Rusty Cooley Interview 2014

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00:00:00

Magnet Test

 

00:00:57

Snake Charmer

 

00:01:21

Signature Guitar Design

 

00:02:13

Single-String Sevens Tk1

 

00:02:17

Circular Blues Fours

 

00:02:30

Test Footage Review

 

00:02:48

Pickslanting

 

00:03:26

Emil Werstler

 

00:05:51

2003 Retrospective

 

00:07:15

Magnet Test II

 

00:08:28

Sixes and Nines Descending

 

00:08:41

Hitting The Green Thing

 

00:09:21

Stacked Gilberts Ascending

 

00:09:26

Test Footage Review II

 

00:11:25

Inside And Out

 

00:12:20

Choke

 

00:12:54

Aaawesome Riff

 

00:13:48

String Action Preferences

 

00:15:44

Descending Sixes Medium

 

00:16:01

A Hyperpicking Discovery

 

00:17:28

Hyperpick Sevens

 

00:17:39

The Lydian Pattern

 

00:18:18

Lydian Pattern Descending Legato

 

00:18:24

Lydian To Phrygian

 

00:18:54

Lydian Pattern Descending Tk2

 

00:19:01

Phrygian Dominant Threes and Fours

 

00:19:23

Lydian Pattern

 

00:19:29

Lydian Pattern Slow

 

00:19:41

Lydian Pattern Positions Tk1

 

00:20:12

Lydian Pattern Positions Tk2

 

00:20:47

Lydian Pattern Descending Tk3

 

00:20:55

Lydian Pattern Descending Slow

 

00:21:43

Rolling Threes and Fours

 

00:21:48

Lydian Pattern Descending Tk1

 

00:22:32

Augmented Seconds

 

00:23:33

Phrygian Dominant Threes And Fours

 

00:24:14

Phrygian Dominant Gilberts Improv

 

00:24:19

Two-String Suspension Lick

 

00:24:50

Dominant Suspension Sweep Tk1

 

00:25:28

Dominant Suspension Sweep Tk2

 

00:25:38

Double Stop Sweep Pedal

 

00:25:57

Double Stop Tremelody

 

00:26:19

Double Stop Tremelody Strings

 

00:27:39

The Carousel Pattern

 

00:28:37

Carousel Pattern Tk1

 

00:28:51

Carousel Pattern Tk2

 

00:29:20

Carousel Pattern 3str

 

00:29:34

Art Of Picking Arpeggios

 

00:29:40

Rolling Shifts With Tail

 

00:30:00

Art Of Picking Arpeggios

 

00:30:22

Rolling Shifts Tk1

 

00:30:22

Rolling Shifts Lick

 

00:30:40

Rolling Shifts Tk2

 

00:31:12

Rolling Shifts Tk3

 

00:31:27

Rolling Shifts Tk4

 

00:31:39

Rolling Shifts Slow

 

00:31:47

Fast Vs Slow Technique

 

00:33:51

Single-String Sevens Tk2

 

00:34:01

Rolling Shifts Tk5

 

00:34:06

Fives And Sevens

 

00:35:04

Sevens

 

00:35:11

Sevens Forward And Reverse

 

00:35:19

Sevens Ascending Speeds

 

00:35:39

Sevens Directions And Speeds

 

00:35:58

Tens Ascending Speeds

 

00:36:08

Tens Ascending

 

00:36:54

Tens With Tail Speeds

 

00:37:02

Tens With Tail

 

00:37:07

Guitars And Temperature

 

00:38:25

Fives

 

00:38:45

Tens Circular Tk1

 

00:39:23

Tens Circular Single-String Speeds

 

00:39:43

Tens Circular Single-String

 

00:39:55

Tens Descending Speeds

 

00:40:13

Fives Circular Speeds

 

00:40:48

Tens Circular Tk2

 

00:41:38

Tens Descending 3str

 

00:42:17

Tens Descending 5str

 

00:42:22

Switching Guitars

 

00:42:43

Tens Descending 6str

 

00:43:34

Blues Sevens Tk1

 

00:44:25

Blues Sixes And Fives Speeds

 

00:44:46

Blues Sixes And Fives

 

00:45:06

Blues Sevens Tk2

 

00:45:26

Three-String Sweep Patterns

 

00:45:37

Diminished Sweep Fives Speeds

 

00:47:22

Phrygian Dominant Gilberts

 

00:47:24

Diminished Sweep Sixes Speeds Long

 

00:47:56

Min7 Sweep Sixes Speeds Tk1

 

00:48:28

Min7 Sweep Sixes Speeds Tk2

 

00:48:51

Min7 Sweep Sixes Speeds Tk3

 

00:48:58

Dreamy Double Stops

 

00:49:02

Double Stop Tremelody Suspensions

 

00:49:20

Inside Pedal Tremelody

 

00:50:14

Double Stop Tremelody Shifts

 

00:50:29

Augmented Arpeggios

 

00:50:38

Augmented Sevens

 

00:50:47

The Diminished Scale

 

00:51:29

Diminished Scalar Shifts

 

00:51:32

Diminished Scalar Shifts Long Tk1

 

00:51:57

Hot For Diminished

 

00:52:54

Diminished Scalar Shifts Long Tk2

 

00:53:12

Diminished Stepwise Triads 6str

 

00:53:20

Diminished Stepwise Triads Tk1

 

00:53:32

Diminished Stepwise Triads Tk2

 

00:54:17

Diminished Sweep Fives Cascade Tk2

 

00:54:32

Diminished Sweep Fives Cascade Tk1

 

00:54:56

Diminished Sweep Fives Positions

 

00:55:09

Threes And Fours

 

00:55:14

Threes And Fours Circular

 

00:55:29

Threes And Fours Descending Tk1

 

00:56:03

Threes And Fours Descending Tk2

 

00:56:15

Metal Bossa

 

00:56:49

Economy Patterns

 

00:57:03

Pentatonic Sweep 2str

 

00:57:18

Econoblues

 

00:57:58

Sweep Fours And Fives Pattern

 

00:58:18

Sweep Fours And Fives

 

00:58:26

Economelody Min7b5

 

00:59:09

Pentatonic Sweep Fours And Fives

 

00:59:16

Blues Sevens Descending Tk1

 

00:59:16

Blues Ideas

 

00:59:44

Blues Sevens Descending Tk2

 

01:00:14

Blues Sevens Shapes

 

01:01:09

Bendy Blues

 

01:01:14

Chicken Silders

 

01:01:29

Blue Phrygian

 

01:01:52

Dominant Modes

 

01:02:15

Whole Tone Dominant

 

01:02:22

Whole Tone Dominant Passing

 

01:02:46

Whole Tone Dominant Sevens

 

01:02:57

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio Shape

 

01:04:00

Dominant Clusters

 

01:04:28

The Whole Tone Scale

 

01:05:47

Whole Tone Sevens Descending

 

01:05:53

Whole Tone Sevens Directions

 

01:06:18

Whole Tone Sevens And Fives

 

01:06:34

Whole Tone Fives Tk1

 

01:06:52

Whole Tone Fives Tk2

 

01:07:17

Whole Tone Pentatonic

 

01:07:32

Dominant Patterns

 

01:07:41

Lydian Dominant Blues

 

01:07:50

Lydian Dominant Scale

 

01:08:36

Blues Gilberts Tk1

 

01:08:42

Blues Gilberts Tk2

 

01:08:48

Blues Gilberts Improv

 

01:09:10

Blues Gilbert Skips

 

01:09:16

Gilbert Pattern

 

01:09:45

Blues Gilberts Tk3

 

01:09:48

Hybrid Arpeggios

 

01:09:54

Cliffs Of Cooley

 

01:09:58

Cliffs of Cooley Trills

 

01:10:22

Sweep Arpeggios

 

01:10:25

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio

 

01:10:53

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio Speeds

 

01:11:09

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio Positions

 

01:12:10

Maj9 Arpeggio A Shape Tk2

 

01:12:17

Maj9 Arpeggio A Shape Tk1

 

01:12:25

Maj79 Arpeggio

 

01:12:46

Maj9 Sweep Arpeggio E Shape

 

01:13:49

Maj13 Arpeggio

 

01:14:14

Dominant Chromatics

 

01:14:58

Dominant Chromatic Outline

 

01:15:21

Dominant Fives

 

01:16:07

Dominant Fives

 

01:16:54

Sweep Muted String Melody

 

01:17:38

Whole Tone Clusters

 

01:18:27

Whole Tone Clusters Directions

 

01:19:20

Whole Tone Clusters

 

01:19:32

Rusty's Trill

 

01:20:08

Rusty's Trill

 

01:20:13

Chordscape

 

01:20:33

High Fret Magnet

 

01:21:39

Rusty's Trill 6str

 

01:21:50

Rusty's Trill Ascending

 

01:22:19

Seventh Arpeggio Sweeps

 

01:22:32

Economelody Min7

 

01:22:35

Max Burn Sevens Tk1

 

01:22:35

Max Speed Tests

 

01:22:42

Max Burn Sevens Tk2

 

01:22:47

Max Burn Descending Sevens

 

01:22:51

Max Burn Fives

 

01:22:53

Max Burn Sevens Tk3

 

01:23:25

Max Burn Tk1

 

01:24:12

Max Burn Tk2

 

01:24:28

Max Burn Blues

 

01:24:33

Trilogyesque

 

01:24:45

Sixes And Threes Chunk

 

01:24:48

Sixes And Threes

 

01:24:55

Malmsteen Mini

 

01:24:58

Lydian Arpeggio Fast

 

01:24:58

Lydian Sweep

 

01:25:04

Lydian Arpeggio

 

Aaawesome Riff

 

00:12:54

Art Of Picking Arpeggios

 

00:30:00

Augmented Sevens

 

00:50:38

Bendy Blues

 

01:01:09

Blue Phrygian

 

01:01:29

Blues Gilbert Skips

 

01:09:10

Blues Gilberts Improv

 

01:08:48

Blues Gilberts Tk1

 

01:08:36

Blues Gilberts Tk2

 

01:08:42

Blues Gilberts Tk3

 

01:09:45

Blues Sevens Descending Tk1

 

00:59:16

Blues Sevens Descending Tk2

 

00:59:44

Blues Sevens Shapes

 

01:00:14

Blues Sevens Tk1

 

00:43:34

Blues Sevens Tk2

 

00:45:06

Blues Sixes And Fives

 

00:44:46

Blues Sixes And Fives Speeds

 

00:44:25

Carousel Pattern 3str

 

00:29:20

Carousel Pattern Tk1

 

00:28:37

Carousel Pattern Tk2

 

00:28:51

Chicken Silders

 

01:01:14

Choke

 

00:12:20

Chordscape

 

01:20:13

Circular Blues Fours

 

00:02:17

Cliffs Of Cooley

 

01:09:54

Cliffs of Cooley Trills

 

01:09:58

Descending Sixes Medium

 

00:15:44

Diminished Scalar Shifts

 

00:51:29

Diminished Scalar Shifts Long Tk1

 

00:51:32

Diminished Scalar Shifts Long Tk2

 

00:52:54

Diminished Stepwise Triads 6str

 

00:53:12

Diminished Stepwise Triads Tk1

 

00:53:20

Diminished Stepwise Triads Tk2

 

00:53:32

Diminished Sweep Fives Cascade Tk1

 

00:54:32

Diminished Sweep Fives Cascade Tk2

 

00:54:17

Diminished Sweep Fives Positions

 

00:54:56

Diminished Sweep Fives Speeds

 

00:45:37

Diminished Sweep Sixes Speeds Long

 

00:47:24

Dominant Chromatic Outline

 

01:14:58

Dominant Clusters

 

01:04:00

Dominant Fives

 

01:16:07

Dominant Suspension Sweep Tk1

 

00:24:50

Dominant Suspension Sweep Tk2

 

00:25:28

Double Stop Tremelody

 

00:25:57

Double Stop Tremelody Shifts

 

00:50:14

Double Stop Tremelody Strings

 

00:26:19

Double Stop Tremelody Suspensions

 

00:49:02

Econoblues

 

00:57:18

Economelody Min7

 

01:22:32

Economelody Min7b5

 

00:58:26

Fives Circular Speeds

 

00:40:13

Hitting The Green Thing

 

00:08:41

Hot For Diminished

 

00:51:57

Hyperpick Sevens

 

00:17:28

Inside And Out

 

00:11:25

Inside Pedal Tremelody

 

00:49:20

Lydian Arpeggio

 

01:25:04

Lydian Arpeggio Fast

 

01:24:58

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio

 

01:10:25

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio Positions

 

01:11:09

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio Shape

 

01:02:57

Lydian Dominant Arpeggio Speeds

 

01:10:53

Lydian Dominant Blues

 

01:07:41

Lydian Dominant Scale

 

01:07:50

Lydian Pattern

 

00:19:23

Lydian Pattern Descending Legato

 

00:18:18

Lydian Pattern Descending Slow

 

00:20:55

Lydian Pattern Descending Tk1

 

00:21:48

Lydian Pattern Descending Tk2

 

00:18:54

Lydian Pattern Descending Tk3

 

00:20:47

Lydian Pattern Positions Tk1

 

00:19:41

Lydian Pattern Positions Tk2

 

00:20:12

Lydian Pattern Slow

 

00:19:29

Lydian To Phrygian

 

00:18:24

Maj13 Arpeggio

 

01:13:49

Maj79 Arpeggio

 

01:12:25

Maj9 Arpeggio A Shape Tk1

 

01:12:17

Maj9 Arpeggio A Shape Tk2

 

01:12:10

Maj9 Sweep Arpeggio E Shape

 

01:12:46

Malmsteen Mini

 

01:24:55

Max Burn Blues

 

01:24:28

Max Burn Descending Sevens

 

01:22:47

Max Burn Fives

 

01:22:51

Max Burn Sevens Tk1

 

01:22:35

Max Burn Sevens Tk2

 

01:22:42

Max Burn Sevens Tk3

 

01:22:53

Max Burn Tk1

 

01:23:25

Max Burn Tk2

 

01:24:12

Metal Bossa

 

00:56:15

Min7 Sweep Sixes Speeds Tk1

 

00:47:56

Min7 Sweep Sixes Speeds Tk2

 

00:48:28

Min7 Sweep Sixes Speeds Tk3

 

00:48:51

Pentatonic Sweep 2str

 

00:57:03

Pentatonic Sweep Fours And Fives

 

00:59:09

Phrygian Dominant Gilberts

 

00:47:22

Phrygian Dominant Gilberts Improv

 

00:24:14

Phrygian Dominant Threes and Fours

 

00:19:01

Rolling Shifts Slow

 

00:31:39

Rolling Shifts Tk1

 

00:30:22

Rolling Shifts Tk2

 

00:30:40

Rolling Shifts Tk3

 

00:31:12

Rolling Shifts Tk4

 

00:31:27

Rolling Shifts Tk5

 

00:34:01

Rolling Shifts With Tail

 

00:29:40

Rolling Threes and Fours

 

00:21:43

Rusty's Trill

 

01:20:08

Rusty's Trill 6str

 

01:21:39

Rusty's Trill Ascending

 

01:21:50

Sevens Ascending Speeds

 

00:35:19

Sevens Directions And Speeds

 

00:35:39

Sevens Forward And Reverse

 

00:35:11

Seventh Arpeggio Sweeps

 

01:22:19

Single-String Sevens Tk1

 

00:02:13

Single-String Sevens Tk2

 

00:33:51

Sixes and Nines Descending

 

00:08:28

Sixes And Threes

 

01:24:48

Sixes And Threes Chunk

 

01:24:45

Snake Charmer

 

00:00:57

Stacked Gilberts Ascending

 

00:09:21

Sweep Fours And Fives

 

00:58:18

Sweep Fours And Fives Pattern

 

00:57:58

Tens Ascending

 

00:36:08

Tens Ascending Speeds

 

00:35:58

Tens Circular Single-String

 

00:39:43

Tens Circular Single-String Speeds

 

00:39:23

Tens Circular Tk1

 

00:38:45

Tens Circular Tk2

 

00:40:48

Tens Descending 3str

 

00:41:38

Tens Descending 5str

 

00:42:17

Tens Descending 6str

 

00:42:43

Tens Descending Speeds

 

00:39:55

Tens With Tail

 

00:37:02

Tens With Tail Speeds

 

00:36:54

Threes And Fours Circular

 

00:55:14

Threes And Fours Descending Tk1

 

00:55:29

Threes And Fours Descending Tk2

 

00:56:03

Trilogyesque

 

01:24:33

Whole Tone Clusters

 

01:19:20

Whole Tone Clusters Directions

 

01:18:27

Whole Tone Dominant

 

01:02:15

Whole Tone Dominant Passing

 

01:02:22

Whole Tone Dominant Sevens

 

01:02:46

Whole Tone Fives Tk1

 

01:06:34

Whole Tone Fives Tk2

 

01:06:52

Whole Tone Pentatonic

 

01:07:17

Whole Tone Sevens And Fives

 

01:06:18

Whole Tone Sevens Descending

 

01:05:47

Whole Tone Sevens Directions

 

01:05:53