Quick Guitar Tricks IRON MAIDEN Dave Murray Solo Legato Technique

[@jonshaw9472]

For many years I avoided Dave's solos and just learned Adrian's.. Until I came across these lessons.. After a month of constant practice and building slowly I can finally play a couple of his solo's.. Still needs tidying up but the fingers are finally thinking for themselves. A big thank you for the effort that goes into these videos.

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

Awesome. So great to hear that mate! Dave's stuff is way more improvised, being less structured it can be tricky to get to grips with- fair play for giving it a go and sticking with it! Sounds like a lot of progress in a month as well! Huge thanks for letting me know as well, makes these tutorials feel really worthwhile when I hear stuff like this :)

[@ankhor9252]

I am a drummer but interested in guitar and love d Murray thank you for this from cincinnati

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

Always good to learn about an instrument other than your main one! Thanks for the comment mate, hope you got some insights from it :)

[@paulcollins8122]

Great stuff!!

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

Glad you think so!

[@Mad_Axe_Man125]

Ive been playing three years and havent really tackled legato heavy solos until recently. I thought because I had spent so much time practicing alternate picking it would come easy, but its a completely different beast. Hopefully my fretting hand will catch up to my picking hand now.

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

I sort of neglected it for a while as well, had been playing with way too much force an tension; been working on this stuff -kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5ykp6iHfMx6erc which has really helped keep things more fluid. Still a work in progress though!

[@PaulMusso2]

Thanks for the lesson. I find it really hard to shift positions when doing hammers and trills, and my fingers get really fatigued. Also, my first finger also feels a bit painful, maybe I am pressing too hard. Any advice?

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

I mean you need to build the strength and a bit of fatigue will come with that; like any sort of exercise. Having said that there's a good chance you might be locking your arm up, make sure you're keeping your wrist as straight as possible; just covered this recently: kzbin.info/www/bejne/npqwmWOVj5ypZ80 and try to dial in just enough attack on your left hand, a but like this trick: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gKOlmoGAYrlgrtE As an exercise, try trilling on one string up and down a scale, pay attention to keeping your arm relaxed, not gripping the neck too tightly and using just enough force to generate a strong sound. Let me know how you get on with that and if any of it helps :)

[@captainmilk2691]

Fuck that man, if you're feeling pain that's a sign that you need to do the opposite. You need to lose the tension. Slow down your practice to an absolute crawl, and teach your body how to move your fingers as little as necessary without any tension. So at a very slow speed, be aware of your muscles and how they are feeling, if you feel that you are tensing your thumb, relax it as move on, if your index finger is tense, release there. You should only be doing what's necessary, so your index finger (or whichever) needs to press down the lower fret, but it only takes a tiny amount of firmness to do that, and NO tension.

[@Sebastian_Mroczek]

Are these crazy fast trills based more on doing hammer-ons or pull-offs? I know trills are kinda doing both at the same time, but I want to know if I should put more focus on plucking the strings or hammering them to the fretboard to get to that speed:).

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

Hey Sebastian, spot on! Hit the string once, then keeping hammering and pulling off! For Dave's legato style, I'd tend to pick as little as possible; he play's very intuitively and tends to pluck the strings when the sound is about to die off. Hopefully that help?

[@Sebastian_Mroczek]

@@JbfMusicGuitarThanks for your answer! It's going to take ages for me to explain exacly what I mean xD. First of all By plucking the string I meant plucking with my fretting hand that is actually doing the trills. For me doing hammer-ons and pull -offs as the trills are not the same as doing them in "normal" lick concepts. As you know pull-off are not simply removing the finger from the string. You have to pluck it, while with the hammer-ons you simply smack your finger down and that's creating noise. With trills you have 2 choices: 1. Hammer-on option: you simply punch the string, go up, punch the string (then repeat over and over while the trill effect happen by the "unwanted" string noise when you remove your finger from string). 2. Pull-off option: pluck the string, go up, come back to pluck the string again (repeat over and over). Hopefully this make sense. So that was my question: which option is the one to focus on😁? Or maybe I am missing something?

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

@@Sebastian_Mroczek Ah, ok sure I think I get what you mean! Go with whatever feels easiest I suppose? For me, I probably focus on the hammer (or using really quite light pull offs) - I'd guess you can get more speed/fluency that way. Really interesting, observation, one that I'd never noticed before! 🤘

[@Sebastian_Mroczek]

@@JbfMusicGuitar Awesome, this is the answer that I wanted😁🤘🏻. Of course would love to see more Dave Murray's playing style related content:). Thanks a lot for the videos and replies

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

@@Sebastian_Mroczek No problem dude! I've got 5 or so other videos on him, bound to make more in the future as well 🤘🏻

[@osmaioresnoobsdaterra4849]

am i the only one afraid to do the bend thing ? i always think " my god the string is going to break " haha

[@JbfMusicGuitar]

No! I think we all get that fear, but they don't usually break unless they are very old (and probably need changed anyway), have a fault or there's a weird setup issue.