90's guitar tutorials literally all go like this: Intro: 10min long COMPLETELY IMPROVISED SHREDDING MONSTER MAMA JAM. Next: "let's tune our guitars together".
The reason is that they were having the videos intros running in music stores, so you would have all the intros of differents tapes, so those intros would have to become enough incentive for people to be interested and buy the tape.
Crazy how his style has actually changed a lot he was far more neoclassical in his early days but found a way to make his own mark by going down the fusion route. Amazing player.
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I saw him play in Toronto not long ago...the guy is a damn legend - killer player. Next up is to see Richie Kotzen whenever I get the chance, after that, I'll feel complete lol
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Back then he played far more "traditionally". These days his style has mutated into something a lot more unique. Even technically; for example his use of bends and vibrato don't even seem like the same guy now--it's mostly just a bunch of sliding smears. Wish he still bent and vibratoed like he's doing here. And you rarely see him play regular sequences and patterns nowadays, it's almost more his own language with a lot more cool altered tones and outside playing.
@@KalosPVP musicians really, because a guitarist that can compose and work around a band to create good music, not just to flex his ability, is a good musician, he understands music and how to work on it.
I said something similar to my old guitar teacher as he was a proper shredder and he just said, 'true, but they know how hard it was to get to that level. They know most normal people won't dedicate 6-8 hours a day to practice like they did so why not get paid?'
To get to that level, you have to have some type of obsessive compulsive disorder. I do and I did. That’s how I know. Back in the day I just love doing exercises for hours. It’s like when someone has an itch. They gotta scratch it. One hour of exercise/warm-up, one hour of scales, one hour of sweeping, one hour of improvised shred. Then four hours of practice. I did that from 13 years old to 22 years old. At 18, Kurt Cobain already killed metal. 😂 so I had four years of denial. 😂
@@bigpapi2658 actually The big label record companies killed metal. It was much cheaper to sign nobodies like Cobain (in the beginning) and all the other grunge bands than it was to renew the top metal/hair metal acts at the time.
In a sense Greg Howe is the ultimate shred player by virtue of the fact that he incorporates all the various techniques associated with virtuoso playing including tapping, sweeping, legato, fast alternate picking...etc into his playing by almost equal measure, whereas many of the other players we (guitarists) admire are more associated with a given technique or another, Holdsworth with legato, Gambale with sweeping and economy picking, countless Metal guys with two handed tapping...etc. Howe is also not limited stylistically and able to tackle any genre, the consummate pro. Govan is equally versatile though Howe was doing it decades ago.
at least howe got his own style whatever that means. not very into that govan thingie. and youre so much right, howe doing it decades ago. I said the same damn thing on other vid which they tried to compare greg with internet sensation govan…
@@freeyoutube8298 when you start to listen to govan with a more open mind you'll see he's got as much a unique style as any accomplished gutiar musician in the business. I think howe clearly had a lot to do with govan playing the way he does, but it doesn't diminish what he does by any means in my opinion. The worst thing to do would be to lose another artist to listen to because of petty things as "but this other guy did it before". who cares? i don't, and i listen to both and many others cause they are great
@@javierschiefelbein4084 not that i didnt tried listening to him. He is just not bringing any move in me. Too flat. No kicks. Thus i wonder how he got all the attention. And by todays standard, that anything that hype is the deal, which is a shit standard, is the more reason i held my ground. Too left 🤣 . Sorry for bringing pc culture in to this 😅
@@freeyoutube8298 then we gotta agree to disagree, because even though i profoundly admire the classics, govan still makes music that i find evocative and moving. not flat at all with all the rhythm, tone, accent variations and even references to other pieces of music, even making "musical jokes" live. when i got to watch him live it was straight up awesome. hope you come to like his style in some other time, but if it doesn't happens that's ok too
Greg came in late to the party at a time when shred guitar was saturated (pun intended) and would soon become "cheesey." The internet eventually brought it back but guitar solo albums in the 90s were a hard sell and mainstream bands moved away from competent guitar solos into a more Cobain style, IF ANYTHING. That's my observation anyway.
😮 yeh greg howe 2 - stand on line ,bach mock , strat o mania ,complex stuff with koyzen , many fusion stuff he jams , Come n get it , Ascend , various mood he has just like Frank Gamble plays complex stuff but so melidous another great player
@@sorinciobanu4561 10 years but I stop play this for a year mow ! I forget all the scales , didn’t play this scale tho , I played the master Buckethead scales
I have the guitar exactly like this because of Greg since I use toblive in Allentown neighbors to Easton where Greg lived at the time Still have the guitar but now live in Central Florida and still play it
I did. I need to get it fixed though. Great guitar. Fender HM Strat My friend HATED it though. Something about the fretboard he couldn't stand said it'd hurt his fingers. But I never had any problem with it He used an Ibanez 550 which I also liked. The only thing we both couldn't understand was how Greg was getting that tone out of a Fender Dual Showman amp. Because I think I saw him live once with that thing and it didn't sound as full as it does here In his first album though he did some crazy amp alchemy by recording with a cheap Marshall mini amp with a distortion pedal boosted into it. That's the best time he had. He shoulda stayed with that imo Another underrated guitar was that one Yamaha guitar I forget the model. Was quite similar. And then I also had a Fender Heartfield Talon guitar but I didn't like that one
Greg and Tony MacAlpine are ones of the most underrated guitarists out there! (and we know why!) They are genuine and their melodies are straight to the soul! Happy that I am living in their Era
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Very odd vortex they got trapped in when you had others in other genres like BB King, Albert Collins, Albert King, George Benson, Django Reinhardt, and even Jimi Hendrix get way more respect and recognition. Hell even. Vernon Reid of Living Color and guitarist from Rage Against Machine . But alas I was throwing in some pioneers in there which tbh probably isn't fair and also commercial band guitarists often get more praise than virtuosos. It's why Rolling Stone magazine posted Kirk Hammett of Metallica a 'better' guitarist than Joe Satriani (his teacher actually) and Steve Vai (the better student of Satch) in terms of top 100 guitarists of all time list even though anyone with an ear and common sense knows that's bs 😂
Greg howe is an amazing player I remember watching this on VHS when I was about 13 and been playing around 3 years, obviously it scared the hell out of me, now it's 32 years later and I'm 45 years old and I'm so glad to have rediscovered this classic reh instructional video. Thank you, now I am blazing along with Greg's expert training. What a monster player with a great personal feel and style. One of my favourites. Awesome
I completely missed the boat on this guy. His ability to incorporate all shred techniques and still sound musical is impressive. His method for alternate picking straight through scales is also pretty damn smart!
It's because he thinks in harmony instead just playing linear scales. When you play classical guitar piano and use the same code in electric guitar it's totally different approach. So i don't recommend to base the whole time just learning scales and non sense sequences.
I use to have this in dvd. I had so many others on vhs. I wore them out. Now all the kids today only have to go on RU-vid and you can find all the hot licks and reh stuff. The intro still to this day makes me go wow. What a great player.
@@uroboric I agree with you there. I had to copy tapes by ear as there was no internet around and had to order cds from America etc. so in a way it helped with your learning and you had to really work at it. Don’t get me wrong there are some amazing players today and I really enjoy some of there videos. But like you say. I still go back to the old players as I feel they are still much better players.
@@beedomguitars Yea. If you know what you're looking for you find good stuff on youtube. But as a beginner it's hard to tell what's good advice and what's not
@@mehditayshun5595 do you have something original to say? I have heard that many times before and it wasn't that cool the first time someone said it and it definitely won't be cool after low iq dumbasses have repeated it millions of times all over, because they don't have the intelligence to come up with something themselves. You need to work on your stress levels, they're getting to high, go watch some of your videos. Ps. I really do not care what some idiot stranger on the Internet has to say or thinks about me.
first time I heard kick it all over I was a Greg Howe fan. His approach was very different than the other shedders. I loved how he always did his own versions of the what the other guys were doing. Obviously he has his bluesy progressiveness (more so these days), but his clever sliding and hammering achieved all the same results as the other shrapnel artists, but also kept him distinct sounding. Its strange how that initial group of shredders (yngwie, gilbert, kotzen macalpine, moore, becker, howe, and friedman) seem to come out of nowhere so fully realized. In my book no one has topped that initial group.
Remember that Yngwie burst onto the scene with the Steeler album in 1983, then the Rising Force album in '84. All of the major Shrapnel releases from guys like Vinnie Moore, MacAlpine, Gilbert, etc., started a couple of years after that, with guys like Howe and Becker's releases coming in the late 80's. And Paul Gilbert is quoted at saying that after hearing Yngwie for the first time, it basically sent him back to the woodshed for a year to expand and hone his chops. So I think there was definitely a time cushion there for guys to hone their technique prior to releasing their solo albums. Yngwie innovated that neoclassical style emphasizing alternate picking and sweeps within the metal context, and everyone else clearly followed.. The strange thing is that running parallel to all of these and yet completely separate (and unknown!) was Shawn Lane, who is still and will probably never be topped as having the most mind-blowing technique and speed. And you have videos of him as 16 year old kid playing this mind-boggling stuff in the late 70's (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ZcRHVkjLub4.html). I'll never forget when I first heard those demos of him in the late 80's, and once his REH videos came out on VHS you got to see up close exactly what a monster player he was (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-K2QIxv5UhII.html)..
Outstanding!! One of my favorites- if not my very favorite of the "shred" era players (I'd say neoclassical, but Greg had that bluesy/jazzy/fusion approach). Totally awesome player! I was hooked after getting his debut album, and really loved the 2nd one with his brother Al on vocals- Howe II. Thanx for posting this! I can't touch his playing, but it will be a fun challenge to try and work through this thing. I wish I had the original DVD of this- or a hard copy.... Rock on, Brother!
I always find these late 80s/early 90s instructional VHS’ hysterical because you basically have to be good enough to have your own instructional VHS to play anything in them.
Found this today and now I finally have the feeling, after six years, that this kind of excercises are the key to get my playing on the next level. Good to have the 80' and all that awesome players.
It's crazy how Greg Howe is one of the most incredible technical guitarists imaginable, but yet he is so humble and never trash talks other musicians and is never pretentious like Guthrie Govan.
We need more content of guitarists isolating these intro licks! It is just phenomenal to think that Greg was playing this good in the eighties? It would be good to see some of these astonishing licks broken down and tought at a level us mere mortals have a chance of grasping. In saying that Greg's right picking and tapping hand might be the most impossible thing to get ,let alone the monstrosity of notes,appegios,wide interval licks rythmic patterns of the left hand. His playing is at a level that seems unattainable. He must of practised very hard I know that much.
I've just been downloading as many of these instructional videos I can find and putting them on a DVD lol. This one is up there in terms of video quality and content, thanks for the upload!
THIS IS AWESOME!!! I use to have this original video lesson on VHS tape back in 1989 when I was a kid!! The only thing missing is Columbo coming in at the beginning trying to remember who he is before it goes into his lead intro!!! Someone stole this tape from me and I haven'[t seen it in over 25 years!!! Flashbacks!!!!
For his time this guy sounds very humble and is a natural teacher. You will watch guys like Yungie who can't teach just give you demo demonstration of their songs
The classic HM Strat! When anyone says “remember 90’s music”? People thing grunge, guitar oriented rock and pop, techno. While all of that was going on you had the shredders all getting big at the same time. Music was much more interesting before the world of social media.
What a Fkn monster on the guitar. Brings me back to being a teen with a mullet mid 80s thinking I was gna be a rock star lolol Fender has reissued these Strats 2020...I think it's only a limited run. They r calling the The "Heavy Metal" Strat lol
I remember this was part of the REH guitar instructional videos, I have learnt some lessons from guys like Malmsteen, Chris Impellitteri, MAB. Regret to not have checked this guy, back in our days, shred means good guitarist.
so... many .... notes... and i love it! first 'shred' video i ever saw, still love it. This would be up there with Brett Garsed's early instructional vid!
damn the intro already shows u a combination of mixes neo-classical ,bit of blues n tapping thrown in plus fast phrases n jazzy eleement , yeh in 1 interview he shared how young he n a fren watch EVH on stage n then went on to try 2 handed techniques in time to come 😊🎉
