Dweezil Zappa Guitar Lesson - Economy Picking Pentatonics

[@JaneDoe-zr4px]

Dweezil Zappa can play my box anytime. Dang - he's just getting better with age.

[@BrianKoolBL]

Dweezil, you're a great guitarist/musician and remind always of your dad. I seen him live, I think in the late 80's and I've seen you live also years afterwards and, was blown away by both of you dudes! I've seen plenty of bands and musicians since the early 70's and your dad, Frank Zappa, is ranked one of the top 5 I've ever seen in my life. When he played his solo's, I'd get a chill down my spine watching, hearing, and feeling, what he was able to play on his SG. You're lessons have not only been great to learn from but, have even gotten me to pick up my guitar and try to play again. I gave it up for so many years and I don't really know why. I guess I needed someone like you to get me back into it all. Thanks, and, keep up the "great" work!

[@DirkRadloff]

I have never managed sweep picking, but this lesson motivates me to try it again

[@guitarmanchester]

thanks for this dude, trying to understand picking technique is hard for a life long classical guitarist...

[@guitarmanchester]

***** Id love to be able to play all that stuff, but its such a different technique!

[@apollohill6733]

Your playing is incredible. I love listening to your Pop's recordings. Very nice video thanks

[@scottnelson2384]

he is great, and he doesn't act like it, which is why I enjoy his stuff even more

[@nuke97]

Dweezil explains this in no time. While countless others take 15 minutes to explain the concept...sheesh.

[@prcc]

Crazy that we all get to have free lessons from this legend.

[@clownpocket]

Woah. Dweezil is a great teacher.

[@chebrneck]

Wow, thanks Dweezeil. You have that mastered.

[@QuibusLicet]

Cool stuff! I do a similar thing with a down-down stroke but this is more involved and potentially magnitudes more useful.

[@SweepShredder]

He's the Son(g) of a Genius!

[@combatOracle1]

Excellent approach to a daunting subject.

[@MrJohnnyDistortion]

Light strings, thick jazz picks, jumbo frets, a good tube amp and 25 watt Celestions were most helpful for me.

[@keithp8521]

Thanks Music is the Best

[@willb3698]

Good to see Thick Picks (like the 354 Fender series for Jazz guitarists). the tone from these picks is excellent.

[@marcelocoronel166]

awesome! This will be a great exercise for me

[@ubershredder1989]

if anyone has difficulty alternate picking 2-note per string pentatonic patterns (ala Eric Johnson) watch Troy Grady's videos on downward pick slanting.

[@denistaaffe7609]

that grady guy is infatuated with ralph machio

[@thinkpad20]

Not to contradict, but Troy also talks a lot in those videos about how Eric Johnson's runs are not strict alternate picking and incorporate a lot of economy picking, so the two techniques are not mutually exclusive.

[@bryanmannoia8410]

wow, just wow. great teacher!

[@josiahluethje9028]

love that SG man

[@MrTortureneverstops1]

+Josiah Luethje I saw the same guitar on stage with another guy during the seventies !...

[@josiahluethje9028]

Cool

[@josiahluethje9028]

You don't really see very many SGs with white headstocks

[@TomGoldsmithguitar]

me 2

[@jasond3938]

Is this the one from Black Napkins off of Mike Douglas ?

[@bluehorizon9521]

thanks you my best lesson

[@nsc217]

Where’s the upcoming lesson?

[@huy_gtr108]

Great lesson! Sorry maybe I'm wrong. Describe in my own word, economy is combine alternative & sweeping technique.

[@TomGoldsmithguitar]

He even has a similar speaking voice to frank!

[@cryptotharg7400]

FZ's voice was about an octave lower!

[@somekindofdude1130]

can you please make a lesson for gambale's technic

[@jordanfox3782]

dweezil goes so fucking hard

[@jeffkozelski6477]

Badass!

[@elementsofphysicalreality]

I wish this worked with triads. I can’t think of a good way to arpeggiate triads in multiple octaves. 1-2-1-2 notes per string is awkward and 3-1-3-1 like this video shows is also awkward because of the large intervals.

[@stephanemignot100]

I tried, my pinky is way too short! Back to the drum kit... ^^

[@elementsofphysicalreality]

The only people that think sweep picking is annoying are the ones that can’t do it or can’t think of a way to blend it in with their improv. Playing fast is and will always be awesome. People need to think of better ways of explaining what they don’t like rather than claiming it bad because it’s fast. It’s only bad when it’s boring. Slow can be boring too.

[@artursantos459]

"Sometimes very obnoxious and annoying" On.point.

[@RorysIrishTour]

imagine his father giving an online guitar lesson, that would be schocking.

[@andreasklunker]

+RorysIrishTour Yes, it would be shocking, because his father is dead...

[@denistaaffe7609]

lol

[@christophersleight19]

Yes, there would be people disgusted, laughing so hard they would wet themselves, and a few ready for some kinda of lengthy stay in any number of "institution's". Frank had a way of, ah, well, he was Frank, Zappa.

[@bozzolanmusic3617]

10 !

[@JD-vj4go]

Hey I have this video but my version has a weird Australian dude in it.

[@monkeymuggs]

I'm confused

[@Afurthyclays]

Frank Gambale mode activated!

[@luisaa72]

just sayin'....

[@littleteethkeith]

He looks like a non racist Mel Gibson.

[@rouschno1]

+littleteethkeith You are a schmuck!

[@Primus-ue4th]

So, not as cool?

[@SterlingSimmons22]

"sometimes really obnoxious and annoying" yeah dude. i hate that annoying ass fast sweep picking bullshit in metal

[@GuitarBunker]

i dont now any shredder, who is fast with eco picking. only with arpeggios its a sense

[@JalenRawley]

+tonydamaga I thought the same thing and only really used it as a sweep or rake. Then I saw Rick Graham do this simple two note per string, two string (G & D strings) pentatonic lick that just FLEW by and sounded amazing. It starts with an upstroke and it's really weird for your picking hand to adjust to it, but once it does you can rip some amazingly fast stuff with it. Then while learning Megadeth's "Tornado of Souls" for fun I found that Marty Friedman was using economy picking to do the fast sequence (I call it the "My Sharona" lick because it sounds a lot like a lick in that solo). And I just kept on finding more and more things that economy picking really works well for that aren't just sweeps and rakes.

[@tastytasters]

+tonydamaga Marshall Harrison is one of the fastest and cleanest players out there and he uses economy picking exclusively. In a purely physical and technical world, hee can outshred paul gilbert in a scenario where every note has to get hit by a pick. Attack, speed, and clarity, all there.

[@frankie.d1127]

Frank Gambale's been doing it since everyones mama was still wiping their noses!!!

[@Dreamdancer11]

You mean you dont know yngwie malmsteen?

[@frankscassi4960]

Steve Morse

[@Mexxx65]

"False Economy Picking" ... methinks .... how can picking 3 individual notes on the first string in this pattern ... be faster than picking just 2 notes per string in the Box scale? i've heard many guitarists blaze with 2 note a string patterns, faster than this "method".

[@deasnutz4ever]

Bullshit. Let’s see how a video of how fast you can do 2 note per string, until then “methinks” you are full of it.