Burn It Down - Performance - Andy James

[@director_t6686]

Bump for 2024, found this when I was in high school and have loved it ever since. Glad things have went well bro

[@Projectekon]

You're wrong when you can shred like this. Your hair just burns away, this price you pay for being that good. Andy James is a fantastic guitarist :)

[@sammorush]

Gousbump each time! Awsome playing!!! This guy have a cumputer memory!!

[@extremfacts]

He plays one song and you talk about computer memory...What do you say when he plays a concert? You noob!

[@extremfacts]

And you´re the kind of person who can´t live with critic...So all is hate!

[@sammorush]

Your comment was not a critic! That was an insult. And if you think you can know someone even without mate him, it's showing a fear weakness from you. And if you see hate everywhere like you mention you should consult a psychologist to see what's wrong in your life! Stop hating and things will come to you effortless. I hope you will catch the message through my words.

[@deorocker]

for me andy is the sum of all guitar legends. steve vai plus paul guilbert plus yngwie malmsteen plus john petrucci plus zakk wylde plus joe satriani plus eric johnson i s equals to andy james.he is the best of all the best!

[@grayt76]

I will never understand how guys like Kurt Cobain & the like are considered so great and such a big influence, and great players like this are hardly known.

[@superjorgebros]

Kurt and andy are great, just in different areas

[@danielzee9639]

My all time favorite transition!! 🔥🔥

[@johnTMcNeill]

my ears are happy, and my eyes are in awe- think of the hours and hours and days and weeks and months and years it takes to learn to play like this- not to mention the shredded fingers.. :)

[@prgmtlman7533]

Another mindblowing performancs by Mr. James

[@TrikQuestionS]

He has this wonderful confused disposition. Caveman bang at rock and create magic. Said with love. Amazing stuff.

[@FacundoSS_Guitarist]

yes, I totally agree. but do not detract from the work of andy. everyone feels the music as your heart says. you have to enjoy the music in every way. and the metal is a powerful tool! together we can make the metal does not die, and I'm safe enclosure is never going to end. I hope my message is understood ... greetings from Argentina. :)

[@XxDeViLBrInGeRxX]

i think i must have watched at least 12 times this vid, and i can't stop watching it, it's to fucking amazing!!!

[@GabiRuta]

absolutely FANTASTIC !!!!!!

[@bim41337]

Only one of the best alternate pickers?^^ He's one of the best "what-ever-you-want"ers I've ever seen

[@Valkzone666]

My favourite guitarist:) damn all the styles he does are amazing!!!!

[@bitey101]

Amazing solo, amazing back track. ~Andy James

[@JeromeHorgan]

Oh I have and you are right, i'm well impressed. This guy is flawless!

[@CowShimmy]

Andy changed metal in my eyes by adding extremely melodic and soulful often improvised solos into his songs, even very heavy songs. In addition to this he is also the most technical shredder I have ever seen, even better then Petrucci, Loomis, Malmsteen, you name it, in my opinion.

[@guitarttimman]

wow! what an amazing guitarist. Very impressive and tight!

[@adiller666]

andy james is the shit.. jus amazing outta this world .. :)

[@para_bellum_1984]

I can definitely see how he's such an inspiration to any metal player. Nice.

[@ThePeteM]

Love the signed album..awesome to say the least James.

[@Deceptikon121212]

Holy God! This guy is amazing!!!

[@DallenJimenez]

Thats some amazing SHREDDING!

[@amguitar123]

i love the chorus!

[@ROVAKAN]

he played 1 note per every human being living in the earth in 4 minutes

[@yardlinkin4993]

so sick!!!

[@BosGaurus05]

Sooo good

[@freddyehtoo]

Andy Got everyting from all guitarist !!!

[@givemeajackson]

pinkies are underrated. awesome playing again andy, just a pain to watch for me ;)

[@dazzazmc]

andy is one of the best alternate pickers ive ever seen

[@qeriton]

BEAST... nuff said

[@belongtoit]

This guy is mind blowing in his own right , reading the comments I have deduced that I can share an opinion here and not get flamed.The way I see it , is MOST guitarists favor a certain grouping of notes OR try to emote something... its not all just about what is being played. Not to sound cosmic , but all of these guys understand the science behind what they do as much as they understand the math. To say that one is better than the other is not fair. To say that you favor one over the other is

[@tizneb36]

Tell me if I'm wrong, but a lot of incredible mastro guitar player like Andy when you take a closed look, got one thing in common: they got the ``ring`` finger more longer than the common people got. Anyway, I can't get tired of listening to this song!

[@guitarmajster]

bulletproof playing as always and Im rly liking some of the melodic ideas. Great player overall :)

[@xlR2lx]

In years to come, Andy will be the next guitar guru, the next Michael Angelo Batio, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. AMAZING guitarist!

[@coo1001]

Haha it happens to people that don't here really fast amazing solos a lot. Used to happen to me all the time.

[@givemeajackson]

it does mute the open strings, so they dont ring when they arent supposed to. if you go down further than the fret you put it, you can simply push it over the nut and it doesnt disturb at all.

[@LfunkeyA]

he's got a lot of unique elements in his playing honestly

[@Fa3res]

Holy guitar !

[@varan9595]

0:55 how does he shred so fast and perfectly! I know it's not a recording trick because I've seen him shred just as clean live!

[@existential_]

@lucianollica It's his own song. From his self titled album. the song is called Burn It Down

[@MetalloDevasto]

thanks i didn't realize at first ;) I will try it too xD

[@fredgibo2670]

WOW !!!!!!!!!

[@FadiMazboudi]

YOURE A GOD

[@Spudawg]

His bends are so fucking precise it's scary. As well as EVERYTHING else he does.

[@superswitcheroo]

rocks like hell

[@IgorBollos]

andy james is god!!

[@xXArizzilXx]

omg,im so lucky i found this vid...omggg,love this song from 0:00-4:14...

[@Aeurtum]

2:32 - 3:05... Incredible.

[@biteranta1988]

i agree with everything you said. I just wanted to add that the main difference between Andy and Tosin is that Andy's music is "easy" to listen to. When you listen to a Tosin track, you really got to pay attention to what he is doing to witness the magic that he is creating. In the end, it's all about preference and what we feel like listening to at the current moment. I personally, prefer Andy's music, just because I understand what he is doing. tosin just confuses the shit out of me! lol

[@raibiksarkarbardhan8732]

Andy James is like 'one man punch(Saitama)' of guitar.He trained and practiced so hard that he went bald.

[@para_bellum_1984]

To each his own, of course. I enjoy and respect both players equally, no prob :)

[@paulaa.t8143]

Genial

[@CompulsiveOrigami]

@PerDevil It's by Andy's band, Sacred Mother Tongue I believe.

[@cminicus]

It helps mute the strings you aren't playing so they don't ring out. It makes soloing sound cleaner

[@schecterman11]

@cedguitar123 Think he uses a Zoom haha, not sure what model though. watch his band's studio diary's and it shows you the pedal briefly

[@MrEmohdee]

i was waitin for that high e to break at about 51 sec

[@belongtoit]

I like Jeff Loomis , not because of HOW he plays or the techniques he uses , its more about the idea that he just plays what I want to hear come out of a guitar ... I think its more important to recognize feel over technical skill , that is why some people call hendrix and page " the best" guitarist rather than saying "my favorite". Probably because most people do not understand the difference.

[@varan9595]

it's a hair band guitarists do that so that the distortion sounds less messy, it helps keep the tone clean

[@Tipsy92]

sick i am so jealous

[@para_bellum_1984]

And in turn, I agree with you ;) You might be right about the Weightless thing. However, I think it depends on one's perspective. I think of that album as AAL working out a bit of a new sound and Tosin is using more of his Wooten technique and so on. I love Weightless for the sound and I love the first album for how ground breaking it is. But you couldn't be more right about hard work to get where they are. Musician's vs people's musician is probably more a matter of style/genre maybe?

[@MrWorldGuitar]

that black rubber works as a palm mute so that you only hear what he's playing and not some background other string interferience.

[@EkinDurdag]

dat shred lick!!!! Trying to figure out how you do it

[@matthieu71]

Him and Marco Sfogli are the new real guitar heroes !!!

[@tboi3000]

technically, thrash was Venom, but Metallica and the other "big four" popularized it.. comparable to Meshuggah and the djent movement, where Periphery popularized it. Old Metallica was amazing, new metallica, not so much (imo). Metalhead = your primary genre of choice is metal. This does not mean you ONLY have to listen to metal and other genres are shit, it just means, in your spare time, you would generally choose to listen to metal.

[@gurvijaybecker]

I agree to you mate.. first album was great, but look at weightless .. he just undid all the good work he did previously. Whereas Andy took his playing, composition skills and overall arrangement a notch higher. I see tosin as a muscian's musician and Andy as people's musician (still not for the average listener). All Im saying is they both have worked hard to be where they are.. but they need more such good work coming to establish their reputation in this dying industry.

[@cheddapac]

good use of that pinkey!

[@MetalBeaR_]

@deepskysnow23 its from one of his solo albums

[@Coco4lifez]

3:39, think every guitarist has experienced that feeling when doing an awesome bend ;)

[@GabiRuta]

meserieeeeeeeeee !!!!!!!!

[@TheBlackenedMaster]

EARGASM!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TurkeyTuck]

It's an LTD H-401FM. It's discontinued though unfortunately. You can find nicer guitars than that though for relatively cheap anyways.

[@grigoriikrasnopolskii6311]

Круто !!!

[@brimstone81]

Yep, that definitely melted some faces..

[@para_bellum_1984]

To add to that, I don't think Tosin's work on Weightless is not as good as on AAL, but just as good in a different way. And if Andy is indeed taking it up a notch, well, we might hear more from him soon. I'd like that. They're both awesome guitarists and that's a fact. To me, discovering Tim Stewart last year has been just as enlightening.

[@PerDevil]

@ShadowDante58 Of which band then, it's houndred's of songs named Burn it Down

[@thedreamliner2012]

Andy is the best. I would kill (well, maybe not kill, just hurt a little bit) to play like that. There is not a cover he can't play as good as the original.

[@MatZacharis]

its funny how the best melodic shredder in the world is hairless

[@Flyxolydian]

Yes, Dimebag. You can tell it's him every time you hear his playing because he's got a unique style that puts him apart from others. Just like the others I mentioned plus a few more. Andy just sounds like a more refined version of about 100 different shredders on youtube, how dull.

[@Cerberus1030]

Also, 331Erock (search on youtube) is just as good as any big name guitarist out there imo...the shit he can do is unreal. I'm a big fan of his. He makes it look effortless..

[@kungfuman82]

I am trying so hard not to pick from my elbow because I like the sound better, but god damn it is hard for me to pick like Andy James!

[@Dannewhell]

FUCK YEAH!!

[@XxDeViLBrInGeRxX]

Thumps up if you want Metal Soloing Techniques VOL 4!!

[@VeveVikingo]

yeah, and also MAB

[@LtdMusic]

@tonydoerfer1 hairband on his guitar.... :) + awsome talent and lots of practice :p

[@mathkyg]

I don't have the 24 space on my gryph!!!!

[@GiovanniObson]

para que sirve la liga negra que tiene en la guitarra? what's the point of that black rubber in the guitar?

[@BreeBree1731]

Andy James has a unique style too, + he is a genuis blessed technical and melodical guitarist. The guitarist you mentioned are awesome as well, but i like Andy's style more than Tosin's. Thats my opinion. And please never say, that Andy is "just" a whatever. He is my personal guitar hero, with Jeff Loomis, Paul Gilbert and Mr Petrucci. Cheers

[@DrFips2024]

i guess u got the point right, i really dig Tosin and the AaL stuff, but for driving around in the car i prefer something easier like andy cause i cant pay the attention needed to hear the full potential of Tosin. just choose the right music to the right time^^

[@Cerberus1030]

"Better than Loomis" is really subjective. Their styles are different so they can't really be compared. Personally i feel Jeff's stuff is less repetitive and scaley whereas Andy's phrasing is really awesome, but i feel his strength isn't in his soloing or sweeping if you wanted to directly compare his soloing to Jeff's. I'm also biased to Jeff's style because I like thrashy neo-classical sounding things and i play a 7 string. That aside I respect all virtuoso guitarists equally. Andy is AMAZING!

[@khelmeri]

3:39 the black thing is on the first frets and then its back on the third frets

[@larafoema]

that's a hair band man,he uses it to cut unwanted noises,ok?Sorry about my poor english. One luv man.

[@Snozzle690]

DAMMMMMMMMM

[@Bones12x2]

Unfortunately its because music is one of those things that everyone listens to but few actually take the time to really appreciate it. Just like sports cars. You can ask 100 guys if they like sports cars, 90 will say yes, only about 10 will actually own one, and maybe 4-5 will actually know anything significant about them. Same reason why Kesha can have successful "music" career.

[@llRazorback]

Who the hell did teach this beast???

[@sylosisdark7093]

+Uncle Jackie himself :)

[@extremfacts]

My grandma!

[@llRazorback]

mno789 I have an offer for your grandma then 😂

[@Skxrn]

lmao

[@MatZacharis]

can you licklibrary please tell me whats andy james gear and setting in this vid

[@EkinDurdag]

Are there any tabs for this song? cuz I freakin love it!

[@NemyaKK]

What's that thing on the 3rd fret and why did he push it when he started tapping at 1:45?

[@MetalloDevasto]

what is that thing he moved from the guitar? A mobile fret?

[@Chibej]

@JulianSmells He covered many a7x songs on LickLibrary DvDs...