Why is Tornado of Souls SO HARD?!

[@BenEller]

Thanks for learning everything you need to master Tornado of Souls! Get the practice tracks, tab, guitar pro files, and MORE here: www.patreon.com/posts/108041630?

[@UltimateTechHub]

That fretboard is sick! I'm tired just watching you play it! Lol!

[@Fkku-r6d]

Dont know about this song but until someone covers aint dead yet By frank marino I dont care, Lol,

[@steveo2827]

Playing tornado of souls at my audition got me into music college 22 years ago 😄🤟

[@DataAnalystRahul]

Maybe college needed you to teach them odd phrasing and eastern scales.

[@boiga1966]

🤩

[@captainshiner42]

Fake it till you make it, my guy! In all seriousness, I'm happy for you. Wish I would have thought of that. 🤣🤣🤣

[@Nickshreds890]

That’s amazing ! I played Godspeed by the Contortionist which is pretty challenging itself but not quite as outrageous as far as the solos Marty Friedman plays ! Anyway that’s awesome I hope your music studies are still proving useful :) . There is always more to learn !

[@derNasenmann]

Playing it on my audition made me homeless 🎉🎉🎉

[@Jeffmetal42]

I learned how to play Tornado of Souls on my 8th bday. Went to the mall and purchased Rust in Peace on cassette. Ever since then I was able to play it on my boombox... ... ... ... Never learned it on guitar tho.

[@TheCyberMantis]

Yeah, I learned to play it on my CD player. I put the disc in the slot... and press the "play" button. Works every time.

[@ChrisTarpleyAsylumOfCerberus]

Using hanger 18 as an example is awesome haha.

[@BenEller]

Hahaha I knew someone would get it! Thanks Chris

[@ChrisTarpleyAsylumOfCerberus]

@@BenEller not only are we learning how to get the sequences for the souls, we're learning how to play hanger 18 as well haha. Thanks for the video, Ben!

[@BenBreard]

@chris! .........you know too much! (I hope you get that)

[@metalboy5150]

@@BenBreard Computer banks to rule the world, yeah?

[@sheriewart8100]

My stepmom can’t stop talking about your tornado licks

[@hernanbass5894]

My favorite Marty Friedman solo is in "five magics", it is very strange, dissonant and rhythmically complex. I love it.

[@The_Cadaver]

He did a solo album called "Dragon's Kiss." It's basically Marty going down a rabbit hole for 30 minutes. So many cool motifs and licks on it. Highly recommend.

[@hernanbass5894]

@@The_Cadaver Thanks, actually, my favorite Marty solo album is Scenes, produced by the great Japanese musician and composer Kitaro.

[@JunkfoodZombieGuns]

​@@hernanbass5894That album changed me.

[@ramseyomery]

as soon as I saw the title I thought "10 to 18 pull off" and then shivered.

[@OKEKOBEB]

tornado of 18 hangars

[@Spivonious]

My favorite Marty solo is Lucretia. Just epitomizes Marty's style and phrasing.

[@InsolentMusicalPeasant]

There really is no substitute for thoughtful teaching. Much appreciated!

[@BenEller]

Thanks bro!

[@metalboy5150]

Bro, your comment is awesome, but your Robin Hood inspired name is awesomer. You rule. Prince John is gonna squeeze every last drop out of you.

[@LiveLaughJordan-oi6tg]

That Ibanez is beautiful :)

[@andrewthompson6893]

I think the new guys coming up have such an advantage with guys like you (and specifically you) to teach them. Had you been there when I started in 1987 I'd be a God right now. Please keep doing what you do, you're an inspiration and a tremendous resource not just for what you know, but how you're secretly teaching people HOW to learn. Nothing beats that.

[@BenEller]

Thanks a lot Andrew!

[@lucydiamond7777]

Bro, THANK YOU! This actually helped me clean up the (Yngwie) solo to Rising Force!!! It's the exact same technique and your notes on quieting the lower strings opened my eyes to everything I was doing wrong. It's like a brand new solo under my fingers now!!! Thanks man and best of luck with your new floral Jem. Enjoy in good health and Happy Belated Birthday!

[@mercuryII]

Sultans of Souls!

[@k7j007]

Love the killing road solo lick @12:52 It is probably my favorite Friedman solo.

[@darrylbarrett6879]

Awesome Pro Tuition Ben - your lessons continue to be outstanding content!

[@dickey335]

BEN! Thank you again for a great lesson. Your delivery is focused and efficient. 🤟🏻

[@archonlian]

Hypersonic version of that arpeggio part of the solo in Sultans of Swing.

[@roadrunnerplaying]

This étude is the key to playing the keyboard solo of Highway Star as well. Awesome!

[@dawin6710]

This is exactly "Sultans of Swing" played with a plectrum. I'm enjoying learning it this way too. 👍

[@GuitarManPremium]

Great vid as always, Ben! Being a recent Tornado of Souls solo student, who worked on improving my playing of if for two or more years, I tried all kinds of things to get that fast two-string arpeggio and stretch segment down. Right-hand technique wise. the pick slanting method was a massive help for getting up to speed. Left-hand wise, I learned to avoid the palm parallel with the neck and fingers fanned approach for the massive 10th to 17th fret stretch, because when the pinkie finger stretched from G to A on the high-E, it would cause my middle finger to stretch beyond the B note of the B string. Instead, I plant my index finger right over the D note of the high E, where the first digit of my finger is hooked to the neck, and the top of that finger extends as far up to the D note's fret-wire as possible while still maintaining a clear ringing note. I also plant my thumb in such a way that there is a very stable hold between my thumb and index finger. The thumb and index serve as two posts that never move position during the whole of that starting B arpeggio sequence. Gear-wise I learned some things that may help for smaller handed folks. Many shred guitars are 25.5 scale length, but the more Gibson centric scale length is 24.75. Having a shorter scale length does mean for less of a stretch. Epiphone's Prophecy 24 fret guitars use that shorter scale length. PRS 24-fret guitars also use a 25 inch length. Lastly, I notice when playing a string gauge lighter than 10, say 9, I notice it's easier to fast pick between strings. I believe both Epiphone Prophecy and PRS SE guitars are standard with 9's. I learned on the PRS but now can do it on a 25.5 just fine. Though be warned with most PRS guitars the fretboard radius is more rounded than most modern shred guitars.

[@Jopeymessmusic]

What about the riffs though? THE RIFFS UNCLE BEN! Tornado and that entire album is full of "hall of fame" riffs.

[@stupidusername38]

One of my favourite Marty solos is the outro of Black Cat by Cacophony. It's the clean solo over the acoustic section, amazing phrasing, very Japanese sounding

[@jfo3000]

The Go Off album by Cacophony is in my all time top 5. Marty and Jason just killing. Loomis is now carrying the Cacophony flame. Good thing for us.

[@stupidusername38]

@@jfo3000 yup, I still listening to this album a lot. The playing is the height of speed guitar for me. There have been many shredders since this album but none as melodic and diverse as Jason and Marty.

[@UltimateTechHub]

Thumbs up because you can play it! Holy Cow!

[@ashwinsridharan9834]

Thanks Uncle Ben. My arpeggios sound like ass when I try the Ride the Lightning solo, nevermind this monster. Hopefully this will help!

[@PDXguitarfreak]

Marty's picking hand approach always baffled me from the standpoint of muting unwanted string noise, as you called out. Still he seems like a clean player. :) EDIT: ahhh, now I hear the explanation. Very cool!

[@fishyfishbait]

Reminds me of bark at the moon outro solo

[@Simrealism]

Thank you for setting so many of us straight on so many of the details in so many songs. At step-dad speed.

[@STORMSC0UT]

Uncle Ben always giving us the tips we really need. Will be practicing this when I get home!

[@matrixstar2767]

txs! Can't wait to try this tonight

[@frankjackson6241]

Thank you for talking about string noise and muting. It gives me things to work on to hopefully sound less amateur.

[@neilshreds]

Your picking hand is so fluid with the 2 string sweep and then picking. I Must shed that. Good work Mr. Eller 🔥

[@theneverwas2835]

Thanks Pop.

[@silvertear87]

This will definitely help me with changing strings for some other stuff I'm covering. I can't get a consistent switch when it calls for it. Can't wait to dig into this this weekend.

[@amesmilesoff4768]

This is going to be fun to tackle, cheers Ben 👍

[@brandonthomas6722]

I love the way you explain how things work on this channel. I still can’t play that solo up to speed or even all the way through, but my playing has gotten better thanks to the original breakdown of it. I’d love to see a breakdown of the original solo in “Be None The Wiser” by Accuser. It’s not an iconic solo but it is very tasty in my opinion.

[@fabianthio4011]

Thanks for this video. So detailed!

[@diogorenato]

"muting the B string so slightly so it doesn't sustain" GENIUS!!!!!!! THANK YOU AGAIN BEN! (I figured it out a couple of months ago bc it was sounding terrible, but I think a lot of people doesn't figure it out on their own)

[@crossroads900]

Always awesome! Thanks for another Uncle Ben!!

[@brianhudson123]

Thanks Ben. That's brilliant.

[@reckless-575]

This Etude sounds awesome when played faster than stepdad speed. Thanks uncle Ben! 👍

[@robvfx89]

omg thanks Uncle Ben, im still working on this since your last video on Tornado of Souls.

[@BenEller]

You can do it!

[@guitarz]

Excellent sir

[@deltalegendsguitaramplific5450]

Thanks Uncle Ben !

[@markdawsonziglar9436]

I’ve been picking away at that very solo for a few weeks now…this will be sooooooooooooooooo helpful.🤘🎸

[@metalboy5150]

Probably "Lucretia" is my favorite Marty solo. Just off the top of my head.

[@saogalde]

Ben: "learn Tornado of Souls by playing Hangar 18" 😄 thanks for the lesson! I was practising these arpeggios in a very similar way to make them more accessible to me. After that, I'll go full Marty mode.

[@meljohnson5579]

Incredible lesson Uncle Ben😊

[@revhappymv]

Hi Uncle Ben. My favourite Marty solo is on Last September from his True Obsessions album

[@shayneswenson]

1001 videos on this iconic solo floating round on the Tube and yours actually conveys new information. It’s why you’re the GOAT(guitar out a tune). 🍻

[@dreamstate3437]

My favorite Friedman solo is Jason Becker's on Jewels. And Marty's Nike Air Quantum.

[@LiveLaughJordan-oi6tg]

Yeah Ben!

[@paulberak4030]

Thanks!

[@oldadajbych8123]

F*ck! Just nailed The final countdown solo with alternate picking, and now this. Thanks a lot! ;-)))

[@pcbullets8726]

Marty's solos are just ridiculous and I mean that in a good way. I played songs years ago like Hanger 18, etc and use to butcher those solos because I couldn't even remotely sweep pick hahaha. Great video Uncle Ben!

[@Counsel-fires]

Kiko and Marty rule, they brot exotic melody to Megadeth

[@benjaminaxselholm]

Kiko is an amazing and versatile technician but not in Marty's universe when it comes to creativity

[@vladv5126]

They German bread indeed.

[@sirtogii5216]

Love this

[@curtvona4891]

Blew me away. Thanks 👍

[@BenEller]

Glad you liked it!

[@Burkhimself]

Fave solo of his is either symphony or almost honest 🙌🏻

[@randallhaney7909]

Cool Stuff Uncle Benny Bob Thanks Boss.. I'm too under the weather to put any silly attempts at humor in this one.. Lucky you. Keep well safe and happy.

[@BenEller]

Cheers Randall, get well soon!

[@josephpessano]

You are the man

[@BenEller]

Marty is the man, I am just the messenger!

[@doyouluvit]

awesome thank you!!!!!

[@capnzilog]

Reminds me a bit of Yngwie's "Rising Force" solo from Odyssey which came out two years earlier

[@EL_DUDERIN0]

Yeah but Marty never played a fancy flower guitar. See ya over there on the Patreon Uncle!

[@christopherkocher8132]

When I first tried to learn that in the early 90s I had to convert it into single string arpeggios and tap it in order to get the notes. I just physically couldn’t make the 17 to 10 stretch

[@guitarmann111]

Great lesson ben, any tips on playing the descending part at the end of solo after reaching the higher frets.

[@halleyschimney9542]

Nice👌 It kinda reminds me of creepshow music when the guy gets rid of his nippy wife and fluffy the monster in “The Crate”. I’ll be sure to praccy this post haste! Cheers uncle Ben 🤘

[@BenEller]

I WANT MY CAAAAAKE!!!!

[@halleyschimney9542]

@@BenEller I can hold my breath for a long long time.

[@ethereality9206]

I have no idea if you’ll see this, but a video on flying fingers would be super helpful right now. Thanks for your knowledgeable vidoes!

[@marcinmcula99]

This arpeggio pattern is really fun if you try tapping it

[@joshforest304]

Thanks Ben, I feel like this is like learning Bleed by Meshuggah, really hard at first to get the technique but so worth it. ❤

[@BenEller]

You can do it!

[@joshforest304]

@@BenEller hahaha I gave it a good crack. I will come back to it every time I practice now. Just like Friedman says break up the fretboard into small rhoads.

[@PastirellaGuitar]

YES!

[@weicco]

Arpeggios are quite simple but if every not is like 16th note, or if just the first one differs, but check solo in Final Countdown. All those 32th in the middle makes it quite challenging.

[@BenEller]

Check it! kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJWQnGx3bL6nqNUsi=axmoGj6ytHAG-X7L

[@weicco]

@@BenEller Oh, I have to check that thought I've been moving to drums lately. I was pretty quick guitarist couple decades ago but arthritis has taken its toll. Maybe I could start giving guitar lessons (if you can't X, become a teacher of X).

[@rockonbaz]

How do you make something so hard look so easy? Oh! Cos your Uncle Ben! Guitar Maestro!!!

[@BenEller]

You can do it! Get into it!!!

[@dan8402]

Grandpa speed please lol 😂

[@Introverted100]

My buddy is basically a supermodel. He got on tinder recently. We call it Tornado of Holes..

[@AnonymousUser66649]

Killer video again! How are your guitars setup like? action, relief etc.?

[@221b-l3t]

Is Marty not happy unless he makes it extra hard for himself? I wasn't that familiar with him so when I got into his playing recently I was shocked at his position and just couldn't understand how he muted the strings. But this is fascinating. Of course you can make the noise quiter but with a louder signal you still get good signal to noise ratio. Maybe that's part of his tone but I'm not learning his "muting" technique. I've been trying to clean up my picking and it's a huge mess, but now I know why I keep tripping up, I don't alternate pick properly and sometimes don't use economy when I should like this example. It's so hard to get rid of bad habits after 20 years. I did the "Englishman drinking tea pinky thing" but I finally managed to tame that abd suddenly my pinky is more useful and I don't cramp up constantly. But thumb position and paying attention to my picking is really hard to relearn. I finally got up to shredding speed (thanks Uncle Ben!) but now I keep tripping up because of my aweful alternate picking technique, which didn't matter at lower speed. But at high speed suddenly all those little bad habits add up and my speed is gone again until I religiously focus on exactly what I'm doing. These tips are invaluable, I feel like it's kinda similar to that arpeggio part in Rising Force, I'd like to try that. Can you give it a try or is Yngwie still copyrighting every video that even mentions him?...

[@Imnotaloser69]

Hey Uncle Ben! I’ve been on a Nuno kick recently and was wondering if you could do a video on the solo for Pornograffitti by Extreme. That song has so much interesting stuff in it! If you have the time for it, that would be awesome!

[@seanconnors1613]

More Nuno content in general would be wonderful ❤

[@BenEller]

Challenge accepted!!!

[@Imnotaloser69]

@@BenEller Only you would accept such a challenge! Cannot wait!

[@seanconnors1613]

@BenEller thanks Uncle Ben. Love the rice too dude.

[@Christopher.W]

Yes! More Nuno!!! He’s my 2nd fav guitarist. Top 3 are EVH, Nuno, Friedman

[@jamesbossingham9694]

Love your channel can I request a break down of Tama Renata Once Were Warriors

[@filipvanderkelen9580]

This exercise has simular pickingpatern as the Bark at the moon outro.

[@DaRougaroux1]

So practice Hangar 18 for Tornado for Tornado of Souls! WOOOOT!

[@Mr22hornet]

Sounds great good tips. So I'm having trouble with something that kind of pertains to parts of this video.. but I'm not sure if you touch on this genera... but there are parts of Rainbows " Man on the silver mountain ". The part where Roni is singing.. " Come down with fire, lift my spirit higer... someone's screaming my name... come and make me Holy again." Anyways the part that Richie is playing over it... is tough.. all the tabs I've seen sound right... I can hear it... but I can get the turn around like he does, unless I sweep it but then I'm off time... so I don't know if it's a picking technique or if his turn around are that tough... and he's not playing that fast... but to get my fingers on my left hand to do what the tabs say is tough... just curious if you could run through just that little corus part... it's a cool tune.

[@ravikant840]

He knew!

[@Kylora2112]

"Kylie, what makes this solo so hard?" "17p10."

[@_____8106]

My favorite Marty freidman songs are the ones he had done after leaving megadeath the melodies are very nice in them like undertow devil take tomorrow and many more i really like forbidden city also and the songs he played when in cacophany can you do a lesson on marty freidman scale runs the scale runs which he does in his other songs after he left megadeath it will be cool if we get to know the theory behind songs like devil take tomorrow and those songs that he had done after leaving megadeath there are no lessons about those songs in youtube btw i really like what he had done in megadeath but after he left megadeath those songs are so good thanks for doing new lesson in style of marty freidman😊

[@bldallas]

This is so far out of my league it’s crazy. But I’ve played for decades so I’m always looking for new things to learn. One suggestion, if I may, would be to please use a guitar with clear markings. While that shredding beast is a carcass guitar, it’s hard to keep up with your positions without having fret markers for reference. Just my $0.02. Thanks for all that you do. I really enjoy your videos.

[@BenEller]

You can do it!!!! Keep at it, my man

[@chucksaeger7500]

That just sounded great! How do you do these things so effortlessly?

[@BenEller]

Man, I just try my best to get into it! Thanks Chuck!

[@Dropshock20XX]

Sick

[@justsomeguy727]

Video title alludes to learning Tornado of Souls Reality: we're learning tornado of souls AND hangar 18 Can always count on Uncle Ben to go above and beyond for us mere mortals

[@christofkraemer743]

Hi Uncle Ben, why don’t you leave your middlefinger stay on the fretboard? Is there a reason that you always lift this finger? Thank you!

[@C_mao]

I always wondered how he muted strings with that ham-fisted aproach (: One thing that will make you pick faster is less wrist movement (lock your wrist) and move from your elbow (it sounds back ass-ward) but it actually works.

[@C_mao]

...if you're locking your wrist too hard tho, you won't be relaxed , so just work with it till it comes naturally

[@Hegder]

Interesting that you talk about the flipper hand technique being bad for right hand muting. In his Beato interview he said he developed that because he likes the noise and doesn’t like muting.

[@BenEller]

Rad!!!

[@Hegder]

@@BenEller those 80s guys love that huh volume/high gain output. Kirk Hammett is the same I think.

[@Ramplcro]

I have a question about right hand- are everyone's hands so different? If i try to hold a hand like you (not touching a body or pickguard with fingers) i find it impossible to play normally - i can kinda play 2 highest string and descending to low E i find it absolutely impossible to play down slant picking style. So i have to rest my fingers on the body/pickguard. Other thing that i noticed it's that if i'm playing medium to fast only single high e string i have to use whole wrist movements. On all other string is mostly index+thumb + wrist.

[@BenEller]

Oh yeah man there’s so many different approaches. I’ve got a GREAT video on that topic coming next week, stay tuned and GET INTO IT!

[@enricopallazzo2987]

Is the Jem original? I don’t remember a reissue of that one but the originals start coming apart where the fabric is

[@BenEller]

It’s a 1997!!!

[@dominicgibson9529]

Definitely one of the gimpiest hand positions in the world of guitar...Zakk Wylde's hs the gimpy touch too😂

[@robloxgladiator6917]

Oh i thought you meant the bit after the sweeps

[@christofkraemer743]

I'm fluent - but in 80 bpm 😭 - Thx Uncle Ben!!!

[@captainshiner42]

I love how the KZbin guitar community has gotten so much mileage out of this one song. It's a testament to the song's greatness.

[@TheCyberMantis]

They just keep digging up the old classics. Squeezing another drop of blood out of the old clickbait cow.

[@darrelladams4886]

@@TheCyberMantispretty sure uncle Ben also has the killing road solo on here for learning too. A completely underrated song and solo that Marty nails. It’s so well composed

[@justsomeguy727]

​​@@TheCyberMantisdoesn't matter so long as it still continues to be helpful for people. Go be bitter somewhere else.

[@TheCyberMantis]

@@justsomeguy727 I'm not bitter. I like classic metal too. I keep trying to get these guys to pay attention to other bands, but they won't do it. Because it won't bring them more clicks. They only want to make videos about super famous bands. Because they know those bands have a huge fan-base.

[@captainshiner42]

​@@TheCyberMantisYou're edgy as fuck, my guy. We get it.

[@nunyabusiness7927]

Steve Morse holds his pick in an unusual way too.

[@Stumpchunkman226]

U purdy gud at gootr