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All huge compliments!! Thanks for checking it out! New Dark Fantasia songs will come out later this year.

Yes, and that's exactly what I do. For this song there are some great tabs so I didn't have to totally start from scratch though. Also you can find the isolated lead guitar tracks online so those were tremendously useful as well. I load them into a program called transcribe and would loop and slow down sections to figure out exactly what is going on. But I would absolutely recommend always analyzing everything you play: what chord is being played and what scale and key you are in. If you do this with everything you learn you will develop your ear tremendously. When working things out I would also suggest to sing back what you are trying to play - if you can't imitate it vocally you might not have the part in your head just yet.

Dave's solos are a bit chaotic and somewhat sloppy, so I use the tabs to get an idea of what he playing but you have to really just listen and go for the vibe of what he was playing. He likes to do a lot of repeating sequences which helps. Marty is more melodic and really targets chord tones. But Marty doesn't like to repeat obvious sequences in a way like Dave might and likes to add lots of interesting outside notes. Marty's bends and vibrato are super expressive and that can't really be notated precisely in tab anyway so you have to listen to the track a lot and just imitate it as best you can. The vibrato is a huge part of his melodic playing and I really learned a ton from after figuring out this song.

@@JohnNuckols thank you for the detailed reply =) i’m gonna look into transcribing programs like the one you’ve mentioned ♡ still on my ear training journey but basic music theory has helped by giving me some direction. i appreciate you

Thanks so much! Working on some new songs for this summer

Thank you!

It's all about the bends and vibrato! I can do it better now, this song really helped improve my technique. Also, I do give virtual lessons. Would love to teach Megadeth solos.

@@JohnNuckols I would love that :) how can I organise it?

@@aidanhoney3567 awesome! Sorry for the delay, shoot me an email at johnnuckolsmusic@gmail or message me on fb messenger.

So this was recorded in one take from start to finish three times with two different cameras. The audio is 100% from one single continuous take, and about 90% of the video is also from that take. There are a few parts where the video is from one of the other takes. I only had limited time with the camera man, and he edited the video himself so I didn’t have time to do a million different takes. There’s actually quite a few mistakes I would’ve fixed if I was just punching in. The second Dave solo is late, I’m not happy with vibrato on a lot of the Marty solos, the sixteenth note scale run isn’t very tight, and also I realized later that I’m playing some of the riffs slightly different than how Megadeth them. I’ll give a single camera angle live take a go though. I need to relearn some parts but I know I can play this much better now. Thanks for the critique.

@@JohnNuckols Thanks for the reply man. Actually you are very good guitarist and you did great job, both on the sound and expression! It just seemed like I'm watching a movie (pre-recorded) sound with just overlay video. If that's not the case, and as you say, it was recorded 3 times then congrats! Also, Marty's vibratos are insane, but your interpretation was quite good.

@@haruccigr thanks so much! Yeah, it does look like it is just a play through. I think there’s a tiny delay with the video and audio too, or maybe the very first solo was part of a different take because that doesn’t look right to me. That’s also why I want to do a more live looking one. I understand not being into that those punched in covers, I don’t like them either. Cheers man! If you have time check out my original song “August Moon” on my channel. It has some Marty-esq solos you may like.

Yeah there’s no comparison though Hammett did come with some cool leads for the time. Especially on “And Justice for All.” Marty kinda also blows away Dave in my opinion too.

@@JohnNuckols yeah I can agree with that, there's definitely a reason Dave sticks to Rhythm and it isn't because he's a good vocalist lol

Thanks so much for checking it out! Becker’s vibrato, bar use and just aggressive expression definitely an inspiration for this!

@@JohnNuckols my pleasure, brother, got a new sub <3