Haha thanks for having me, Thomann, and to everyone who watched. Keep in mind, this was done PURELY for a laugh - anyone with a couple ears and some common sense knows that John absolutely destroys me in every way as a guitarist.

@MaxFreist

5 жыл бұрын

humble as always - and that's why you're such an awesome person!

@travislee9662

5 жыл бұрын

Hey Mark love your playing and love everything Periphery. I’ve got your signature Prs SE and it is hands down my favorite guitar now. Can’t believe the quality for the price and I’ve got to thank you for collaborating on such an affordable production model. You’re use of the thumb on chords, chord voicing, and riff writing in general has really expanded my playing THANKS!

@jirsonghanse1420

5 жыл бұрын

Markholcomb is the best of all over the world big fan from northeast india

@bruceanthony8345

5 жыл бұрын

Nice riff make to you Mark. Return please at Mexico with Periphery...

@spotsthecat7913

5 жыл бұрын

Still, you're awesome for challenging John. It shows that you're not afraid to explore and humble yourself as a guitarist. Mad respect,dude

Hahaha I love John Petrucci's humor.

Woah, John is so good!

John could definitely play it, and he could pick it up in a minute or two. He is just being humble here. On the other hand, *composing* a riff like that is another story. That's unique to Mark.

@nessst.pierre2396

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, genius, it's called a joke.

@suzukimitra

4 жыл бұрын

well said bro

@MrHaggyy

2 жыл бұрын

😅 you would be supprised how much effort it is to master a riff even at Johns level. Not that he couldn't but he would set the bar much higher than most listeners. And would need some practice to get it up there.

That's one of many reasons why I love Thomann! They are coming up with unique ideas and they present them in very nice environment and with high quality 👌😁

How beautiful sounds that Holcomb gear, jesus christ

For anyone interested, the riff is from Haunted Shores' song called Terra Firma. John is so good by the way! Lol

Um, I actually thought he was gonna play it... I mean he is John Petrucci...(maybe not after the first listen but still)

@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power

6 жыл бұрын

give him an hour or two, ( or even less ), he could get most of it. i guess they just found his reaction good enough.

@IshmamAhmed

6 жыл бұрын

I could’ve picked it up in an hour. Petrucci could’ve picked it up after a fart

@thehanukkandor590

5 жыл бұрын

@@IshmamAhmed yeaaaah ok

i'm mark from periphery and i betcha can't play this:

@daoyang6055

6 жыл бұрын

Commenting Guy Me.

@BETAsin

6 жыл бұрын

Commenting Guy I'm sorry you can't count beyond 4.

@mrmisterman999

6 жыл бұрын

bob and vegene, lol what a fucking idiot you are

@BETAsin

6 жыл бұрын

Nice sock puppet accounts.

@mrmisterman999

6 жыл бұрын

the butthurt runs deep. Walk it off kid you'll be ok.

I completely love all these riffs from Haunted Shores. They have Mark written all over the place

Lol John is my favorite guitarist, but the hate for Mark is bullshit.. clearly nobody has heard Haunted Shores.

Funny all the idiots saying this riff is pointless sounding and over technical etc when those are the most common criticisms of Dream Theater from people too ignorant enough to actually listen to them properly. Periphery/Haunted Shores and Dream Theater are my favorite bands but it's kinda funny how many hypocrites there are in the comments here. What if someone said John Petruccis guitar playing is over complex nonsense?

Awesome episode as usual.

Terra Firma is to this day one of Mark's crowning achievements in songwriting. It's just so fucking good.

Humildade e evolução

Sound of Archon and Mark V... 3 chugs, and done :D

a format where they actually get to learn it would be way more entertaining

Yes

Oh, hi Mark!

I love mrak to death. He’s the best

Nice Ramen shirt Mark!

@aryagamis

6 жыл бұрын

Riffed Wood at first I thought it's Ramones, then I see tonkotsu

Is there a follow-up to this.....? If not, maybe this just needs to stay on the cutting room floor...

@NoSenseOfCrime

6 жыл бұрын

I bet this "Episode 1" in the title implies there will be a follow up

@scottsommers6969

6 жыл бұрын

NoSenseOfCrime pffft ep 2 is the same thing with a different guitarist. Disappointing.

those are some *T H I C C* chords

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

5 жыл бұрын

I think it needs a third *C* You can take mine! //Andy

Good guy John, can melt faces with few notes, but decided to spare poor kid who spent decade coming up with this exercise.

@thezestychunk5575

5 жыл бұрын

Mrravena the real title of this video

John is fucking awesome

I wonder how many people that talk shit about this could actually play it?

@nckhed

2 жыл бұрын

That's completely irrelevant. Music fans will always have opinions. Do you have to be a movie director in order to not like any given movie? 🤷‍♂️

Nice video

@darwinwin3947

6 жыл бұрын

I rlly enjoy seeing all that guitar players

Mark is the man

Thomann, where are the tabs? :D need these!

@Seadr4gon.

4 жыл бұрын

Terra forma

"There's a reason I'm here"

When in Oslo...

Hey john, can you play this riff? *plays an entire song*

Needs more gain. In some spots I was actually able to hear the note.

@ortanchibiri

6 жыл бұрын

crush537 LOL

Damn Petrucci was amazing in this video. Mark was alright too.

Hope we get this on p4

@ellistorris

2 жыл бұрын

I think it’s from when in oslo, an old hs song. They actually put it in their new album

😂😂 john was close with that ending.

Hahahaha all these DT fanboys hating on Mark.

A lick??? MORE LIKE A WHOLE SONG.

Mrak the gods

Man that was highly processed. I'd end up in the hospital from either trying to play it or get shocked trying to connect the gear :p

This comment section is pure gold

Its like Mark is a Greek God and John is Kratos.

i actually prefered to see if he actually tried to play the riff.

When you're John Petrucci, you don't actually have to play a challenge riff. Everyone just knows you can play whatever the fuck you want.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

6 жыл бұрын

Very true.

John God Petrucci!

John is god. Why would people question him?

wait, are we really calling this riff shitty? that was bad ass as fuck, sorry your ears can't comprehend it lol

tonkotsu ramen... mmmmmmm

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Is this a joke? John Petrucci would play circles around this guy.

Should've been jake lol

Mark is a great musician and guitarist, but those riffs do absolutely nothing for me.

John "caveman" Petrucci

Petrucci was not even right.lol XD

That was a long riff... there isn't anything that John can't play

I personally found John's 3 chugs more fulfilling.

Markholcomb is the best of all time....... His rifff n solo is just sucks 😘

Wow, what a difference between the piercing noise of the first guy, and the sound of Petrucci’s setup! And that comes through in just a second. Music wise JP just summed it up perfectly, hit the nail on the head, that is all that riff worths :D

@MatrixfanMacUser

6 жыл бұрын

Visthenics Well, that’s life for you right there, not everyone like the same things! I know it’s a shocker. Watched again, still don’t like the sound and the riff. Tone wise one has to have taste for this, night and day difference in favor of Petrucci. Melody wise I downright hate how nu’, djent and whatever bands “harmonize”. Yes, to me it’s just making noise. But yeah, that’s life for you :)

@rodrigoperez244

6 жыл бұрын

don't try to reason with djent fans. they will always say their 1 trick pony musicians are the best.

@danepresley7851

6 жыл бұрын

John's tuning is way lower cause of his guitars extra strings. Ignorant comment

@renehaitjema7841

5 жыл бұрын

Part of the reason most people dont like the sound of mark or the other two gitarists in periphery has to do with the fact they have three guitarist. If all their tone would be thick and full, like John's, periphery's mix would sound too fat and not tight. John on the other hand is the only guitarist in dream theater so his guitar tone has to be thick and rich enough to stand out in the mix and fill the midrange guitar gap on its own. Periphery's guitar tone in its whole is actually quite nice in my opinion.

There's probably no other 2 guitarists in the metal industry i admire more than these two guys. But when looking at the comment section, it is clear as crystal to see that the fanboys of John, are butthurt beyond compare. The wailing and whining over Mark Holcomb's riff is unbearable. As if John was your boyfriend and Mark criticized his appearance or talent. "Yeah John could do that any day, he just didn't want to - Mark sucks - Fucking showoff - Horrible tone" You know what? I have a question for you. If you had half the talent these two guys had, and the chance to do this, wouldn't you show some complex riff you've written, and play it to your guitar god idol? Imagine if he played it. Wouldn't you be stoked?! (Which he probably could) Or would you play some retarded 12 bar blues E minor riff every human-being with a guitar in their hands has played a zillion times, and waste everybody's time? John clearly loved it. Fun fact in case some of you didn't already know, Jake Bowen from Periphery is family related with John. So not only is Mark "challenging" his life long idol. but also his friend. He's asking a good' FRIEND' who happens to be a guitar god, to play a riff. If you as a fan can't smile, and understand from seeing these two amazing humanbeings interacting with one another in this video, that this is a kindhearted friendly jest, and not Mark saying that he's better, and trying "make himself look good" or by any means better than John Petrucci, then you're a silly, silly humanbeing, and a emotionally paperthin skinned, fragile, child with idol issues. This is exactly the same as when two children are fighting over whose dad is the strongest. By god it's cringey and most of all ridiculous.

@nckhed

2 жыл бұрын

Man, just let people have their opinions, lol. Your comment contains way more bellyaching than any other comments I've seen on this video. Lighten up.

If I was him, I'd probably think "Why should I bother trying to play that nonsense?" I like Periphery though, but that riff was as "musical" as Schönberg's Pierrot Lunaire, not exactly the most catchy stuff out there...

@jonajon91

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but shitting on Oierrot Lunaire is pretty close minded dude.

@ortanchibiri

6 жыл бұрын

Not shitting at all, Jonathan, just saying it's not your typical "hook" material ;-)

@jonajon91

6 жыл бұрын

Sorry I thought the implication was that you didn't find Schoenberg music.

@ortanchibiri

6 жыл бұрын

Music, yes, for very specific moments in my case. Maybe I should have gone for Stockhausen's Helikopter Streichquartett or something similar to illustrate my point

@redskullz1249

6 жыл бұрын

I think it has something to do with his guitar tone. I've noticed that Mark's tone often sounds really harsh when he does demonstrations, which is weird because in the Periphery mixes it sounds great.

John has summed up Mark's bla bla bla into 3x chugs... and he is correct

2cents: this was an awful riff, unbalanced, blabbaring and undefined

@muhammadaliffauzan2820

5 жыл бұрын

Did you know progressive?

Nice clickbait

Just wasted time here.

The PRS Archon is really a shitty amp

In all honesty that riff blew....

@flyingmanforfun

6 жыл бұрын

Rick Kala And the tone was awfuuuul

@Wrathofkala

6 жыл бұрын

True, I am normally positive but sometimes you just have to tell the truth :).

@kungfuman82

6 жыл бұрын

That's what I was thinking. The guy asked if he could pick up the riff after a listen or two, but the only answer in my mind is "why would he want to".

@rodrigoperez244

6 жыл бұрын

yeah, because the only way to make good, memorable, complex metal is to play mumbojumbo like that. well, not really. i would much rather play complex riffs stuff like Spiral Architect or Cynic's stuff instead of Mark Holcomb's over-produced riffs. If you strip down those riffs from their useless flashiness, you are left with pretty boring chord progressions.

@michaelciancetta6397

6 жыл бұрын

no man... the riff really sucked and the guitar sound is awful.. I agree 100% with Rick Kala sorry...

Lol, I love how all these novices say the riff/tone suck. I get that you guys can’t comprehend Mark’s playing, but you don’t have to rip on him just because you can’t do it. I don’t even play prog anymore but I still find this very musical. You just need to get it and not be a hater lol. So much negativity, you’re all a disgrace to music. Once you understand everyone has a style and gimmick, and you RESPECT it, that’s when you truly upgrade to a musician. Until then, replace “musician” or “guitarist” with “hater” and you’re basically looking in a mirror.

@rodrigoperez244

6 жыл бұрын

Tyler Lashway In terms of harmony and chord progression, that riff was pretty standard and boring. Just because it's flashy, has many notes and is "rhythmically complex" (omgeee so many time signatures and da polyrhtysdmsnddss, sooo complex!!11!1!1!1!) doesn't means it's good. You don't need to be an expert no notice how plain and flat the composition is. People have the right to express they don't like it. You can't say they are "novices", that's dumb shit. If you like the riff, cool. But don't come with that "hurr you can't comprehend its beauty because of you low IQ dur" bullshit.

@nckhed

2 жыл бұрын

@@rodrigoperez244 Exactly. People like Tyler are seemingly unaware that they are haters of different opinions.

Lol garbage riff

@thehanukkandor590

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah ok

This was highly disappointing, I would have rather had john have some warning and a chance to try to learn it... even if only just a day or so

@alexwales8914

5 жыл бұрын

John could learn that in a few watches if he really tried, let alone a whole day

That riff was awful. John Petrucci is a guitar god!

mark's rhythm is bad

Terrible sounding riff

I bet John couldn't even play the riff even if he tried.

Horrible riff and horrible genre