I took lessons from one of Joe's students, and it's like musical boot camp. You come prepared and play perfectly. On my first lesson, the guy before me came out crying. It was intense.
MyworstEnemy wow...Alex Skolnick is the best one...he is better than Joe imho...it all fits into whatever testament was doing at the time...for better or worse.."the ritual"...impossible melodic great solos...I'm a testament fan so it isn't annoying to me to listen to.
Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett as students goes to show how amazing Satriani is as a teacher alone. Man I wish I was a kid back then with 5 bucks and this guy teaching. That’d be a fun set up.
Joe is just the greatest guitar musician composer player I’ve ever heard (in the world of instrumental music dedicated to guitar) I discover his music in the mid 90s I was like what the hell !?? and never changed my mind till today .. genius !
@@lazman5516 i knows everyone of the ones you mentioned.. I’m myself guitarist and composer ..it’s about the musicality in terms of songs that Satriani wins .. Shawn lane for instance is a monster .. I know personally Brett Garsed who’s on another level .. but it’s about taste maybe above a certain level ..
He’s one of the greatest rock instrumental players, definetly…. But to say he is the absolute best it is a little bit of a stretch. A dude named Allan could say something about that from his grave.
To say these guys can't hold a candle to Jimmy Page is inane. Page is my all time favorite guitarist. But even he has said his mastery of theory and flashy technique can't compare to many others. The thing is there is no need for comparison. We are talking completely different playing styles. All that matters is what the music makes you feel.
everyone can hold candles, thumb-index, thumb-middle, left hand right hand, both hands, tight grip, mellow grip, upside down, on the middle of the shaft of the candle, at the bottom, sideways.... its just your choice how you wanna hold it
...all for a reason. Thanks for sharing this exerpt- a bit short but GRABBED MY EYE, EAR AND GUT. Joe is our 21st Century virtuoso. JUST SO EXTREMELY CREATIVE, riffs galore snd, AND THEN delivering uniformity and reproducibility in live PERFORMANCES. Ty🙏🤙 ( note for note ).
Man Joe satriani is definitely immensely underrated. He is a force of nature as a guitarist and in an all around musical sense that it's ridiculous he isn't commercially up there in the top 5.. commercially though to some guitarists could be considered "selling out" but when a musician at the caliber of Joe satriani isn't as well known as they should be, it just isn't right. Well anyway all true guitarists and most musicians probably know who he is anyway, he's the fucking man bottom line..
Anyone who's a serious guitar player or loves the instrument and it's players knows joe satriani. Dude headlined a music fest in my city in India, the amount of people around me who like me knew all the songs all the licks and tricks was honestly very surprising and heart warming at the same time. Man's also held the record for most Grammy nominations without a win at one point so even the mainstream acknowledges the greatness of this man.
I think his best student would have to be the unmentioned Alex Scholnick of Testament. phenomenal player and got better ad he got older. dude was better than yngwie when he was 19 in my opinion. definitely joes best students
I'm sure Kirk will cry all the way to the bank, but whats actually funny is how you were ready with this jealous comment, maybe Kirk slept with this guys chick, he must of done something to him for him to be thinking about Kirk when he wasn't even mentioned, or maybe this guy tried to hit on Kirk andbhe turned him down hahahaa
Still trying to master satch boogie that song is just fucking sick as hell, I think it's Joe satrianis masterpiece.. it embodies everything that makes him as great as he is..
I like Surfing With the Alien more (no, it's not because I haven't heard anything else. I own most of his albums), but that's largely due to my love of that tone, the Solver Surfer, and the sound of tapping with a pick.
***** If you take 5 seconds to look at the profile of the person who asked the question, you can see he or she is probably not from an English speaking country (and neither am I or many other people on RU-vid, you know). Tom cleared it up in an informative way, this is how the Internet should work. More helpful people like him, less angry people like you.
teaching is a gift. Dirty DOM has never been great to at it although I did teach a bunch of high school kids when I was in 6th grade. They went to college and got on the tops list of the UM campus around the time Steve Miller and Boz Skaggs went there.. The bass player eventually got a big name with Elvin Bishop a b day others great players.
He didint realized he realy good in guitar until many people asking him to teach them play the instrument. Wow, he so dedicated on what he's doing, and forget to give a credit on himself for what he did.
I love how it always comes back to their sisters, satch learned on his sisters guitar, Steve vais sister played before him, and if you dont play something perfect in the studio your sister will die lmao
Legend has it Steve never revealed how or why he cut his teeth. Could’ve been stripping electrical wire or it could’ve been grape nuts. The clip wasn’t cutoff the story just ended there and there was no need to include the awkward silence.
+Justin Gulbransen older satriani was better, same with Yngwie and Steve vai, i mean they skillfully got better, but the songs were just more enjoyable in their early emerging years. More hooky, they grabbed you better.
+Justin Gulbransen tbh, I think the love for instrumental rock wained and, like with all these niche markets, they have a life... there's only some much noodling someone can undertake before it gets a tad dull...
That's somewhat how I feel about the two. I feel like Satch has the better musical talent, while Vai has the better technical ability. Ultimately I like a larger portion of Satch's catalog, but many of the Vai songs I like, I like way more.
I agree. But I do also think it's just a matter of what each of them want to play. Vai has done some incredibly beautiful and musical pieces to. Whispering a Prayer, For the Love of God, Tender Surrender. Satch has more of a basic approach when it come to sound and the way he utilises the instrument but he has also done some stranger technical pieces like Midnight, Day at the Beach, Souls of Distortion etc. They are both extraordinary players but as a guitar player myself, even I wouldn't like to say who's better.
It is about choosing an identity. Satch can surely play all that VAI does, but then he won't be Satriani that we know. Vai has carved his own identity and that's why there is no logic in suggesting that Vai is better than Satch. To have your own identity is the best possible achievement any musician would love to own.
I think his best student would have to be the unmentioned Alex Scholnick of Testament. phenomenal player and got better ad he got older. dude was better than yngwie when he was 19 in my opinion.
Pressure to play perfectly? Slash himself said that he would mess up all the time when playing with GNR, and personally speaking, I could play something a million times and still make a mistake.
Slash was pretty messed up for a majority of the bands lifetime, the whole band was. I'm sure even Joe would make some mistakes if he had a hangover or smack addiction.
5 bucks a lesson with the demi-god aka. Joe Satriani?! Fookin hell....that's a good investment. I'd sell what I've got left of my soul for an hour or tuition. It's hard to even imagine a Steve Vai who cannot play guitar - that's like trying to drink beer that isn't wet for fooks sake :) thanks for posting btw!
