crossroads guitar duel (ralph macchio vs steve vai)

a clip from the movie crossroads portraying Ralph Macchio (the karate kid) playing a badass guitar solo.

Info from IMDB.com

"Though the blues guitar sounds aren't truly coming from Ralph Macchio's fingers, the actor is actually playing note for note the music of Steve Vai and Ry Cooder. His fingering, slides and bends are precise until the "main" solo, which incorporates Paganini's 5th Caprice, in which it is obvious he is not fingering the correct location on the guitar, as well with the patterns, this can be seen since he uses mainly the same pattern (scale on the top frets, then another one in the bottom frets) and all the scale portion of it, the scales are shifting and changing sound, but his patterns remain the same."

and

"Steve Vai played both sides of the guitar duel, while acting as Jack Butler, the devil's guitarist. Ry Cooder recorded the slide parts and produced the soundtrack."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• solo
• guitar
• karate
• ralph
• machio
• steve
• vai
• crossroads
• ry
• cooder
• eugenes
• trick
• bag

[Phillo127]

Man steve vai is great at pretending to be bad at guitar.

[keithen4007]

steve #$#* you

ralph ok after i get done with my solo im gonna karate kick you in the nuts

[mlugo808]

Fuck yeah, cut his head...laugh now big toothy devil...

[smacman68]

the part @ 0:55 sounds very Yngvei-ish. I can close my eyes and picture him playing. Very neoclassical.

[progrockcoffee]

The funny thing is, Steve Vai played the guitar part that Ralph Macchio plays in this clip.

[rayjay6403]

by the way anybody wanna send me tabs to this i hate to write this over from scratch and its possible to write these notes out cause you can hear them clear as day. it would save me a hole lotta time and trouble if you have tabs

[rayjay6403]

@sharavanwindia i agree 1:00-1:19 is fake the frets are all wrong and yes this is in E standard at 455 hz i too am learning this song i looked at very closely and tried to match his tune :)

[Jay435]

LOL - Steve Vai is not capable of pretending to play poorly. Everyone who can sing - try singing to something out of key, it's hard to do - your brain doesn't want to let you do it. Of course there are those that can't sing anyway but I mean the ones that can - try, it's funny.

[DContra76]

Ijg

[atalex]

Man, twenty-five years later and this scene still gives me chills. The Devil himself is no match for the combined power of Paganini and the Blues.

[causeandeffect81]

Classical vs. technology...

[Leowen2]

Only saw this movie recently and not bad.