Toto - Steve Lukather "Rosanna" Solo Lesson

[mjw9363]

Dude....to the right over on the suggestions when you watch your video is a Dude with a Les Paul.....listen to the one that says "Rosanna 2nd solo" ..THAT'S the sound...the tone of this solo

[jcj2169]

Great solo, great job!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@jcj2169 Thank you sir! Appreciate that!

[aciagator]

 sweet!!!! nice chops!!!!!!!!!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@aciagator Thank you very much! :-)

[mjw9363]

decent...but that guitar sounds like shit!...ugghhh...

[vaisatchatrucci]

@mjw9363 H8R! LMAO ;-) Yeah Amplitube through Bose speakers recorded with an iMac built in microphone and web cam isn't exactly a magnificent recipe for great tone. Sorry you were aurally offended... ;-)

[GMoorefan115]

Very Nice! I really like your lesson, great teaching style . And as for the 3 note per string run as opposed to your preference,i do believe yours nails the sound and vibe of the original,plus it sounds more "outside",the way Luke probably would of played it. All in all you captured his phrasing pretty good .Thanks for posting.

[vaisatchatrucci]

@GMoorefan115 Aw man thanks! :) too kind - glad you dug it and thanks for taking the time to check it out and comment! :-)

[LosLurvos]

i have a couple óf correstions/variations from a offical tabbook(for awsomeness and not for picking on you :)).

the run, first note is 10th fret (tho it sounded good with 11th) and then on g string its 10th 12th 13th 14th and then 13th on b string followed by 14 th 15th (slide to) 17th g sring. then 15 18 15 18 18 bend on bstring

[vaisatchatrucci]

@LosLurvos Cool man! Thanks for sharing! :) I'll have to give that a try, if I can even play it anymore - LOL :)

[BreathController]

@vaisatchatrucci i used your video to catch the run, then i saw this comment and tried it this way.. theyre the same notes, but sounds diferent because of the slide. Thanks anyway, i was kinda stuck on that part hahaha check my version!

[MartijnGuitar]

How many notes per beat are you playing to practice the fast part? I'm now at 2 notes per beat 150bpm and it feels so far away...

[vaisatchatrucci]

@MartijnGuitar I don't even know really - I just set the metronome up and practice, then bump it up, play, bump it up, play, etc until I just can't keep up cleanly. Just play it slow, slow, slow until you get the fingering down, then try increasing the speed. You'll get it clean before you know it. Just takes practice and patience.

[MartijnGuitar]

@vaisatchatrucci Thank you very much for your comment!! I'm will practice it that way!! When I'm done and have it clean, I will upload a video!! Thank you for this video, it really helped me!!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@MartijnGuitar Cool man no problem! Hit me up when you got it up to speed and posted - I'd love to see it! :)

[MartijnGuitar]

@vaisatchatrucci Hey man!! I'm back again... After practicing a lot I'm getting close to it :) I was so excited when I played with the song together that I uploaded it also!! It's not perfect and my timing is a little bit off but with a little practice I will be able to play it perfectly I hope. I hope you like it too, check my profile or the video-comment I made, thank you for your great lesson!!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@MartijnGuitar Dude I checked it out and you KILLED it! Great job brother well done and great tone and it was super fluid too - very impressed!

[wmw0702]

@vaisatchatrucci please do a lesson on the second solo also......thanks

[vaisatchatrucci]

@wmw0702 LOL - if I could actually PLAY it I would... hahaha! Thats a REALLY tough one...

[vaisatchatrucci]

@eichi113 Thank you sir! :)

[vaisatchatrucci]

@JardinOz Cool! Awesome man thanks :) Glad you got it figured out! Yeah Luke is incredible for sure. I agree it sounds better on the B string. I'm pretty sure Luke does it on the E string though - at least all the videos I've seen he does from what I can tell. Good stuff man! Thanks for taking the time and appreciate ya!

[pilgorden]

Help! My A string keeps on resonating through the ''fast'' part. And altho I play it correctly, you still hear the open A string through the whole part. My other strings don't seem to have the problem. And it's realy anoying to mute the string after I'm done with it. It also takes too much time so the solo is ruined

[vaisatchatrucci]

@pilgorden It's a tough solo! Just keep working at it and you'll get it worked out. Try to play it SLOW and build your speed up and it'll come to you.

[MrRedSheep]

@pilgorden Try to put the back of your right hand on the bridge. There you can mute the strings very sensitive while picking.

[Joesauer]

You are a talented player AND a talented teacher. A rare combo!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@Joesauer Thank you so much! very nice of you to say - thanks for checking it out :)

[n0tan0therguitarist]

Our band is doing this tune so I've got to learn this solo by Monday. Thanks for that :)

[vaisatchatrucci]

@n0tan0therguitarist Cool! Thats awesome :)

[robsg07]

Thank you very much for this nice lesson!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@robsg07 Thank YOU! :) and you're quite welcome glad you enjoyed it brother. :)

[srosinei]

watch?v=xy7d8Xp07Fw my version

[MUDSHARK111]

that run just dosnt make any sense to me .seems like it shouldn't work but it does.

[vaisatchatrucci]

@MUDSHARK111 totally - thats why it's so weird to play too!

[CusterFlux]

I love this solo, thank you very much for posting it, I'll make a point of learning it, but can somebody please tell me why it works so damn well in the song? It can't be diatonic, what's with those triple semi-tone intervals in the fast run that sound weird, yet work so damn well can catch your ear?

What the hell's going on?

[vaisatchatrucci]

@CusterFlux LOL - you're welcome, it was always one I wanted to figure out and FINALLY got good enough to learn it after about 20 years... LOL :) It's an interesting run for sure and what's even crazier than learning it is knowing that he probably improvised that solo and it's just a casual run for Lukather... The dude is sick... The outro is ridiculous! I can EVEN touch that one...!

[CusterFlux]

@vaisatchatrucci I couldn't agree more, that outro solo is absolutely incredible, tone, feel, note choice, blah, blah, blah .... regardless, thanks for taking the time with this one and sharing it! The outro doesn't take anything away from this one, as it's beautiful.

There's GOT to be a musical explanation for why the non-diatonic outro works so well with the note choices Luke made, and finally, it just HAS to be learned ... 

[vaisatchatrucci]

@CusterFlux I agree 100%! The man is not from this planet - LOL Well every scale has passing notes and chromatic runs just seem to work as long as you start and end on the right note I guess!?

[vega45130]

I know Luke plays it pretty much the same way with the same fingering. Except that he doesn´t slide to the high note, he bends it. Good work, tho.

Love that colour of yer Axe. Is that the Dargie Delite Version?

[vaisatchatrucci]

@vega45130 Yeah he has a freaky long pinky so I have to cheat... LOL - thanks man. Yeah its the Dargie Delight II actually the first one had Martini glasses for inlays which is hilarious... I love the color though...

[vega45130]

@vaisatchatrucci yea, his fingers are pretty long..bet he says that it ain´t the only long thing on his body ;)

oh, yea...the martini inlays..but those were only available on the luke model. i´ve been tryin to get one the last cpl of month...but impossible..even tho i´m a MM endorsee myself. just LOVE that colour man. Keep up the good work!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@vega45130 LOL thanks man! I have to correct you though because the Martini inlays on the Dargie Delight I's were on all the models they offered in that color, Lukes, Petrucci's, Silhouettes, etc... I just know 'cause I've seen one in person but you can Google it and find one in the images search. There's not many out there so it's tough to find but I have a pic of one which I practically slept with until I got my own Dargie II :) LOL the color is just sick... My favorite of all time!

[ryguyrocker]

haha usuing a john petrucci signature to play a toto song lol

[vaisatchatrucci]

@ryguyrocker Thats how we roll around here :)

[KIBProductionz]

what kind of guitar synthesizer is used here? is it a distorter?

[vaisatchatrucci]

@KIBProductionz Ernie Ball Music Man JP6

[KIBProductionz]

thanks..btw, nice guitar

[vaisatchatrucci]

@KIBProductionz Thanks bud!

[JETDAB]

This is a fantastic lesson.......who cares about the tone for a lesson ....the sounds is more than enough to get us all there. The content is fantastic. Thank you for posting this fantastic lesson. Is your ear that good to get that relative minor lick at 1:42? WOW . Really impressive. I needed this

[vaisatchatrucci]

@JETDAB Thanks brother! Well I had to slow it WAY down to be able to hear all the notes otherwise it would have been much more difficult to pick out the individual notes for sure. Glad you found it useful! Thanks again :)

[ianandy1234]

thanks very much good lesson really easy to follow

[vaisatchatrucci]

@ianandy1234 My pleasure! :) Glad you liked it!

[mattacuk]

the sound of your strings twanging away really distracted me from your excellent lesson :O)

[vaisatchatrucci]

@mattacuk LOL - I know I know... I try to go direct now when I can cause I know how annoying it is trust me, but I didn't have the motivation to do that before... :)

[allanmceneaney]

thanks so much!!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@allanmceneaney Sure man thank YOU!

[butchsoy]

Such a neophyte and your guitar is out of tune

[vaisatchatrucci]

@butchsoy Thanks - I'll be sure to take lessons from you on how to levitate like a neophyte... LOL :)

[gambaletto]

e' sbagliato

[vaisatchatrucci]

@gambaletto Almeno a me criticare in una lingua che tutti possano capire.

[DanskeSange]

Thank you so much !

This is the only lesson i could learn it from because you really explained it.

Im looking for to play it with a backing track for my father, he is a big Toto fan :-D

Best regards from Denmark

[vaisatchatrucci]

@DanskeSange Awesome! Thanks! Glad it helped! :)

[RioPugliese]

Thanks a ton for the notes of the fast scale: I would have never, ever got them myself.  :)

[vaisatchatrucci]

@RioPugliese I know right? Yeah not exactly a traditional phrase huh? You gotta love it though, I mean only someone snorting massive amounts of cocaine like Luke probably was would come up with that AND it actually WORK... LOL I ain't mad at him though! The guy is clean now and a MONSTER with or without coke...!

[stevi6]

Hey,

great playing, great tone!!

What's your amp and guitar set up?

Cheers

Stevi6

[vaisatchatrucci]

@stev Thanks! Well believe it or not its just my guitar plugged into an Apogee Duet audio interface in Logic Pro and using the Amplitube 2 amp sim plugin. The guitar is a Ernie Ball / Music Man John Petrucci Model with DiMarzio CrunchLab pickup in the bridge.

[GilmoursBlackStrat]

Except for the very beginning of the solo, this is a great lesson. The first part of the solo is more of a D string slide from the F to the G to the A. I would recommend listening to the studio version of the solo. Other than that, which I must add is in some ways more difficult than the speed parts of the solo, vaisatchatrucci has nailed this lesson. It's as spot on as I've seen. Good lesson sir.

[vaisatchatrucci]

@GilmoursBlackStrat thanks dude! I'll have to break out my old Star Licks Lukather video to get it right - I think he actually breaks down that solo on there too. I appreciate it!

[dpsd]

i mean "CTRL SHIFT S" to slow it down

[dpsd]

if you really want to play it note by note, you can play and learn this song by ear. i suggest you try playing this song on WINDOWS MEDIA PLAYER then skip to the guitar solo section and press "CTRL S" it slows down the speed tempo of the song without dropping the tuning then you can clearly hear and copy what's been going on luke's solo specially the pentantonic run. "CTRL N" to reset the original tempo. you can learn the whole song through this..enjoy everyone!

[vaisatchatrucci]

@dpsd Dude thanks for the tip! I didn't know it did that - although I use a Mac but still have a PC and XP on my Mac too so I'll try that out! Thanks!

[dpsd]

@vaisatchatrucci correction "CTRL SHFT S" to slow down windows media player's speed tempo.. "CTRL S" will automatically exit the player. thanks! no prob. :)

[omgdetv]

tabs please

[vaisatchatrucci]

I don't write tab sorry :( I'm sure you can just google it and find it somewhere?

[omgdetv]

I tried but they all look different

[vaisatchatrucci]

All I can suggest is go through this video and tab it out yourself by pausing it as I go through the notes which i think I pretty much go note by note all the way through so it should be doable...? Good luck!

[backthisway]

Hello again .. any progress on that outro ? My ears just still can't et around that first run that strats just after those 2 tone bends...

[vaisatchatrucci]

LOL - hey man, yeah I totally worked on it for about a day and then life happened and I haven't gotten back around to it... LOL I swear I'll get it though - I am DETERMINED to get that one - its got crazy ass phrasing that my fingers are like "fuck that"... LOL

[mufc0794]

good playing dude. but what about making a vid for a song on ever changing times

[vaisatchatrucci]

Thanks - You want the lead part? It sounds pretty tricky :) but a good challenge nonetheless!

[mufc0794]

you know it would be cool but new world would even be cooler :p and if you can it would be of great help

[mufc0794]

o sorry i forgot yea any lead part would be excelent

[mufc0794]

specially new world

[vaisatchatrucci]

I'll have to listen a lot more to it to get it in my head before tackling that one - sounds pretty tough...!

[mufc0794]

so can i count on you?

[vaisatchatrucci]

I can't even count on myself! :) I have a Christmas program I am rehearsing for so I'll be tied up well into the new year but hopefully yeah!

[backthisway]

You play it more clearly than Luke did on hus starlicks video about 18 yrs ago ... !! Top dollar playing man .. can you demo the end vamp solo to rosanna please ___

[vaisatchatrucci]

I'll see what I can do! :)

[vaisatchatrucci]

Man the outro is a bitch! :) I am trying to get it up to speed and it's not easy... crazy runs and phrasing in there that my fingers don't like... LOL

[backthisway]

I tell you what .. even if you can show me exactly the notes an phrasing slow that helps me a lot ,, I can almost hear what it is but seeing it laid out fret by fret would open a big door. It's great little piece no .. by the way Luke plays 9-42 and he is a very very strong guy .. if you nail those wide bends and vib on 10s without them breaking you are in my top 10 list along with Ray Gomez, Pat Thrall, Luke, Ollie Halsall, Trower, and a few olides.. he he

[vaisatchatrucci]

Oh I can definitely do the bends! :) 10's on my Petrucci are slinky :) but 9's are like rubber bands... LOL I'm still working with it - the stuff after the bends is what's weird - it's not like it's too fast, but its the fingering that I'm trying to work out cause the phrasing is typical crazy ass Luke... He did a LOT of coke back then you know... LOL

[backthisway]

OK .. my strats are all pre cbs or early 70s with standard 7 inch radius .. I can do the 2 tone bends but after a few the top e wants to snap. The tension varies between my guitars depending on how I have set them .. one actually sounds better with 9-42 .. one sounds awful unless you put on 11-50 or more then it blows the others away .. I better eat more spinach ... cant wait to hear how you get on. I dont understand why someone who plays like you doesn't do this for a living .. its my job.

[azazael07]

Great playing,tone, Love the dargie JP :D

[vaisatchatrucci]

Thanks bro!

[christopherzberlin]

nice job! nice guitar!!

[vaisatchatrucci]

Thanks! I want a Luke SO bad you don't even know... That'll be my next wish list item... :)

[jwlewisii]

Man, I think that was pretty much dead on. GREAT JOB!!!

[vaisatchatrucci]

Thanks! I appreciate that!

[vaisatchatrucci]

Go Pred's! :)

[LazerRazor7]

good job!

[vaisatchatrucci]

Thanks brothaaaaa!