Tonality - Andy James "Unleashed" Play Through

[@tanshaomala]

Andy is one of those players where its impossible to be envious of his skill. Any sense of jealousy goes out the window because its simply a treat to be in the presence of his music and playing, he is just THAT good.

[@xlr8r2010]

I agree....he is on another level.

[@jasongraham4425]

I try not to get jealous and remember I’m pretty great at being me but I must say it’s harder to do when I’m listening to Andy James lol

[@Jason31256]

Don't be jealous be inspired

[@palkisakumi8595]

what about Satriani ? yes, this guy is very good, but I bet there are guitarists at this level all over the world, except we don't know about most of them.

[@JakobStrand]

Tabs for the song are in the included tuner!

[@sirsir9665]

Such, accuracy, soul, and skill. How is it even possible

[@mrfish3034]

From years and years of dedicated practice. Also a lot of hard work and determination to make oneself one of the best in the world.

[@anguslynch4240]

Its getting to the point where every song he writes is perfect

[@shobyvinci]

Seriously! normally there are one or two such tracks per album. I now put him ahead of petrucci (dont hate me)

[@AchillesWrath1]

@@shobyvinci They're starting to all sound the same too. Not the solo's but the backing track.

[@rmanor5508]

Angus Lynch I can listen to every song over and over and not get tired of it at all, just takes your mind on a journey like no other, so much feeling

[@cyberviking7574]

Yep. Like it's not even an exaggeration, his songs are literally melodically perfect, it's insane.

[@duncanmanser894]

Hold my beer while I casually write a banger for this STL Tones promo.

[@ja7941]

Just MASTER class See kids this is what happens when you work really really hard

[@ֆօֆօǟ]

Being a master like Andy really take too much time and effort, he's a shred king RESPECT! ♔

[@bigbo672]

When you rock really hard XD

[@shobyvinci]

Practice alone can make you better but not world class. Playing too much basketball wont make you a world class player either. Andy is naturally talented, you cant just come up with such composition every week.

[@doomzy8622]

lol!

[@MLCrow]

Yeah, sometimes working hard is not enough, you need also some talent (like in Andy's case), I totally agree with Shoaib Sheikh

[@danielsnorton]

we need this on spotify STAT

[@janicetri3668]

Andy James takes Beast Mode, God Mode, and Guitar God status, mixes them together, and goes above them all. Guitar virtuosos have a unique gift for being able to make their guitar sing and tell a story..... with no lyrics or books needed. There's a certain beauty to everything he composes and this is no different.

[@MetalGearIV]

a true king my man

[@KimchiSpringRoll]

I don't always listen to shreds, but when I do, I listen to Andy James.

[@JOYSTICKGAMES101]

he doesnt really shred as far as im conserned his music is to mellow

[@TheGatsbyAffair]

Probably the most beautiful thing I’ve ever heard.

[@DennisFeinsteinCEO]

I bought this Tonality Suite about 2 years ago, and it IS sweet. Unbelievable tight high-gain tones, super rich leads, with thick-ambient cleans This definitely hangs with anything NDSP has, even to this day, and I'm a huge NDSP fan... I use this plugin so much 💜✌️

[@adalbertusignatius4967]

And everybody forgets to mention his kickass backing tracks! The synth, drum and bass parts make the whole song sound completely magic

[@Roam865]

The mix is always badass

[@nomo3875]

Damn ! How I just get mesmerized by observing his picking & the synchronous fretting fingers :-) INCREDIBLE !!!

[@sovereigngagepfister5917]

You should also check out Polaris. Their guitar play throughs are insane.

[@nomo3875]

@@sovereigngagepfister5917 yes u r right... infact...this generation has lots of interesting guitarists...u can't possibly watch & judge every guitarist...the list is almost endless...

[@sovereigngagepfister5917]

Doped Weasel feel free to check my channel out as well! I got some mad riffage on my new tracks! All my music is produced by Aaron Chaparian who works out of graphic nature audio. (Recorded bands like: Fit For an Autopsy, Lamb of god, Gideon, Knocked loose, etc.)

[@jalsk123]

My fingers are sweating just looking at it. The amount of work behind every note when put together just keeps me motivated to keep going.. Even thought I'm 14 years in, I still see this and believe that I'm getting there, but in reality I'm not even close. Playing the notes with such clarity is my major issue, everyone "can" shred, but shredding with clarity in every 16th or 32nd note, triplet... whatever, is what's keeping me back. I'll keep going!

[@kellyford8832]

practice makes perfect, YOU GOT THIS man, keep it up 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽😉

[@kenjo2440]

First heard of him just now from a random instagram ad. Sick! 🔥

[@emayfrit]

!💥😎💥! Andy, if I ever finally learn that Continuum solo, I'll Never Forget It !💥!...JAM ONNN!💥!💥!

[@emayfrit]

Andy, tonight, Aug.27/28, 2022 is a New Moon...you can look into what they advise. I am taking it as a day to make a concerted effort to utilize organizational and strategic prowess to reorganize my Guitar Practise system and incorporate New Levels!💥!💥!!!!....JAM ONNN!💥😎💥!

[@emayfrit]

!💥!💥!!!...ahahahaha!💥😎💥!

[@АндрейОришич-я1ю]

Это шедевр! Преклоняюсь перед твоим талантом! Спасибо!!!!!!!

[@nichaju1]

I’ve seen countless of Andy’s videos, and whatever he plug into, he always sounds as himself: amazing.

[@emayfrit]

Andy, the new album is a brilliant masterpiece! The music is well balanced in the multitude of dimensions you incorporate, and its just enthralling to hear every time. It is a Great Work of Art, and I am just mesmerized by the overall quality! Thanks for all the musical inspiration absolutely timeless, enthralling works of art. Jam On!

[@emayfrit]

Andy, your latest work, Fury From Above is just a godsend of musical excellence! The whole vibe of the entire album is Just Luminous! The song Aftermath reminds me of a thrilling adventure I had recently with my brother! The spectrum of excellence is just over the top...Cheers!!!...Oh yeah, did I ever tell you a book worth listening to on audible is The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown...If you enjoy intrigue, that's a very good work of fiction...alluded to within are a plethora of amazing facts! I read it last November, fantastic book...A Must Read...JAM ON!!!

[@haseebkiyani8665]

The moment when jason hook left, I was like thats it I dont think i'll listen to them anymore. Andy jumped in they dropped "darkness settles in" and boom googled him and now im here loving his riffs so hard 🖤 big love 🇵🇰

[@Djent7779]

The link at 2:00 is great

[@mrmisterman999]

always nice to see players breaking the scalar-linear model and playing with intervalic phrasing i.e. octave interactions and unique phrases

[@rawraj239]

Those heavy riffs touches the soul.

[@colbyphillips1742]

Andy just wanted to say thank you for your breakdown videos, i understand how much time and effort it takes to make something that in-depth. Since watching your videos my playing has improved drastically. Truly one of the cleanest, technically shredding guitarist that i've ever seen

[@emayfrit]

Mr. AJ, your new album is absolutely electrifying! I also purchased the Fury From Above Deluxe album. I endeavor to match your Avidity, which I find to be totally inspiring!

[@ThoRick]

Extremly Nice ❤

[@martinhladky5495]

Perfect

[@xlr8r2010]

Jesus...Andy is so good, incredible musician! 🤘

[@Windir-gp8wk]

not a single comment about this fucking great plugin. It's sick. Andy nailed it.

[@Petrasppbi]

Excellent Mr Your Music.

[@stevenweddle6345]

One of my absolute go to plug-ins. Love it. Devoted to STL.

[@Gregoris006]

Amazing!!! I discovered you just recently and I'm really enjoying your playing. Keep playing mate you are rocking!!

[@zubair671]

What an intro! Amongst the best!

[@halimahima480]

Insane riff

[@emayfrit]

Mr. AJ, one of the many reasons I like to rock various tunes, is that it is a centerpiece in my enriched environment. As I mentioned before, in the book Mega Brain Power, it was found that rats in an enriched environment had more interconnections in brain cells, more dendrites on their brain cells, branch like receptors for neuro transmitters. They had more grey matter. I don't mean to say playing your music amounts to mere mental calisthenics, however, I would far rather give my brain a workout learning and improvising with your Very HQ music than by doing crossword puzzles. I embrace challenge with No Boundaries!💥! I try to add to the flavor of your fan base comments, and it brings me joy and inspiration when I can say something substantive. The music I yearn to play is far reaching, and it gives my life a consistent challenge, inspiration and satisfaction. The music selection to choose to play these days has never been better, and I am thankful to myself for investing the time in practice, performance and development. Thanks to you as well for your incredible inspiration and all the immensely rich masterpieces you have added to the repertoire of today's Great Music...HAVE FUN MF!!!💥!!!

[@JobsByJames]

Reminds me of triumphing over something that was a difficult struggle. There were setbacks and it was touch and go for a while but you finally made it through and ultimately prevailed in kick ass style.Generally wrecked all opposition.

[@АртёмМартинович-р2с]

The way the song starts is soo badass!

[@denissheriff3643]

Tasty playing Sir, phrasing, style, technique. Great video!

[@cherylholder2187]

Thank You James

[@athan67]

Wow just awesome !picked up the Andy James STL Tonality plug in and its amazing ! thank you Andy for your hard work and dedication !

[@nirjyotigogoi5532]

This guy deserves more subscribes more views more likes.

[@hamdanihamid5951]

Crazy Guitar riff. Andy is always be my favorite guitarist. Greet from Indonesia

[@irmanhardiansyah]

Dont know why i like every part of this song, the riff, solo, The sound, etc. Perfect shredding with harmony inside ❤️👍

[@ErikEkholm]

Awesome! 👏

[@user-kh8ih4nq3q]

nice guitar solo

[@kerryanderson3167]

Still damn good

[@emayfrit]

Leisure yes, you still have to record all jams, listen back with pen, paper and track marking capabilities. Listen back at least 1.1 speed like YJM, Satriani, AJ all record and listen!

[@emayfrit]

Tortex flow 1.35 is a 🏆 VERSATILE PICK! THANKS

[@emayfrit]

One thing of course, ONLY the Ultex Flow original delivers is a pick attack that most resembles, blends and or matches the sound of a hammer on and pull off! A pick for every trick, a plectrum for your electrum alchemical experience!

[@emayfrit]

Use the tortex flow 1.35 mm minimum, and only if you mean business on the guitar!! Hahahaha, this is a high precision, high torque tool!!! 🔥 Burn it Down -MF

[@emayfrit]

Yeah that pick is pretty wild! hahahaha

[@emayfrit]

🔥Andy, make sure to try the Dunlop Prime Tone pick, if you haven't already, its shaped like the Ultex wide, except listening back to recordings the tone is considerably better. I switch picks a lot too, maybe its a tad bit slower which is like picking weights hahahaha...I bust back a couple Oktoberfest dark brews to celebrate the Falcon God...🔥Cheers!🔥!🎃!

[@emayfrit]

I am certain and tested, that the Prime Tone Dunlop pick sound quality improvement is not attributable to newer strings or anything like that....🔥Jam on!🔥!🔥!

[@ultimatecreations4931]

Awesome 😎 Rock On 🎸

[@jlsdust]

I own the Will Putney and now this one. STL like always great plugins ...

[@komamusica88]

Best!!👍👍

[@jendi56]

Dude, seeing you live last night with FFDP in Bulgaria was incredible. They chose the right guy. Mad props man.

[@manowarkoshair3737]

My favourite modern guitarist ever

[@VB-vl1tg]

Amén brother...🔥

[@NONO-th1ig]

super son et mélodie qui prend

[@Brutalgruve]

I keep my second finger nail trimmed way more then that. Gonna let grow more, maybe that's the secret. Always blown away Andy, thanks being a badass and pushing the limits.

[@overdrive2857]

Your my number 1 guitar player sir...

[@ngooni9959]

Nice.......very nice...... Candy for the ears...

[@wagnerjanesson4522]

My favourite Instrumental Guitarrist so far....

[@nasronyon6542]

Master at work

[@gracyvuna7848]

You make me fall in love of electric rock!!!! Huge work!!! Respect!!! Andy James !!!!!😍😍😍

[@PavelZhdanovich]

Damn it!!! How cool does this guitar look in the context of this arrangement of light and style of this video

[@MadSonStudios]

i bought the plugin after watching this video.Andy you are truly a musical genius and and awesome guitar teacher.

[@Simpleman57]

Out of this world Brutha Excellent thankyou

[@drew1035]

DUDE!! I downloaded the 10 day trial of the plugin. It could've been a 1 minute trial as far as I'm concerned. Unbelievably awesome tones and works fine in Reaper.

[@burz-268]

Best thing I’ve heard in a billion years! Goosebumps! Nice1 buddy.

[@emayfrit]

One of the 300 Spartans of Instrumental Guitar to order the Arrival Vinyl. Sir Andy James is incapable of doing any justice to the Melodic Minor scale in his music, which is why he never seems to attempt it. Just kidding Andy, I'd just love to see what you can do with that, listening to Bernd Steidl's second album, its great. I'd just love to see what the great Metal and Ballad Maestro Frontiersman as yourself could do with that. Maybe another 20 licks in Melodic Minor with a Backing Track. Maybe I'll write that program, since AJ is too busy busting em back, just kidding - thanks,I appreciate all your hard work and everything!

[@McRocklin]

Congrats mate, that's a great sounding plugin. Killer licks : )

[@floevo]

McRocklin thanks mate

[@joe_brooks_music]

You're the reason I buy Kiesels and now I might have to buy this plug-in

[@JaKeCaKez]

if you buy a certain brand because of a certain person you are an idiot.

[@felipegonzalezoficial777]

Andy you're a freaking beast on the guitar, I'm also a guitarist and I can say that you really inspire me bro !!!

[@1CLOOOUD]

Holy Andy James Guitar player🎸😱❗Mega Impressive Always with your song and mega Variation of melody and tone🎵🎶😱❗👏👍🤙👌👊so sad than i can push the like only one😅...1000..i likes this

[@bobfreeburg4706]

ANDY. " FLYING FINGERS " JAMES. wow, wow, wow. GREAT PLAYER. Beautiful tones from that rig.....

[@manuinjapan]

flying fingers is actually a bad thing to have, it's when you lift your fingers too much which is not the case here haha I do know you didn't mean it that way though! He's hella fast indeed!

[@bjornedvardsson5510]

Andy! Just yes!

[@Simpleman57]

It keeps getting better and better crank it up brutha

[@emayfrit]

!💥! The Heartwork Artwork, is where its at, Nothing Else Matters!💥! Cheers, Beers up, Waters Up Teas Up, whatever floats your boat...CHEERS!!

[@eddythein83]

Legend of guitar 😘😘

[@hanlinn3514]

great

[@arthurtasev5658]

You totally kill the shredding bro, 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏♥️👍🍻

[@mystdeisanto9647]

the riff is KILLER!

[@Dan2257]

Absolutely incredible as always !

[@rassb3427]

Bravo

[@emayfrit]

Totally album-worthy. Sounds like an amazing 5 D (New Level ) Made of Stone version Unleashed. The guitar tone improvements of recent years, from the all-time tone master, AJ, have been of Epic proportions! I am totally inspired to seek out every improvement possible within the grasp of my potential! Cheers!!

[@arjundass1313]

Man you are unbelievable

[@ashlyace438]

...that's magnificent.As always...

[@RamiroCaballero]

Love it James! great job man!

[@emayfrit]

PG 5 is a Lose it or Use it megatrack with adjustable track marks and track speed adjustment capabilities. It has my top 5 Gilbert tracks blended in. Got to get back into it with the Prevalence of time mandates, loops of nectar spots, long term plodding. Fuzz Universe, Olympic, Techinical Difficulties, Viking Kong and Curse of the Castle Dragon, hahahaha, Jam on!!!!🔥

[@emayfrit]

As always some tuning adjustments were madeto suit the modulation of keys and tunings, huhuhahahahahah!!!!

[@emayfrit]

Another way to do it is gratifying first draft, carefully, record the bits via aux in one movement at a time, focussing on transitions, some will be better than others, nevertheless keep moving on forward capturing the preferred blended essence of all tracks, then move the full speed recording to song surgeon in one massive 15 to 20 minute file or whatever. Make fifty pecent speed the new base speed for the megatrack. The new recorders can play this track at 110, 120, etc, 150, etc, 200p would be full speed in this case, and no the slow downs are clear as a bell, it sounds clear and perfect. Anything to avoid sweep picking or being a mouse potatoe for a a bit, hahahaha. Imagine if you could have grown up with that capability?!!!

[@emayfrit]

The painstaking way is to export and test each clip transition independently, when you are on a roll that can be done last. AJ, ideas an achieve a nuclear chain reaction. That is when an idea attains critical mass. By the way, I have little to no ego, so i dont care how it gets out there, it will fine tune the overflow of genius that is out there, I believe. Thanks for pushing the idea in bits so far. By the way, i knew you would love the nylon string jam, that sound is incredible to hold and behold!

[@emayfrit]

And AJ was already doing something similar at a very young age he tells us in Andy Woods woodshed!

[@emayfrit]

It may not be the main course of action in the ascension of the next Tony MacAlpine, but for the average amateur avid guitar player, it may even help them develop technique in ways more interesting than playing scales, etc

[@johnnylegion5346]

I fucking love this man !!!!!

[@luqmanr]

damn that riff is amazing

[@maxdrvn]

Just added it to my gym playlist. the guitar god!

[@austinwelch1132]

Anyone else just get the urge to shred when you watch Andy James play? Another excellent addition to the ole playlist!

[@emayfrit]

!💥😎💥! Andy, I bought the new Five Finger Death Punch album today...amazing recordings! I'll have to pick up The Way of the Fist next!💥!

[@emayfrit]

!💥😎💥! I ordered a 24 pack of 9 volts for the guitar, as well as a multimeter tester...guitar sounds like new money...hahahaha!💥😎💥!

[@emayfrit]

!💥!Tortex flow may be the best pick, but the AJ pick is great too, the texture of the AJ flow, seems identical to the dunlop prime tone pick!💥!

[@emayfrit]

!💥😎💥! Andy, when you go on tour with Metallica, you should give James and Kirk each a copy of the Jam With Andy James DVD, tell Em its from some MF you know and I'll pay for the copies....AHTAHTHAHAHA...I would love to see them guys like kids in a candy store making up solos to them tracks!💥!💥!

[@emayfrit]

!💥!One of the reasons Rocky Roccovarious lived to 105 was because he was neighborhood rock star who banned compromise, listened to CSIL often with an ear to ear shit eating smirk...RIP Rocky 5-31-22...JAM ONNN!💥😎💥!

[@emayfrit]

!💥! He checked out during the YJM riff...I still had ten minutes left in the set to play, so I couldn't stop til it was over....just kidding...was just listening to a mega track...the dog taught me how to be chipper almost no matter what!💥! Especially during the neighborhood War Marches!💥😎💥!

[@GodsGrooves]

Beautiful

[@PauloGimenesguitar]

Very good

[@jeetpaul4499]

0:40 pure lickgasm

[@BILFAB74]

Amazing song !

[@jamesclarizia7588]

Beyond !!!!!

[@The1stMrJohn]

👍 amazing touch, light and powerful.

[@tokilecaine4405]

Man i love andys work! i cant say that enough

[@fabiviegas1guitar]

Yes

[@Johnnycoretv]

I can vouch for this product! It sounds amazing

[@wesharding8727]

Hey brother, you may never read this but I’ve followed your music career for a few years now. You’re going to be in my home town soon and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to ask if I could be at a meet and greet or something when you come to Charleston WV. Either way, it’s going to be one fun time. Thanks again and good luck with ffdp.