Cool Lynch chord based soloing from Wicked Riffs dvd

[degenaro]

....as his past vids the dude looks like he pulled a scarface and face-planted into a pile of blow.

What a visual!

i didn't know lynch woodpeckering the peruvian marching chalk was such big news.

yngwie j hoover... another story

that powdered doughnut he called a nose for 10 years almost killed him.

It wasn't news, it's the description...

 

[degenaro]

 

[Anonymous]

i still think one of the best rock guitar performances i've ever seen is lynch at irvine meadows on ULAK tour.

I was there too. He was on that night.

Steve

 

[shreder75]

it's no small secret that there's been a definitive change in lynch over the years. As much as i'm a fan of old lynch, I can't generally abide by the 'nu lynch', which seemed to start taking place around the second lynchmob album (although Dysfunctional has alot of killer shit on it, songwise and playing wise)

This video series is definetly nu lynch for sure...but it's generally more listenable than alot of the stuff I've seen from him over the past 10-15 years....

just a big fan's perspective =)

 

[Digital Jams]

Huge fan of these guys, Hedges of course is my favorite.

Andy McKee is also a guy that I admire.

 

[mentoneman]

wayne krantz is just amazing to me
jazz theory nut with rock tone sensibilities =

 

[mentoneman]

i still think one of the best rock guitar performances i've ever seen is lynch at irvine meadows on ULAK tour.

I was there too. He was on that night.

Steve

his tone was so tearing that night..i remember him taking a few swipes at don's head with the esp kamikaze hockey stick headstock

 

[thiswaythatway]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

 

[shreder75]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

he's full of shit....he calls out the notes he's playing generally in any given position and he talks about 'replacing the major third here with the minor instead'....so yeah, he knows theory....why he would say otherwise? who knows...lol..

 

[mentoneman]

talk about effortless touch/quiet hands:

and the king of economy of motion:

lynch's fingers just work wayyyy too hard...he lifts his fingers so high from the fretboard that no wonder he is inaccurate. i see that one a lot. and his pick hand has palsied into a peacock fan.

i change my remedy. acoustic guitar fingerpick therapy. then graduate to the 335/twin with pick/claw hybrid.

 

[Digital Jams]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

he's full of shit....he calls out the notes he's playing generally in any given position and he talks about 'replacing the major third here with the minor instead'....so yeah, he knows theory....why he would say otherwise? who knows...lol..

Lynch is all about minor but theory wise he aint no Vai or Gambale

 

[shreder75]

lots of people lift their fingers high off the fretboard though...Marty Friedman does it from time to time and he does just fine =D

some people keep their fingers very close to the fretboard and they still suck...lol

doing one or the other won't make you great or not great...

 

[shreder75]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

he's full of shit....he calls out the notes he's playing generally in any given position and he talks about 'replacing the major third here with the minor instead'....so yeah, he knows theory....why he would say otherwise? who knows...lol..

Lynch is all about minor but theory wise he aint no Vai or Gambale

nope...and not everybody is....the fact that he says he knows NO theory is a bunch of balderdash if you ask me...

that being said, I can't listen to Vai or Gambale....lol...

 

[mentoneman]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

my take is the guy was so revered in his day as a "technical" shredder when in fact he was a fast EVH/randy blues based pentatonic jam guy with a few exotic notes here and there and maybe a few lessons under his belt.
then he gets asked to do clinics here and there so has to come up with a some formal presentation for what he does and scours books to pick up some catch phrases and pretend to be an instructor of *music* when in fact all he knows is shredding licks over chord progressions he decides on, versus traversing the universal languages of music with his instrument like gambale or guthrie, so i can see how he was sorta forced into the role by demand.

and if people still demand and pay for him to do this stuff, cool.

 

[Digital Jams]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

my take is the guy was so revered in his day as a "technical" shredder when in fact he was a fast EVH/randy blues based pentatonic jam guy with a few exotic notes here and there and maybe a few lessons under his belt.
then he gets asked to do clinics here and there so has to come up with a some formal presentation for what he does and scours books to pick up some catch phrases and pretend to be an instructor of *music* when in fact all he knows is shredding licks over chord progressions he decides on, versus traversing the universal languages of music with his instrument like gambale or guthrie, so i can see how he was sorta forced into the role by demand.

and if people still demand and pay for him to do this stuff, cool.

Your on a roll today

Have to agree though, his latest on-stage performance with Gilbert and Kotzen demonstrated what you are saying

 

[degenaro]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

he's full of shit....he calls out the notes he's playing generally in any given position and he talks about 'replacing the major third here with the minor instead'....so yeah, he knows theory....why he would say otherwise? who knows...lol..

A rudimentary knowledge doesn't really equal knowing theory. Tell you what look up that Satriani/Nickleback thread...with the guythat did the comparison video who runs a music school. He talks about th progression being minor, when it clearly isn't. That's the problem with this, folks know some rudimentary things and make shit up as they go along, and blissfully build on the wrong shit they taught themself. Which in itself is no biggie, however when you then charge money to pass this on, whether by running a shool or by charging for a DVD where you play G# call Gb...yikes.

 

[shreder75]

So, do you guys believe Lynch when he says he knows nothing at all about Music theory, or is he just trying to act cool about it? Sometimes he does say some stuff that makes you scratch your head, like partials and blues bends and whatnot.

he's full of shit....he calls out the notes he's playing generally in any given position and he talks about 'replacing the major third here with the minor instead'....so yeah, he knows theory....why he would say otherwise? who knows...lol..

A rudimentary knowledge doesn't really equal knowing theory.

no, it doesn't....but it IS theory....when someone says 'I don't know theory' that means they're stating they know NOTHING....notes, intervals, modes, octaves....nothing.....I just call bullshit on his not knowing theory claim...

 

[shreder75]

BUT to take this one step further....there's people who know theory for days and yet can't seem to pick out one fucking good note on the whole goddamn guitar....lol

give me someone with a working knowlege of the guitar with a good ear who can improvise something tasty and interesting over a guy who knows how to voice every chord in the book and knows the inner workings of every scale created yet can't play anything palatable any day of the week =)

 

[degenaro]

BUT to take this one step further....there's people who know theory for days and yet can't seem to pick out one fucking good note on the whole goddamn guitar....lol

give me someone with a working knowlege of the guitar with a good ear who can improvise something tasty and interesting over a guy who knows how to voice every chord in the book and knows the inner workings of every scale created yet can't play anything palatable any day of the week =)

One has zero to do with the other. Especially for Rock guys. But knowing the note names and intervals is NOT knowing theory, it's a start.
Also chord voicings and how a scale is build is merely a start. Wanna have a laugh have a guitarist explain modes...99 out of 100 will tell you something that makes perfect sense to them but is useless and wrong. This is where ideas like if you know theory you can't find a good note come from. the theory of harmony is where shit is at. When you know how a progression functions then the "good" notes are what you pick by choice, not chance. As for the ear...doh...but again there are too many guys that really have shit for ears, couldn't tell you a F# chord without comparing the notes on fretboard, couldn't tell a minor from a major, etc...

Bottom line,if you hav to ask what key is this in when you hear something guitar in hand you need an ear tune up...

 

[shreder75]

BUT to take this one step further....there's people who know theory for days and yet can't seem to pick out one fucking good note on the whole goddamn guitar....lol

give me someone with a working knowlege of the guitar with a good ear who can improvise something tasty and interesting over a guy who knows how to voice every chord in the book and knows the inner workings of every scale created yet can't play anything palatable any day of the week =)

One has zero to do with the other. Especially for Rock guys. But knowing the note names and intervals is NOT knowing theory, it's a start.
Also chord voicings and how a scale is build is merely a start. Wanna have a laugh have a guitarist explain modes...99 out of 100 will tell you something that makes perfect sense to them but is useless and wrong. This is where ideas like if you know theory you can't find a good note come from. the theory of harmony is where shit is at. When you know how a progression functions then the "good" notes are what you pick by choice, not chance. As for the ear...doh...but again there are too many guys that really have shit for ears, couldn't tell you a F# chord without comparing the notes on fretboard, couldn't tell a minor from a major, etc...

Bottom line,if you hav to ask what key is this in when you hear something guitar in hand you need an ear tune up...

theory is a broad term...

in any event, I put more stock in knowing basics and having a good and creative ear than anything else...in the end, style matters more to me...which is why I'll listen to someone like Adrian Smith or (old) Lynch or someone along those lines rather than people with encyclopedic knowledge like Satch or Vai cause I can't stand their styles..

of course being able to do both is the best situation

in my second band I had a classically trained pianist on keyboards..we were playing top 40 bullshit...but if it wasn't written in front of her or she couldn't find the sheet music? Forget about it..not to mention if we asked her to improvise....no way that was happening..can't tell you how many songs we had to scrap because of it..and here's me...I can't sight read, I know basic theory and whatnot and I would learn all the songs by ear and could improv over just about any one of them if I had to fill in a gap....