Critique Your Technique With Cracking The Code!

[@Ravenfeldt]

Still waiting for the Brandon Ellis full-length video

[@damonstewart70]

That would be awesome

[@blackdahlia6282]

Same here

[@vamooh741]

Jepp. Any update on that?

[@jazzercaster4749]

Yeah he's sick!! Also David Davidson from Revocation is also great!

[@LosSebosFR]

That would be sick !

[@caseylockwood5512]

Teemu's technique is frighteningly good, dude has machine-like precision.

[@troygrady]

Teemu is awesome!

[@blackdahlia6282]

When it comes to inside picking,that's the hardest part, it's too difficult for me.

[@johnnzz2320]

@@troygrady hi Troy i need to talk with you ,there's a guy who is impersonating you in the comments he's also impersonating Steve go he's a scammer because he wants to steal people's information he tried to steal from me I even ask for your help to report it

[@_____8106]

@@troygradythat lick Teemu played is he starting from an upstroke ?is he using two way pickslanting i wanna learn that lick exactly how he plays can you please reply

[@deylanengel7251]

Thank you for all you do for the instrument of guitar. Your videos truly are something special.

[@troygrady]

Thank you!

[@oscarurbizovivas]

Troy has been a great influence He took my guitar playing to the next level. I wish he would know that! I couldn't thank enough!

[@shyboy2112]

Same for me

[@RichardGarcia93]

Everyone talks about how scary the player Troy has on are, but Troy is the scariest!

[@mozza1983]

Love your videos. I never understood my technique issues until stumbling on your channel. Great work

[@AlexVonCrank]

Love how Troy doesn’t even use a saturated sound. He’s like “nah, I’m going clean for extra challenge.”

[@troygrady]

This is a myth. Clean tone can "hide" just as many mistakes as dirty tone. You just don't have to worry about the unplayed strings as much, or at all, with clean tone. So noise and muting are just not as important. And mistakes that don't involve a direct loud pick hit are much softer on a clean tone. This includes things like touching the wrong string, lifting off the string but accidentally plucking it with the fretting finger, etc. These things can be almost impossible to hear on clean tone but really loud and distracting on gain. Finally, pick attack can be really scratchy and ugly on a high gain tone if you don't have it oriented exactly right and hit it the same way every time. In short, if you want to be clean on high gain and clean tone, you really need to do both.

[@AlexVonCrank]

@@troygrady so you were trying to hide your mistakes? 👍🏽😉

[@AlexVonCrank]

@@troygrady it’s a myth if you’re picking everything for sure…

[@troygrady]

No, that's silly. I chose clean tone because I thought it sounded cool. That's what you should always do, i.e. choose what you like for your musical goals. I'm simply addressing the misperception that clean is the "hard" one and gain is the "easy" one. We hear this all the time and it is not true. Clean makes dynamics hard - even a small variation in your pick attack will make certain notes way too loud, or way too soft / gone. It will also reveal poorly set up guitars with action that is way too low or string gauges that are too light, where every note sounds like you're snapping it super hard. By contrast, gain makes noise and tone hard, as I've already explained. If you want to play both tones, you need both sets of skills.

[@AlexVonCrank]

@@troygrady Doing techniques such as tapping and legato or slide with clean tone requires better and more consistent and accurate technique to sound ‘good’ which makes them harder to master because the note has minimal help to bloom from the drive. You have to mute strings on clean and drive, makes no difference. I practice primarily with clean tone for this very reason. I know enough of my students at first hide behind their effects and their technique suffers because of it. When talking specifically about picking I totally agree with you about the ‘myth’ but it’s not a blanket truth for me in my experience.

[@googe2312]

Maybe I will post a video of my progress since watching cracking the code. I've learned quite a lot. Thanks Troy😋💙💙💙

[@JustRockMySoul]

Man for a second I thought you got Marty for a feature. But no doubt these 2 guys know their stuff if you picked them. Kinda confused with the different packages you offer, but the general concept I really like and it does seem fairly priced . Nice of you to offer a discount to people that have a hard time affording it, too. Your video on pick slanting was a real eye-opener to me. So well explained and showcased, every guitarist not familiar with that concept should see it. And I bet that would go for a lot of your other stuff as well.

[@troygrady]

Thank you! There really aren't different packages, per se. You can make a free account and browse the site and use the forum, or you can have a subscription with access to everything, including Technique Critique. Yes, you can buy individual items as downloads, and that may be where the confusion comes from because there are lots of those. But that's going down a road that might be overdoing it. In our main instructional stuff, we sort of assume that you'll be able to use the other lessons and interviews as a resource for finding songs and licks to play and practice. It's not 100% required but it makes more work for you to go out and find replacement material on your own.

[@blakegilliam8223]

Love your tone

[@mattwhitfield9850]

WOW! Such a great concept!!! Thanks! \m/

[@BeardSous]

I saw the thumbnail and thought "Hey! That looks like Teemu!", thats fucking awesome you got him to join you!

[@Crf901]

Very good Troy, congratulations from Brazil.

[@CalebePriester]

Salve! Troy is awesome!

[@digitor24]

I used to play all the time. now I'm almost 40 and have not played much in 10 years. When I do pick it up I get frustrated and stop. How can I get past this. Or is that how everyone quits playing guitar? Still love your videos Troy.. Your the man.

[@Norseman2]

Start a band.

[@mattwhitfield9850]

@@Norseman2 A band is a good idea, I joined one at age 47, and now am 51, and play more guitar than I ever have!! The challenge and grit that comes with age helps sooo much in achieving new heights on the guitar.

[@CalebePriester]

Why do you get frustrated? Is it because you can't play like a virtuoso? I don't know, man. Try playing songs that you enjoy, simple things, simple riffs, simple melodies. You haven't practiced for 10 years so of course you won't be able to play complex stuff. Try playing a little bit everyday, if you do that you will get better and that may help you feel like you are progressing and you won't feel frustrated anymore. I guess you need to rediscover the joy of making music again. Playing music is fun, you don't need to be able to play like Steve Vai or Troy to have fun playing the guitar. You can have fun just by playing the pentatonic scale and coming up with simple melodies, you can have fun just by playing chords. Man, I get a kick just by playing two chords, trying to play them all over the freatboard in different positions, different shapes, different voicings and stuff. My cousing quit playing the guitar. He did think it was easy to play and get good at it, but it takes practice, it takes effort, it takes time. I guess that not everyone has that passion to keep on trying, to persist when they start to struggle with the instrument or with the lack of technique to play what they want. Some people are just not willing to put the time and energy to learn something. If it's too hard they just quit. But now we have people like Troy helping us. Troy has made so much easier to learn the proper techniques with his video lessons. Troy can't play the guitar for us, man. We are the ones who need to sit our asses down and practice, practice and practice. He is sharing the core concepts for free, he's making the secret know! Now it's up to us to practice them.

[@digitor24]

@@CalebePriester Your right and I really appriciate the comment. I used to play slayer pantera and megadeth trivium type stuff and I my music taste has changed alot. I dont have the pick speed anymore to play that and to be honest I dont know if I even want to. Also a big thing I smoked weed when I was a teen learning guitar and it took the bordem out of practicing. So I have to like you said rediscover the fun. Thanks for the positivity man.

[@blackdahlia6282]

Teemu is extremely talented,he is so good

[@carlosrelampago2279]

Hi Troy. I would like to solve the mystery of the Final Countdown John Norum Solo. I haven't seen a single tutorial like the original yet. Thanks

[@ArtOfShredYT]

On the need vs want scale this is a need. :)

[@dijisza]

All three dudes plant or drag their pinky and ring fingers on the body. Neat.

[@TommoGuitar]

Depends on the situation :-) There's also cases where I don't anchor at all, but for these licks it worked fine!

[@hugoflores8090]

Troy, why don't you talk more about the fret hand?

[@CalebePriester]

I think he does in his website. I was watching some older videos of the channel and in some of them he talks about what fingers he uses to play certain licks. I have seen him using some weird combinations. Troy is very good.

[@saadshah7857]

Articulate your actual fretting hand issue and he will surely address it. I think the reason he doesn't talk much about the fretting hand is because most people don't have an issue with it. You can strengthen it with legato drills.

[@ליאוראנגל]

Hey Troy sorry that I’m asking about a thing that not related to the video, but did you stopped with the cracking the code series? because people like Jason Richardson or Rusty Cooley (even that you invited him in the past) need more in-depth observations on their techniques, because their speed looks unreal, I listened to a lot of Polyphia songs lately, and there was one song “Aviator” with Jason Richardson and when Jason played his solo I really didn’t understand what I’m hearing, it was so fast that I laughed so at that point I highly recommend you to listen to the song and if you will invite him for better observations it will be amazing.

[@talyajacobi6302]

wow that would be fantastic what do you say Troy? @Troy Grady

[@gimpyjwilliams]

anyone know what picks the second guy is using?

[@joshuamkk]

would love to see rick graham on one of these videos

[@dijisza]

For real. He’s so relaxed, and despite being a monster shredder is the absolute GOAT on the left hand legato.

[@GuitarShinobi]

Do we need the magnet in order to upload ?

[@troygrady]

No! Here's a guide to filming your playing in a way that will still let you see what's going on ( troygrady.com/help/technique-critique/filming-your-playing/ ).

[@theruralkings]

what gauge of strings do you use?

[@theruralkings]

Won a prize?

[@RicardoLopez-vn6cn]

Cesario Filho would be an awesome guest

[@bryanwchambers9734]

Great chops guys. But can you "Boomer Bend"?

[@TommoGuitar]

On a good day yes :) Actually it's funny that sometimes bends/vibratos are the hardest things to record properly. The "fast stuff" is mostly muscle memory.

[@dackjaniels4205]

Realizing that I kinda just wanna play like Troy Grady at this point 😅

[@sirpatrickofgoober6603]

What guitar is troy using?

[@saadshah7857]

Fender Jaguar I think

[@troygrady]

1969 Fender Mustang, 22.5" scale

[@saadshah7857]

@@troygrady that's the one :)

[@sirpatrickofgoober6603]

Thank you!

[@CalebePriester]

Troy, does a debit card work to pay for a membership? I don't have a credit card nor a paypal account and my family doesn't have a credit card either. I want to become a member so badly, man. I want to crack the code!

[@troygrady]

In the US, a debit card is the same as a credit card. You can use it in any store or payment machine. In fact many debit cards actually have a credit card company logo on them. So I assume our web site would be the same way. I haven't heard from anyone that a debit card doesn't work. If you try it and run into a problem, just let us know in support and we'll look at it.

[@ianismajoris]

If using your debit card directly doesn't work, you can link your debit card to a PayPal account and then pay through PayPal. That's what I did and it worked fine for me 👍

[@ScarredRomeo]

Is this critiquing or a passive aggressive way of showing me how much I suck?

[@elcagondevoxer7473]

I have problems when i playng powerchord whitout palmuting but when i want to do palm mute in a gallop riff is very hard to play, someone can help me? Some example is battery metallica.

[@CammedFox]

Troy - you need to get Stephen Taranto on cracking the code. I have seen a lot of players with great technique but Stephen does things that should not be done on guitar.

[@mctwistx1248]

can't afford

[@TommoGuitar]

There's a scholarship program on the site!

[@nicholascardinale602]

Tendysoul

[@raoulduke8720]

imagine practicing this hard for little to no recognition