Steve Morse band - Tumeni notes

[synesthesia67]

I've been trying to learn this riff for 20 yrs...still can't pick that shit....but gettin a lil closer...maybe if I live to 300 I'll have it!!...

[StevieRayMatt]

Steve Morse is a giutar god, but no one consider that Dave La Rue is a terrific bass player...he can play arpeggios toghter with Steve at the same speed ON A BASS!

[tiagoaoa]

@StevieRayMatt on a bass.. with his FINGERS

[omatu1]

tumach talent!

[xXPredraGXx]

Magic hand-elbow...

[alcatras4]

Oh, and hats off to Dave Larue and Rod Morgenstern. With Steves awesome talent you tend to forget about his rock solid Bass n Drum foundation. Top notch musicianship is this all American Power Trio. I actually have this LP "High Tension Wires" which I believe was his first solo effort after The Dreggs split. I remember picking it up at my local record shop and blowing the top off my head listening to it. Still sounds awesome after all these years. ROCK ON STEVE and CO.

[wingnutofcoolness]

@alcatras4 Rod is a great drummer, I think Van Romaine should take it as a complement that You thought he was Rod.

[alcatras4]

@wingnutofcoolness really? Where is Van Romaine from. I thought it was Rod. Anyway this Van Romaine guy is also great and rocks hard.

[Whackooyzero]

@alcatras4 High Tension Wires is great stuff that's for sure. But it was actually his 3rd post Dregs album.

[alcatras4]

I read an interview where Yngwie states that he is conservatory trained, but who knows really. But Steve Morse continues to be my favorite overall guitarist. To me he embodies Santana, SRV, Blackmore, Beck, and Yngwie while having his own style that can be flashy shredding, jazzy, bluesy, country, classical all at the same time, but what really kills me is that he is so humble and down to earth. Great musicians don't claim theyr'e the best...they let the fans decide.

[piltoch]

Steve is God, the difference is that i' m sure Steve exist !!!!

[paulandlesson]

Everything great said about Morse here is true. Any attempt to belittle his tech, is done is jealousy.

[panhead1219]

And THAT is why they deserve the big bucks!

[TheGuitaz]

Awesome!



[panhead1219]

THAT oughta keep those pesky germans from starting WWIII !  :)

[shredder1965]

This was Steve's tongue-in-cheek response during the neoclassical shred era of the eighties. Brilliant!

[alcatras4]

As much as I love Yngwie, Steve Morse covers more ground. Yngwie only shreds. Steve Morse can play like Yngwie, but Yngwie can't play like Steve Morse. Steve's Bluegrass finger pickin' style more than likely doesn't appeal to Yngwie. Steve is also conservatory trained like Yngwie but he does Blues, Rock, Jazz, Country, Bluegrass and Classical and Baroque. Yngwies approach while totally awesome just covers the Classical idiom, I wonder if Yngwie could do a cover of Gina Lola or Runaway Train?

[fourplusseven]

@alcatras4 Of course he couldn't... few could. But are you sure Yngwie's "conservatory trained"? I never heard that.

[sportsportsport]

I would kill for his picking hand.

haha

and his left.

[gvt76]

Morse is like my family! Love them!

[ksmithdc]

I think I just "got" where Morse came up with the title of this tune. I think he got it from the movie "Amadeus" - where the Emperor tells young Mozart that there are simply "too many notes - just cut a few and it'll be perfect". LOL

[stoofbuis]

i knew he was good,but not that he was good so long ago allready!!

[JoeJacari]

The Les Claypool of guitar.

Very spandangulous!

[fivepiece]

The delay/echo isn't a "Steve" problem, it's an engineer/mixer problem. There's a lot that happens to the sound from the time it enters the pickups to the time it hits YouTube; and the performer has very little control over any of it.

As for the crowd, I don't think they're dead. I think their all busy wiping their asses because Steve just rocked the shit out of 'em.

[javisambora]

steves mix the delay with some volume pedals

that's not the engineer I THINK

[fivepiece]

That's possible. One of the hazards of recording a live performance.

[beeroosterm]

@javisambora You are correct, sir. I have seen Steve's setup and questioned him personally about it. He uses a short delay (15 ms) and a long delay (150-200 ms) along with a guitar synthesizer as his only three effects. He plugs straight from his guitar into his "dry" amp, then runs a cable from the pre-amp out of that amp, splits it into three more cables using a passive splitter, thence to the three effects, then collects them with another passive splitter, thence to amp #2. See next entry..

[beeroosterm]

@beeroosterm Steve sets each effect to whatever maximum value he'll ever want to use and then modulate that effect using a volume pedal: the more he pushes, the longer the delay or the more the synth voice is used. He uses the short delay to get things to "ring", especially for harmonics, the longer delay for echo effects and the synth mostly as background. He also combines the long and short delays to get cool "airy" sounds. This setup allows you to keep the liveliness of your dry sound.

[beeroosterm]

@beeroosterm Amazing how versatile this simple setup is. Steve also constantly switches pickups; the 4 of them have 11 different settings. He uses only 5 settings most of the time, however. The conventional three position blade switch allows him to move back and forth between the bridge, neck, and one of the single coils; the two position toggle allows him to add the bridge p/u to whatever is selected on the blade switch, allowing him to combine the bridge/neck and bridge/single coil. Cool.

[Paajtor]

Great performance, but the audience looks dead

[ericmusic13]

The Musicman Steve Morse signature is beautiful !

Steve Morse is a very good guitar player

[cptnoremac]

In your face, Yngwie.

[ksmithdc]

It isn't necessary to put down one guy in order to praise another. Yngwie is great too.

[cptnoremac]

He's great the first few times you hear him, yeah. Then you realize he's just tearing through a bunch of the same scales at a million miles an hour over and over again.

[ksmithdc]

Sorry you can't enjoy him. I've been listening to Yngwie since 1984 (when he was still with Steeler). One of the things I really appreciate about him is that if you slow down his playing, his lines make total logical sense. Kind of like J.S. Bach's counterpoint. It should be no small surprise there because Yngwie borrows very heavily from Bach, Vivaldi and other baroque era composers. For what it's worth Morse highly respects Yngwie.

[n0cturnalsurfer]

man, thats just too many notes for me

[evaldo310]

Steve Morse é um guitarrista que admiro muito...

[Erotomaniac92]

this is one of the hardest song at all, considering that EVERY NOTE IS ALTERNATELY PICKED!!! Steve morse for president!!

[SpartanLaserCanon]

@Erotomaniac92 Steve was and still is the John Petrucci of the old days.

[gitarmats]

Oh my god, there's too many notes!

haha, I'm just kidding of course. this song is awesome, I love it!

[BossCE1]

NO he is not using "Bach" in the intro. The entire composition is Steve's and he's not using Engl amps in this video either. For those criticizing his tone, delay, etc...try to just play one verse, chorus, or bridge section...any one section....then POST IT HERE....and then we can have a point of reference.

[jharri1]

Touche!

[nlxbass]

Who the fuck cares what amp or the fuck he is using. You guys are all obsessed on that! Instead of listening to the music, you are all "what amp or guitar or effects pad he is using?". It's all in the internet! And then all you bedroom retarded freaks compare him to eric johnson? Just listen to the fine music that the band does and stop making stupid comments to great musicians ok?! Cheers to all who think this way!!

[beeroosterm]

@nlxbass Of course, Eric Johnson played on one of Steve Morse Band's early albums...

[jojay25]

@nlxbass - cheeerrrss!

[shredder1965]

@nlxbass lol.

[Coolcutting]

@nlxbass- well said !!

[donkeywaffle]

@nlxbass i wanna know what effects hes using (i know cause i looked it up) because i want to incorporate this sort of tone into my guitar paying. You get that tone by using similar equipment!

[theglasgowinventor]

@nlxbass it's an astonishing piece of guitar. steve's knowledge of theory shines through very brightly.

[carlgt1]

it sort of is "tumeni notes" because I think he left the digital delay on during the solos! :-)

[kurt6string]

I suspect the sound engineer didn't get the mix right between steve's wet and dry amps. I betcha Steve was doing his usual great job.

[guitarjoe12345]

there is hardly any guitarplayer who uses such an aswome and difficult technic like steve. the thing is, that he is able to use alternate picking in every way on the guitar, he even play difficult arpeggios with alternate picking, that's very hard

[Shrevan]

he uses egnl or engl amps or wateeva its called... there is way to much delay on his tone sometimes

[jtonessimo]

thats such bullshit

he sounded the best when he plugged his tele into a JCM800

[fnord23]

morse is always freaking seems to be one of the sloppiest versions of tumeni i've heard/seen...

[SpeedMetalSymphony92]

yeah that's right

[metalhead628]

anyone know what amp head he is using?

[guitarman2233]

it might be peavey, not sure but the amps he always used for the steve morse band would be marshals.

[virtuosolomon]

hes like eric johnson

[SarniaRyan]

suck a fat dick eric jonson is a pansy

[guitarjoe12345]

ok don't talk bullshit, eric johnson makes awsoe music and guitarwork. They are both awsome eric and steve, have both totally different styles. But still I would say Steve is one of the most skilled guitarplyers out here

[gunraykilla]

steve morse never uses hammer-ons and pull-offs he thinks it is cheating

[gunraykilla]

thats al dimeola i take that back

[fennderowl]

i love him

[Felipetrucci69]

lame audience.

[masshred]

Go Steve! get your butt back to Huntington, we're all waiting!

[steffenz911]

genious!

[VictorBettencourt]

Steve Morse is a legend.

[ShredderOfHellview]

did he use a classic for the opening riff?

bach maybe?

[phoquemyope]

Steve's a huge Bach fan, but the opening is all him. You can get tabs, but it's difficult, especially since sweep picking won't work. If you like Bach too, try "Air on a 6-string" off "Major Influences II." That one's not distorted, but it truly rocks.

[martyfriedman86]

cool!