Periphery's Mark Holcomb Lesson- Angular Rhythms and "Mile Zero"

[@FacundoTupac]

Please, turn Mark into a permanent teacher in this channel. He has so much to offer.

[@BrandonofRedemption]

I absolutely love Mark's tone. One of my favorites.

[@user-po8ot3db2w]

mark tone best tone

[@demondrive147]

+Walter Wright don't know, it's a little dull IMHO

[@aeththeband]

What a great teacher this guy is. Speaks very slow and clear. Very easy to understand. Good work dude.

[@samuelcorbett243]

I just hope that people understand that a full mix guitar tone doesn't translate to a nice sounding tone by itself (usually). This is especially true when there's three guitarists you have to share the same frequencies with, let alone playing at a lower volume by yourself.

[@Hue_Nery]

That tone is so thick. Sounds awesome.

[@donfryedontlie]

I love seeing his use of the thumb. Unorthodox techniques rule.

[@KristianPage]

+don FRYE Works if you have big hands or a thin neck or both. Jimi Hendrix used this technique on almost every song in the 60's so not really unorthodox.

[@donfryedontlie]

K P jimi used it alot but I rarely ever see people nowadays utilizing it for their own material

[@KristianPage]

I agree, easier back then with 7.5 and 9.5 radius necks. It's easy to grab on a vintage strat, not so on a modern guitar with a 16+ radius so I get your point.

[@KristianPage]

And with 7, 8+ string guitars now the necks are too wide to play with a thumb over...for me anyway ;-)

[@toemasmeems]

@@KristianPage hey dude from 5 years ago, just because jimi did it doesn't make it unorthodox, because 90% of people don't use there thumb like that.

[@DecrepidMonkeyChild]

6:22 - I have to explain this all the time when I play a "djent" style riff to someone hahaha

[@BrettZieglermusic]

if anyone knows how to combine dissonance and harmony into one congruent style, it's Mark fucking Holcomb. Yes

[@wreckoningday]

I don't listen to these guys but he's a great teacher and that tone rocks

[@fromthenorth2]

Have to love Mark's approach.

[@judahbenhur5820]

Vigilante Coffee

[@ctsaustin]

*force persuade* you will play mile zero live

[@Demiurge66]

+Jeremy Fredricksin-sintin his ex gf that cheated on him prob then he deleted his whole Instagram then came back 3 months later lol

[@3AwesomeLetsPlayers]

+Jeremy Fredricksin-sintin Pretty sure it's just because the guitarists thought they'd butcher the solo so they wouldn't dare to play it live.

[@YoLpIsBest]

+Physis Zero I'm sure one of them could learn it. I mean, Mark learned the Guthrie solo from Have a Blast and Jake learned Loomis' solo from Racecar. But the lyrics are about Spencer's dead friend, so I doubt he wants to perform the song.

[@3AwesomeLetsPlayers]

Hmm, I guess that's the more logical explanation, however I remember one of the guys saying that haha

[@Sh1wi]

Awesome, I've been waiting for this one :) Great job Mark, thank you!

[@SpiderGoatz]

You know what's funny is I learned an acoustic song years ago and saw the guy using his thumb to play it, and ever since then I have used my thumb for certain chords.

[@DanielLoaiza666]

That tone is pure deliciousness

[@damonstewart70]

Damm that's awesome

[@aarongtr180]

Nice chords. Also, nice Bathory shirt.

[@Scias]

Wew it has the omega chord in it, thought he played his jamup chord there QAQ

[@norocknrollradio57]

woah!!!brandon boyd plays guitar♪

[@redwolf2635]

what's the name of the intro song?

[@chanceboney9785]

It's Omega off of Omega from the Juggernaut record by Periphery.

[@Shornetastic]

Sweet sweet tone

[@jayreyes828]

I'm not having fun learning the third chord anymore (the alternate version of the thumb) :( Just need patience I guess

[@Harrysound]

Been learning Omega on the intro here and it's a right bitch lol but i'm 75% there

[@samarhello]

+Harrysound That intro riff is by far the most fucking annoying thing they've written when it comes to playing it. There's a lot of inside picking and jumping around. It makes almost no sense. How they think of this shit I will never know.

[@Harrysound]

+Menace in the corner really? Thats the thing I really struggled with. or find hard even now. The picking. I did have a revelation about starting the riff on an up stroke but now I just start with a down and hope I get it right.

[@samarhello]

Harrysound​ because I'm such a fan of Dream Theater and Petrucci's playing, my inside picking is pretty good, (not Petrucci shred-the-pentatonic level - even when I use the 'start on an upstroke' cheat I can't match his 2 note per string speed in the slightest) I can do the Steve Morse-esque 6 string arpeggios and shit, but this riff still gives me some trouble sometimes. I find with inside picking if I really exaggerate the pick movement, just contract all muscles in my arm and hands to a level that feels unnatural I'm better able to play it. But there's still a long way to go before I can play stuff like this without cheating it in some way. The Periphery guitarists are criminally underrated when it comes to skill.

[@Brando-_-440]

"Get that thumb all the way up" That's what she said.

[@darkspace6344]

whats the tunning?

[@darkspace6344]

thanks

[@cloudlesssky4350]

+George Gerbanas it's actually ADFACD

[@MrRafaelMatiazoguita]

what's the name of the song of intro of this video ?

[@Demiurge66]

Omega, you're welcome

[@MrRafaelMatiazoguita]

Thanks a lot !!

[@davidlindholm5514]

+Rafael Matiazo It's mile zero.

[@TheKevinCruz64]

Yay!

[@MarkToast99]

Drop C?

[@Cognitoman]

I’m sure you figured it out by now 😂

[@Gearhead_47]

tuning? drop c or am I dead wrong? lol

[@Reneguitario]

+isn1pe, Mile Zero was written in Drop C, yes. (The solo was written in E Standard, though)

[@KristianPage]

I assume since you haven't mention it that the tuning is Standard right?

[@instrumentalist28]

kinda looks like Paul Gilbert

[@Gabrol]

what is a "angular rhythm"?

[@chanceboney9785]

It's a rhythm that's not hitting on the accents of a standard meter. It feels off kind of. I think anyways.

[@Gabrol]

is that the same as syncopation?

[@MrCole58]

Gabrol It's definitely syncopated, but I think it's just supposed to be a bit more specific, it has a very irregular groove and because they play a lot of polyrhythms the riffs sometimes don't repeat for 12 measures (more or less depending on the song). on top of that, they use a lot of interchanging 3's 5's and 7's with varying accents and rhythms which is more a bit complicated than a standard eighth note syncopation. Hope that helped some

[@chiefkief1015]

marks the shiznit

[@woobi4739]

BAAAATHORY!

[@paulreedsmith7898]

it sounds better played slower like that

[@toemasmeems]

i disagree

[@gematria696]

the riffs are cool and all, but that tone is liquid ass :S

[@sethrich6012]

Is that bad or good? Lol