TOOL’s (Adam Jones’) 22 Greatest Guitar Techniques!
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List of Techniques:
00:56 Extended Drop D Chord
2:10 Slow Unison Bends
3:24 Enhanced Unison Bends
4:34 Droning D Pedal
6:10 Clickety Clicks
7:24 String Mirroring
8:00 Kill Switch
8:41 Eerie Slides
9:47 Pinch Pulloffs
11:12 Drop D add9’s
11:53 Tearing Scrapes
13:09 Full String Slide Riffs
14:00 Circular Odd Time Riffs
14:37 Extreme Muting
15:28 Riff Morphing
16:13 Trem Hammers
16:55 Dueling Delay
18:06 Trem Solos
18:55 Rhythmic Hammers
19:53 Rhythmic Finger Drag
21:38 Synth Cello Swell
22:41 Droning Feedback
I’ve been obsessed with this band since I first heard Undertow back in the early 90’s. It’s an honor to finally do an Artist Series on the guitar work of Adam Jones.
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Originally posted by UCXdG2bTITo_9dH0heqkXlDQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1HzL1DqiBFw
Update: Adam Jones himself contacted me via Instagram and told me he approves this video. 🙂 #starstruck!!!!
Such a beautiful guitar!
Great video, very educational. I was amazed to see how many of those techniques have been employed by Edward Van Halen ages ago!
18:20 also known as "black metal" XD
Anyone know what that device is bridging the two E tuners? I wonder if that is for tuning stability on les pauls – if so i'd love to know what it is.
Great video Mike.
I see you use the string butler on your Les Paul. Does it make a good difference with tuning stability? Would you recommend it?
Thanks
Why did you laugh when you said "choking muting" 5:30 lol. You looked over your shoulder too haha.
Kinky
maynard behind screen is symbolic. he is an artist. if he feels to add symbolism to a show, he gonna do it. artists have to express or they feel sick,
Love Tool. Love Guitars….Thank you for the most cool informative video. Actually i hate all the overloaded Guitar Bla Bla Blas….But this is just GOOOOD!!! Keep Going You Good Ear!
Great vid, thank you!
Fantastic content! Thank you
Pinch pull off harmonics, Kirk hammett used that technique on the small hours solo.
I love your channel bro
hi chino
Adam Jones the best of Tool… amazing!!!
I’ve watched an interview with Maynard and was asked why he stands where he does.
I also thought it was because he’s not the band but an equal member. So to sort of stop some from getting the ‘singer is the important one’ thought, they have an open mind.
Maynard actually stated that believe it or not, standing in front of Danny’s drums can be damaging to one’s hearing. He started doing that during rehearsals and quickly realized that standing where he does gives him a much clearer representation of what the band is playing than what stage monitors do.
So now he hears the band as they are and saves his hearing at the same time. It’s a win win. And of course the added benefit of showcasing the whole band as the frontman as it should be.
For the record maynard also said that he stands in the back cuz all the lights and lazers make him dizzy and nauseous which i can relate to and was always surprised more artists didnt have that problem.
very well done
For all you maths/physics geeks out there (and admittedly there's prob not many on this channel!????) that sonic effect you hear between the two notes in the unison bend is an effect called 'beating' – you also hear it and can use it to your advantage when tuning by harmonics (e.g. 5th fret harm low E string v 7th fret harm A string) to get your strings tuned super accurately. Basically a vibrating string makes a sine wave pattern at some frequency (actually it's more complicated because of all the overtones/higher harmonics but basically the fundamental is a sine wave or a cosine wave which is the same but shifted). Now if you play two strings you get two sin waves at different frequencies, call them frequency A and frequency B, and the resulting noise is the sum of the two waves. Now there's a beautiful formula (you may disagree! ????) from school Trigonometry that says the sum of two sin waves (or cosine waves) is a product of two sins (or cosines). i.e. the formula states: cos(A) + cos(B) = cos((A+B)/2)*cos((A-B)/2). But what the hell is this strange product of cosines? well it just represents another wave whose frequency is equal to half the sum of the frequencies of the two notes played (A+B)/2 but more importantly, who's amplitude (i.e. loudness) varies with a frequency that is half the difference of the two notes played (A-B)/2….. so if the two notes played are pretty close in frequency, then A-B is small, thus the volume of the resulting unison note varies very slowly, hence you hear this slowly varying beating which gets slower and even goes away once the notes reach the same pitch (then (A+B)/2 = A = B), either as you tune and get closer in pitch or as you hit the sweet spot of your unison bend. Simples. Unfortunately I cannot prove via Trigonometry why Adam Jones is the most awesome guitarist on the planet. it's just a law of nature!! Great vid btw!
Stereo is overrated. When you got 1 ear!
Random thought: Id love to see you review this guitar. I just got an Epi LP custom and Im just oogling over it.
Adam Jones ROCKS !!!
Once an Ape always an APE !!!
What guitar does he have? And what amp? I need to know asap.
Maynard stood behind a screen because DEVO used to do that and they are one of his favorite bands.
Ty Tabor uses the droning D a lot. I think he got the idea from Alex Lifeson.
the thing i really love about Tool is how unique every single member sounds.
most bands might have a distinctive sound, but it's typically with one or two instruments (vocals not included, since every single band's vocals are different) like certain guitar tones or drum techniques.
but Tool is one of those bands that is so easily identifiable, like, even if they didn't invent a certain sound, anytime you hear it, you automatically think of Tool.
not even with just guitar, because the drums and bass also have a very distinct sound, like the huge sounding drums with complex patterns, or that clicky and fuzzy, but also dirty sounding bass.
even Maynard has his own Tool sound, like, despite being in A Perfect Circle and Puscifer, he sounds different in Tool, i don't really know how to explain it.
i know Tool fans have a reputation for sounding pretentious, but i truly mean it when i say they're such a unique, one of a kind band.
Muahahahahaha thank you hehe I am simbia goodbye
Evh also used that trem hammering technique, I think it was on Little Guitars on the acoustic intro
I don't normally like the look of Les Pauls but yours actually looks cool
Green jello… Kraft foods sued.. now… green jelly. Tool is connected to this.
How does Adam do the sound effect of 2 notes overlapping quickly/slowly, for example in the guitar solo of 10,000 days?
Hi
Thanks to 4:01, I made a little lick that I got carried away, recording 17 minutes(listening through it and it's repetitive a little) of hell for your ears.
Do you want to torture your ears?
How can I share it?
Try not to suffer of boredom.
Thank you so much for this!
Tool – Jimmy intro is one of the coolest altmetal intros and slides I ever heard