Mary Halvorson - Guitar Power

[@tarkenton3895]

I had a weird dream that I was at a Dillinger Escape Plan show and they invited Mary Halvorson to do a guest solo during the jazzy break of 43% Burnt. It fit near perfectly.

[@iggylow94]

Wow its to much for this world to handle

[@StreetHierarchy]

Bruuuh!

[@shimtest]

I find her playing really interesting, she's not a shredder but that's her strength, she's coming at it from a whole different angle

[@soothsayer6474]

Yeap its just WOW. Playing 3 chords

[@classacteuph]

love this! Much respect for Mary. Id love to see Mario Camarena on here, I think a lot of people would enjoy seeing him play and hearing his insight.

[@khalidGNR]

+Benjamin Buchanan plus Erick Hansel too tho

[@classacteuph]

absolutely!!! both of those guys are so amazing in their own ways, and play together beautifully

[@bradgotch]

+Benjamin Buchanan When did that happen?

[@boopitybop3977]

Sounds shitty

[@Tenchio]

That's a big ass guitar holy fuck

[@marcos_lopez6525]

welcome to the world of hollow body electrics

[@Tenchio]

I've seen a lot of hollow bodies before, but this one looks a lot bigger than most. Or perhaps Mary is just a small human.

[@rjwusher]

@@Tenchio The latter. :-)

[@sie11pervan]

Or a really small woman!

[@medjames]

it´s amazing how even her sound is "discordant" at first hearing, you realize it has perfect sense and harmony. I just love the way she plays and goes trough the fretboard.

[@z0h33y]

I want this woman to be the guitarist for my depressive black metal band.

[@spinkicker27]

Sounds good.

[@Manoffire959]

Same

[@forestoffrogs8117]

Hell yeah man

[@gabe4u22]

She has developed a lovely relationship with her guitar. It’s fantastic to witness

[@tiborrisko7349]

I've never heard music like this before. She has a very very unique style

[@XwpisONOMA]

Music?!?

[@tiborrisko7349]

@@XwpisONOMA Hmmm... upon listening to this again, I guess you might have a point Ré :D I guess I had a bit too much "xorto" when I wrote my 1st comment back in the day :D it made "more sense" then :D :D :D

[@sunkintree]

@@XwpisONOMA sorry about your ears. maybe you're more of a sports guy, champ?

[@postatility9703]

Such a strong,completely original sound(which gets more difficult as more and more players come along)In addition,such an open and engaging prescence.

[@nickheadlee1027]

She is a genius, I'm glad I stumbled upon a few videos of this tastiness.

[@themostprofessionaldarylwe8169]

Open your mind and learn something. Although you could keep complaining and add to the negativity in our world. I enjoy all the guitar power episodes and learn something new every time and its my fave string company. Carry on!

[@fartwrangler]

Most creative jazz guitarist I've heard in a decade.

[@RobHoughton]

She goes 'somewhere' when she plays - you can feel it. Very, very nice.

[@johndoe1765]

THIS IS BEAUTIFUL BECAUSE MARY HALVORSON IS NOT TRYING TO SOUND LIKE ANYONE ,LIKE MUSIC SHOULD BE NO CARBON COPY HERE AND THANK GOODNESS AND WHAT SHE IS DOING TAKES GUTS .MISS HALVORSON AND D,ADDARIO AND CO. THANKS .

[@patriciagullickson9591]

I love original artistry

[@PedroBernardiGuitarra]

What an amazing musician she is!

[@dougthealligator]

Guarantee that half of the man children on here criticizing her technical ability spend all their time playing butt prog on a schecter hell raiser, while also having themselves convinced they are on top of the hill because they can sweep pick.

[@HomoChomsky]

@James 1137 they're aren't required to, manchild.

[@dougthealligator]

James 1137 if you want proof, go into any fucken guitar center in the world at any time of the day. Or if that’s too direct, read the comments on any video that has to do with Tosin Abasi.

[@dreamwell2020]

A nice glimpse here into how an artist can approach music.

[@marknorris3769]

mary has reignited my love of jazz, she is an amazing talent

[@jakeaaron]

I've loved her work since I first heard Trio-Convulsant. Saw them live as well and it was amazing.

[@AJGreen-cn8kk]

how the hell can she open my mind and blow it at the same time? Here comes another hour in the practice room tomorrow.

[@asolarasolarasolar]

Just like the big bang; after the explotion comes the expantion.

[@jakeschleifer1303]

Writing songs based off improvising and finding something that sounds cool will work, but I find that when u think of a tune in ur head and try to create it on the guitar, those are the songs that really stand out and sound good.

[@stuganErik1337]

+jake schleifer I never manage to bridge that gap well enough. But I do agree.

[@Deliquescentinsight]

+jake schleifer Yes i think if you make 'musical' choices, rather than intellectual or theory based choices you are always ahead - it has to make melodic sense to the ear, and take you on an emotional journey-all else is so much waffling!

[@jakeschleifer1303]

Right when u get the melody hum it and record it on your smartphone, then transpose it to the guitar

[@HomoChomsky]

@@jakeschleifer1303 that's a pretentious take. How do you know she's not playing the melodies going on in her head?

[@thenightbladefeeds]

hard disagree

[@Jon6sic6]

Her style is amazing

[@davidhesse218]

She is just so amazingly incredible. I don't understand it but love it. Her creative output is exceeding anything we have seen in years. Her new Octet album will be one of the best jazz records this year. I enjoy her here talking a bit about her music.

[@rexieb3]

I like the sound of a clean acoustic sounding electric guitar played with interesting chords like she plays. That tremolo she throws in is cool, too.

[@PeterDad60]

"Atonal" music started over 100 years ago and is still evolving. It started with orchestra instruments.

[@XwpisONOMA]

Music is by definition "tonal". A-tonal is simply the product of sounds happening together. but necessarily in a tonal context. That may result in an interesting and intriguing sound but not music in the strict definition of the term.

[@bananaface5992]

ahhhhh I love these so much

[@mjstrom1952]

When I first heard music, I thought it should be very clean, very precise. Something that people could understand, something that was beautiful. . Charlie Parker .

[@bebenavole2179]

best one so far :)

[@waynehedd]

+Bebe Na Vole No..Blake Mills was the best one.

[@robertbossart]

Just great, Mary, love this stuff so much!

[@dwebster50]

Very Cool Mary ....I got the same vibe , when I first heard Jimi play "Wind Cries Mary" and still to this day , found it absolutely iconic sound and feeling ...This girl is very cool and good ...Great interview ....CheersAlberta Dave

[@davemckay4359]

My grandad inspired me. Taught myself from a chord book. Joined a band in h.s. and the rest is history!

[@teamsleepnine]

just because you don't understand doesn't mean its shit...beautiful abstract....listen to her stuff!

[@MagicSwagget12]

Lmao in the intro you can see Alain give her a really quick smile like 'Fml why am I here'

[@clicklink123]

wow...most unique sound I have ever heard.

[@Fitness-Fredrik]

Refreshing and inspiring sound + I like her all approach and personality!

[@xfccgvbhcxcccvbggcd1216]

What a big guitar.

[@TheSonsofHorusx]

such a fuckin awesome tone that guitar makes, ofc with her too tho

[@dwebster50]

Wow , I feel like I am intruding again..... I love this

[@NotMorning]

she fucking owns

[@bradking1067]

Thanks so much for sharing . The second chord Mary shared was a Eflat min./maj.13.Hope you are well God loves you deeply Shalom 🎸 🔊🏞️⛰️🏔️🎊🎉✨🎇🎆🎈🐕🏁

[@philbrown6787]

I've always loved Guilds. I had an early 80's Guild Artist Award (new). I strung it with big flat wounds. What a tone. The back and sides on it was striking. Never really felt I was worthy of such a guitar and traded it for a Les Paul Deluxe and an amp :0Owned a Guild Mark IV and sold THAT as well (of all my past guitars, that is the one I most regret selling). I know, I know. Young and dumb. Oh yeah, had a Bluesbird, too. All great guitars.However, I did wise up. I now own a '96 Guild X170 AB Manhattan and WILL keep this one. I'll keep my D55, too. TYVM Ha ha. Keep up the great work, Mary. You do that old Guild justice

[@AlexanderWS92]

More of this

[@richdallyiii4970]

Him- “I kept up pretty good, yeah?” Her- “ohh man…”

[@starwalk333]

That’s right Jimi Hendrix inspired so many guitar players to this day! And I’m one of them!

[@maxml415]

she owns

[@sullyb23511]

I understand the Sweeney love, but if you are a fan of Matt Sweeney how can you not be a fan of Alain Johannes? Makes no sense to me.

[@mcblahflooper94]

This guy is a lot more boring. Sweeney brought a comical and more fun environment to the conversations, and was a lot less serious about it. His "interview" style showed a new side of musicians viewers are already familiar with.

[@HomoChomsky]

@@mcblahflooper94 I disagree, even if I like Sweeney's style just as much. Alain is showing far more chemistry as a musician with most people he interviewed.

[@rubenstroem]

I like both Matt Sweeny and Alain Johannes. Was pleased to see Alain, such a surprise, because I just started listening to his music, and its amazing. But I do love the Sweeny stuff. Would love to see Sweeny do an interview with Alain!

[@Benjabola]

Good job, Mary.

[@geecen]

Halvorson is really great

[@TheRealQuester]

That was a really nice interview!

[@elliotjohnson2159]

Where do THEY find the talent for this show? Alain sometimes seems speechless.... Alain is the Real Deal. A truly rare talent, and remarkabley patient and gracious. That's all I'm sayin!

[@SRNF]

Wasn't too impressed until the very end. Pretty badass guitar player.

[@PeterDad60]

Her Guild Aristocrat sounds very much like my Guild A-150 Newark Street in blond. Basically her guitar is an upscale version, but otherwise mostly identical. Mine has a carved top and a single pickup also suspended off the end of the fingerboard so as not to have any unnecessary holes made in th acoustic body. Mine also only has a volume knob and again it's not mounted in a hole in the top plate, rather it's suspended above it and mounted to the pickguard. Again, exactly as hers. I love mine. Every piece of metal on mine is exactly the same color and shape but hers is engraved from the factory. Note the pickup and tailpiece on hers.

[@TheAmazingMirror]

What kind of pedal was she using at the end to get that drop out, warbling kind of sound?

[@brian_mccomedy]

+Enjoy Your (Rabbit) Sounds like an expression pedal hooked up to a delay pedal of some kind? Like if the expression pedal controlled the delay time and the feedback on the delay was set to zero repeats. When you turn the delay time pot on a delay pedal while playing a note you'll get the same sound.

[@TheAmazingMirror]

Thanks

[@jankafka7330]

+Enjoy Your (Rabbit) Whatever it was, it sounded crap. Why do guitarists insist on ruining their shit by over use of effects (Watch Emily Hastings videos to hear tasteless use of reverb and delay,)? Covering up (real or imagined) inadequacies?

[@brian_mccomedy]

+Jan Kafka They can do what they want really, it's their sound. Also from a mixing point of view, if you play something bad with delay/reverb, it's going to make a bad sound worse, because they carry the inadequacies on for longer. It doesn't really cover anything up unless your tone is mid-heavy, in which the delay/reverb just kinda layers the inconsistencies up. Effects like Chorus/Phase/Flanger will cover up mistakes like bad intonation (in regards fretless guitar playing, or just bending out of tune) because it blurs the pitch of the note ever so slightly. Hence why a lot of 80s musicians got away with stuff. Sorry to anyone from that generation! :)

[@brandonthebass]

Funny how kids these days don't know anything about dissonance. They claim to hate theory, but they swear by the major scale. Enjoy life a little! Explore some stuff. Let those notes have color instead of seeing it all as black.

[@deldia]

She is a minuscule human!

[@evelineallard8455]

I love u so much. U are to me a very honorable decent classic classy woman/female that's is very intelligent, in am interesting way. Not only your music but also u as a person intriques me, i like the chorus so much, and am happy to see you here. Probably not even living in the same country, but i feel connected to you. You ate astonishing, i like your album, and u Just blow me away with your fingers, how small, and fragile they look, and how they make moved and chords. I love you for standing up, and out. You to me are a genius in every way i saw you here. You are astonishing, and inspiration to me, arthough i mix classical with jazz and Black metal blasts, and post rock. Love you. Mary, im going to abonnee.! And make some more cd's, and improvements, as not as an insult, but positive feedback. Now the message is already a bit long so, bye bye.! Not to make you crazy.! Hehehe. Peace.! Bb.! Out.! @):- 😠😀😊🎸🎻🎹🎷🎧👾👻😆😄

[@evelineallard8455]

Wow, in my tempo of writing there where a lot of autocorecctions, that didnt Let me tell what ibwas telling, since the autocorecction is confused about my hermitage language and the english one together. Argh.! Lol. Well i hope u did get the message, you are an astonishing nerd, and i like low profile nerds. Its a compliment. K now i go. Bb, Mary.!! 💓💓

[@jgree89]

Oh SHIII it's Alain!!!

[@ApartmentKing66]

Interesting how many guitarists cite Hendrix as their inspiration, but no one ever cites Terry Kath, who Hendrix said was a better player than he was.

[@bigswingface5847]

Kath was miles ahead of JH.

[@stephenoshea5931]

so nice

[@nailsarecruel]

Pretty cool lady but holy hell, I wish I could have a nice Guild like that.

[@vecernicek2]

Mary is the first avant garde guitarist I really get. This whole thing didn't make much sense to me before I heard her.

[@fenderlead1]

I have to admit. Nothing againt Alain but I was really hoping to see sweeney with MH.

[@xhinoteque]

Love her

[@johnsorensen4264]

Great stuff!

[@micahbrill]

Really cool!

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

love it!!

[@michaelcraig9449]

wow, I like that Guild!! Do they still make them? I have a Guild acoustic, I hardly ever see Guild electrics... cool..hope to see her in St. Louis, play some gigs here..

[@ylcn77ylcn]

very nice great

[@ganamoha]

This was rad

[@nictalattad5018]

Bring back Sweeney!

[@p1nkwall]

+Nic Talattad Sweeney for life!

[@angrychocolaterabbit]

sweeney is bae

[@bluetomatorecords]

+Nic Talattad Sweeney is on Guitar Moves on the Noisey channel.

[@massesesclaves644]

+Nic Talattad Sweeney and his pachydermic fingers could have not followed Mary's moves.

[@ClamsAnonymous]

+Masses Esclaves "pachydermic fingers" FUCKKING LOL

[@simonArmenia1]

Great

[@ElMoShApPiNeSs]

The panning makes sense but it's really off putting. Also Alain's voice feels quite a bit louder than Mary's and that was also a bit annoying.

[@mordecai52005]

+Thingsandstuff youre annoying

[@ElMoShApPiNeSs]

mordecai52005 Thanks bro

[@benbmusic88]

Amazing...I really wish they had only mic'ed the amp tho. The acoustic tone on that guitar does not blend well at all.

[@zerocray8686]

People who don’t like this are the kind of people who think Led Zeppelin isn’t pop and find black blues disagreeable. They can only handle basic rhythms and structures. They need the amp turned all the way up and a riff to be played throughout the whole song if the chords are discordant. Keith Richard is revered as a blues musician because he wasn’t afraid to spend time with the people who influenced him (blacks). Can’t say that about a lot of other famous white musicians (during his time), that claimed to love black music so much.

[@danielking3090]

Boy I hope you didn’t pull a hamstring the way you stretched on that one. You give the “not everything is about race” people legitimacy on that one. What she’s playing is a very very acquired taste. Most untrained ears would not find it appealing

[@sunkintree]

You lost me in the second half, for the record first half was insightful, second half was more like the rambling the homeless man down the street does

[@benbenpotato]

why didn't they mic the interviewee

[@ben_has_hobbies]

No Sweeney, no watching.

[@jrmybwedding]

+Ben Sandrock This dude is awkward.

[@endezeichengrimm]

+Ben Sandrock That guy was a fucktard! Anyone else is an improvement.

[@ben_has_hobbies]

Oh, how eloquent your words are.

[@endezeichengrimm]

Ben Sandrock Yeah, that's right.

[@duartelucas8129]

+Ben Sandrock This guy is a great musician. He plays anything with strings.

[@Cloakdagger639]

That guitar is huge !!! Why such a big guitar it looks like back pain

[@Shafer.Jesse.Sandbox]

any insight on her line 6 dl4 settings?

[@esling77]

Her Guitar is stoned

[@Geeetarr]

thanks to Sims 4 I'm able to view new styles of music

[@Liquidchickification]

what chords does she play at 1:20?

[@SanMarvinNinguemSantana]

muito bom ser profissional!

[@jasondotson]

Is that the second guitarist in Them Crooked Vultures?

[@SanMarvinNinguemSantana]

a bend wah pedal? muito interessante!

[@mcrestwood7378]

all the negativity i`ve seen here for mary has to do with really just one thing---she is a woman,that`s it.

[@McGrooveMusic]

mark kimbrell nah, people would be savage on anyone who plays avant- guard and she’s got a timid attitude which inclines dickheads to be dickheads

[@the_other_dude]

I didn't know The Kingpin could play guitar. *_noice_*

[@guitarolm]

11 minutes and no mention of Derek Bailey is pretty shameful :/

[@trkkazulu]

Plus one to that!

[@Neil-Aspinall]

That dude sure has a confronting image.

[@clancykobane9102]

+Neil Aspinall he confronts 3 chili dogs for lunch everyday.

[@taylorplambeck]

+Clancy Coburn get wreked champ!

[@clancykobane9102]

get a dictionary

[@jasondotson]

Me too. It helps the playing, chili dogs...

[@jasondotson]

Veggie chili dogs for me....:)

[@thelinthicums3295]

Portlandia?

[@Iglomaniac]

Thanks for the interview and work. The sound quality is terrible though, sorry to say. It's hard to listen to this even though I really want the info..Maybe D'addario should invest a little more ;)

[@00Dakka]

Ava mendoza next!

[@pierreandferb]

progressive blues??

[@kentoncooper4229]

pierre ibrahim progressive jazz fusion I would say.

[@JuiceOg0311]

That guitar of hers looks humongous

[@JeanYvesP]

She is amazing... If only the interviewer was at least a little prepared...

[@grantgre]

That Guild looks ridiculously big compared to Mary.

[@landongeorge5257]

But damn, that was a nice improv

[@supadupahilton6848]

That guitar is bigger than she is!

[@FoxroxElectronics]

I enjoyed that.