Shred King Phil X Shows Us How To Melt Faces

occasionally people show up as you know to the studio my dear friend phil x is here in person never been never been first time never been here and then rhett called me and rhett's like oh i'm on my way over i just knew i had it it was some kind of interesting okay so we're like what are we gonna do we're gonna make a video together what kind of video we're gonna make so we're just gonna kind of make it up and it's gonna be a bunch of different things we're not sure here but phil is gonna was just showing me some of this insane greek music that he plays because he plays a bazooky talk about the bazooky about this instrument so back in the i don't know in the 20s or something the bazookie had six strings so it was three pairs so like think of a 12 string was it d.a.d dad dad baby yeah and that brother has a has a bazooky see i have my dad's six string from the 40s okay and it's got eight pegs because i guess they they were all you know like mandolin pegs yeah they're all connected right right yeah so but it had six eight pegs but only six strings they're not with six strings it's a really skinny neck like yeah like a broom handle kind of yeah yeah yeah and then manolo de sweeties was a guitar player that started playing bazooky and he's like this isn't enough strength so he made it eight so it's tuned kind of like i believe it's like wait so like a cf and then an a and then a d okay so kind of like but this phrase like you could do this you could play you could play like stairway to heaven okay but please don't yeah no no we love stairway to heaven but um we do don't we we love stairway to heaven the solo especially one of our favorite videos the story to heaven so and then he so he could uh incorporate more voicings more more triads more a whole bunch of stuff when he changed and then he just everybody went with the eight string pizookie it's been that way ever since okay but part of phil's incredible right hand alternate picking traps are from playing the bazooky which has a lot of yes well should demonstrate some of the type of songs i mean that you do suzuki stuff is usually high but on an acoustic guitar i would play it live so okay this is song that goes [Music] [Music] [Music] i know my hand's tired but we were talking about that over right man my hands are tired but do the weird thing that that first fret thing though okay so this is this is a like uh this is a weird the thing with this this is the thing that got bazooky music really like they people like to dance and they like to party and the song would start slow and then by the end of the song it was like way way way faster yeah so but that's what uh that's almost like how playing got really good yeah because you're playing something like [Music] but at the end like [Music] [Music] this is actually in a lot of sicilian music when i'd go to these weddings they would do the same thing yeah they're they would play these lines and they keep speeding up speeding up and then everybody's you know smashing plates right throwing things chairs are in the ceiling it's crazy can you slow that down i want to see exactly that one there yeah that weird like that's the weirdest thing so the thing is is because you don't have enough fingers for the five frets right you slide one over so it's like [Music] very hard to do okay wait but play now speed that up play that slow [Music] phil that's the most awkward fingering i've ever seen seriously i think it's the most awkward feeling i've ever played is that is that it's uh it's there's no other way to play it though right no there really isn't um wait i don't know why wouldn't i why would who would come up this is interesting though because i've i've been a fan of your playing for years thanks man i can see how that type of thing has informed some of because you have some of the most insane out there licks i started on guitar and then incorporated mizuki right see when i was 11 my dad wanted me to take bouzouki lessons so i could learn songs and then i fought tooth and nail i don't want to play bouzouki but when i was 17 i was it was my own conscious decision to say i'm going to take some bazooky lessons because there's something about it you can see a hooky teacher in town right there was a gas filipe he was a mizuki teacher in town yeah and he had a whole music school but you can see how the attack of the pick is you could hear it right like right in front of me right you can hear how it's not like there's no like you water down picking you're like really attached yeah and that that's where that whole bouzouki thing came from and that's what i incorporated into my playing as a guitar player and all my buddies were like that's one day they're like what the hell did you do your picking is insane right i was like i'll take some particular lessons bazoo what they don't know what that is but in the the timing there's like seven eight times and weird timing and greek music that's natural to me because i grew up listening to it the whole time childhood yeah so when you go start playing that kind of thing other guys they're like i'm not taking particular okay so all right so we're gonna watch the transition now from phil to electric guitar we're gonna go on the iso booth and watch kind of what he does and you're going to see some of these techniques but you're going to see him rock out okay phil's playing my new rick biatto special double cut pelham blue with eights on it eights and he's gonna rip through my new park 18 watt head which sounds ridiculous [Music] [Music] all right so that climbing lick that you just did though [Music] that's like a phil special okay we have a drill song it's called uh i wish my beard was as cold as your heart so i'd do that in e so having having i was kind of transposing to a for a second okay so so tell us about those kind of licks because i love it when you do those candles wait wait so we are old old friends we talk all the time about this stuff we haven't seen each other in a long time and everything and we but we talk about these kind of things but this i can actually see watch him do it now so so uh so tell me about how you incorporate these open strings and do all that stuff in there uh you know because it has this like kind of liquid sound to it liquid yeah i like it i love that um i was jamming with a banjo player one time i was just warming up for a show and hear me warming up and you kind of walked in playing a banjo started doing these licks and i heard all these open string things that was kind of like there's a an eye-opener for me and with with with guitar you don't have you can some some chords say you're playing the key e you got a lot of open strings you can use but i was as i was going down the neck so it was kind of like uh so i'm hitting the flat five because i love the flat five [Music] your first finger kind of becomes the open string well do that slow though yeah [Music] [Music] right my god that is uh thanks for letting me do this slow it was kind of like a warm-up no that was amazing so actually the but it's really intricate the decision on which where the double stops are on the triple stops though the timing wise yeah cause you have like five little group things and stuff yeah you got a bunch of odd groupings you know one more ricky you noticed no do it slow do it slow again one more time [Applause] [Music] that kind of thing it's like a chicken pig dude it is dude these dates are crazy man daddy's going sharp i like to find things where uh i've done something so it's time to do something else but do i really want to spend time on something come coming up with something so okay but you also do this with pentatonix too where you kind of where you play them up the neck in these and you add in some of these chromatic things yes chromaticism yeah give us an example of something like that um that would be something like uh see what we're doing i just have to say that the guitar sounds amazing clean you hear that bell sound to it yes hello p90 yes turn down phil and i both love p90 said as rhett we love p90s tell them explain why p90s are are the superior pickup tim to me i love that i i use the word anger because they sound like an angry rock and roll pickup they're like an angry humbucker but i'll tell you one thing though the working the volume on a p90 yes to me that's where it really shines so the rock and roll for me is on ten and then when you back it off to like seven you get like a teleish kind of yeah tone and then when you turn down you get the glassy clean sound the glasses that clean sound many people come up to me and say hey what's your clean sound it's also why we all like paf so much because the paf was developed off of the p90 they were essentially just trying to make a double coil p90. see i didn't know that no dude okay so so give us some of this double this chromatic uh the pentatonic stuff okay so um a good one would be like just something simple like which is basically that's the pentatonic that everybody knows i spread it out so i can get more notes per string yeah but then i want to do what if i right yeah i'm getting the flat five and the five and i'm also getting both thirds here okay now crank up some gain with that [Applause] so the other thing is slowing it down and then hearing both all the rubs so that's right i do this like that kind of thing yeah so that comes from again i love dissonance but it's got its place you can't like hey play a really cool melodic solo and you're not going to throw in this and that's in that right and on that format so what would you tell someone who's maybe trying to break out of the pentatonic box and do some of these more creative chromatic licks it's what's what's happening is you have to stop looking at it a certain way and open up how you're looking at it because i i i do stuff like um for instance this isn't very chromatic but it's say you're in the key again i'll stay and you need to keep it easy you're just hitting six notes right i'm taking a photographic image and just moving it around yeah so i'm not even listening to the notes at this point but sonically it ends up sounding pretty cool but and then if you move that around say you can't move it everywhere for instance here that's wrong but if you move one over you get that so taking it a photographic image of a lick and moving it around and seeing where it sounds good that's one thing but if it doesn't sound good one thing in one area it's just adjusting two of the notes so i changed a ton of notes and sometimes people go that sounds like phil and some people don't okay so when you're playing a sound like this sound when you crank it up talk about how this makes you play some just play for a minute here and how the sound actually you play certain kinds of things because of the sound though so just rip for a little bit uh [Music] that one lick that you just played where you slid up slid back down what was that okay so that's basically taking the pentatonic boxes and just changing the order on two strings and then adding a slide so it doesn't sound like an exercise so just they're all pentatonic boxes you can add a flat five if you want to just but you're adding but you're getting those different groupings so again it's the groupings that's what it is but you're now you're doing it with the slides though and the slides make it even some weirder more of the lick too yes yeah absolutely okay so let's talk about rhythm playing though too when you're playing with a sound like this when i'm doing rhythm i like to find stuff that's gonna also by the way hold on i just wanna say this so phil does a lot of session work he's playing on many many thousands of records that you don't even know about but if he's thanked in the credits then he actually played the guitar so i'm just that's all i'm going to say i'm not going to i'm not going to say who's whose guitar part you replaced right right okay about that yeah okay so rhythm so go out with your what you're saying i like again uh open strings are such an amazing tool to incorporate like it's uh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] when i do play with the drills and stuff like that [Music] [Music] the other thing too is a lot of people have a draw note and they play notes on top of it yeah i also play the notes below it so you right [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh this is a this is my tremolo pedal right i love that dude i love that okay so phil talk about your new drills record that's coming out okay so the drills record is uh we put out volume one stupid good lookings and volume two again we're staying with this theme that there's a different drummer on every track so on the new record coming out we have uh ray luzir from corn and we have tommy lee's on it and a whole like i got liberty devito on it i have tico torres on the track well that's what that is what's really cool about tico is that we were on tour and we hit vegas and i'm like by the way phil plays with bon jovi okay so for those of you that don't know that we haven't there are five people right now going what happened to richie wait a minute everybody phil's been playing with jovi as long as richie was in the band pretty much no no no no i'm just kidding how many years seven years seven years yeah okay seven years okay so tika we had a day off in vegas you like that we had a day off in vegas and i caught and tico loves his days off right so calm and go hey man we have a day off from vegas if i get a studio will you come in would you like a palm or something like that no no i don't know just a friend of mine it was uh the tone so you said you said so you said you actually coaxed them out of everything like hey you know i know you want to go golfing or something else but if i get a studio will you come in and play drums on the drills team and he goes i do anything for you he's got a really low voice and it was and he came in and crushed it man and then uh weeks later we did two sold out nights at madison square garden and went to the power plant and invited liberty devito and come play drums on track and he crushed it like i love liberty because he's like this because his name's liberty yeah there's and there's a lot of liberty in his playing but he also um so like plays like a kid yeah that fire it was it's so evident on the track it's i mean i love drums i just suck at drums but getting to play with all these drummers i tried to get phil to play in my drums but he's like nah i suck at drums so i'm not going to play you i'll totally play drums okay so play us the last lick on our way out here phil [Music] oh [Music] [Music]

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Length: 20min 17sec (1217 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 23 2021