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Muris Varajic26th July 2007Wow!!Brilliant as always!!
Andrew Cockburn26th July 2007Amazing Marucs!
Gabriel Leopardi26th July 2007Great lesson Marcus!
ezravdb26th July 2007rock on!
David Wallimann26th July 2007This is great!
Excellent job. Short but very effective!
tha_max26th July 2007You really are the master *gasp*
David OToole26th July 2007VERY neat Marcus - a very 'thrilling' piece of music too 
. D
Nick32526th July 2007sick
Eat-Sleep-andJam26th July 2007*Face Melts* Wow Marcus you always find a way to amaze me. Im going to practice this like holy heck.
This is great, just great. I couldnt thank you enough! I have a question though, " When Doing trills what do you recomend for thumb postion ?".
Thanks- John
Ryan26th July 2007I really needed this. I have had my problems with long trills for a long time!!
The Uncreator26th July 2007Nice stuff man, awesome solo, cant wait to practice this!
Skorpyon26th July 2007Awesome stuff man .
moles26th July 2007woa. i always love your lessons
awesome work !
Tolek26th July 2007Hey Marcus,
this lesson is again very interesting. This one reminds me of Steve Vai; I think it´s the chord progression with the trills.
Anyway, excellent.
spdalton26th July 2007wow awesome, that is some crazy vibrato too!
Kristofer Dahl26th July 2007Awesome work Marcus! 
shredmandan26th July 2007This is by far one of the best lessons ever on gmc Marcus!I will be playing this till i get it down or my finger's fall off,whichever happen first.Cant wait to see what you put out next !
Eat-Sleep-andJam27th July 2007Hey Marcus Ik you havnt got around to answer my other question about thumb postion for the trills, but I have another question and want to post it before I forget
When your doing the long trill run with the tapping mixed in, do you only pick the string once ? Or do you pick like once for every set of trills ? - Thanks-John
zubeh27th July 2007That's some killer vibrato you've got, sounds great!
Ayen27th July 2007Another amazing lesson from you Marcus. Nice job as always
FretDancer6927th July 2007Amazing lesson Marus. Im really going to practice this one alot! Thanks you so much!
Victafor27th July 2007ahh! this is makin my fingers full of dead skin!! awesome lesson tho... i needed this
Matt27th July 2007Absolutely Brilliant
Francis Viviers27th July 2007My real life teacher gave me this exersize call "the 6 minute trill exersize". If you do it every day it will give you allot of hand strength. Needed to play this .... Its also great or improving your legato.
Marcus Lavendell27th July 2007Thanks everyone for your comments!
@ Eat-Sleep-andJam. "When Doing trills what do you recomend for thumb postion ?"
Very good question, John. When I do the trill with the index -and ring finger, it works best for me to have the thumb curved over the fretboard (as you can see in vid #4). I also place my hand so my palm touch the back of the neck.
But when I do the trill with the index- and middle finger, I put my thumb at the back of the neck and the palm don't touch the neck at all.
-Marcus
Marcus Lavendell27th July 2007@ Eat-Sleep-andJam "When your doing the long trill run with the tapping mixed in, do you only pick the string once ? Or do you pick like once for every set of trills ?"
That's another good question, John!
Yes, I only pick the first note. So in that lick you mentioned (vid #3) that would be the 21 fret on the high E-string. No other notes are picked.
But that's just how I prefer to do it, because it sounds best to my ears. It won't ruin your trill if you pick every "set", though it's a lot more difficult since we also have to move our tapping hand (right hand) down the neck.
Whatever sounds best to you works fine!
-Marcus
Eat-Sleep-andJam27th July 2007Ok thanks Marcus you really are making this alot easier . And with the tapping trills do you follow the tap with your own ring finger to continue the trill because it looks like thats what your doing ?
- John
Nick32527th July 2007marcus what pickups are you using?
Marcus Lavendell27th July 2007@ Eat-Sleep-andJam. "with the tapping trills do you follow the tap with your own ring finger to continue?"
-Yes, exactly!
Marcus Lavendell27th July 2007@ Nick325. "what pickups are you using?"
There's some really low budget pickups on this strat. http://shop.gmf.se/product.htm?product_id=...mp;search_page=
I can't find much more information about them, so I'm not sure if they can be bought anywhere else.
-Marcus
Rockwouldbe28th July 2007Good job as always.
marcus which strings you are using?
Nick32528th July 2007marcus i found out which ones they are. there seymour duncan SHR-1 hotrail pickups
http://www.musiciansfriend.com/product/Sey...ckup?sku=300300
Kai Muehlenbruch29th July 2007WHAT A LESSON!!!...you need far less words then I would...RESPECT! the explaination of how to do trills, to me is even more impressive than the way wou play it, which does not mean its bad...NOT AT ALL!...absolutly a stunning lesson...this must be what you call perfection...I will do some trills now and cry, and after that I won´t touch my guitar for the next weeks... 
THANKS A LOT MARCUS
Toofister29th July 2007WOW sweetumus Marcumus!! you rock bro..
Eat-Sleep-andJam29th July 2007Ha ha I agree with Kai . Im going to largely put this in my playing
If anyone was wanting a good excercise to build up finger strength for trills try this.
High E String
---1----(2)-----1-----(3)------1-----(4)-------1-----(3)------1------(3)-----1----(4)-----1----(5)-------1-----(6)
Note : Assuming the notes in " ( )" is the hammered on / pulled off note all the notes all played from the 1st fret hammered and pulling of the notes in"( ) ". Hope that helps anyone having trouble its a excercise Satriani uses
- John
Gustavo30th July 2007i just need this :D
thx marcus like always
MattE31st July 2007just a question
18b rb
what does the "rb" mean? (second video I believe) O.o
Andrew Cockburn31st July 2007fire1st August 2007@ matte: i think its tipping mistake
=> bend release
@ marcus... Do you do any "flat"- training to get as fast as that during work, school, uni?
Would be helpful I think
Victafor13th August 2007why vid 6?
Hammerfest9th November 2007first of all: great lesson marcus!
I just have problems with the slides during the tapping part, i always make an annoying sound when i slide my right hand up the neck. Any tricks to avoid that?
Hammerfest9th November 2007Ok my last question was a bit stupid i suppose. I should probably just practice not touching the neck with my right hand during tapping.
But I have another question: You sometimes grab your tremolo bar during playing. Does that have a special reason? It doesnt seem like your using it..
Carlos Carrillo5th March 2008hey marcus!!!!!!!!!
nice sound!!!!!!!!!
thanks
Sami13th April 2008Whoa! Marcus thanks for the tapping trill idea!!! its such a great concept!
Joe Kataldo1st July 2008Nice Trills 
Alexiaden938th May 2009Wow, this is some heavy stuff ! Really cool 
thefireball8th July 2010my fingers would have a spasm!
