Li is left-handed, but plays guitar right-handed. Li has stated Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Tony MacAlpine guitar playing heavily inspired his own style. Recently, he has started to use a device called the Hot Hand that sits on his right hand like a ring, which causes extreme vibrato when shaken, giving him a greater capacity to emulate certain video game sounds.
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His playing style consists of fast descending and ascending legato and staccato licks, exotic scale runs, making extensive use of the harmonic minor and Phrygian dominant scale, extreme use of his whammy bar, quick full ascending and descending sweep picking arpeggios, alternate picking and two-handed tapping on the higher frets as well as incorporating many other shred guitar style techniques. For example, Li has been known for making several Pac-Man-like noises in the song " Through the Fire and Flames" on Inhuman Rampage.
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Li draws influences from rock, all subgenres of metal as well as video game music and often mimics sounds from popular retro games from the late 1980s, early 1990s arcade, and PC games. He speaks English, French and Cantonese fluently. Also, they are scheduled to start their UK tour in September to promote their latest album.Herman Li was born on 3 October 1976 in Hong Kong and moved to France, then to England during his teenage years. Herman Li and DragonForce are scheduled to play on the main stage of the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival Tour in 2008, along with Slipknot, Disturbed, and Mastodon.
DiMarzio Pickups (HLM - Neck, Middle, Bridge).Ibanez E-Gen - EGEN18 Herman Li Signature Model.As well as playing on Steve Vai's set, Herman shared the stage on the evening all star jam with guitar heroes such as Joe Satriani, Paul Gilbert, Tony MacAlpine and Andy Timmons. In 2007, he received an invitation to perform as special guest with guitar legend Steve Vai at the Ibanez Jem/RG model 20th Anniversary show in Hollywood, California.
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Li and DragonForce took the main stage at Ozzfest 2006 and Download Festival in 20. Herman completed a guitar cliniéúípoc tour in Asia in July 2007 and performed at the first Shred School event in Los Angeles, California. Īs well as doing intensive world tours with DragonForce, Herman had a monthly column in Total Guitar magazine and has also showcased his skills in guitar clinics around the world, explaining his own approach to the instrument to help inspire guitarists around the world. Together with Sam Totman, Herman recently won four categories in Guitar World's Readers Poll 2007 for 'Best New Talent' (winning by 70%), 'Best Metal', 'Best Riff' and 'Best Shredders'. DragonForce were also nominated for best UK band. In "Black Fire", the middle of the solo plays similar to the first part of the Double Dragon theme.ĭragonForce's 2004 album Sonic Firestorm earned Li the Dimebag Darrell Young Guitarist Award for best Shredder at the 2005 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. For example, Li has been known for making several Pac-Man type noises in the song " Through the Fire and Flames" on Inhuman Rampage. Li draws influences from video game music and mimics sounds from popular retro games from the late 80's, early 90's arcade, and PC Engine games. Before receiving his signature model, Li has been known to play Ibanez S Prestige guitars, a seven string Ibanez (used in Revolution Deathsquad, Storming the Burning Fields, and the "bridge" section of Operation Ground and Pound), and a decade old S series. It has a bolt-on Maple/Walnut 5-piece neck with a 24 fret rosewood fingerboard, with 20-24 frets scalloped, an S-based mahagony body with grip indents on its upper horn and a transparent purple flame maple top, an Edge Zero tremolo, gold hardware, and H-S-H combined with split coil configuration with his own signature line of pickups from DiMarzio (HLM). It was said the electrical pleral connection with the cable on the d-string wasn't attached during one of their tours - this wasn't realized until afterwards when he was practising in the studio for a new album. The E-Gen, released in 2008, is Li's own signature guitar model. Herman Li is now using the Ibanez E-Gen, which is based on the Ibanez S. They changed their Herman's current band DragonForce.
But the band name was changed due to name conflict with another Brazilian band. He also played with ZP Theart in a band named Dragonheart. Herman Li has played in many bands including a black metal band known as Demoniac. He trains in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu five days a week. According to his profile on the DragonForce website, his interests other than music are computer technology and martial arts.
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