Wild Stringdom w/John Petrucci: Jan 14 - Visualizing Melodic Shapes on the Fretboard
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This month, I'd like to delve deeper into concepts for expanding scalar ideas across the fretboard. As in the previous columns, I'll demonstrate how to move diagonally across the fretboard to connect scale positions, an approach that I employ to a great extent to play melodic phrases and solos.
Let's start with a series of phrases that are all based on the E Aeolian mode, or E natural minor scale (E Fs G A B C D). FIGURE 1 details a series of three different three-note phrases, each played in a three-notes-per-string pattern and starting with the index finger. I begin in seventh position and play through the first six notes of E Aeolian.
In bar 2, I shift up to ninth position and play a six-note pattern that begins on the fifth degree of E Aeolian, B, sounding the notes B C D E Fs G. Finally, I move up to 11th position to play a six-note pattern beginning on the second, or ninth, Fs, sounding the notes Fs G A B C D. The high D at the end of the phrase is useful, because it can easily be bent up one whole step to the E root. By connecting all three patterns this way, I am moving up the fretboard in a diagonal path that covers a lot of range.
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What a great guy and an amazing player.
This video is so good that my 1 1/2 year old just leaned over and kissed John Petrucci's guitar on the screen!
THAT TONE
Awesome teacher this guy.
All these years I've been playing these chords & positions & never really knew what they were by name, just knew they worked really well & have tons of riffage & melody. Great lesson. Huge thanx JP
If I had that tone, I'd play it nonstop until I died. Seriously.
@steveknucklebones2501
8 жыл бұрын
+Musta Krakish I sincerely hope you find it. Honestly good tone isn't hard to find. I found good tone in the form of a Maxon OD808 [or any boost] in between a nice two pickup guitar and a tube amp with reverb. That's really all it takes. Don't let tone stand between you and playing nonstop.
@yonikup2865
5 жыл бұрын
@Master Exploder more like 2000$+ dollar guitar into 2000$+ amp 😅
john I gotta ton of respect. good solid theory...
Awesome John!
Love it, JP!!
"This should sound familiar to you" No John, I came here from a cooking video that showed me how to make bolognese.
much love to this amazing player. godly skills, super incredible musician.
That chrome Music Man is beautiful.
that tone is killer!!!
Thanks very much for this informative lesson Mr. Petrucci! I personally play many arpeggios in my leads and build riffs and solos off of them so I always look for new patterns to work with and this pattern you've shown us is very versatile. Inverted chords like what you played really spice up a melody as well - thanks for the ideas.
@dannyhood66
10 жыл бұрын
If you play apeggios and know how to build riffs and solos from a Emin scale then you dont need this lesson, because you should know Emin patterns already, as this strictly is for beginner intermediate lesson simple , unless you like to hear petuccie explanation? , John used to work in a deli (his family owned the deli , although im not 100% sure?) He made sandwiches for custormers.. First time id ever seen petuccie in guitar mag 1990 i believe it was,
@RolanTHUNDER
10 жыл бұрын
Danny Hood I play the Amin often but the Emin not as such so this lesson benefited me since I'm going to work with those patterns now. Seeing how Petrucci executes it and how he devises riffs and melodies from it is the informative part. There's always something a guitarist can learn from a fellow one regardless of playing level - there's no limit to how much one can learn. That's why I appreciate vids like these as they also help with creativity :) I gotta brush up on my theory too!
what a great lesson! he is a great teacher too! I really needed this lesson. my phrasing was getting stale!
After Dream Theater had conquered Westeros with their awesomeness, John Petrucci decided to reshape the Iron Throne in another image...
Love it. I've got the basics down and I will keep working different Avenues...
Thank you,feels more like a hang then a lesson...
Love this. I'd love to get my hands on the tabbed lesson.
I can watch this the whole day
"Sounds like a song already" - lol, everything you play John sounds like a kickass track already :D
That was awesome!
holy makeral an eye opener. TY.
He uses that same Em add9 on The first song (on the backs of angels) in their "A drastic turn of events" album if I'm not mistaken. I wonder if JP ever stumbles on something during these little lessons video's and thinks "hey that sounds like a good song! ......Cut! Lets do a re-take, I don't want to give that away!" lol
Wow guitar lessons rock my #1 guitar hero
Hope this stuff comes out in a book like the last wild stringdom did, that'd be awesome
it's very cool and its sound very cool
it´s gated like hell, I think you´re right mate ^^
john is a god at playing
solid explanation and teaching - I don't like Dream Theater but no one can deny that John is a gifted player.
amazing!!!!!
I love making riffs with the same ideas he's talking about.
I never did melodic sol0ing.i would do rock classical blues,this guy is awesome! love his band I ove melodic soloing!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow actually understood the lesson unlike when yngwie explains something its just him shredding for 15 mins about 1000 notes a second nd then he says okay there ya go!
That is so fucking clean
Even I understand!,,,, thats the dream teacher!,,,😀😀
hello everybody, i am your guitar god john petrucci but you can call me just god. this man is a fucking legend
Holy shit we are witnessing the future.
@DoomsdayRussian
10 жыл бұрын
bigfriki Jan. 14
@DoomsdayRussian
10 жыл бұрын
bigfriki Check the fucking title
@ardipithecus11
10 жыл бұрын
***** Come on now, let's all be nice.
@bigfriki
10 жыл бұрын
***** Ok lol, sorry about that.
@ardipithecus11
10 жыл бұрын
bigfriki You rock bro.
Thanks
I almost allways start to write riffs and song structures trough this method. Pick a good scale to enhance your mood you want and just start jamming. Good stuff starts coming out. If you know your scales and theory to that point, you don't even need to be technically talented player to come up something really cool sounding stuff.
05:41 HELL IS FREEZING OVER. John Petrucci made a mistake.
@Svava it's easy once you have the technique!
I wish I could play like that...and that my arms were that MASSIVE.
I'm not gay and I'm sure John isn't either, but I would marry him in a second. I could listen to him forever. Definitely more pleasing than my current wife...
@funginum
10 жыл бұрын
lol
@tankerbrigade
7 жыл бұрын
but he is not home very often. you would just raise kids and wait him to come from tour, and when he come he would probably first ask for sex not guitar practice.
@manny75586
6 жыл бұрын
Ulfhedinn when you told your friends that you and John "went all night long" you'd actually be talking about practicing sweep picking haha
the best
What is the name of the song with that kickass solo played in the begining of the video
One of the best tones I've ever heard!! Does anyone know WTF his equipment is besides the Ernie Ball Music Man?
@Budaboose
4 жыл бұрын
I know he uses Mesa Boogie amplifiers.
@siddharthsharma8940
4 жыл бұрын
The guitar is a small factor in tone. The amp is 98 percent of the tone. John probably used an Axe fx or Mesa Mark V in this video
What's the model of this guitar? I've been trying to find it and I only find newer models with too many colors (for my taste).
This guy is pretty good. He should be in a band
@mahmoudalramly3517
Жыл бұрын
😂 he is a dream theater guitarist
What are those pickups? Their clarity sounds great. Doesn't look like the Crunchlab/Liquifire set.
@bigbadger69
10 жыл бұрын
Those are his new custom Illuminators. They do sound great! I've tried em' out. They are a bit more dominating and sit further up in most mixes than the Liquifire/crunchlab set, but damn, that tone!
He looks like he went to the penitentiary and got tough.
Whats the name of the song at the very beginning of the video?
this man is good, maybe some day he will joint a band, :)
@manny75586
6 жыл бұрын
yunfei yao nah, he'll never make it in the music business :p
Can he walk on water too?
who do u think is better guthrie or jp?
Is it me or do they have a noise gate that kills the signal immediately? Maybe the video is edited like that? Weird.
@davidepannone6021
10 жыл бұрын
they do.
@davidepannone6021
10 жыл бұрын
no, there's also a gate, it's not just a pot swell. You can CLEARLY hear the noise gate doing his job on his voice mostly, it's a room gate, it's not in JP's signal chain.
@ironwolg
10 жыл бұрын
Davide Pannone the guitar has a built in preamp, that might also be altering the sound. just thought i'd chunk that out there lol just in case it helped figure this mystery out
@davidepannone6021
10 жыл бұрын
No, the new JP that have the inbuild preamp just boost the signal a little bit, John uses it during the solos (instead of having a boosting pedal/distortion pedal in front of the amp that acts as a booster, as he used to do btw). It's the guitar world guys that have that noise gate engaged, especially in the ambient/voice mic. Just check other similar videos (like the guthrie govan's ones for example) to notice it. Thanks anyway from chiming in, cheers
@Imanification95
10 жыл бұрын
It sound like theres a gate on the reverb right?
Could somebody tell me the solo in the beginning of the video is from which song?
@maxwayninger
8 жыл бұрын
+Nadeem elbetebsi The Enemy Inside.
Didn’t say anything about actually visualization though…. Which is what I came for, it was in the title.
was that a dream theatre song at the beggining if it is wat is the name of the song?
@HyrulsMusic
8 жыл бұрын
Yes, it is It's "The Enemy Inside" from their eponymous album in 2013
You got tabs?
Holy shit I had no idea he was so fucking ripped!
@MylesJP
10 жыл бұрын
To be honest I think he's lost a bit. In the Systematic Chaos tour he was huge.
@TheBladeSephara
10 жыл бұрын
Aunt Jemima He was probably becoming a logistical issue during travel arrangements for the band's tours. Nice of him to drop off a few mega-tons xD
What's the song in the intro?
that man knows his fuckin theory!
What are the pick ups? Name
Finally, a guitarist that goes to the gym. Haha
What is the name of the Dream Theater song that is played at the beginning of this video??
@andreistanciulescu1202
9 жыл бұрын
The enemy inside
6:14
is it just me? or was his tone better back in the old Images and Awake days, just find his leads left a better impression back then, none of his leads stand out now
@DreamPurpleFloyd
8 жыл бұрын
Hey, I know I'm late but while I agree with your general statement, you can still find a few gems in his most recent compositions. I think his leads in Breaking All Illusion and The Bigger Picture are fantastic !
I haaaate that they don't publish the tabs... it's just a big ad for the magazine.
john is not a shredder,he more a about playing melodic sololing than shred beautiful guitar player
This John Porkflap guy is really good.
Subtítulos Pleace
+yunfei yao He's already in a band... He's in a very well known progressive metal band called Dream Theater and is a pretty famous guitarist.
What guitar is that?
no more crunch-lab?
@BrettFairchild
10 жыл бұрын
Nope, Illuminators now
гыгыг Петруччи такой Петруччи))
HOW DOES HE NOT BREAK EYE CONTACT.
@andrewarriola6127
10 жыл бұрын
He's staring us all down cause of his great on developing speed techniques.....actually.....he's saying hell rape us ..with his eyes...I like petrucci he shreds/rocks
Now he has a level 8 beard.
5:40 OMG John hit a wrong note (natural sixth), he is human after all! or maybe he wanted some dorian influence...
He's not using the JP pick...haha
Can anybody throw some pointers out on my song I made on my channel? Huge john petrucci fan by the way
His fingers look like spider legs. That Em add9 is impossible to play cleanly unless you're a deity.
@filip100000
10 жыл бұрын
It's not that hard to grab actually.
@TheBladeSephara
10 жыл бұрын
On that guitar neck it's easier- xD But yes. Gawd. xD
@dannystumpf321
8 жыл бұрын
Maybe if you have little kid hands
THEORIST LINGO!!!! HA!!!
needs to improve his picking
Thumbs down. This didnt help my playing, I still suck.
What's with the biker look dude? I liked you better when you looked like an accountant!!!
he is great at many things, but his solos, meh.. too much tricked out speed, and no soul
@brazwen
8 жыл бұрын
+shawn gregory Listen to Goodnight Kiss, Breaking All Illusions, Live version of Hollow Years, Spirit Carries On, This is the Life and The Best of TIme. Tell me that there's no soul in those solos.
@Ajoi1995
8 жыл бұрын
+shawn gregory lol stupid statement
@shawngregory5879
8 жыл бұрын
no, actually, its an opinon, and accurate. I have a friend, who is a friend of HIS, said the same thing.. hes great, i won two JP6 guitars, and play them for a living. I love his playing. but it is soul less, to some degree. not a satch, or neal schon, etc.. thats my opinon,. you will accept it.. lol
@Ajoi1995
8 жыл бұрын
shawn gregory definition of soul less? Too much theory and technical or what?
@shawngregory5879
8 жыл бұрын
Faizul IlmI something hard to explain. sopul is that melodic singing feel of a soul singer, or great vocalist. melodic, not over stated, just from the heart, and not thought out. it can be intertwined with speed and technique, but its either there or not. satriani has soul.. neal schon has soul, andy timmons.. all technical players too, but john just doesnt have THAT like they do.. cant explain it any further than that