - Sure that lends to sustain but , anyway, what I was going to say was - IA - yeah, he actually backs off on the gain a lot . Usually with the volume pot

  • Yea. He obviously has a lot of gain. You can't naturally produce the kind of harmonics he's getting without gain and volume from Just an amp. So either the gain is built into the guitar or the amp is modified with an extra stage of gain. So that crap about alot of pedals is bull. Trust me. I've gone both ways and I can verify that gain isn't just an amp. Maybe he doesn't use anything but gain and delay, but they are clearly there.

  • @Ninjaro I have been to a seminar with him and the caparison guitars are extremely easy to do those harmonics on. (altough he showed he was able to do them on a cheap 300 bucks guitar also). Try to slapp the harmonic hard with your left hand middle finger as he does at 2:30... You should try to press your whammy bar a little before and release it exactly when you hit the note for greater effect. You need a strong left hand; it's tricky but still not impossible.

  • maybe its the guitar

  • Could be, but there still must be high gain and high volume to produce harmonics like that, no matter what finger technique is used. Claiming to "not use pedals" doesn't mean anything if the high gain is coming from the amp+volume and hot custom designed pickups are used. Try it with a stock Fender Strat for example and any combination of pedals (or not). I guarantee you, it won't happen.

  • @Ninjaro yes, he has a lot of gain, and his pickups are designed to produce those crazy harmonics, like a Dimarzio evolution on LSD.

  • Exactly. His bridge, and the woods that compose the neck and body contribute too. As an example, I have an Ibanez RG2EX1 with a Kahler and an Ibanez RG120 with an FR. Some harmonics that I get on one can't be gotten with the other and vice versa.

  • Bullshit, dont blame the gear - blame your bad technique.

    Practise makes perfect.

  • It will, it's all in the technique.

    the amp and pickup only decide how clean/distorted/overdriven the harmonic will sound. you can get those harmonics on any guitar, with or without gain, on any amp.

  • He plays about 3 different laneys, I think they one that gets him the most harmonics is the TT100 Combo, which he is more than likely playing here since it is portable. That amp has really great harmonic complexity and celestion g12 century vintage speakers which are really sensitive, I played an ibanez with SD SH10 PUs and through that combo and was able to split harmonics easily I also own the head version. that is a huge part of his tone.

  • Stop bullshitting, the harmonics are there on any guitar with any wood config and any pickup, and with any amp.

    Technique is the key. Don't blame your gear for shitty technique.

  • hahahahahahahaa. You are awesome. ANd I hope you actually are only 20. Gives me a bit of hope for younger and younger people.

  • @Thrashman1990 I'm pretty sure Mattias' signature harmonic sound requires a floating bridge / whammy bar, as he dips the bar before striking the harmonic, and then raises the pitch after. Extremely high gain is probably helpful as well.

  • @Thrashman1990 actually, the strings also play a considerable role in the harmonics... if they're too used, they lose their harmonic response

  • @Thrashman1990 but this guy has both :)

  • @Thrashman1990 Well the gear does matter actually, especially the state of the strings and whether or not the guitar was built properly.

  • @Thrashman1990 sorry but your actually pretty wrong. sure technique is most of the battle but if you have a more azz based guitar or just a super shitty guitar then its gonna be impossible to get some of those notes to ring out

  • @ynot69her Not true I have one of the shittiest guitars known to man with extra heavy strings, It's my friends and he doesn't know how to work a guitar. The action is all fucked up and it hardly gets sustain but if you give me a good amp I could pull off these screams they just won't ring out that long.

  • @ynot69her That's another thing completely, wether the notes will ring for x ammount of time or not. They are THERE, and thats what i pointed out.

  • @Thrashman1990 Just remember to switch to your bridge pickup. Makes playing harmonics way easier, hahah.

  • @Thrashman1990 physics is actually key. there's some interesting stuff going on when one plays harmonics, it's all about nodes

  • Holy shit on a stick!

  • I agree with what he says at 4:13. The only effect I've ever used much is a Crybaby, because it tends to amplify the signal, rather than muddy it.

  • you don't need a lot of pedals, sorry LoL

  • hey wats up mother fuckers that was complety random but funny

  • Is it just me or is he getting heavy?

  • i like the style of using a whammy bar but it does get old but when done right it can be an amazing tool tto use

  • Are you aware of the fact, that he didn't use any pedals?

  • Not really, I still hear appeal in his playing, and if you don't like whammy bars then dont use them. that simple.

  • Amazing.

    He is wizard of the tone.

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  • LOL whats up motherfuckers haha genius the way he imitates a traffic jam i laughed my ass of:D

  • he's really freak

  • monday morning going to work !! love it.

  • hes fucking better than god at guitar

  • 3:45 - 4:01 is just INSANE!

  • Your guitar has to be really good adjusted and well tuned....

  • HOW DOES HE DO THAT????

  • Making disharmonic music isn't as easy as one may think.

  • Jag blir tår-ögd varje gång jag hör IA spela!

  • Han är gud! har träffat honom 3 gånger:)

  • lol!

  • What an electric playing lol. This guy is the God of Harmonics :D

  • lol, his harmonics sound great with that distortion set up, but i dont like the way his fretted notes sound

  • its cos of the dissonance makes the notes sounding very very weird and painfull

  • this guy is fuckin awesome

  • 3:54 lol

  • True.Dominant 7th chords used to be seen as dissonant and had to be "resolved" back to the 1 chord for that "perfect" cadence.All snobbery to me.

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  • The tone is just fine. Perhaps it's just you doing the ass sucking?

  • Because paople tend to like something innovating :-)

  • Heard that song live a couple of days ago. Cant get it out of my head! It way better when he plays the whole song.

  • What song is this?

  • The song is gonna be on the next Freak guitar album! Heard it on a guitar clinic a couple of months ago! Awesome dude, he truly is :P

  • All right! Just had to make sure it wasn't

    already released since this video is almost a year old. He is truly an innovator, makes me proud to be Swedish!

  • Är svensk också ;)

  • yeah, god knows we haven't heard enough of the harmonic minor scale

  • Couldn't said it better my self. So I'll let you do the talk!

  • so what fx does he use?

    im hearing distortion,slight compression,some delay and a bit reverb..

    and what pickups?

    ta

  • he doesnt use any effects. just straight guitar and amp

  • just cos he says it doesnt make it so buddy..

  • ......

  • He never said he didnt, he said you dont NEED alot of pedals.

  • trashman fuck off

  • Hard to face the truth?

  • @bigbigsound You've got to be kidding me. I've been further even more decided to use even go need to do look more as anyone can. Can you really be far even as decided half as much to use go wish for that? My guess is that when one really been far even as decided once to use even go want, it is then that he has really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like. It's just common sense. And haha, you have shitty technique.

  • neo shredder is a cool name and you must be a really cool guy! thanks for taking the time to be friends on you tube :-) Hi5 aaaaalllllrrright!

    also cunt

  • @bigbigsound Yea, I'm a really cool guy and I doesn't afraid of anything.

    I'm 12 and what's a cunt?

  • I doesn't

  • @kklocket2 You have to know the reference to get that joke. (Yes, it is a joke.)

  • I'm sure it's an inside one then. Pretty funny either way.

  • @kklocket2 Well, if you call a meme an inside joke, then yes. Yes, laugh at my spelling difficulties, you bastard. :'C

    (lol)

  • something that'll always be denied to you.

    now go away buttpiper.

  • @bigbigsound What? Were we in the middle of an argument I don't remember having with you? lol.

  • hahaha sorry man :]

  • He does use a wah, some reverband a dely. No harmonizers, pitch shifters or ring modulators though!

  • Whaa? I've never seen him use a pedal or heard him use a pedal. Where did you see him use that?

  • you can hear the use of delay and reverb pretty frequently, and he uses a wah a load of times, notably that tune where he plays the guitar on his lap. Plus, a wah would help get those hard-to-reach harmonics out

  • @ibanezbloke What he means when he is talking about using pedals is that a lot of modern guitarist run their shit through SO much electronics that you DO lose something in the translation.

    Straight reverb, delay and even wah aren't going to kill your finger tone, provided you fuck with the settings a bit.

  • @ibanezbloke

    Yeah, he uses an optical wah with true bypass so it won't mess with his tone, but no delays and or reverbs or anything like that.

    Maybe in postproduction when doing albums, but that is another story .

    I've been to freak guitar camp several years and seen him to this kind of shit on a tele, a strat, a jackson, a suhr, a gibson semi-hollow body and lots of more guitars with nothing but his amp. so I assure you. He is the real deal, and his strong left hand should be president!!

  • Mattias is the man!

  • is there something special about his guitar?

  • Nope, works on any, really. :-)

  • it has a tremolo arm and that's basically all you need

  • the harmonic melody is from "hateful little beatle"

  • the genius itself

  • 3:50

    "which sounds very swedish!" BRAOOOARAR

    Yeah if i think of something swedish it sounds like that

  • "whats up mother fuckers" haha epic

  • How come he get that sustain? is amazing

  • Its the gutiar

  • I didn't know anyone else out there appreciated dissonance as much as I do. My wife and I used to calm down our son by harmonizing our voices, and one of us would maintain that tone while the other slowly moved lower or higher, and you can hear the dissonance. It always made him stop crying because it's a really weird effect. Very, very trippy. I love it!

  • sounds like a ring modulator, very interesting!

  • Has anyone else in the world been able to get these harmonics like IA?

  • only on the G string xD

  • this is sick

  • I cant wait to get my floyd fixed =(

  • "All six strings together, which sounds very swedish." lol

  • mattias is wicked

  • Thats the TEMA of on song, In The Goo of the Evening of FGC 08! Awesome song

  • i like how he thinks.

  • what???

  • hahahahahahaha wtf

  • lmao you suck

  • matt you are awesome but please turn that stupid reverb sound off!

  • freak

  • "it's gotta be very intersting for you to transcribe" that made me spit on the monitor

    mattias is the best