There's a video of Paul Gilbert telling a story when he began to teach guitar in a school. He thought he was good and cool but after some weeks, students started to complain about him. The director spoke to him and he understood that he wasn't really teaching guitar, he was just showing off and trying to impress the audience. Since that day he changed his attitude and the rest is history.
You are actually referring to a sequence of the Captain's interview with Paul Gilbert a few years ago. Paul was talking about his teaching career at GIT. That story is pretty cool, I have watched it quite a few times because I like the funny way Paul is talking about it.
Yeah, to add some more details - the class was "one string playing" and he'd get through the curriculum as fast as possible to get to the "fun stuff". I think he was fired from that job :P
Didn't know this story, but that is exactly what those videos felt like back in the day, being young and eager to learn and the guy just goes: look how cool I am playing this fast. you'll never be as good as I am.
@@IrLosin To be fair that was also what the producers wanted. The Racer X records back in the Shrapnel days were Mike Varney going "we need licks, give me more licks!" ;) That era of guitar playing was all about showing off and playing to the "rule of cool".
@@mikeyo3230 Well.it was winter. Ya shdve replied with "Should I tie a rope to my leg, so rescuers can pull me out if l fall in!?!". As you heard your own words echoing back at you.
That Vinnie Moore video is the lesson that *finally* unlocked modes for me. He explained it in a way no one else had (it's as much the chords you play over, as the scale degree you start with).
I owned both his VHS tapes, I'm not sure I made it past his warmups. He was incredibly fast, but his focus on melody set him apart, especially for the time. The thing that always stuck with me about his playing was how he could so naturally go from a slowish melody line to warp speed and stop on a dime back to the melody line and it sounding so precise and musical.
paul gilbert is the best. his lessons looked like he was teaching an amateur, very patient and thorough. i still remembered my middle school times when i would spend hours watching his youtube lessons and i can proudly say i've come far and couldnt have done it without him. he taught me so much about guitar. literally.
Paul Gilbert has a real gift for teaching. He's one of the best at breaking things down and making them understandable, and accessible to people of all skill levels.
Unparalleled? 🤣🤣🤣 Personally I found many of them unlistenable! We even came up with a perfect term - Sports Guitar - too many Adidas plectrums, the tone of a wasp in a biscuit tin and an 'I finished first' approach to music 🤮
Also he doesn't take himself too seriously so I doubt he'd feel badly about some of these videos being super cheesy. Now that Richie Kotzen intro... :D That's just a little bit before he switched to playing Fenders and seemingly totally changed his playing style since then.
I thank you guys for putting a light hearted spin on musical instruction videos. Your reactions gave me a bigger laugh then some of the clips. Great chemistry at Andertons. Thanks again!
Yeah. Some of them are really hilarious but so many of the guys, and a few girls m, saved our lawn mowing money or begged our parents, or both to send in and order the crap. Then we would sit impatiently for the next 6 to 8 weeks waiting in the mailman to bring that package. All the while seeing visions of ourselves playing with Ozzy or jamming with EVH or being proclaimed the next Jimi Hendrix by guitar player magazine and telling all our friends "by this time e next year, I'll be on tour". Lol. Seriously. It was a great time.
also most of this stuff was in the late 80's and into the early 90's. A lot of this stuff was being produced and sold right in the heart of the Seattle "alternative" takeover of MTV and the reshuffling of radio stations around the country.
@@ToddH76 The worst thing is OK, grunge comes in, and like anything there was good and bad of that. But, why does it have to be one or the other, why not coexistence?
I grew up with 80’s shredders and play in 80s tribute bands still to this day, and for me Satchel is the best guitarist to listen to. His combination of speed licks and melody is unrivalled in my opinion.
Still love this 80's clinics, so much to learn from a great moment for electric guitar. Getting one was really difficult, and you got together with your friends to share it and try to figure out what they were doing (except the malmsteen clinic, he said "i will play slow" and was extra fast)
Michael Angelo Batio I met at a guitar clinic and yes he is that fast when he does the over and under thing. I was 8 feet away and watched him and he was so fast it was hard to keep up with his movements. The film was not sped up at all he is incredibly fast. A very nice guy and was easy to talk with. I learned a few alternate picking techniques from him.
He did a clinic at a local music store where I live not too long ago. Unfortunately, I wasn't able to attend, but I watched the video from it. I was amazed to see that he hasn't slowed down in the slightest. The guy is still an absolute machine.
Laugh all you want but there will NEVER be a better instructional video than the one Eric Johnson made. To this day I can't play half the examples but what he covers about the totality of playing guitar is 90% of what I understand about playing the instrument.
My favourite ones were Yngwie and Eric Johnson.The ones I learned most from were Joey Tafolla,Steve Morse Power lines and Michael lee Firkins.Great times!No internet,just guitar magazines,videos and books.Basically it was all a mystery.
from min. 14:40 to min 15.40.. THAT'S WHY WE ALL LOVE PABLO GILBERTO!!!!!! GOD BLESS HIM. Thank you guys for these sweet memories .. and for many laughs as weel. Cheers!
+1 for Ritchie Kotzen. Live 2015 came around during a weird time in my life amd that show means a lot to me. Picking it apart, he's a brilliant singer/songwriter and an amazing guitarst. Definitely playing his best stuff now
This brings back a LOT of memories. I never learned a thing (everything was way too complex) but I kept getting more and more because "one day, I'd be able to play like that" (I still can't play shit haha)
@@ITSergioFelix well mate, based on your attitude, i can sort of see why you can't play for shit. all i was saying is we both went through the same thing and we kept on trying, you should have got somewhere with playing if you didn't, something is wrong with you.. and..... I guess we can see what that is now, can't we i wasn't arguing, i was trying to help
@@martinkuliza I genuinely meant what I said to you, I'm not arguing my man! I can play btw, I just don't say I'm that good as in those kind of videos, have a great day!
@@ITSergioFelix well then, if you can play it all makes sense doesn't it ? You should've said that from the get go Also i get what you're saying about humility, but mate , you also need to recognize what talent you DO have and not put yourself down either, I mean we are not standing here saying we are Eddie Van Halen or Hendrix, but we should acknowledge our efforts and hard work, don't you think ? I mean.. Unless you REALLY can't play for shit :P
In the early '80s, BBC had a show called "RockSchool" where they gave a bit or sensible tuition and tips - I think the guitarist was Deidre Cartwright - I vaguely remember her demonstrating how to play like Walk Johnson?
These 80s guys were insane players Steve Lukather had a rig big enough to control the space shuttle Paul Gilbert is an under rated player. I learned a lot from Hank Marvin’s book and DVD
Who is Paul Gilbert under rated by ? Near everyone who plays rock style guitar rates him highly . Billions of players around the planet rate Paul Gilbert .
How about that. Most guitar channels these days just demo gear for pay. Andertons, who have always embraced this concept as they literally sell the gear they demo, comes out with content purely for entertainment. Thumbs up guys and thanks for the work you do!
I kinda wish they watch chris impellitteri video. That BLEW my mind when i was a kid, a beginner at guitar. His fretting hand aint movin but it was crazy fast
14:28 It's probably Technical Difficulties, it has a section somewhere in the middle where the chord progression changes to Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd as Paul plays a solo over it. Tripped me up the first time I realised it, too
The original Doug Marks Metal Method came with a cassette of a made-up band called "Hawk", I believe Doug wrote all the songs, and David Fefolt, one of the best rock voices ever, sang on it. Probably my favorite unknown rock album of the 80's.
He funded the band with all the money from the instructional tapes...you can find Hawk live at Roxy on youtube as well as the studio album..best song was about Witches.
Doug Marks of Metal Method taught me how to play. You can still buy the updated versions and they are great. All my kids (4) have all also learned to play using them. I also saw Michael Angelo Batio play at Motor City guitar near Detroit I think it was 2016. He really can play that fast and flip all over the neck.
I had one of those VHS training videos back in the early 90’s when I got my first guitar, it was all I had till I found a teacher through the music shop. Internet wasn’t a thing back then and this was how many of Generation X started learning.
Steve Lukather played on a lot of those 80's records. One of my favorite players is Schinker. Strangers in the night UFO one of the best live albums. Was a fun time for music.
You should have seen my guiter lessons in the late 60's. My instructor was in his early 80's. He taught how to read music and play songs on sheet music. No cords, just read music. Oh, and it cost $2.00 an hour!
I learned guitar in the 2000s when youtube was rather new and most videos were copied VHS tapes. I remember a few of those videos. The Yngwie Parody killed it though
My fave guitar "lesson" video is the Allan Holdsworth one. Basically is "This is the scale I use, I made it up myself" Basically what listening to God would sound like but in a guitarists mind. Also something hilarious about listening to Allan talk. He is a guitar god but just comes across as a guy who wants to be left alone at his local pub to play some darts.
I remember lessons on cassette tape. Metal Method with Doug Marks and a 12-page tiny pamphlet of riffs...Egad... Still it was better than when I got a Hal Leonard "Teach Yourself Bass" where pages 1-8 were things like "Hot Cross Buns" and chromatic scales and then on page 9 it looked like a Rachmaninov finger-crippling concerto. Oh...And NO TABS!!! At least Metal Method had tabs. People new to guitar today have no idea how good they have it. For those who missed seeing a KISS show live, I feel sorry for you. They were spectacular! I got to meet Bruce Kulick as a signing and he's super nice, very humble, and he kept security from dragging me out of the line when I had more than one item to sign (nobody knew that rule).
I just posted about this before I saw yours!! I sat and tabbed out the whole Whitesnake 87 album via cassette tape and the blank tab sheets it came with.
I was literally just watching Paul Gilbert's Intense Rock 1 and 2 yesterday for some exercises. JP's Rock Discipline has always been my fav though because he covers a bit of everything
That was a hilarious walk down memory lane. I remember well. Won't go into detail but my guitar teacher set up a scheme where we all (all his students who wanted in) put in money to buy all this shite and then bootlegged the content. Frank Gambale was one I remember and I nearly gave up guitar as I couldn't sweep pick for the life of me. Frank is Australian as far as I recall, and he had a hilarious helium squeaky voice on those videos. Thank God I saw the error of my ways when Oasis/Nirvana/Radiohead exposed the nonsense of this and I unclenched and actually started playing guitar to serve the song etc rather than what Frank Zappa referred to as "stunt guitar".
Both styles have their place. It’s good to have the tools to do more than what is required in the song so you can play stuff very comfortably. Not to mention that this stuff is sick when used tastefully
What a great time travel episode! I have so many good memories of all these instructional tapes. I bought several of them and learned so much by watching them every day for months on end. Vinnie Moore's first video started it all for me, but Paul Gilbert's "Intense Rock 1" really introduced me to the world of shred. I still like to watch some sequences every now and then as his brutal sound in that video (featuring the ADA MP-1) is just awesome.
The amount of time I spent with the Paul Gilbert video lessons. Intense Rock I & II, the second one was pretty well rounded for the time, some cool time keeping excersies (which at the time I ignored at my peril!)
I had some of the star licks tapes I specifically remember the one with Steve Lukather and Brad Gillis after watching them with my jaw on the floor they just made me want to throw my Guitar in the trash.
The Yngvie stuff was the best! I couldn't stop laughing 🤣 I'm the best, I'm the fastest!! Also love the "hair mold" one size fits all, just put it on like a helmet.😁 Pure gold!! 👍👏💯🔥🔥
More of this relaxed stuff please! Personally I don't think it'll detract from your product stuff at all. And I can only imagine it'll push your membership up... Great work chaps!
This was a great video. You guys should do this kind of thing, discussing guitar players and music once or twice a month. I would love to watch the three of you talk about ... all sorts of styles, and then a few months later, circle back and talk what you think after a month..
Kudos to Yngwie Malmsteen and his technique. His picking and fingering are hard to ignore, but take a look at how he hits that 5-way switch and how many times he does it while soloing, like watching a slight of hand magician. ❤the dubbed vid, but this one is my all time fav: Arpeggios from Hell (fake) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kZPjPrdzcJg.html
these videos where the only way see these amazing players up close and hopefully pick up some of their techniques. yes.. they have funny hair etc... but these guys were are at the of their game and inspired THOUSANDS of young players. I know that you are trying to appeal to the millennial crowd but sorry guys but this videos just seems very disrespectful.
Great video guys! I think the reason a lot of them hold their picking hand high is because everyone had a Floyd Rose floating bridge back then and if you rested your hand on it it would pull the strings out of tune.✌🏻
I totally owned the Metal Method set on VHS. I quickly realized I was never going to sound like any of them... Buckethead must be the only person on earth who watched the Paul Gilbert video and thought oh that's how you do it.
I also want to add, to all the kids who are under 30 watching this....This is what Rock/metal/pop rock etc...had devolved into by 1990. This is one of the reasons The big four from seattle, specifically Nirvana initially crushed all of this stuff and made it uncool. It ended up at an absurd level between the clothes, the hair and the fake lifestyles of fast cars and women. Kurt Cobain mocked all these guys in the smells like teen spirit video during the solo when he is pretending to tap like Eddie Van Halen and all the wannabe EVH's...It was an amazing moment in time watching the seattle guys end all this nonsense.
Ha! 😂 I have a lot of these old vhs tapes.. in one of the Yngwie videos, they slow down his playing by slowing down the tape, since he obiviously didnt what to play it slower..lol
There's one floating g around by Zak Wylde where he's just like, " if you want to play better pentatonic scales just do this" then shreds like Zak Wylde for a minute and moves on
