Vivian Campbell / Lead Guitar Master class /1

[SnuffleZeTruffle]

People that often criticise this sort of "flashier" playing, only do so..because they can't do it, not a hope in hell, not even going to get close to it themselves!

[JoeyFNFingers]

there were no guitar vids before these so there was no basis for those making them to go off of

[napness]

this ain´t music

[aaaaasssss22]

i thought this was a girl when i clicked on the video

[SweeetPicker]

@aaaaasssss22 the same ! And it was why i've clicked !

[SuperNoobTroll]

this douchebag is a douchebag

[MikeToddOnline]

@SuperNoobTroll Said the yeast infection to no one

[octaviocgsa]

Come on, he´s just showing his technique, you´re comparing the guy with Jimmy Hendrix and judging him by the first two minutes in this video. Viv is a great musician.

[TheSonsofHorusx]

why doesnt def leppard sound like this?

[pedraw]

This kind of thing is all fine and dandy for about the 1st minute. Then I'm bored to death with it. Talented lad none the less.

[nouoriel]

hendrix was a genius. technically he's not as good as... put your favourite shredder here..., but a guitar player's goal, or it should be, is to play music that connects to people. and he wrote some of the greatest guitar songs of all time. now I admire viv's technique, but that thing he plays before tuning up is musically redundant. couldn't listen to that at all. prefer listening to hendrix's vib, string bending and note choice.

[tehgreyyy]

@nouoriel Hello.. this is a master class. Master class: guitar technique. Listen to Vivian's albums if you want to hear his song writing.

[fuckfuckinshit]

listening to a hendrix solo put me to sleep its not exciting its quite dull and anyone can do what hendrix has done and there are plenty of people out there that are doing exactly what he has done i would rather listen to stevive or shawn lane cover hendrix tunes atleast they sound remotely composed and not some random nigger on on drugs that doesnt know his left hand guitars from his right handed guitars hendrix wasent that great no matter what anyone says

[MikeToddOnline]

@fuckfuckinshit It was exciting in 1967 dipshit. And if you can do it, prove it. You're a racist piece of shit, hopefully some crip will shoot you in the fucking face and leave a tie dye bandana over you. Maybe you should take drugs and let go of that xenophobic racist hatred, you might actually become a decent musician someday as well

[amkboxer]

I found nothing at all musical or interesting about the first 2:50.

[lee95757]

These rock guys nowadays are all playing the same stuff. The speed picking, economy picking, tapping, shredding. It's not easy to listen to after a while. All that stuff is in books you can buy and after a few years you'll sound just like em. Even today, as far as originality, showmanship, song writing and style...no one can touch Hendrix. He was the greatest rock guitarist of all time and that's well documented.

[udi112]

stop comparing hendrix, its like saying slash is better, just showing your not into guitar buissnes like most people here, hendrix is compared to regular guy playing in a band only that he was very creative back than, and invented alot of ways to play guitar, but far as goes for guitar playing itself im not sure hendrix could pull it off facing modern guitar players even today.

[spiceyweasel]

I like Hendrix, but he wasn't all that, or I sure wouldn't be able to play his stuff. Rhodes and Van Halen did a lot of innovative stuff Jimi never thought of.

[andreee916]

@spiceyweasel yeah, but you gotta understand that there wouldn't even be a rhodes or van halen without jimi.

[Whackooyzero]

Vivian has some odd advice in this video. Don't keep your thumb behind the neck? Seems kind of strange to me, sure most guitarists outside of classical you see tend to have the thumb over the neck, but it's actually not that good for your hand. Granted it doesn't cause problems for some people but for some it does. Outside of that, I find maneuvering the guitar is far easier when the thumb is behind the neck.

[Lazzle22]

@Whackooyzero Jeff Waters gives the same advice, but he says it's only a smart thing to keep your thumb on top of the neck when you play bluesy licks with a lot of bending etc.

[animalcrackers666]

I like how he uses bc rich.

[lighwave]

Every rock guitar player is influenced by Clapton & Hendrix, I mean you have to start somewhere. Before Chuck Berry the guitar was regulated to just playing chords in big bands. Hendrix was sloppy but he was more concerned with 'creating' than tech.

Also there was no such thing as compression for guitar. Hendrixed was influenced by Clapton. Hendrix was at the right place at the right time. Hendrix had a lot of R&B influence in all of his playing, as well as the blues.

[lionkingfan]

@lighwave i do understand your point about the guitar in the big band era.i guess it was mostly used for rhythm playing.but they did have some good soloists back then.like django reinhart.he would pull of some crazy guitar solos in the 1930s.

[Yoganao]

@lionkingfan, django reinhart. was NOT from the big band era, he played in a little string jazz quartet in the 30's not a big band with horns in the 40's. Les Paul was of the big band era & he could never hear himself so he invented the Log which was a solid body electric guitar diguied as an old jazz guiter.

[Skelidude]

He's as thick as a brick..

[lighwave]

Many people played/play Hendrix licks better than Hendrix.

[nic95]

@lighwave "Better" is all based on opinion.

[boddumblues]

I heard that he at some point recieved instruction from Gary Moore,

it sounds pssible, but have never been able to confirm it...

[vanhalen515084]

@boddumblues if you know anything about gary moore's playing, he is totally influenced by him,

[boddumblues]

@vanhalen515084

What I mean is Vivian is Irish and a Dubliner as far as I know (originally) and has been living close to Gary Moore and gotten instruction at some point. And yes I've got ears :-)

[boddumblues]

@vanhalen515084

Sorry, I meant Belfast not Dublin !!

[gbc77000]

I think George Lynch is a bad ass. When I saw Dokken play the Monsters of Rock festival, I thought George was better than all the rest including Van Halen or Kirk Mammett

[DiogoAlmeida95]

@gbc77000 Why did you mentioned Kirk? Is not that great

[gbc77000]

@DiogoAlmeida95 I don't understand what you're trying to say because you didn't write in complete sentences.

[Hertsman50]

I think just about every guitarist you hear on youtube sounds like this guy..lol Just ever so boring..lol

[notuern]

@Hertsman50

What makes this guy impressive is that he basically invented this style of playing.

[thehuntersmetal]

Hendrix is overrated.

[VanishaGlamChick6]

From a time when BC RICH used to make good guitars ...

[goldgretch]

i this is one of the worst guitar videos ive ever seen. its such a useless lesson and beginner aprpach

[ThriftyStranger]

i guess alternate picking didnt exist lol?

[RediForKing]

His tone is too 80's

[Dtownknight]

this video doesn't do vivian justice. his solos have so much feel and technique. i have been playing a long time and his solos are still tough to duplicate precisely.

[gbc77000]

LOL!!!

[H057IL3]

You guys have obviously never heard of DEF LEPPARD. Or DIO.

[rexdalematty]

Jimmy Hendrix is awesome but buddy guy is what got hendrix going!  Buddy Guy is the shit!!! This guy vivian is a homo!

[pspsp5]

I thought it was a woman lol

[rockermetalhead1200]

RIP Vivian Campbell?? He's not dead yet? He's still alive,unless Wikipedia is lying to me. It saids he's 48 years old today.

[h3adbanger95]

@rockermetalhead1200 that's what i thought

[Numba1Gama]

I want a sustainer on my shitty guitar lol

[yootesa1515]

hey did vivian use economy (im not sure how to spell it) picking solo's with dio ?

[xuxis2008]

@yootesa1515 No. Actually he did not use alternate picking as well, not in the way that Paul GIlbert or even Malsteen do. He plays more like an old school kind of technique - sort of Gary Moore, Steve Lukather and so. Very melodic, but far from robotically precise if you now what I mean. When Campbell plays fast he's a little sloppy notwithstanding being melodic.

[Fotzkopp1980]

@xuxis2008

You can say what you want about Vivian Cambpell and Steve Lukather, but Gary Moore is technically on another level. He may be older than Lukather, Cambpell, Malmsteen and Gilbert, but his technique is not just old school. In the early eighties his alternate picking was so good and so fast, it would make even Malmsteen and Gilbert shit their pants. In fact, Malmsteen regards him as a perfect stylist and technician.

[xuxis2008]

@Fotzkopp1980 Actually, no. I love Moore - as a metter of fact, his solo on the Shapes of Things from the We Want Moore live album is one of my 10 favourite solos of all time. But his picking techinique cannot be compared to Malmsteen - not to mention Gilbert. Since you mentioned Malmsteen, he said in an interview that "when Gary Moore plays fast he's sloppy, but when he plays slow he's one of the very best".

[Fotzkopp1980]

@xuxis2008

Gary Moore is sloppy, when he plays fast? Malmsteen is wrong, and he probably knows it. Or he is not well aware of Gary Moore. Moore is definitely fast and clean. His picking technique is extremely fast, he can pick faster than Malmsteen or Gilbert can sweep. Forget the Solo of "Shapes Of Things"............... listen to "Gary Moore - Live Guitar Solo (White Knuckles) - 23rd May 1983" and then please tell me what you think!

[josiahgust]

@Fotzkopp1980 I love me some Gary Moore, but lets be real, he wasn't faster than Gilbert. I'm not arguing talent or anything, but Paul can destroy Gary at pure speed. I've spent countless hours watching videos of both, so I feel pretty comfortable saying this. Why bring up sweeping though? Neither Paul or Gary used it much. I know they both could extremely well, but its not in their regular bag of licks.

[ChienJaune01]

@xuxis2008 YJM is notoriously an asshole when talking about other guitar players.

[guitarcolossus]

this is stupid.

[bloodblitz0]

duble pecking love his accent

[Kjutte1]

Thumb behind neck is great technique. Classical guitarists all learn this, and it's been done for 500 years. Hendrix didn't play scales in this way...

[gbc77000]

@Kjutte1 No, Hendrix can't play scales in this way. The way he played them was like an alien came into his body and transfered crazy thoughts and sounds from his fingers to the fretboard.

I like Viv Cambell's playing but there are a million guys who do the exact same thing Viv does.

In 40 years, nobody's even come close to approaching what Hendrix has done.

I doubt anyone ever will.

[Kjutte1]

@gbc77000 Has nothing to do with building technique.

[TheEJDavies]

@gbc77000 It's impossible to scratch what Hendrix knew about guitar.

I vote we give Justin Bieber as a sacrifice to get Jimi back!

[cheese0tron]

@TheEJDavies no give jb for randy rhoads

[TheEJDavies]

@cheese0tron Or we could give the pop-stars of today up for Freddie Mercury, Hendrix, Rhoads, Dio, Lennon etc.

[TheEJDavies]

@gbc77000 No one will ever scratch what Hendrix knew.

[bonfirejovi]

@gbc77000 millions of people can do what hendrix can EASILY, what are you on about?

[RubHerSoul1]

@gbc77000 or Jeff Beck for that matter who surpassed all these shred guys and became legend where most of these guys became footnotes,pun intended. I mean as far as revealing all the possibilities of playing an instrument, these guys are necessary for that, i guess, but it's all fluff at the end of the day Where's the actual music?

[6Vital6Remains6]

@gbc77000 Trey Azagthoth. Now GTFO.

[DodiDokken]

@gbc77000

Sparati, imbecille.

[notuern]

@gbc77000

You need to listen to George Lynch. ;)

[GLAMJOKER]

@gbc77000 Bet you dont know guys like George Lynch, Malmsteen, Akira Takasaki, c'mon hendrix sucks, Holdsworth came earlier than him ad was much better....besides hendrix used nothing but pentatonic

[717021]

@gbc77000 Oh yeah? Well what about the Backstreet Boys?

[axllovesslash]

@gbc77000 ya hes such big deal right.... get off his dead boney dick

[Crussman499]

@gbc77000 Shawn Lane owns all guitarists. And that is a fact, Jack.

[padawan007]

@Crussman499 jason becker and shawn are kick ass together. but rusty cooley is a new amazing fast player.

[cheese0tron]

@padawan007 rusty cooley sounds like pacman on guitar but jason becker is a god

[MikeToddOnline]

@gbc77000 Why would anyone compare an 80s Hard Rock player to a 60's Psychedelic Rock/Blues Player for starters? Secondly, if a million guys can do it, 1. Prove it. 2. Why didn't THEY play with the legend Dio? I can't believe how fucking stupid people who comment on here truly are. You Tube is ruined by this shit

[cyberwaffles]

@gbc77000 i agree. hendrix was ahead of his time. he produced killers solos and licks with significantly less powerful guitar equipment compared to most shredders in the late 70's and up. just imagine the kind of material hendrix could've produced if he stayed alive longer. especially with better equipment. most guitarists, notably shredders, use overdrive, delay, and a sort of other processed sounds with the aid of refined pedals. not hendrix in the 60's.

[padawan007]

@cyberwaffles dude hendrix used echoplex for delay and wah pedal and stuff he had pedals... and he could easily produce that sound what nowadays guitar players use..

[cyberwaffles]

@padawan007 i never said that he didn't have any effects, i'm just saying they were primitive and not as sophisticated as the ones that came out over the years, especially in the late 70's and throughout the 80's. his musicianship would've definitely improved, but his sound and tone quality would've also gotten better too due to better technology in pedals.

hendrix was a head of his time.

[rigoheavymetal]

cuando yo no sabia musica me dijo un gran guitarrista que vivian era uno de los mejores guitarristas del mundo, ahora que se musica veo que tenia razon.

VIVIAN IS AWESOME!

[eddieleppard]

amazing