Liquid Legato Phase 4 - Joe Satriani "Not of this Earth" 

Awesome 👍 thanks for sharing

Thank you! 😃

Glad this is connecting with you! Yes, it is vital to understand the process by which one can move forward with complex, advanced music. It's all about knowing where to put your attention, when and how much. Which is why coaching can be helpful, by demonstrating exactly how to best apply the principles "where the rubber meets the road." That BC Rich is the first new guitar I've ever bought, actually. Was in a Guitar Center a few months ago and played just about everthing on the wall. This turned out to be the best playing instrument there, IMO, at $1600. And it looks cool, too!

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Thank you Matthew. Glad you’re finding these videos helpful!

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Cool, yeah there are some great tools in there

I got to RU-vid fairly late, and no good at promo. But some people get it. Please share!

@@TroyStetinaMusic Sadly to get views on here you gotta cover the same trendy topic, if you come up with a well designed educative course that ignores the current trendy themes and tries to actually teach guitar properly, the algorithm will cast you to the forgotten depths of RU-vid. Best you can do is actually build a big enough audience so you can set trends instead of following them, but this will take a long while. Hang in there !

you're welcome! BTW the full lesson will be up on Patreon in March

Hadn't heard this tune until now. While Vai certainly does have great technique all the way around, including legato, yes it would appear that this "performance" is a bit overstated... first of all he isn't actually tracking the recorded version, he's mimicking a prior performance... like virtually all music videos. So if there was a bit of extra string noise anywhere, he'd just re-track that phrase cleanly. Very doable in that sense. In any case, with good string damping technique this kind of thing is very possible, overall, and if anyone can do it, I wouldn't be surprised he could. But at the same time, he let the cat out of the bag at 1:35, (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aMjmjXHJoPg.html) There you can hear what sounds like a pick rack attack which isn't on the video. So yeah, not sure how much of this is 'real'. But I would not be surprised to see him do this live and for the most part nail it, although I would also expect a bit of occasional extra string noise here and there in a live performance. Even here, if one solo'ed the lead track, there is probably a bit of that which is masked in the mix by the otehr instruments.

It is also the idea which was great..it is the only Song I know in this legato Style, so I think it is ok that he done it

Well, in a sense, yeah… that’s what came to be called “pitch axis technique.” But it just written using accidentals

Well, some of the transcribers are quite good. But transcribing is an art. And performing is a different art. And, no, Hal Leonard never paid huge amounts to any transcriber. I did one album and quickly figured out that I could either do a quick (and relatively poor job) and make a moderate income, or I could do a good job and make minimum wage. Because they paid by the page. So that was the first and last transcription I did!

@@TroyStetinaMusic Gosh...that hit pretty hard on my illusions. I thought (during the 90s) that the artist couldn't have their music badly transcribed. When I bought Countdown to Extinction from Megadeth transcribed, I found parts that didn't make sense for the fingers. I thought I was bad a guitar or Mustaine and Friedman were just too unreplicatable. Glad to know that even official transcription is not 100% accurate.

@@chinoisbase I bought that book too when I wanted to learn how to play that album as well. I'm no expert at transcribing or verifying how good transcriptions are but some parts I played through just didn't sound or feel right to me. A guitar teacher of mine once told me, ''you just can't trust tabs 100%''

@@vinaymulukutla358 I wished they could have said that in the forewords, but I guess that would'nt be good for sales, lol!

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