Tornado of souls solo coming along!

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#21

Good job @jjsnibor, one day you gotta sit down with me and teach me this awesome solo :slight_smile:

I have two suggestions regarding the “ghost note”:

  1. Try your “old way” of doing it with the DSX-alternate method, and check if the note sounds properly this way

  2. keep doing the sweep but hold down briefly the first 2 notes on the pattern like a chord, instead of putting down the fretting fingers one after the other. The sweep purists will be horrified by this suggestion, but I bet that at 200bpm the notes don’t really have time to ring into each other properly.

And in general yes, if you are going for the USX-sweep approach things may get easier if you allow just a tiny bit more DWPS, so the pick slides more easily across the DD sweeps.

Let us know how these attempts go :slight_smile:

Another thing I noticed is that your guitar and the backing track sounded a bit out of tune with each other. Assuming your guitar is in standard tuning, could it be that the record was not exactly tuned @440hz?

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#22

You are sounding great on this, Marty’s phrasing style has to one of the hardest to nail in all of metal

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#23

Yes! So easy to want to move on to another piece!

#24

That’s good policy for avoiding insanity!

#25

Thanks! Yeah, he’s tough to emulate. Although I really benefited from learning how he plays fast stuff, my favorite thing that I’ve picked up from his playing is that yank bending that he does. I love his articulation most!

The isolated Marty-only track on youtube is encouraging: helps to hear he’s not PERFECT on some stuff. Rhythm guitars really help cover inconsistencies.

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#26

Excellent ideas!

I have tried going back to my original DSX motion but it’s so fast that I fall apart.

And yes, I’m sure my guitar Was Out Of Tune a bit at the point I recorded that video. Good ears!

Also I have to admit that the Ben Eller tutorial on this solo on YouTube was VERY helpful.

#27

spent much time last night and today just playing that motion with USX like Marty and made progress. Last night I was playing those arpeggios better but had to slow it down to about 140 to consistently get all four notes of each arpeggio. Today, I got up to 175!

#28

and today I when I slo-mo-ed my attempts at 198 I at least hit a few of those upward sweep notes I was missing. slow, frustrating progress.

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