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Lick Of The Day #8 - Tornado Of Souls
🕑 Added 2019-01-26 15:14:21 +0000 UTCAlright my friends in the Shred Guitar Community - it's time to check out an infamous classic now. This is the well known pull-off lick in the guitar solo of the Megadeth song 'Tornado Of Souls', originally performed by Marty Friedman. This solo has been the big test for every new Megadeth lead guitar player and I love to watch their different executions!
This is a great example of a very fast but catchy lick. By working with this specific rhythmic pattern, that is repeated with different notes, the lick will stick with the listeners while also being technically impressive. I had to work quite a bit to get the stretching down, take it easy and don't injure your left hand when you practice this lick! Start very slow and try your best to play clean and well articulated notes when you start working on it. The pull-offs have to be just as loud as your picked notes. It will get better with every practice session!
Comments
What are the chords for the backing track?
Jon Hew
just lookin thru the old stuffs and didn't know you did this lick . Absolutely love marty friedman's playing
It may be cheating, but for efficiency, why not use tapping for this licking?
Bernd Brodträger
Happy you enjoy the content David! You are right, those stretches are pretty tough and make or break the sound of this lick :) If you work with the stretch pentatonic shape (turning the 5-note scale into a 3 note per string scale) you will get some great results with that, here's an example: https://www.patreon.com/posts/34-pentatonic-to-30127522
Hi Bernth, I'm loving your lessons. Do you have any recommendations for that kind of stretches? They're killer!
Bernd Brodträger
Great to see that you are digging into the archive on here :) It can be played in multiple ways and I'm not sure if all Megadeth lead guitar players played it the same way - there are definitely pull-offs in there as you can see in the tab but maybe they also worked with economy picking a bit. Check out the slow performance in the video (the .mp4 file) to see how I would play it :) Mostly alternate picking aside from the pull-offs
Greetings, I am practicing this exercise and I have a question, is the entire exercise all up and down?
