Stratovarius "It's A Mystery" solo

Guitar solo from the Stratovarius song "It's A Mystery"

Gear:
Jackson DK-2
Pod XT

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• shred
• guitar
• Jackson
• DK-2
• Stratovarius
• It's
• Mystery
• power
• metal

[Winterhe4rt]

as said before your awesome man! =)

which pickup do u mainly use for your soloing? i saw many people soloing with there neck pups, but for me it doesnt sound that smooth - so which are u using? =)

[GryphonGuitar]

Hi!

I mostly do use my neck pickup, which is a Seymour Duncan HR-101b "Scorcher" - it's most similar to a SHR-1b Hot Rails for bridge, and has slightly souped up output. Lovely muddy low down tone. Speed picking, in my universe, should sound like two fat people mudwrestling in a well... Occasionally I will use the bridge pickup for longer notes, because it's easier to induce harmonics and make the overtones go crazy...

[mrchucknorris]

Man. You have an excellent wide vibrato. I have noticed, however, that you rarely go for faster, narrower vibrato. Is this merely tonal preference? understandable-your wide vibrato is quite incredible, but a little variety never hurts.

In any case, fabulous playing

[GryphonGuitar]

Hi!

Thanks so much for Your compliment! VIbrato is such a huge part of identifying a player based on sound alone, and it's important to spend a lot of time developing Your own. Personally, I've always really had a dislike for fast vibrato (Kirk Hammet ruined it for me with some really bad vibrato on Binge And Purge), and instead wanted to get a cello-like tone in my vibrato, so forceful, deep vibrato, but musically slow instead of stressed. It's just a personal preference...

[steveharrismetalgod]

man I love your sound so much!!!-do you use the custom pickups(I mean the initial ones that the guitar had)or did you change them?

[GryphonGuitar]

Hi!

I switched out all of my pickups - the bridge pickup is now a Parallel Axis Distortion Trembucker, and a Hot Rails in the middle, and an HR-101b in the neck position. Had to have that "rails" tone instead of the stock single coil...

[kelb89]

I can't even count how much times I've watched this video. I like how you did the solo better than in the actual song, this sounds much cleaner, and the ending is sick which you added in.

[saliaris12]

Chuck Norris can play this with his dick! xD

[georgebushy]

@GryphonGuitar Are the stock pickups bad?

[coolmega33]

nice vid man, do you ever feel dinky's are too small?

[MultiRaiha]

excellent man ? and i dont even know this band LOL

[morthyr]

Hi man, I really want to learn this song but I can't learn it by ear. Do you have a tab for this? I've tried searching but only found the rhythm part.

[morthyr]

@saliaris12 that's not even funny

[ma5t3r0f5h1t]

este wuey tiene un pacto con el diablo

[grytoria]

i just came!



[tiburaygoza]

WTF man :) cool!

[Wellingtomlol55]

holy FUCK!!!! OMG