Anyone any thoughts on this? He’s not only doing amazingly accurate transcriptions, but he’s also able to play those solos… His picking looks so effortless, makes me cry thinking about how many string changes happen in this run.
Sounds great! Rock on!
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Sounds super clean. Looks like a blend of elbow and wrist, which would suggest dsx, but without slowing it down and paying close attention to the string changes, can’t say for sure.
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Wow wow wow that’s all I can say, amazing stuff, how clean it is too, if I tried to play that there would be a lot of muting problems and at least a few bum notes. Plus it would be no where near as fast as him.
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Yeah, that was so relaxed- I might check out his other videos… does he have a tab for this? I tried listening to it slowed down, but since I had covid a few weeks ago, my tinnitus is off the charts - hard to do any sort of critical listening at the moment. I might just try and tab from his fretting hand since its just straight 16ths.
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I have the original guitar book for this album, and it’s quite accurate for this song, this solo is 100% accurate for sure. I can send you over if you are interested.
Anyways, still amazing how accurate and effortless it is. I’m not sure if he’s using a cloth or anything to dump the strings, and the neck pickup helps too for sure. There are an insane amount of string changes in this run.
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I only casually watched. Do these require escapes in both directions? Or are they swipe-able? Either way it’s great playing.
I used to have the book as well, but it accidentally got thrown out during a spring clean a few years back - if you could hit me up with the solo part, that would be awesome.
Re the damping of the strings - possibly, bit I wouldn’t hold it against him!
Okay, here are my attempts at 80% and 90%. Didn’t dare to give a go to 100%, my freeting hang just can’t keep up, and there’s to much happening picking-wise as well. 80% is very slow considering it’s 148bpm instead of the original 185 
With the music in the background it doesn’t sound that terrible, but let me upload the isolated guitar track. One excuse I may have is that my battery is dead and I could not use the neck pickup to eliminate a lot of the noise I experience using the bridge pickup for this run on the Chrome boy.
Isolated track 80% speed
My attempt at 90% is way worse (~166 bpm)
Isolated track 90% speed
One last attempt at ~95% speed (175 bpm) but with metronome as my youtube plugin doesn’t let me to do 95% 
Lot’s of missed notes and slop. Honestly it hurst my earts but it will be fun to look back at this one day when I’m won’t be able to play it even at 50% speed 
Isolated track 95% speed
I’m thinking about lowering my action on my guitars because it’s anything but low.
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Don’t be too harsh on the isolated tracks! It really doesn’t sound like its too far off (although the last 20% often feels like it might as well be 50%, if your are anything like me!)
Have you isolated which bit is causing the issue?
For me it will always be the quick outside switching between the b and e strings - I just dont have them baked in…
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I practiced that shift in isolation for a week now so it doesn’t really kick me off the flow anymore if I do the first B-E string shift on tempo correctly, my hand just feels how to do it after that. The really difficult part is the scale run from the D string with that lone note. The fretting hand position shifts are brutal especially after that nasty 4s pattern. I usually have no problem to play 3nps scale runs on average tempos like 170 bpm but 185 feels like a lightyear away…
Ha! Are you gonna play those in your room? 
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Little surprised you ditched the other setup entirely and went full Petrucci?
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Yes, I ditched the Axe FX and I’m playing with this setup in my room, the entire floor is shaking even setting the master knobs above quarter. I never had such a smile on my face while playing for the walls 
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That sound awesome! But someone needs to be boring, so I’ll volunteer:
Get something like an audio meter app to check that the sound levels are not too high for too long (I forgot the guidelines how how much intensity VS time we can tolerate, but they should be googlable), to keep your ears safe! You need those 
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very jealous indeed- been waiting to pull the trigger on a JP2C for ovwr a year, but mesa still aren’t shipping to uk 
Out of interest, the clean and high-gain on the amp are stellar , but how do you find the channel 2/3 for lower gain tones - classic crunch to clasic rock territory?
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Sounds amazing with lower gain tones as well, just dial back the volume knobs a bit on the Les Paul and it’s crunch heaven. You can also boost the clean channel with an overdrive if you are using a Fender, I think you could get any sound out of this amp via boosting the clean channel with some pedal.
I got the amp as a present years ago before I started playing the guitar from my sister. It has the serial #325 which was the last in the limited lineup. Petrucci even played on this in the Andertons video.
It was plugged into my Marshall 1960A cab once I started playing and moved back to Hungary, but it sounded rubbish through that cab.
Mesa is quite hard to get these days, I was hunting for the cabs for months and my luthier friend told me recently that they have a straight and a slanted traditional cab in their shop, they’ve been there for years, as any amp they plugged into those sounded rubbish with them.
I also learned that Petrucci is not using oversized cabs but the traditional ones so I took my amp immediately and plugged into the pair and wow … everyone’s jaws dropped to the floor in the shop and we spent all afternoon noodling with various guitars through the amp with lots of random people joining and we were all amazed by the JP2C. I’m so happy I didn’t sell it before,
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There was a solo competition in Hungary with a 13th of November deadline. As I was tied to the bed for 2 weeks due to my illness I had no energy to practice and prepare for that so I recorded my take on the last day with a few minutes of warming up.
The backing track was given and people had to come up with a solo for it. There are mistakes and timing issues obviously but this is my attempt:
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There’s plenty of great stuff in there! Nice job!
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