Mr. Gul - Tornado of Souls guitar solo (Marty Friedman - Megadeth)

I've been working on this guitar solo for quite some time now and I figured it was finally time to leave it where it is. I'm probably not gonna get it any better than this, no matter how much I try. There are lots of cool guitar solos on the Rust in Peace album, but this is definitely my favorite. Marty Friedman has all my respect (and then some), not only for playing this, but actually writing it. The man is a true guitar hero!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Linus Abrahamson
• Mr. Gul
• Tornado of Souls
• Megadeth
• Rust in Peace
• Marty
• Friedman
• guitar
• solo
• cover

[botman1]

How much guitar and how much bass do you practice every day man? It's ridiculous to see you shred on the guitar and bass...

[MrGul]

@botman1 Thanks for the compliment, man! Unfortunately I don't have so much time to practice nowadays, but I usually play an hour or two everyday (not always practicing, but at least playing). For something like this solo, I usually practice a couple of hours for two or three days. I'm quite a slow learner, unfortunately. Now I'm spending most of my practice time transcribing, learning (and rehearsing) Andromeda songs on bass, so the guitar is suffering slightly...

[ttoussaint]

Great Solo!

I'm wondering what you are doing with this nail on you little finger!

Tony

[MrGul]

@ttoussaint @ttoussaint Yeah, it's one of the best solos ever written. Marty Friedman is a real guitar hero!

The pinky nail is a funny story, actually. It all began as an experiment as I noticed that my nails grow unnaturally fast, so I wanted to see how long they could get – and the only finger I'm not using when I'm playing guitar or bass the pinky on my right hand, so I chose that. To stop it from breaking I started polishing it and yellow was the obvious choice since I love that color. =)

[ttoussaint]

@MrGul Yeah! Marty is my favorite guitar player. I love everything he makes, even the newer 'japanese' like kinda stuff. Even if most of the Megadeth lovers can't swallow it. It is still very nice music full of melodic shredding. You just have to keep in mind that he is not living in the same culture and it is reflected in his newer music.

Thanks for replying!

Tony

[MrGul]

@ttoussaint That's very true! I can definitely appreciate some of the newer music he's made after Megadeth, but the Introduction album was unfortunately somewhat of a disappointment for me. I found it to be quite boring, actually. He's made a lot of other stuff that's awesome, though! He is definitely not living in the metal culture anymore and he has probably progressed further now than he would have if he had stayed in Megadeth.

[CarlMornerR]

awsum

[Sandemose]

Såååååååå fett bra! Hoppas allt är bra Linus, vi hörs snart, det börjar äntligen röra på sig här borta i Kalmar!

Många kramar,

Michael

[Thatmetaldude590]

I can understand why it's hard to do it better

[guitarfred]

Grymt mannen!!

[MrGul]

@Sandemose Härligt att höra, Michael! Ser fram emot att höra av dig när saker rört på sig tillräckligt mycket. =)