Tornado of Souls diminished run

[Dissonant_Timbres]

Pretty sure Marty does upstrokes on the notes before the pull offs and then a downward sweep from the b to e string. Marty seems to be a very religious DWPSer, partially due to that ultra supinated felxion he uses for his natural picking stance. Two consecutive up strokes on the same string with pull off and hammers ons is a very Marty thing. Study his playing on RIP and you will run across on patterns that pretty much have to be played that way to be played with DWPS.

Long before I ran across CTC there was a writeup on Marty’s playing I read where the writer talked about Marty using consecutive upstrokes a lot on the b and e strings.

[Christian]

In “exotic metal guitar”, his first instructional video, Marty explains the basic pattern behind this lick in great detail. (he is using this and variations almost everywhere)
This definitely is two downstrokes on b- and e-string, followed by an upstroke and a pull off on the e-string. In case there are two consecutive pull-offs on the e-string both are played with an upstroke.

[buudee625]

Almost 10yrs late on this convo but just in case if anyone else needs it in the future. This is how you play that section.

That tab is grossly inaccurate with most of the technical and fast licks in Tornado (I know where it came from and it’s still the top rated tab as of a few days ago). It’s crazy how many players are stuck because of one inaccurately transcribed sheet music, and how much time people wasted trying to figure out how to executed a lick that’s transcribed in the most insanely inefficient manner.

That’s why I always preach to my students: use tab as a reference and cross-reference multiple of tabs, covers and live footage if it’s available.

When I was learning this solo 12-13yrs ago I was also stunned by this part but after watching several covers (at the time there wasn’t any good close-up footage of Marty or Chris playing it so I relied on people’s cover), I noticed NO ONE played it close to the way the tab was written so I decided the tab was not worth following.

Then as more and more live footage came out and I watched more Marty’s tutorial I started to puzzle it together. I’m 98% confident this is how Marty plays it. I also have the final descending lick tabbed because that’s also another section that most people don’t get right.

Hope this helps someone out there lol

[JBakerman]

This type of scenario (upstroke on a new string immediately after a picked note on another string, at speeds like this) is pretty rare or nonexistent in Marty’s playing:

Here’s IMO what he did on the album:

He tends to change things live but the consecutive downstrokes on g12, d14 are pretty clear here:

- YouTube