I think Joe Satriani is one of the best. 5 stars for him
PLEASE go to my favs and click on SUBURBAN GUY ROCKIN OUT
he doesnt read music, really feels what he plays and improvises his songs as he goes along. the other 2 favs are him also ARIEL (awesome shredding) and ARIEL SIMANTOV (awesome sweeping) pls view comment and rate them as we think he deserves much more recognition .thanks everyone!
I just love how Joe's doing all of this fantastic playing, and he's just remaining so humble about it. He's never 'above' his audience, which is something you don't see a lot. He's even joking about his playing while having fun, and I didn't hear a bum note anywhere in there.
Hmm the Pitch Axis theory, I have a book that focuses on Satch's playing style and this the first topic they touch on. Very interesting piece of theory.
Takes some experimenting to find out what sounds nice but once you know that, great piece of theory to know ;)
I always get inspired watching Satch cuz' he makes it look so easy, then I end up frustated as shit and I remember why Satch is Satch and I'm......not.
A virtuoso is someone who displays an amazing skill and natural talent of the highest order, often from a very young age. Mozart, for example, was a virtuoso. Prince and Stevie Wonder are two more modern examples of people who I believe could be considered virtuosos. Hope that helps. \m/(-_-)\m/
no hang on what youre describing is a prodigy. Mozart was a prodigy not a virtuoso. A virtuoso is a person who is technically able at a very high standard, like Satch. Satch way almost certainly a prodigy though. That much we can agree on
All you people and your negative opinions. Talking shit about all these bands that have accomplished more then any of you jackasses ever will. No offense to the open minded viewers.
yes and Satch is, was, and always will be, better. His music theory knowledge is outstanding and he is a musician, not just some dude who can move his hands really fast.
you don't understand what im saying xD Satriani taught Kirk, he is more than a person who can move his hands fast, i know Satch is better all I'm saying is that Kirk is no half ass guitarist either, rarely does the student ever surpass the master.
I give props to kirk cuz he CAN play fast, but he has no creativity. but, he is fitting the style of the music, just like King and Henneman from slayer. I just value quality of notes over quality. Or, If you're Chuck Schuldiner, you write a freakin awesome solo, totally original and fitting to the song, and he is still the best alternate picker in the world!
I bet Kirk has plenty of great music he writes outside of Metallica, but he seems too modest to express it. Listen to some of his other stuff, like Trinity, a song off of Santana's newer album, I think it's pretty creative. But I do agree that Satch is almost untouchable when it comes to writing music. You know that Joe Satriani actually mentored Kirk Hammet. You can even hear his influence on Suicide & Redemption.
what i did, Right out the scale,so say for instance, major, Write out the 8 notes, or 7, 8th is just the octave (first note again), and write the space between each of the notes. so C to D , full step (2 notes). Sounds long winded, but playing it and looking at it that way for me helped. Wikipedia is also real good on helping out with triads and scales.
i think this is maybe more a simplified version of how he uses it though, its not as simple as just using E as the note. You could base it in E minor, then do this to all of the notes within the E minor scale for different ways of expression. Say you do it with E minor to E lydian, then go back to G major to G phrygian. thats just randomly picking it out and making it simple again compared to the possibilities of it all, but I think thats the idea is to get you to experiment.
ok so here is my take on that.... basicaly he is just using E as the root note.. then just changing mode for either a happy sad or mystical sound is that right? so basically pitch axis is playing in modes. cos I thought pitch is when you play the sae not but in a different octive there for going up or down in pith? a heck ill understand one day..... ps Satch feel free any time to pop over to Gosport UK and ill make you a cuppa coffe for a guitar lesson.......... :D
Yeah Satch I solo in major switch to lydian or phrygian possibly mixolydian(depending on mood)then finish with a couple of bars in minor pentatonic its just that simple innit?
What he's explaining is called Diatonic Theory. Pythagoras an ancient greek philosopher invented it by plucking strings and changing their length to get 3rds, 5ths, etc. "Music of the Spheres". Its not based on a staff either. The names of the modes mean things in Greek.
Aye, Ionia, etc. My guitar teacher told me Locrian or Lydian, forget which but I think Locrian (sounds dark), meant "really nasty" or something in Greek.
It's good if you want a really dark sounding song, like...something like slayer only more diatonic. It's far from the wierdest souning scale I can think of though; try diminshed scales and the whole tone scale: those are strange.
He's good, but you can tell he's having a little trouble teaching and improvising at the same time.
If you want to play using weird scales like Joe, try tuning your guitar in major thirds. Takes a while to get used to, but it makes scales SO easy--no position shifting and no 2nd string/3rd string rift. Disadvantages: you lose about about four frets of range and it seriously limits chord playing.
Drgas, i dont think you could be more innovative than vai at an electric guitar, but that´s my oppinion.Sandan443 yes, you don´t need to have long fingers to be great but you couldn´t play some of the things vai plays without long fingers (his fingers are very long)
u dont compare thats the beauty in style between hese guys...they all probably cant play each others stuff exactly the same way...
but ok i do think vais stuff is crazy compared to the others ...he takes his playing to another level...u all wanna hear some crazy guitar checkout a piece of music called "road home" by a berkley student guitarist called prashant aswani...you can find the track on My Space...
atlmaryland you fucking moron, satriani is the perfect guitar player and i tell you one more thing vai is better so do the maths. nobody could play like vai just because of his long fingers in the first place, hendrix would cry if he was dared just to solo with satriani (and he would run to his house if dared to vai)
i dont think so. what's the generation difference between hendrix and those guys? they owe a lot to him, and if they were around at the same time, hendrix would still be more innovative and they would probably end up taking a lesson from him like most of the top players of his time. so YOU do the math...
yes, i know where you go, if hendrix wasn´t there they wouldn´t be here (satriani´s main influence was hendrix). But i´m saying who´s better guitar player(and if you choose hendrix instead of vai, satriani, van halen, petrucci, johnson, gilbert and malmsteen and you add some others, i think you are a liar or you haven´t listenes to these guitar players in a wide range.
ummmm ...you really dont need long fingers to be a great player.. sure..it helps when you're a beginner... but dont think it'll make any difference when you're a player of satch or vai's calibre... what you do need though are fast, smooth accurate fingers!
Im sure they are they nnead the extra arms you see to be good. You see its not the arms but the fingers(bone structure) a perfect example are Hendrix and Schenker. God gifted. Schenkers doesnt nead the extra arm. Schenker forgot more than Vai or Sat will ever know.
jrbain you have no clue what you are talking about... satriani is my personal favorite guitarist..but dont bash EVH and his 2handed tapping.. 2ht actually follows modal scales over 5th intervals which is the backbone of how guitar and music theory works... satriani took EVH's tapping to a more advanced level...but it was first EVH and that connected fifths over dorian phrygian lydian and locrian modes
would you rather..have a million dollars or...hav satch invite you to be the 3rd guitarist of the G3 line up??..thers a good 1 for u all!..he is the pinnical of guitar technique and playing i think
for me. Jimmy is the spirit, Joe is the heart and steve vai is the body of guitarrist! joe and vai are cool, but satriani is awsome! SATRIANI ROCKS!!!
hendrix would need practise a day or more to play two hand picking he had more heart in some songs but he´s virtuosity is not comparable with vai or van halen
agreed, but don't compare him to EVH, as he's a mindless wanking machine. Virtuosity is not just about technique. It's about theory and musicality too, which is why Vai and Satch are virtuosi, and EVH is not.
you're musically retarded if you can find musical reasoning behind Eruption, or those solos that don't fit the song, the tapping runs that go out of key... I may not be a musical theory genius, but i know that much. Satriani has STUDIED musical theory, EVH has not, and he makes that quite clear. I love your immaturity, it's quite amusing.
awwww...astig...my pinoy p plang nakakakilala kay satriani...hehe...joe is such a nice guy...like vai...i think vai owns most of the strangest sound a guitarist can ever produce...but without satriani he wont be the steve vai we know...
Agreed Satch and Vai are by the far the best guitarists in the world. All this neo claasical speed shred stuff ala Malmsteen is just annoying. No one can match Satch or Vai for all round brilliance. But ofcourse no one and I mean no one should be even mentioned in the same breathe as Jimi!
Dylan should for his music composition,as should robert johnston,as should leonard cohen as should bowie Hendrix was obsessed with all of them ..if anyone mentioned bob dylan around hendrix his eyes would fill with excitement..music..fantastic
i agree with maryland. sure the satch and vai are awesome guitarists but they dont have the heart or feeling in their music like hendrix did. R.I.P jimi!
And for the guy who said satch and vai are the same,take their distortions.Satriani mostly uses distorted tones when vai generally prefers clean ones.This can make music sound way different even the identical notes were played.
Well said vaguelee!Music is not a sport.Musicians are rated on their quality of composition.Not on their playing speed.You can double satriani's songs in speed but you can never match him in melody.Vai is superb but I think he is too flamboyant to fit the feeling to the melody and sometimes what he does becomes a soup of sounds,not a song.Or maybe that's how it sounds to me...I don't know.
Satriani and Vai have completely different styles. Satriani has a much more traditional tone (PAF pickups, analog stomp boxes, and Marshall amps until recently), Vai uses lots of digital processing in his tone. Satch has a very smooth playing style, and Vai has a more angular approach, owing a lot to the years he spent playing with Zappa. And noone will ever sound like Hendrix! That Michael Angelo Batio dude can play faster than Satch or Vai, but it doesn't matter! Music is not a sport!
Take their guitars into consideration, and the only things that are the same are the Logo(build) and the Edge Floyd Rose bridge. They have different styles of playings, but it takes a lot of training to master some of their signature techniques. Satriani is a bit easier for me, he does a lot of legato and his whammy work is not too hard.
as this 1 indian said hendrix smoked weed and thought it made his music better and satch somkes weed jus to smoke it o yeah satch could outplay hendrix anyday
hahaha, it was said "hendrix was ahead of his own time", but i can say ppl like satch, vai, or my favorite petrucci are now ahead of THIS era, Hendrix was an inspiration to them, so they started from there and got ahead of it, so it's no use comparing, but we should respect Hendrix, our favorite musician respects him too, i think that :)
Hendrix is was way better than all these other guys were and in a category of his own. He could outdo any of these guys and can play even faster and with more variation
Hendrix was a great songwriter and visionary, but if you think he could play faster than guys like Satch, Steve Vai or Paul Gilbert, then there is something wrong with you. And more variation? Did you not watch the video and hear how many different sounds Joe got, while keeping the tonal centre the same?
no way man hendrix is great ! and joe is great ! hendrix is an influance for a lot of guitarists of generation next ! and joe is an influance now and surly next !
Helliconia, what do you mean when you say he masturbates with his guitar?
And before I wasn't saying that you don't like his music because you don't play guitar, I was saying that you have no understanding of what emotion is on the guitar. Which you clearly don't. I've been playing guitar nearly all my life, I'd also think I'd know what I'm talking about more than you.
I dont really care if i am disagreed with for this but well hendrix was great by his days standards by todays standards he isnt anything that special. not to say that because of hendrix things didnt become what they are today. but i am a guitarist and i havnt heard anything by hendrix i couldnt have a shot at and well i "know" alot of people better than iam. but hendrix is not anything special. there are more emotional guitarists out there and technically better guitarists too.
Comparing is stupid...They're both good guitarists...who you like is a matter of taste..and hendrix is not mediocre.. if he was they wouldn't consider him one of the great guitarists out there.
It's stupid comparing jimi hendrix to satriani... it's STUPID.. But if you really want to know who's TECHNICALLY better, it's joe satriani. jimi hendrix wasn't as fast as Satriani.. jimi hendrix didn't understand a sh*t about legatos and tappings etc..
i could never understand guitarists thinking. its like 2 kids on a playground (my dad can beat up your dad). how can u say Satch doesn't play with feeling? how do u know what hes feeling? why don't u guys just accept the good qualities of a player and disregard the rest? Picasso just shreds Michelangelo. how can u compare art is what im asking. makes no sense.
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GregMagDrums 1 month ago
It is good to see that alien hybrids like to play guitar and live amongest us.
clubfootforyou 2 months ago in playlist clubfootforyou's favorites
WOW, I didnt know joe satriani could also act
Ericnr97 10 months ago
Dayum satch knows his scales!
MrSpeedgtrst16 1 year ago
i sense Satch is a little jealous with Coltrane,yes? that pitch axis remember me ,vaguely,of some sorta "Giant" somethings....
awfulguitarplucker 1 year ago
SUBTITULOSS!!
refugiogospelrock 1 year ago
I think Joe Satriani is one of the best. 5 stars for him
PLEASE go to my favs and click on SUBURBAN GUY ROCKIN OUT
he doesnt read music, really feels what he plays and improvises his songs as he goes along. the other 2 favs are him also ARIEL (awesome shredding) and ARIEL SIMANTOV (awesome sweeping) pls view comment and rate them as we think he deserves much more recognition .thanks everyone!
suburbangal 1 year ago
i have that guitar!!!!!
Swatch02 1 year ago
Satriani rules!!
And I have that Peavey Cab!! :P
danivh92 2 years ago
I just love how Joe's doing all of this fantastic playing, and he's just remaining so humble about it. He's never 'above' his audience, which is something you don't see a lot. He's even joking about his playing while having fun, and I didn't hear a bum note anywhere in there.
PneRobinho619 2 years ago
It was in Moscow at Ibanez clinic, not in Tokyo
webanton 2 years ago 2
Satch fans might like this cover of Satch Boogie :)
watch?v=Rh0IvYKSDGs
PhantomimineHorse 2 years ago
omfg i LOVE SATCH!!!!!!!!
TheVaiFan 2 years ago
"And then I do something weird like that. heh heh" Satch
clubfootforyou 2 years ago 14
Hmm the Pitch Axis theory, I have a book that focuses on Satch's playing style and this the first topic they touch on. Very interesting piece of theory.
Takes some experimenting to find out what sounds nice but once you know that, great piece of theory to know ;)
slicer789 2 years ago
What book? what book? What BOOK!!!??!
darthvaderyoda 2 years ago
I think it was " Joe Satriani: Riff by Riff"
but you can also just google ' pitch axis theory '
slicer789 2 years ago
I always get inspired watching Satch cuz' he makes it look so easy, then I end up frustated as shit and I remember why Satch is Satch and I'm......not.
GeetarAdam 2 years ago 11
I could listen to him doodle all day!
sportsportsport 2 years ago 2
You might as well say that, you wanna watch him jack-off all day.
RhoadsRIP 2 years ago
wow... what knowledge can I deduct from your comment?.... nil is what I say......
sportsportsport 2 years ago
What a fantastic musician. Not just a shredder on guitar. A creatively brilliant guy.
Reggie1971 2 years ago 9
last chord sare beatuiful
cameronbob92 2 years ago 3
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this video is cool.
Whinesilencer 2 years ago 3
that red guitar is just awesome
sfrgre 2 years ago 15
This is not live in Tokyo, but a workshop in Moscow on March 28, 2004. This section is an explanation of a pitch axis.
Geistero 2 years ago 30
hahah pinoy amp!
Busgtx 2 years ago
Kirk hammet is the worst satriani's student, Skolnick and Vai are better so far!
Grimmjowespada 2 years ago 13
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faridMacLeod 2 years ago
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to : Grimmjowespada : every guitarist develop his own style , they are not supposed to play like their master !!
anyway satch is god !!!!! :))
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YES! Kirk fucking sucks, all his solos sound the same! and for those people who are about to bitch about this STFU!
rgmike 2 years ago
kirk doesnt suck hes just not as amazing as joes other students and no they all dont sound the same either
thuglyfe91332 2 years ago 12
To some people anyone who's not a virtuoso just sucks. They only see black and white.
GeetarAdam 2 years ago
i'm sorry... but i'm starting at english and i'd like to know (if you don't mind) what a virtuoso is. thanks ;)
brenoobr 2 years ago
A virtuoso is someone who displays an amazing skill and natural talent of the highest order, often from a very young age. Mozart, for example, was a virtuoso. Prince and Stevie Wonder are two more modern examples of people who I believe could be considered virtuosos. Hope that helps. \m/(-_-)\m/
GeetarAdam 2 years ago
no hang on what youre describing is a prodigy. Mozart was a prodigy not a virtuoso. A virtuoso is a person who is technically able at a very high standard, like Satch. Satch way almost certainly a prodigy though. That much we can agree on
soupeemaster 2 years ago 3
They're legend.
shinryuurey17 2 years ago
Can't forget Eddie Van halen
CrimsonThornFan 2 years ago
All you people and your negative opinions. Talking shit about all these bands that have accomplished more then any of you jackasses ever will. No offense to the open minded viewers.
cbrnate 2 years ago 3
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wannabe Esteban.
bilbring 3 years ago
that just proves that 2 b a musical genius, u hav 2 no ur theory.
ACDC666SatrianiVai 3 years ago
This just shows that you need to learn to not be lazy and add the extra one or two letters to your words so you don't look like a dumbass
rashesthippo 3 years ago 4
james hetfiled doesnt even know the notes on the guitar and look what he´s accomplished
Riberaberubu 3 years ago 4
yeah - he went from being the frontman of the best metal band ever to being the frontman of the best joke ever.
it kills me to say it, but metallica hasn't released a good album in a long time
martinthegnome 3 years ago 4
this is why satch rules.
just try to say that kirk is better, you fanbois on that other video...
jplate8 3 years ago
you know Joe Satriani taught kirk hammet right?
JoeGuitarGuy 3 years ago
yes and Satch is, was, and always will be, better. His music theory knowledge is outstanding and he is a musician, not just some dude who can move his hands really fast.
jplate8 3 years ago 2
you don't understand what im saying xD Satriani taught Kirk, he is more than a person who can move his hands fast, i know Satch is better all I'm saying is that Kirk is no half ass guitarist either, rarely does the student ever surpass the master.
JoeGuitarGuy 3 years ago
I give props to kirk cuz he CAN play fast, but he has no creativity. but, he is fitting the style of the music, just like King and Henneman from slayer. I just value quality of notes over quality. Or, If you're Chuck Schuldiner, you write a freakin awesome solo, totally original and fitting to the song, and he is still the best alternate picker in the world!
DEATH!
jplate8 3 years ago
what makes you think he has no creativity?
JoeGuitarGuy 3 years ago
maybe creativity is not the right word.
He's really just more of a guitarist, not a musician like satchmo
jplate8 3 years ago
Agreed, he's more of a person too hear a song and make a solo based on it, as where satch just makes the songs, which are all basically solos lol
JoeGuitarGuy 3 years ago
kirk hammet's technical ability is not even close to all the boys from g3
DiazArif 3 years ago 2
I bet Kirk has plenty of great music he writes outside of Metallica, but he seems too modest to express it. Listen to some of his other stuff, like Trinity, a song off of Santana's newer album, I think it's pretty creative. But I do agree that Satch is almost untouchable when it comes to writing music. You know that Joe Satriani actually mentored Kirk Hammet. You can even hear his influence on Suicide & Redemption.
cbrnate 2 years ago
He's cool.
wesselbindt 3 years ago
god damn it joe satriani is undeniably the best.
itsumonihon 3 years ago
that combination/succession of chords is what makes this kind of musicians succeed, cause it´s wierd.
alepaan 3 years ago
Music is the perfect combination of math and emotion.
cbrnate 2 years ago 6
I like that!
kungfuman82 2 years ago 6
nice quote
mann5711 2 years ago 3
That is one shiny fucking guitar!
TintedReasoning 3 years ago
Not quite as shiny as his head!!
CodyPettengill 3 years ago 6
You must have never seen his Chromeboy signature guitars.
Acepryus 3 years ago
rofl @ 1:16 - 1:31 that guy's checking Joe out.
GibsonGuitarist1022 3 years ago 8
Damn dat's good !!! I wanna learn that !!
jhb972 3 years ago
maestro joe sat!
Nikkorea 3 years ago 2
oh damn I have lot to learn :(
paladinnoir1 3 years ago 8
Can someone please tell me how these scales are different?
zepvhrule 3 years ago
With respect to the root major scale:
Ionian: No change
Dorian: add 2 flats
Phrygian: add 4 flats
Lydian: Add 1 sharp
Mixolydian: Add 1 flat
Aeolian (natural minor): Add 3 flats
Locrian: Add 5 flats
RSRop0 3 years ago
I like more of a...
Ionian - Major
Dorian - Minor with a raised 6th
Phrygian - Minor with a
tc0nk 3 years ago
I MEANT...
Ionian - Major
Dorian - Minor with a raised 6th
Phrygian - Minor with a lowered 2nd
Lydian - Major with a raised 4th
Mixolydian - Major with a lowered 7th
Aeolian - Natural Minor
Locrian - Minor with a lowered 2nd and 5th
tc0nk 3 years ago
what i did, Right out the scale,so say for instance, major, Write out the 8 notes, or 7, 8th is just the octave (first note again), and write the space between each of the notes. so C to D , full step (2 notes). Sounds long winded, but playing it and looking at it that way for me helped. Wikipedia is also real good on helping out with triads and scales.
Idiotcorrector 3 years ago
look at 1:16 the guy at the right lol he looks halerious sry for sp
domedeed1 3 years ago
thats ur left... and its hilarious
ggnorelawl 3 years ago
mhh lydian is my favourite ^^
musicbymax 3 years ago 2
i like myxolydian :)
kwikkash2 3 years ago
it's ibanez clinic in russia, not live lesson g3 in tokyo ;) but who cares - truly amazing
pietiakefas 3 years ago
i think this is maybe more a simplified version of how he uses it though, its not as simple as just using E as the note. You could base it in E minor, then do this to all of the notes within the E minor scale for different ways of expression. Say you do it with E minor to E lydian, then go back to G major to G phrygian. thats just randomly picking it out and making it simple again compared to the possibilities of it all, but I think thats the idea is to get you to experiment.
kickcableguyinnuts 3 years ago
good player!!! farmer tan lol
boringwoodson 3 years ago
ok so here is my take on that.... basicaly he is just using E as the root note.. then just changing mode for either a happy sad or mystical sound is that right? so basically pitch axis is playing in modes. cos I thought pitch is when you play the sae not but in a different octive there for going up or down in pith? a heck ill understand one day..... ps Satch feel free any time to pop over to Gosport UK and ill make you a cuppa coffe for a guitar lesson.......... :D
jemjoesatch 3 years ago 4
I didn't know Vin Diesel can play guitar LOL
mynamejejaka 3 years ago 28
lmao hahahhahaa
guitarworton 3 years ago 4
Yeah Satch I solo in major switch to lydian or phrygian possibly mixolydian(depending on mood)then finish with a couple of bars in minor pentatonic its just that simple innit?
oohahmissus 3 years ago
It's amazing how he can play in all these different modes, and never look down at his left hand once. Truly a master of his craft.
Ibanez3789 3 years ago 8
joe + guitar tone machine= I dont know, but the result is just freakin amazing
randytauren 3 years ago 2
He makes it look so effortless!
spikester3612 4 years ago 3
This wasn't in Tokyo, this was a clinic in Moscow.
doomsayer83 4 years ago
he is the best on scales.
elrompecuerdas 4 years ago
What he's explaining is called Diatonic Theory. Pythagoras an ancient greek philosopher invented it by plucking strings and changing their length to get 3rds, 5ths, etc. "Music of the Spheres". Its not based on a staff either. The names of the modes mean things in Greek.
JonnyGoats 4 years ago
The names of the modes come from regions of greece
ZaphodBeeblebrox65 4 years ago 3
Aye, Ionia, etc. My guitar teacher told me Locrian or Lydian, forget which but I think Locrian (sounds dark), meant "really nasty" or something in Greek.
JonnyGoats 4 years ago
Probably is Locrian, in my opinion its the wierdest sounding mode there is. Not much you can do with it in terms of song writing.
utopia1024 4 years ago
It's good if you want a really dark sounding song, like...something like slayer only more diatonic. It's far from the wierdest souning scale I can think of though; try diminshed scales and the whole tone scale: those are strange.
ZaphodBeeblebrox65 4 years ago
He's explaining the Pitch Axis theory. Using E as your tonal center and then changing the key around that but always keeping e as the center
sticky793 3 years ago
so pythagoras was musically gifted as well as having an immense mathmatical ability??
tgerule 3 years ago
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music = math
Jowind 3 years ago
He's good, but you can tell he's having a little trouble teaching and improvising at the same time.
If you want to play using weird scales like Joe, try tuning your guitar in major thirds. Takes a while to get used to, but it makes scales SO easy--no position shifting and no 2nd string/3rd string rift. Disadvantages: you lose about about four frets of range and it seriously limits chord playing.
Some fun scale patterns, in half steps:
Indian: 4 1 2 3 2
Arabian: 1 3 1 2 1 3 1
gairabad 4 years ago
hands down to joe!!!
thelycandraven 4 years ago
Drgas, i dont think you could be more innovative than vai at an electric guitar, but that´s my oppinion.Sandan443 yes, you don´t need to have long fingers to be great but you couldn´t play some of the things vai plays without long fingers (his fingers are very long)
sebotas86 4 years ago
its not impossible to play the stuff vai plays or even impossible to play as well as he does. it just may be a little harder than it was for him.
khbgkh 4 years ago 2
guys what are u both on about who's better...
u dont compare thats the beauty in style between hese guys...they all probably cant play each others stuff exactly the same way...
but ok i do think vais stuff is crazy compared to the others ...he takes his playing to another level...u all wanna hear some crazy guitar checkout a piece of music called "road home" by a berkley student guitarist called prashant aswani...you can find the track on My Space...
flord23 4 years ago
Hey Man thx for the comment... check your emils, I have already send to you one to your youtube mail box. Greetings! long live to Satriani!
nachojaure 4 years ago
Master of kirk hammet and steve vai ;)
Overseer32 4 years ago 3
master!!
jdacateriano 4 years ago
yes. this is in MOSCOW. no tokio.
jarinawer 4 years ago
both hendrix and satriani would think that your discussion is stupid
jdean9 4 years ago 4
this is not tokyo
piguif 4 years ago
atlmaryland you fucking moron, satriani is the perfect guitar player and i tell you one more thing vai is better so do the maths. nobody could play like vai just because of his long fingers in the first place, hendrix would cry if he was dared just to solo with satriani (and he would run to his house if dared to vai)
sebotas86 4 years ago
i dont think so. what's the generation difference between hendrix and those guys? they owe a lot to him, and if they were around at the same time, hendrix would still be more innovative and they would probably end up taking a lesson from him like most of the top players of his time. so YOU do the math...
DRGasMoney 4 years ago
yes, i know where you go, if hendrix wasn´t there they wouldn´t be here (satriani´s main influence was hendrix). But i´m saying who´s better guitar player(and if you choose hendrix instead of vai, satriani, van halen, petrucci, johnson, gilbert and malmsteen and you add some others, i think you are a liar or you haven´t listenes to these guitar players in a wide range.
sebotas86 4 years ago
ummmm ...you really dont need long fingers to be a great player.. sure..it helps when you're a beginner... but dont think it'll make any difference when you're a player of satch or vai's calibre... what you do need though are fast, smooth accurate fingers!
SanDman4433 4 years ago
awesome
mrocky58 4 years ago
Highly innovative! Cool!
pontificate77 4 years ago
uv u satch!!!
lalagurlzy 4 years ago
I wish I was..wow..Truly a great lesson
Electrice 4 years ago
This is IN MOSCOW!!! And I'm was there!!!
segegg 4 years ago
Takes a few miles under the belt before you realise that its not about comparing players its about appreciating them for what they are
MrMayhemskyline 4 years ago
THIS IS IN MOSCOW,MAN!!!
segegg 4 years ago
Is there a full video of this available anywhere?
Thanks for this... I learned what pitch axis theory was about thanks to this video.
-A
agimcomas 4 years ago
ayos nga to pre!
jpetrucci 4 years ago
never heard of those chords lol!
UglyMaleee 5 years ago
comparing guitarists again huh?:P when will you all learn... Joe youre great!:)
Guitarmajster 5 years ago
I think he actually is an alien
ewhguitarist 5 years ago
I'm pretty sure that he and vai are both aliens, from some amazing race that actually have a third invisible arm, which allows them to be amazing.
Dejarr 5 years ago
Im sure they are they nnead the extra arms you see to be good. You see its not the arms but the fingers(bone structure) a perfect example are Hendrix and Schenker. God gifted. Schenkers doesnt nead the extra arm. Schenker forgot more than Vai or Sat will ever know.
EUguitarRULE 5 years ago
jrbain you have no clue what you are talking about... satriani is my personal favorite guitarist..but dont bash EVH and his 2handed tapping.. 2ht actually follows modal scales over 5th intervals which is the backbone of how guitar and music theory works... satriani took EVH's tapping to a more advanced level...but it was first EVH and that connected fifths over dorian phrygian lydian and locrian modes
mebrandon86 5 years ago
Exactly, plus for the record, EVH is a classically trained pianist.
RoadWarrior2006 4 years ago
would you rather..have a million dollars or...hav satch invite you to be the 3rd guitarist of the G3 line up??..thers a good 1 for u all!..he is the pinnical of guitar technique and playing i think
eezamanna20 5 years ago
for me. Jimmy is the spirit, Joe is the heart and steve vai is the body of guitarrist! joe and vai are cool, but satriani is awsome! SATRIANI ROCKS!!!
hjdelia 5 years ago
hendrix would need practise a day or more to play two hand picking he had more heart in some songs but he´s virtuosity is not comparable with vai or van halen
sebotas86 5 years ago
agreed. but withouth jimi i doubt the fact that satriani or the other greats would even be playing guitar. He was such a huge influence.
AWilhelmJens 5 years ago
agreed, but don't compare him to EVH, as he's a mindless wanking machine. Virtuosity is not just about technique. It's about theory and musicality too, which is why Vai and Satch are virtuosi, and EVH is not.
jrbain1989 5 years ago
thats the most stupid comment i've encounterd on the whole youtube, your musically retarded
JakeELee 5 years ago
you're musically retarded if you can find musical reasoning behind Eruption, or those solos that don't fit the song, the tapping runs that go out of key... I may not be a musical theory genius, but i know that much. Satriani has STUDIED musical theory, EVH has not, and he makes that quite clear. I love your immaturity, it's quite amusing.
jrbain1989 5 years ago
awwww...astig...my pinoy p plang nakakakilala kay satriani...hehe...joe is such a nice guy...like vai...i think vai owns most of the strangest sound a guitarist can ever produce...but without satriani he wont be the steve vai we know...
biblebasher13 5 years ago
Im His teacher i swear..cocky little fuckers gonna hear it from me next saturday...
Clamcob 5 years ago
Agreed Satch and Vai are by the far the best guitarists in the world. All this neo claasical speed shred stuff ala Malmsteen is just annoying. No one can match Satch or Vai for all round brilliance. But ofcourse no one and I mean no one should be even mentioned in the same breathe as Jimi!
pupnipper 5 years ago
Dylan should for his music composition,as should robert johnston,as should leonard cohen as should bowie Hendrix was obsessed with all of them ..if anyone mentioned bob dylan around hendrix his eyes would fill with excitement..music..fantastic
Clamcob 5 years ago
erm, satriani puts so much my heart and feeling into his music.
Skunkhour 5 years ago
Although satches "Until we say goodbye" live in fransico had some feeling (heart) to it.. kinda lol
piefacedude 5 years ago
i agree with maryland. sure the satch and vai are awesome guitarists but they dont have the heart or feeling in their music like hendrix did. R.I.P jimi!
bensush1 5 years ago
I heard that his new haircut enables him to swim faster.
SvenTwelve 5 years ago
And for the guy who said satch and vai are the same,take their distortions.Satriani mostly uses distorted tones when vai generally prefers clean ones.This can make music sound way different even the identical notes were played.
the3xtr3mist 5 years ago
Well said vaguelee!Music is not a sport.Musicians are rated on their quality of composition.Not on their playing speed.You can double satriani's songs in speed but you can never match him in melody.Vai is superb but I think he is too flamboyant to fit the feeling to the melody and sometimes what he does becomes a soup of sounds,not a song.Or maybe that's how it sounds to me...I don't know.
the3xtr3mist 5 years ago
Satriani and Vai have completely different styles. Satriani has a much more traditional tone (PAF pickups, analog stomp boxes, and Marshall amps until recently), Vai uses lots of digital processing in his tone. Satch has a very smooth playing style, and Vai has a more angular approach, owing a lot to the years he spent playing with Zappa. And noone will ever sound like Hendrix! That Michael Angelo Batio dude can play faster than Satch or Vai, but it doesn't matter! Music is not a sport!
vaguelee 5 years ago
Yea, i totally agree with you
Bli7z 5 years ago
besides technical skill and overall knowledge of the instrument that he was playing.. satriani has nothing on Hendrix...
atl2maryland 5 years ago
Take their guitars into consideration, and the only things that are the same are the Logo(build) and the Edge Floyd Rose bridge. They have different styles of playings, but it takes a lot of training to master some of their signature techniques. Satriani is a bit easier for me, he does a lot of legato and his whammy work is not too hard.
Fender869 5 years ago
they play different styles also, there are many many things that seperate satch and vai
Skunkhour 5 years ago
"the only thing i hate about this is that Satriani and Vai sound the same and use the same equipment (Satriani tought Vai)"-chanman65
satriani an vai sound completely different, they use different setups to eachother.
Skunkhour 5 years ago
monte montgomery could teach satriani and vai how to play. look him up
alvacaster 5 years ago
the only thing i hate about this is that Satriani and Vai sound the same and use the same equipment (Satriani tought Vai)
chanman65 5 years ago
yup satriani actually taught kirk hammet too lol
MisterKill666 5 years ago
not much of a teacher now is he?
crushme41dmb 5 years ago
probably hundreds.
Zakkfuckinwylde 5 years ago
HOW MANY SCALES DOES HE KNOW!
michaelpietzsch 5 years ago
There is only one scale.
BlueTunisia 5 years ago
Right, so hes going through various modes of the major and minor scale... not giving any intel, where is the lesson aspect of this?
markeymonkey 5 years ago
It's edited very badly in that sense. He's discussing "Pitch Axis Theory": wiki Pitch Axis Theory, I can't post the hyperlink.
scarred2112 5 years ago
as this 1 indian said hendrix smoked weed and thought it made his music better and satch somkes weed jus to smoke it o yeah satch could outplay hendrix anyday
thajakesta 5 years ago
are you retarded? no disrespect.. but Hendrix was 40 years ago... QUIT IT!
atl2maryland 5 years ago
fine guitarist pity his music aint better this dude COULD be awsome
tenrocker2 5 years ago
bald
Riggermusic 5 years ago
hahaha, it was said "hendrix was ahead of his own time", but i can say ppl like satch, vai, or my favorite petrucci are now ahead of THIS era, Hendrix was an inspiration to them, so they started from there and got ahead of it, so it's no use comparing, but we should respect Hendrix, our favorite musician respects him too, i think that :)
takujei 5 years ago
his guitar sucks on clean tone
inkspinner 5 years ago
of course it does
micaelcaldito 5 years ago
Hendrix is was way better than all these other guys were and in a category of his own. He could outdo any of these guys and can play even faster and with more variation
bds 5 years ago
lol of course ;)
i think u dont have to tell us whats going on man
freakguitar1 5 years ago
Hendrix was a great songwriter and visionary, but if you think he could play faster than guys like Satch, Steve Vai or Paul Gilbert, then there is something wrong with you. And more variation? Did you not watch the video and hear how many different sounds Joe got, while keeping the tonal centre the same?
NinjaPepper 5 years ago
no way man hendrix is great ! and joe is great ! hendrix is an influance for a lot of guitarists of generation next ! and joe is an influance now and surly next !
lamineur 5 years ago
Have a puplic debate about it why dont ya!
guitarant06 5 years ago
Helliconia, what do you mean when you say he masturbates with his guitar?
And before I wasn't saying that you don't like his music because you don't play guitar, I was saying that you have no understanding of what emotion is on the guitar. Which you clearly don't. I've been playing guitar nearly all my life, I'd also think I'd know what I'm talking about more than you.
SWTAFIAB 5 years ago
this is not Tokyo, it was Joe's clinic in Russia in 2003
vasia621621 5 years ago
Malmsteen it is.
BlowBackBenny 5 years ago
malmsteen
fuckyalife 5 years ago
I dont really care if i am disagreed with for this but well hendrix was great by his days standards by todays standards he isnt anything that special. not to say that because of hendrix things didnt become what they are today. but i am a guitarist and i havnt heard anything by hendrix i couldnt have a shot at and well i "know" alot of people better than iam. but hendrix is not anything special. there are more emotional guitarists out there and technically better guitarists too.
lobonapier 5 years ago
Comparing is stupid...They're both good guitarists...who you like is a matter of taste..and hendrix is not mediocre.. if he was they wouldn't consider him one of the great guitarists out there.
antigravityxl 5 years ago
It's stupid comparing jimi hendrix to satriani... it's STUPID.. But if you really want to know who's TECHNICALLY better, it's joe satriani. jimi hendrix wasn't as fast as Satriani.. jimi hendrix didn't understand a sh*t about legatos and tappings etc..
MrBanez 5 years ago
i could never understand guitarists thinking. its like 2 kids on a playground (my dad can beat up your dad). how can u say Satch doesn't play with feeling? how do u know what hes feeling? why don't u guys just accept the good qualities of a player and disregard the rest? Picasso just shreds Michelangelo. how can u compare art is what im asking. makes no sense.
miced 5 years ago