His point about metal/rock playing and not needing to know some keys, he’s missed a trick - if someone asks him to play in Bb harmonic minor all he needs to do is pick up a guitar tuned down to Bb and pretend he’s in E.
Hah!!! Checkmate, theoretically-schooled-proper-musicians ! 
My most looked-forward to interview on CTC. Joe was my private teacher at Berklee and had such a huge impact on me, and was who introduced me to the 70s proto-shredders like Uli Roth, Blackmore, Schenker, Moore etc. that I sadly didn’t start caring about until well after I was out of his tutelage.
Dude was the best teacher I ever had and one hell of a nice guy.
Yes! Fantastic, Joe Stump is one of my top 5 players ever. I’ve been waiting so long for this one, ever since I saw the very first Joe Stump video on the old CTC site.
Thanks CtC team!
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Joe Stump, born Sept 18. Some things are meant to be
@BlackInMind I remember Joe Stump waking those hallways. I had private lessons with Jon Finn and remember seeing him in full garb at like 9AM. I thought it was YM. I talked to him once or twice just practicing scales waiting for my lesson. Cool guy!
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Oh God, YES!!! ! ! !
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Very cool, thanks for these Troy and co. Awesome!
Fantastic news…been looking forward to this…will it be available for download soon?
Just wondering if the tabs will be available as a download in a .zip file or will they be Soundslice?
@Jack_Hammer I think you are able to access these interviews as a “subscriber download” after a period of time. At least, I have access to the Frank Gambale interview in that format. @Brendan would be the best man to clarify.
We just forgot to turn that on since it’s not a completed product yet with the musical examples, tablature, and so on. Still not finished but you should at least be able to download the interview itself. Let us know if you have any trouble grabbing that.
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If you’re a subscriber during the month we release an interview, we give you a free download of it. You can cancel and you’ll still have access to that since, again, you were subscribed in the month when we released it.
We don’t really advertise on the site (I don’t think) that we do this, and it’s kind of a holdover from back in the Gumroad days when we didn’t have the browsable platform we have now. For now we’ll keep doing it.
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So I should be able to download the Joe Stump interview with tabs in the next few weeks?!
I noticed that some of Joe’s descending runs aren’t as smooth as his ascending runs. Most of his lines are ascending or pattern based. There was one point in the interview where he plays a fast alternate picked descending lick and it wasn’t as smoothly done as his ascending licks. I’m trying to find the time code for it.
We’re working on the clips / tablature now, and hope to get them done this week.
Right. Like Yngwie, Joe doesn’t really do 3nps alternate picking, in either direction, if that’s what you’re referring to. He’s a USX player, so it has to be even numbers of notes to go pure alternate. When he clicks into pure alternate his motion looks good, and applied to something that’s even numbers of notes, it works. But to really get a desc 3nps type line to be “crispy”, as Ben Eller likes to say, it would need to be down-up-pulloff.
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Troy is there anything in common between Joe’s thumb and finger movements and Martin Miller’s “Miller picking”?
Certainly looks that way doesn’t it? The similarities are greater at slower speeds when Joe isn’t using forearm. Then the motions looks more finger-oriented, and more like what Martin does. When Joe goes fast on a single string there’s more forearm, like this for example:
Also, around 40 seconds in the outro solo you’ll see this type of motion pop up again. And the arm component to this is obvious.
Obviously the biggest difference is that Joe is a USX player. Whether you use his blend of forearm and fingers or not, at the end of the day, he’s making a picking motion where the upstroke escapes and the downstroke is trapped. For people who want to play these lines, there are other ways to get that, like wrist, or forearm-wrist, and those ways work pretty well if you can’t figure out what Joe is doing.
I’d also point out that when you ask Martin to do his finger motion fast on a single note, it’s not a double escape motion. It’s a downstroke escape motion. Like this:
The pick is only escaping on the downstroke here. I think when he does the arpeggio stuff the motion is slightly different, and maybe involves a small amount of forearm or perhaps wrist to escape on the upstroke, in addition to the fingers thing.
So if Joe’s finger motion is upstroke escape, and Martin’s is downstroke escape, does that mean they are different motions? Or is it the same / similar motion being done from a different arm position?
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The Joe Stump package is awesome,the best $49 I have ever spent.Very useful licks and great insight to an incredible player.If you are interested in Neo Classical guitar this is a great package.Thank you Troy for this!
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Thanks, glad to hear it!
This was so great, I watched it 2x already. I still have some Joe Stump instructional DVDs from years ago, he plays even better now, if possible, and his tone is fantastic.
I like the way he explains things, I don’t know if it’s because he is already teaching, or because it seems he and Troy know each other a bit so they have a very natural conversation, but I found it really easy to follow although not easy to play 
Thanks again!
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