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25 - Walk (Pantera) · Barracuda Breakdowns

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  SPEAKER_00: Alright, let's get into some Pantera.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's the lock.
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  SPEAKER_00: Dimebag Daryl is incredibly authentic.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he reminds me of Eddie and Randy Rhodes.
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  SPEAKER_00: They kind of have this playful but virtuosic approach to the guitar.
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, within like the hard rock category.
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  SPEAKER_00: Obviously, Pantera's metal.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Dimebag has such a unique tone, too, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll get to the solo, but let me just cover some of the riffs that go along with the song.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh the riff is incredibly simple.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just one fret.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we got the open string.
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  SPEAKER_00: It really is like a walking riff, like bum bada down up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a great walking pace, like you're strolling along.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so heavy, it's so easy to headbang to.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now when it starts doing the other chords, we got so those three chords we got that's the minor six.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the tritone, that's a devil note.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then this is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's just one and one on the A and D string, but that is actually the E flat power chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: What's the major seventh power chord?
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  SPEAKER_00: By the way, I am tuned down a full step across, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm in D standard.
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  SPEAKER_00: So Minor six.
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  SPEAKER_00: Tritone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Major seventh, like perfect intervals to create like a demonic kind of sinister sound because the minor six is like sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the tritone is devilish.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the major seventh is the major seventh is like a tritone in the sky, and putting them together.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And that's actually the chorus riff, but they play it early on in the song, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Before the singing starts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And in this part, that's 1-3-4-3-1.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those are the frets.
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  SPEAKER_00: I know they didn't approach it this way, but they're playing around with the Phrygian scale and the Phrygian dominant scale.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because when you do the first fret, that's Phrygian, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a flat second, but then when you go play that major third, that's Phrygian dominant, because dominant, it's got a major third now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Just more sinister notes when you put them together like that, the minor third and the major third, along with the flat second.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then Phil Anselmo's melody.
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  SPEAKER_00: Can't you see?
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm easily bothered by persistence! Like just bluesy.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love the call, just have a friend! He has such a crazy delivery.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then when it goes to this next section, I can't do it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that's the minor seventh.
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  SPEAKER_00: More colors being introduced.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been belong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Self self-step wave.
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  SPEAKER_00: This part's sick.
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  SPEAKER_00: I wish I could scream like him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god! Just descending into madness.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh here's a minor third.
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  SPEAKER_02: Dramatic style, one by one.
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  SPEAKER_02: What do you say?
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  SPEAKER_00: I think the lyrics are actually pretty cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: It takes who I am, where I've been, belong.
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  SPEAKER_00: Be yourself by yourself, stay away from me.
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  SPEAKER_00: Take life.
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  SPEAKER_00: Respect walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: What did you say?
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  SPEAKER_00: Respect walk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Are you talking to me?
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  SPEAKER_00: No way, punk! And something about the arrangement of the song and just the band in general, like it's like so dry, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the guitar is so in your face with the bass and like and the drums.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's just like very dry and it's vocal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It feels very bare, but like super powerful.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now let's get to the solo.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's get the rhythm pickup on.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we got and we got the pinky on the 15th fret, ring finger on the 14th.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the That's key, the bend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then as you come down from the bend, watch, you pull off to the 12th fret after that bend.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's just like the pentatonic scale, but the blues pentatonic scale, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: But when you play the fifth with the tritone, they kind of like blur together, so it sounds like okay, so I'll do it super slow.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that, but it's so fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm still practicing it to like I want to be able to play it like up to speed, but it's just incredibly fast.
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  SPEAKER_00: Insane, and it's it's so clean.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's playing it so cleanly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I learned how he did it by looking it up on YouTube and slowing it down to like 50% or 25% and like practicing movement.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm right now I'm at like 80%, 90% I can kind of hit, but it's like it feels like inhuman how fast he's going.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the hardest part of the solo, in my opinion.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then after he goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so you bend that up a half step.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you bend the 15.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then you do this.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is great.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's a major third.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, what's the major third doing here?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like a happy major note, but like putting it in here makes it even more like demonic, unpredictable, wild.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you explode into more of that major third.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, so slowly it's like what a moment.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the timing of the riff is like insane how he's in the pocket.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like so in the pocket in the most unconventional signature, like wild way.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like he's in, like he's in beast mode, man.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this part is so slurry and like it's like slippery, but with the neck pickup, it's like it's like such a good texture.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's combining the minor third and the major third, but he's bending that major third, so it's just like so ambiguous, like what he's doing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like he's going up.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like he's like jumping up even higher with God then, and if that wasn't enough, he's like It's like so much exploding, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like And then like the I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: 15, 17, 18, 19, those chromatics right there.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he jumps to the next section of the riff.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me just bring the gain down a little bit because essentially the rhythm, like the bass, is outlining blues, just like E blues, but it's actually D, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Because we're in D standard.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I guess D blues.
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  SPEAKER_00: So so far in the solo, we've been on the one chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the bass is like and then it goes to the four chord.
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  SPEAKER_00: But he's doing these crazy notes over, so he's like something like that.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he goes to the four chord, but it's like demonic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like it's like a demonic blues.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's so cool.
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  SPEAKER_00: And Dimebag is outlining that when he goes, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: There's A blues or whatever, G blues.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll just call it A.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just labeling everything as standard tunic.
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  SPEAKER_00: Right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Typical blues lick right there, but then I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I love how he didn't go He didn't go like typical like minor scale.
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  SPEAKER_00: He does like eight, nine, eight, five.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's like so.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's crazy.
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  SPEAKER_00: Make sure you hit the drum hits right when he goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Insane.
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  SPEAKER_00: And also when he goes, like that's cool.
• 10:29
  SPEAKER_00: He's hitting the major third there again, like he's doing like unexpected notes, and it all contributes to this like chromatic dissonant.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's like really what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's like dissonant, eerie, and unexpected, and just I keep saying wild, but that really is what it is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And now this crazy section where he goes all in the second fret on the G string, so he goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh my god.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he taps it, and as he drags it up, he's getting the other finger ready, then he pulls off.
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  SPEAKER_00: The other finger ready, and then he pulls off.
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  SPEAKER_00: Landing on the 14th frame.
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  SPEAKER_00: Oh, it's all in the G string, or we're just jumping in octave, but he's like slurring his way up there, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It happens fast too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like texture, like he was smart to zoom out and be like, what's the texture of this solo, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: I love that.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the strolling part just like in this section, we're now at the five chord, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: So we start on the root, the bass went to the four, and now it goes to the five.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like blues one, four, five progression.
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  SPEAKER_00: So dime bags like that's just nine, eight, nine, eight, nine on the G, and then always going back to the ten on the B.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the sick diminished try at ascension.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now diminished chord is just minor third tritone.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look how demonic that sounds.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's moving up, but he's doing two strings at a time, two frets at a time, too, two notes.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those first three notes are diminished triads.
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  SPEAKER_00: Those next three notes are also diminished triads.
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  SPEAKER_00: So he's ascending in diminished triads, and it's just again, it's very dissonant, and it's beautiful.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like, and him with his tone, it's like and then when he's at the top, he goes.
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  SPEAKER_00: He brings that it's hard to do all the time.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's hard to really nail, but like you bring it, you get up there, and then you grab the other string.
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  SPEAKER_00: You just gotta bend it, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of hard on this V.
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  SPEAKER_00: It helps to have a whammy bar with with that dissension.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then of course it keeps I love how it just goes right back to the main riff, like just right in your face.
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  SPEAKER_00: It reminds me a lot of Crazy Train, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Randy Rhodes, like after the solo, it goes right to dunno nano nano nano na no, and it's just like the riff, like right in your face.
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  SPEAKER_00: Such a great effect to do that.
• 13:34
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, a lot of you guys asked about this guitar.
• 13:36
  SPEAKER_00: This is a blast cult.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, and if you want one, let me know, and I can probably get you like a slight discount.
• 13:41
  SPEAKER_00: The guy Jason is the owner over there in London.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh I got a custom made.
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  SPEAKER_00: I just love this thing, man.
• 13:47
  SPEAKER_00: Back in 2022, I went to Region's guitar store in uh in London in um Denmark Street, I think it's called.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm kinda blanking on it right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I saw something that looked like this, uh, but it was red.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think it had a pick card, and it didn't have a Bigsby.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it was like red and it had F holes, and it was a flying V, and I was like, what the heck is that?
• 14:08
  SPEAKER_00: And they gave me the card to the guy Jason, so I contacted him and then he started building it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I went and met him like the next week.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh and then I went to his website and I saw that he had some V that had a Bigsby, and I had never seen a V with a Bigsby with F holes, right?
• 14:22
  SPEAKER_00: And like bindings, like it was like immaculate.
• 14:25
  SPEAKER_00: I was like, I have to get that.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: And so this is one of a kind, like it's custom made, there's nothing else like this that he's made.
• 14:31
  SPEAKER_00: And uh I just love this thing, yeah.
• 14:33
  SPEAKER_00: But thanks for watching, guys.
• 14:34
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for tuning in.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: And if you want a private breakdown video of your original song, I love doing that.
• 14:38
  SPEAKER_00: I love critiquing people's songs and giving my two cents.
• 14:41
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll see you guys in the next episode.