My 20 Year Guitar Journey

[@beanleyhallsworth]

How long have you guys been playing for??

[@grantnewton4515]

8 years as of recently, excellent job on the TOS solo vid, very informative

[@judaspriestfan]

6 years but i play at a 1 year skill level😭

[@los.4192]

3 :D

[@parcyman3050]

1 year and a half prolly

[@Shredeemer]

I've been playing for 3 years and these videos have definitely helped me kickstart a lot of good habits and technical improvements alongside my usual guitar lessons. I can't write for shit, but goddamn can I noodle.

[@bernieman82]

2006: Noob; 2024: Advanced Noob

[@mrnip2]

2024: Final peak before self destruction

[@hdervish2497]

Same

[@IgorGabriel-uo7jj]

Beanley has been shredding for longer than Ive been alive

[@_____8106]

How old are you son?

[@IgorGabriel-uo7jj]

@@_____8106 17 and been playing guitar for 3 years

[@IgorGabriel-uo7jj]

@@_____8106 17, been playing guitar for 3 years now

[@Corn-us74]

@@_____8106 he’s probably like 15

[@colten2524]

me too man

[@Chokey_Gaming]

2006 - Now? Mate, that’s my entire life💀

[@DwayneRidgwayOfficial]

Been playing since 2019-2020 or so and I'm finally learning how to play a C chord 🔥

[@esak.6245]

Wait until you get to the F chord

[@kinetic158]

Wait until u reach add9

[@rickwitt5735]

Not gonna lie... Your talent has grown exponentially since day one. To boot, you've stayed humble. You have a loyal subscriber here, my friend.

[@MichaelSheaAudio]

I'm just shy of 20 years, and you were doing things in 2006 that I can't even do today. 😂

[@fullmetalpanzer1503]

Don't feel bad, I'm the same way. I never bothered with technique when I was younger (KZbin wasn't really a resource yet). I basically just tried to read tabs. Last 10 years or so I've played a few hours a year at most. Just now trying to get into it again, somewhat seriously.

[@nagoogle8542]

Nailing those solos 3 years in?! IM THE LAZIEST GUITARISR EVER

[@Miller_dimeslime]

Real, I’ve been playing every single day for 3 years and I was as good as him

[@BatteryAcidEater]

I've been playing for 4 years and i cant do a single solo (i use the excuse that im a rythm guitarist)

[@hmudara]

@@BatteryAcidEater Man I feel you! Same here. I just could never click with playing fast solos, I couldn't "hear" the notes the tabs said to play. And if even if I did I just cant get my fingers to move fast enough. So i hit the rhythm guitarist wall 10 years ago and been stuck there ever since.

[@BatteryAcidEater]

@@hmudara anyway i dont even like solos, focus more on the riffs! 🤘🤘

[@Vivi_9]

He was very far from nailing those solos lol the first one he nailed was in 2015

[@jonbrowne]

You are probably one of the best guitar players in the world! Amazing progression, commitment and technique!

[@thrashteroid]

The last one though, just mind blowing. Godlike 🔥

[@G-I-JEZUS]

its from the new updated live version.

[@rodrigolefosse]

Dude. We've been playing for exactly the same 20 years and we started at the same time. And I'm old as you. Respect. Cheers from Argentina.

[@cupantae1893]

Unrelated but loved seeing the tattoos grow over the years too, like they’re a marker of progress in your journey ☺️

[@thehappiestgirlintheworld73]

This is so sweet! I'm glad that you have grown your passion so much over the years, I only hope I can do the same in my own way as a visual artist with only 6 or 7 years going so far.

[@Ogiiishred]

Been playing bit over 2 years this is mad inspirational

[@KirantheMetalhead]

damn I feel like a noob now

[@marcen12]

I've only played bass guitar for 16 years and it's only until 4 years ago that I started making my own bass lines. (granted 90 percent of them were based on emotions like spite, depression and anger but we all gotta start somewhere.)

[@BatteryAcidEater]

Same, my riffs are based on anger and hate

[@marcen12]

@@BatteryAcidEater It feels so good, right?

[@BatteryAcidEater]

@@marcen12 hell yeah, music is therapy

[@marcen12]

​@@BatteryAcidEater I want to break my guitar. I feel like I'm going nowhere.

[@BatteryAcidEater]

@@marcen12 same, after 4 years i learned almost nothing

[@GeneralTHC]

Bro was playing Marty Friedman solos note for note after playing for only a few years.

[@Vivi_9]

Def weren't note for note!

[@MarkoBojkovic-guitar]

1:55 I had that exact BOSS Pedalboard too!

[@MATCHLESS789]

4:28 Woa, a damascus steel fretboard!

[@ant_crl26711]

At august,it will be 1 year,your videos are really inspiring

[@jerelli]

Damn bro you’ve always been good 😅

[@lensmccracken3678]

Gosh.. You're incredible.

[@gangsterSoup]

Man you've really blossomed into an amazing and creative, creator lol. Love your stuff, always

[@cazbug1]

Just started 5 months ago Pretty good pentatonic progress

[@mattewpuggio4287]

Mr Hall... Just you was a very big guitarrist since 2008... But now... Incredible!!!!

[@hubert485]

Lmao, that edgy pentagram pendant in the first clip

[@BatteryAcidEater]

Whats the problem with that

[@colten2524]

it's been five years since i got my first guitar and about three years since i got serious. i'm taking music classes next semester so that should really skyrocket my knowledge on music.

[@timwhite5562]

It's hard to find video like this if you're older than a certain stage, the technology to do record it and then edit it into something cohesive just didn't exist. I worked in skydiving as a camera flyer. I have housands of hours of free fall and base jumping videos, and hundreds of pictures…all on rolls 35mm film and video cassettes. I literally went out of the plane with a Nippon 35mm camera mounted at the top, and a Sony Handicam on the right side of my helmet. Looking back I don't know how I didn't break my neck on some of those hard openings 😳. I know I should get them digitized, but there are SO many of them, and 90% of the video cassettes have titles. Most of it is the idea of having to go through them to find which ones are worth it or not. But I digress. Anyway, finding some ancient one of the three or four videos I made playing in 1995 would be like looking for a needle in a needle stack. Little everything having to do with guitar is so much easier now.

[@RodriDsMusic]

What a journey, Brad!! Didn't know Brainslug existed for more than one decade!

[@dakotakoll-is3rg]

Been playing for 20 years as well. Never been a shredder, more of a blues/rock guy and a singer. You are impressive sir. I'll never play like you, but that's ok

[@LesterMitchell]

Haha dude! I loved that Trivium solo back then. Also, great journey!

[@raneshmaurya]

2020: shredding the most difficult solo 2024: *bEaT iT iN 27/32*

[@davidhughes5790]

I've been playing since 2000 and 2006 you is better than 2024 me

[@yomamashouse-y3s]

man these videos are good going to shredding in no time

[@AntonisMatakos]

That "Steamed Ham" sleeveless shirt... an old favorite!

[@hdervish2497]

I started learning on my dad's guitar in late 99, got a guitar of my own in early 2000

[@ZipTieConnoisseur]

I’ve been playing for somewhere around 3 years I think. It was funny to see that the first clip was as old as I am lmao

[@sRichterMusic]

i was 2 years old when this guy was already shredding

[@MrGul]

Damn, shredding both Holdsworth and Lane!

[@bradzillarocks]

That Ibanez practice amp brought back some memories.

[@justsomeguy727]

Deep fried 2024 beanley has gotta be what I aspire to be like

[@F1r3Foxxxy]

Oh do you have a full video of that take of the Esperanto solo? Great to see you play Shawn Lane and Allan Holdsworth! The only one I could find was in the Underrated Solos Part 2 video :)

[@SteveWalkerGuitars]

Your playing in the first clip was better than I am now after 34 years! Get The Funk Out was what inspired me to start playing, and you nailed that years before me (I know the notes, but don't have the speed or accuracy). Awesome journey though dude, a real inspiration. On a side note (ish), was that an N2 I spied in there, around 2014?

[@alexstedt]

Your playing in 2006 was really really good for 3-4 years of playing.

[@mofomartianp]

7 years. And I've accepted my fingers can't move faster than 16th notes at 150 bpm. So now I just sit around and jam a lot.

[@alexrtaudio]

Nailed that Hotel California

[@GeoVTuber]

I'm not too far behind you regarding the years I've been playing guitar! 19 years and counting!

[@Snerk56]

OH MY GOD YOU'RE SWEEPMAN!!!111 The hero unmasked at last!

[@dftns]

2:46 😂 couple dancing in the room and then sudden WTF! Turning their head and staring at stage! 😳

[@Dee23557]

Just seen vid in feed. Dust pan n brushes taped to you 😂😂😂 you always make me laugh. Very impressive bean boy! I first picked up a guitar in 96 im still struggeling w/ arthritis in my hands, im ok with it. Theres still need to pick it up though everytime I see one somewhere 😂

[@educ.1695]

4 years. Best decision my teen ass old me ever made

[@thomaswheeler5216]

Man those Guitar Pro tones.

[@freebrain287]

Five years. It was 15 years ago... Damn! 18! 😢😢😢

[@boi5275]

2015 was clean as fuck

[@Wookash11111]

I play for almost a year and I kill some thrash riffs. Megadeth, Metallica, Exodus. Hammerhead by Flotsam and Jetsam. The Sentinel by Judas. Some King Diamond and Mercyful Fate. And few others. And I know how to play Were Not Gonna Take It solo 😂😂😂 I wish I will get better at this. Cuz its a lot of fun

[@modroho]

Bro has always been a shred machine.😅

[@brucedickinson8993]

I bought my first guitar 11 months ago, a Jackson JDR Plus made in Japan in the late 90s. I get a little frustrated, I don't always study every day, I'm watching your video of Mr Crowley's solo and I'm almost able to play the first part of the solo, I feel like I need to dedicate myself more, train with a metronome... I think people today Nowadays there is less patience due to the dynamism of social networks and computers, where everything is fast and instantaneous, but I will have more patience. I'm 26 years old

[@niksmusic1307]

I didn’t know Bruce Dickinson is learning guitar

[@CalebA_Guitarist]

You were WAY better then me in 2006 the. I am now 😭 life been playing for 3-4 years

[@jussi-pekkalaakko8768]

I started playing about 18 years ago, but started to actually practise 4-5 years ago. So i would say 5 years then.

[@aslin81]

Ahhh yes, Bradley Hall, or is it now Beanley Hallsworth? Getting older without growing up, to such a degree that he wears a monocle whilst getting mononucleosis

[@themanonguitar3398]

The singer in Greece did NOT fw that solo lmao

[@strek45]

I love shredding but that was not it 😭 doing too much

[@TheHuffy86]

How are those Sweepman videos 4 years old? Only feels like yesterday!

[@vasyapupkin5405]

I can proudly say, that Beanly in 2006 was better than I’m now after 2 years of self teaching

[@ScoobyDoo-kt9pv]

I really like your 2010 improvisation ... Keep at it and good luck what I like about it was the beautiful appregio approaches (tapping) along with the chromatic blues scale that you used and I think that would work great with then some major scale voicings and bends and you will have a very full solo that was very nice. Although just a troll you ... I think it would have been better if you had ended it with some Metallica

[@timothymhuegel4159]

You truly need to bring back the rapscallion looking goatee. It just ads that slightly dangerous and possibly mentally deranged edge to your playing.

[@PuffyOne1898]

For a band I’ve never heard any songs from, the Misfits sure have a lot of merchandise.

[@Luksa175]

From noob to old noob with cool hat and beans

[@amishbhaskar3264]

Hey bradley keep up with what you are doing it's really inspiring. I had a question for example you are playing a lead line, melody or solo 1) do you hear in ontervals 2) you hear and thenknow where are all the intervals 3 when playing solo do you prallely think that bend from b5 to 7 and then this lick then 4 and 5 hammer on If yes then what should I do to achieve same level

[@koenverrijt1493]

ive been playing for around 1 and a half year

[@SenW161]

Its really cool, i wish i could play a guitar...

[@regulardude54]

Are we all gonna ignore the armour he had in 2020 while playing sweet child o mine 💀 (no hate I just thought it was funny, ur really good btw)

[@smthnew861]

I've been playing guitar for 17 years now. Started at 16. I'm still not good, but i try badly 😂

[@underintact134]

2006: still playing better than I have in 12 years since I started

[@andreavezzoli2383]

2013 when sweep man was born

[@SpenserPaul616]

I can smell each of those rooms

[@kernoleary1394]

ahhhhh the GT10 ! I still use mine lmao

[@kgsvvgla2i]

That feel when someone plays circles around you with half the experience.😖

[@eriksundqvist]

That's a really disgusting DVD collection, love it. Ask me the next time you're filming at my house though.

[@DatBoi-du7eo]

The 2024 Master of Puppets is still better than the one in Hellfest 😭😭😭😭

[@Lorix791]

7 years, and I'm 14 rn! 🔥🤟🎸

[@behindthacrookedcross]

get off the internet and go outside little man

[@cameronj6161]

Damn respect bro! 🤘🎸

[@Vilu245]

Do you think you'll do a Mercyful Fate deepdive? Oh and also, are you planning to do another album with Brainslug, the first one was pretty fun

[@user-qz2ou2mm3w]

2024 goated

[@Sofia_G_]

You could've included the Nik Nocturnal challenge video you did few years ago.

[@AxeCraft-Creations]

Mr Beanley this is an alien intervention, wanted to say hello mate, may the great, crafters shredd,and fuck the rest, lata!

[@rtcnoodles]

There is a good chance that you are old enough to be my dad, Mr. Beanley Hallsworth

[@WhoDaF0ok1sThatGuy]

2021 Bradley Hall with a goatee and mustache??? Homie should grow it out again; think about how many people it’ll confuse😂

[@thekivster]

Post more Allan Holdsworth solos please

[@EveReznor]

You're not a noob 🤣you're master of the noobs xD But still I can barely play riff to Psycho by Muse, so... 😅 You're amazing, Brad! And holy sh... 2006 was 18 years ago? 🤯 I feel old...

[@likandri1924]

Been playing G C D chords since 2001

[@Bellibutton]

Bradley, I recently asked Teemu if Tornado of Souls was a harder solo than Winter Madness. He said it was because of all the subtleties and how famous it is. Which one did you find harder to learn?

[@LukeBot2000]

Your master of puppets is somehow still more listenable than kirk at hellfest

[@rbsoliveira]

Muito bom!!! Man!!

[@Gorrilatag2314]

5 months and 11 years old

[@d-fresh901]

2010 with a Boss GT-10??

[@enigma_plays2290]

10 years and I’m 17 now👹👹👹

[@Gookrak]

SWEEPMAAAAAAN!!!!

[@readymade83]

At least the video quality got better over time.

[@DaveyFantom]

The only thing I really got from this is that Bean has always been good on guitar... And that he looks good with face fuzz

[@Typical.Anomaly]

2:44 Don Henley would like to speak with you...

[@samrustan]

Peak.