90's guitar tutorials literally all go like this: Intro: 10min long COMPLETELY IMPROVISED SHREDDING MONSTER MAMA JAM. Next: "let's tune our guitars together".
The reason is that they were having the videos intros running in music stores, so you would have all the intros of differents tapes, so those intros would have to become enough incentive for people to be interested and buy the tape.
Crazy how his style has actually changed a lot he was far more neoclassical in his early days but found a way to make his own mark by going down the fusion route. Amazing player.
I saw him play in Toronto not long ago...the guy is a damn legend - killer player. Next up is to see Richie Kotzen whenever I get the chance, after that, I'll feel complete lol
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Back then he played far more "traditionally". These days his style has mutated into something a lot more unique. Even technically; for example his use of bends and vibrato don't even seem like the same guy now--it's mostly just a bunch of sliding smears. Wish he still bent and vibratoed like he's doing here. And you rarely see him play regular sequences and patterns nowadays, it's almost more his own language with a lot more cool altered tones and outside playing.
I said something similar to my old guitar teacher as he was a proper shredder and he just said, 'true, but they know how hard it was to get to that level. They know most normal people won't dedicate 6-8 hours a day to practice like they did so why not get paid?'
To get to that level, you have to have some type of obsessive compulsive disorder. I do and I did. That’s how I know. Back in the day I just love doing exercises for hours. It’s like when someone has an itch. They gotta scratch it. One hour of exercise/warm-up, one hour of scales, one hour of sweeping, one hour of improvised shred. Then four hours of practice. I did that from 13 years old to 22 years old. At 18, Kurt Cobain already killed metal. 😂 so I had four years of denial. 😂
@@bigpapi2658 actually The big label record companies killed metal. It was much cheaper to sign nobodies like Cobain (in the beginning) and all the other grunge bands than it was to renew the top metal/hair metal acts at the time.
In a sense Greg Howe is the ultimate shred player by virtue of the fact that he incorporates all the various techniques associated with virtuoso playing including tapping, sweeping, legato, fast alternate picking...etc into his playing by almost equal measure, whereas many of the other players we (guitarists) admire are more associated with a given technique or another, Holdsworth with legato, Gambale with sweeping and economy picking, countless Metal guys with two handed tapping...etc. Howe is also not limited stylistically and able to tackle any genre, the consummate pro. Govan is equally versatile though Howe was doing it decades ago.
at least howe got his own style whatever that means. not very into that govan thingie. and youre so much right, howe doing it decades ago. I said the same damn thing on other vid which they tried to compare greg with internet sensation govan…
@@freeyoutube8298 when you start to listen to govan with a more open mind you'll see he's got as much a unique style as any accomplished gutiar musician in the business. I think howe clearly had a lot to do with govan playing the way he does, but it doesn't diminish what he does by any means in my opinion. The worst thing to do would be to lose another artist to listen to because of petty things as "but this other guy did it before". who cares? i don't, and i listen to both and many others cause they are great
@@javierschiefelbein4084 not that i didnt tried listening to him. He is just not bringing any move in me. Too flat. No kicks. Thus i wonder how he got all the attention. And by todays standard, that anything that hype is the deal, which is a shit standard, is the more reason i held my ground. Too left 🤣 . Sorry for bringing pc culture in to this 😅
@@freeyoutube8298 then we gotta agree to disagree, because even though i profoundly admire the classics, govan still makes music that i find evocative and moving. not flat at all with all the rhythm, tone, accent variations and even references to other pieces of music, even making "musical jokes" live. when i got to watch him live it was straight up awesome. hope you come to like his style in some other time, but if it doesn't happens that's ok too
@@KalosPVP musicians really, because a guitarist that can compose and work around a band to create good music, not just to flex his ability, is a good musician, he understands music and how to work on it.
Greg came in late to the party at a time when shred guitar was saturated (pun intended) and would soon become "cheesey." The internet eventually brought it back but guitar solo albums in the 90s were a hard sell and mainstream bands moved away from competent guitar solos into a more Cobain style, IF ANYTHING. That's my observation anyway.
😮 yeh greg howe 2 - stand on line ,bach mock , strat o mania ,complex stuff with koyzen , many fusion stuff he jams , Come n get it , Ascend , various mood he has just like Frank Gamble plays complex stuff but so melidous another great player
@@sorinciobanu4561 10 years but I stop play this for a year mow ! I forget all the scales , didn’t play this scale tho , I played the master Buckethead scales
Greg howe is an amazing player I remember watching this on VHS when I was about 13 and been playing around 3 years, obviously it scared the hell out of me, now it's 32 years later and I'm 45 years old and I'm so glad to have rediscovered this classic reh instructional video. Thank you, now I am blazing along with Greg's expert training. What a monster player with a great personal feel and style. One of my favourites. Awesome
I have the guitar exactly like this because of Greg since I use toblive in Allentown neighbors to Easton where Greg lived at the time Still have the guitar but now live in Central Florida and still play it
I did. I need to get it fixed though. Great guitar. Fender HM Strat My friend HATED it though. Something about the fretboard he couldn't stand said it'd hurt his fingers. But I never had any problem with it He used an Ibanez 550 which I also liked. The only thing we both couldn't understand was how Greg was getting that tone out of a Fender Dual Showman amp. Because I think I saw him live once with that thing and it didn't sound as full as it does here In his first album though he did some crazy amp alchemy by recording with a cheap Marshall mini amp with a distortion pedal boosted into it. That's the best time he had. He shoulda stayed with that imo Another underrated guitar was that one Yamaha guitar I forget the model. Was quite similar. And then I also had a Fender Heartfield Talon guitar but I didn't like that one
@@mehditayshun5595 do you have something original to say? I have heard that many times before and it wasn't that cool the first time someone said it and it definitely won't be cool after low iq dumbasses have repeated it millions of times all over, because they don't have the intelligence to come up with something themselves. You need to work on your stress levels, they're getting to high, go watch some of your videos. Ps. I really do not care what some idiot stranger on the Internet has to say or thinks about me.
I use to have this in dvd. I had so many others on vhs. I wore them out. Now all the kids today only have to go on TH-cam and you can find all the hot licks and reh stuff. The intro still to this day makes me go wow. What a great player.
@@uroboric I agree with you there. I had to copy tapes by ear as there was no internet around and had to order cds from America etc. so in a way it helped with your learning and you had to really work at it. Don’t get me wrong there are some amazing players today and I really enjoy some of there videos. But like you say. I still go back to the old players as I feel they are still much better players.
@@beedomguitars Yea. If you know what you're looking for you find good stuff on youtube. But as a beginner it's hard to tell what's good advice and what's not
I completely missed the boat on this guy. His ability to incorporate all shred techniques and still sound musical is impressive. His method for alternate picking straight through scales is also pretty damn smart!
It's because he thinks in harmony instead just playing linear scales. When you play classical guitar piano and use the same code in electric guitar it's totally different approach. So i don't recommend to base the whole time just learning scales and non sense sequences.
Outstanding!! One of my favorites- if not my very favorite of the "shred" era players (I'd say neoclassical, but Greg had that bluesy/jazzy/fusion approach). Totally awesome player! I was hooked after getting his debut album, and really loved the 2nd one with his brother Al on vocals- Howe II. Thanx for posting this! I can't touch his playing, but it will be a fun challenge to try and work through this thing. I wish I had the original DVD of this- or a hard copy.... Rock on, Brother!
first time I heard kick it all over I was a Greg Howe fan. His approach was very different than the other shedders. I loved how he always did his own versions of the what the other guys were doing. Obviously he has his bluesy progressiveness (more so these days), but his clever sliding and hammering achieved all the same results as the other shrapnel artists, but also kept him distinct sounding. Its strange how that initial group of shredders (yngwie, gilbert, kotzen macalpine, moore, becker, howe, and friedman) seem to come out of nowhere so fully realized. In my book no one has topped that initial group.
Remember that Yngwie burst onto the scene with the Steeler album in 1983, then the Rising Force album in '84. All of the major Shrapnel releases from guys like Vinnie Moore, MacAlpine, Gilbert, etc., started a couple of years after that, with guys like Howe and Becker's releases coming in the late 80's. And Paul Gilbert is quoted at saying that after hearing Yngwie for the first time, it basically sent him back to the woodshed for a year to expand and hone his chops. So I think there was definitely a time cushion there for guys to hone their technique prior to releasing their solo albums. Yngwie innovated that neoclassical style emphasizing alternate picking and sweeps within the metal context, and everyone else clearly followed.. The strange thing is that running parallel to all of these and yet completely separate (and unknown!) was Shawn Lane, who is still and will probably never be topped as having the most mind-blowing technique and speed. And you have videos of him as 16 year old kid playing this mind-boggling stuff in the late 70's (th-cam.com/video/ZcRHVkjLub4/w-d-xo.html). I'll never forget when I first heard those demos of him in the late 80's, and once his REH videos came out on VHS you got to see up close exactly what a monster player he was (th-cam.com/video/K2QIxv5UhII/w-d-xo.html)..
Greg and Tony MacAlpine are ones of the most underrated guitarists out there! (and we know why!) They are genuine and their melodies are straight to the soul! Happy that I am living in their Era
Very odd vortex they got trapped in when you had others in other genres like BB King, Albert Collins, Albert King, George Benson, Django Reinhardt, and even Jimi Hendrix get way more respect and recognition. Hell even. Vernon Reid of Living Color and guitarist from Rage Against Machine . But alas I was throwing in some pioneers in there which tbh probably isn't fair and also commercial band guitarists often get more praise than virtuosos. It's why Rolling Stone magazine posted Kirk Hammett of Metallica a 'better' guitarist than Joe Satriani (his teacher actually) and Steve Vai (the better student of Satch) in terms of top 100 guitarists of all time list even though anyone with an ear and common sense knows that's bs 😂
I've just been downloading as many of these instructional videos I can find and putting them on a DVD lol. This one is up there in terms of video quality and content, thanks for the upload!
We need more content of guitarists isolating these intro licks! It is just phenomenal to think that Greg was playing this good in the eighties? It would be good to see some of these astonishing licks broken down and tought at a level us mere mortals have a chance of grasping. In saying that Greg's right picking and tapping hand might be the most impossible thing to get ,let alone the monstrosity of notes,appegios,wide interval licks rythmic patterns of the left hand. His playing is at a level that seems unattainable. He must of practised very hard I know that much.
I always find these late 80s/early 90s instructional VHS’ hysterical because you basically have to be good enough to have your own instructional VHS to play anything in them.
Found this today and now I finally have the feeling, after six years, that this kind of excercises are the key to get my playing on the next level. Good to have the 80' and all that awesome players.
THIS IS AWESOME!!! I use to have this original video lesson on VHS tape back in 1989 when I was a kid!! The only thing missing is Columbo coming in at the beginning trying to remember who he is before it goes into his lead intro!!! Someone stole this tape from me and I haven'[t seen it in over 25 years!!! Flashbacks!!!!
For his time this guy sounds very humble and is a natural teacher. You will watch guys like Yungie who can't teach just give you demo demonstration of their songs
It's crazy how Greg Howe is one of the most incredible technical guitarists imaginable, but yet he is so humble and never trash talks other musicians and is never pretentious like Guthrie Govan.
THIS IS JUST MASTERY ON ANOTHER LEVEL ITS SO GOOD IT MAKES ME JUST LAUGH ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸😌😌😌🤯🤯🤯🤯😉😉😉☺️☺️🥰🥰😍😍😍😘🤣😂😂😂😭😭😭🤣🤣😂🌎🌎🌎90s guys were just different!!!!
What a Fkn monster on the guitar. Brings me back to being a teen with a mullet mid 80s thinking I was gna be a rock star lolol Fender has reissued these Strats 2020...I think it's only a limited run. They r calling the The "Heavy Metal" Strat lol
so... many .... notes... and i love it! first 'shred' video i ever saw, still love it. This would be up there with Brett Garsed's early instructional vid!
Hang on, Greg, I’ll get right back to tuning as soon as I return from the ER, that intro scorched my face to the point where medical attention was required, I’ll return momentarily…🤯😳🎸🔥🔥🔥
The classic HM Strat! When anyone says “remember 90’s music”? People thing grunge, guitar oriented rock and pop, techno. While all of that was going on you had the shredders all getting big at the same time. Music was much more interesting before the world of social media.
I remember this was part of the REH guitar instructional videos, I have learnt some lessons from guys like Malmsteen, Chris Impellitteri, MAB. Regret to not have checked this guy, back in our days, shred means good guitarist.
Best personal introduction ever. No hellos, no whats up TH-camrs just meeeleee meeleee meeeleee meeeeeee! I also imagine this is how he picks up chicks on a date.
damn the intro already shows u a combination of mixes neo-classical ,bit of blues n tapping thrown in plus fast phrases n jazzy eleement , yeh in 1 interview he shared how young he n a fren watch EVH on stage n then went on to try 2 handed techniques in time to come 😊🎉
Amazing! But I gotta say, whoever uploaded this needs to figure out a way to STOP TH-cam form plastering this with nonsensical ads. I counted TWENTY EIGHT ridiculous ads and THE FIRST ONE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the most amazing intro of this video! NOT COOL, TH-cam! Have some respect! Maybe there's a way under "settings" to disable anyone from plastering such genius with complete nonsense. I think we ALL agree that 28 ads during a 54 minute videos is BEYOND EXTREME!
Install AD BLOCK PLUS on your computer .... problem solved. I'm surprised that so many people STILL are not aware of this software. It makes TH-cam and many other sites usable again.
@@rowenae.bagongon7979 jaj.. its not worthy my friend. If you live in the USA you could by a used one, from 1988 or 89. Anyway ibanez has many options. Fender and gibson are overpriced.
Damn that is the most beautiful guitar I’ve ever laid my eyes on 😍. I have the 2020 frozen yellow reissue but I would rather own that red one with a maple neck
Paul Gilbert, Tony MacAlpine, Chris Impeletteri, Vinnie Moore, Ritchie Kotzen, Jason Becker, Shawn Lane, Michael Angelo Di Batio, Michael Romeo, Greg Howe - each one of many 80’s shredders but am sure I’m missing a few due to old age, memory loss! Had the style of playing been deemed as necessarily musical? Am not entirely convinced but ‘twas certainly fun to listen to and more so to watch when it was fairly new and happening! As influential in the instrumental heavy rock and metal sub genre - Mr. Malmsteen had certainly managed to create a monster lol
I have that same Fender "Strat," but in white. Though it may not be so white anymore, after "35" years. It's more of a smoky, smoke-stained off-white from all those bars I've played in over the years. And for over one year, it remained in a police evidence room, because it was stollen from me, and was needed as evidence untill the court was able to convict the home burglars. It smeeled like every drug known to man. Pot, and choclate, for some reason. My brave litle guitar has had a much more adventurous life story than I will ever have, sadley. But it's still an amazing instument, standing the test of times. The best of times. Though I think it looks so much better in Black.
90's guitar tutorials literally all go like this: Intro: 10min long COMPLETELY IMPROVISED SHREDDING MONSTER MAMA JAM. Next: "let's tune our guitars together".
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Yes but on those you did not have a drunken guy interrupting the class or your first music teacher participating on it
Hahahaha, yeah. Not loads of guys used electronic tuners back then to be honest.
The reason is that they were having the videos intros running in music stores, so you would have all the intros of differents tapes, so those intros would have to become enough incentive for people to be interested and buy the tape.
@@danielhadida3915 ohhh that makes perfect sense!
Crazy how his style has actually changed a lot he was far more neoclassical in his early days but found a way to make his own mark by going down the fusion route. Amazing player.
Hello, I am sharing this for fans of Greg Howe and Gambale.
and instrumental metal.greetings have a good 2024
th-cam.com/video/0Issoi4f8OE/w-d-xo.html
I saw him play in Toronto not long ago...the guy is a damn legend - killer player. Next up is to see Richie Kotzen whenever I get the chance, after that, I'll feel complete lol
I was thinking exactly the same thing. Back then he played far more "traditionally". These days his style has mutated into something a lot more unique. Even technically; for example his use of bends and vibrato don't even seem like the same guy now--it's mostly just a bunch of sliding smears. Wish he still bent and vibratoed like he's doing here. And you rarely see him play regular sequences and patterns nowadays, it's almost more his own language with a lot more cool altered tones and outside playing.
Still is 1st album is one of my fav ever because of its musicality and its testimony to the 80ies happy shredding !
@brandonkejick4130 hey where's Blues Saraceno, Vinnie Moore, Chris Impelliteri, Tony Macalpine and Buckethead in that comment
Can't believe Greg Howe is also giving us the keys to HIS Lamborghini. These guitar virtuosos give away their Lambos like candy.
It's 'cause they know most of us can't drive 'em anyway.
I said something similar to my old guitar teacher as he was a proper shredder and he just said, 'true, but they know how hard it was to get to that level. They know most normal people won't dedicate 6-8 hours a day to practice like they did so why not get paid?'
Starlicks videos weren't cheap!!
To get to that level, you have to have some type of obsessive compulsive disorder. I do and I did. That’s how I know. Back in the day I just love doing exercises for hours. It’s like when someone has an itch. They gotta scratch it. One hour of exercise/warm-up, one hour of scales, one hour of sweeping, one hour of improvised shred. Then four hours of practice. I did that from 13 years old to 22 years old. At 18, Kurt Cobain already killed metal. 😂 so I had four years of denial. 😂
@@bigpapi2658 actually The big label record companies killed metal. It was much cheaper to sign nobodies like Cobain (in the beginning) and all the other grunge bands than it was to renew the top metal/hair metal acts at the time.
In a sense Greg Howe is the ultimate shred player by virtue of the fact that he incorporates all the various techniques associated with virtuoso playing including tapping, sweeping, legato, fast alternate picking...etc into his playing by almost equal measure, whereas many of the other players we (guitarists) admire are more associated with a given technique or another, Holdsworth with legato, Gambale with sweeping and economy picking, countless Metal guys with two handed tapping...etc. Howe is also not limited stylistically and able to tackle any genre, the consummate pro. Govan is equally versatile though Howe was doing it decades ago.
at least howe got his own style whatever that means. not very into that govan thingie. and youre so much right, howe doing it decades ago. I said the same damn thing on other vid which they tried to compare greg with internet sensation govan…
Yup, one of the greatest ever.
@@freeyoutube8298 when you start to listen to govan with a more open mind you'll see he's got as much a unique style as any accomplished gutiar musician in the business. I think howe clearly had a lot to do with govan playing the way he does, but it doesn't diminish what he does by any means in my opinion. The worst thing to do would be to lose another artist to listen to because of petty things as "but this other guy did it before". who cares? i don't, and i listen to both and many others cause they are great
@@javierschiefelbein4084 not that i didnt tried listening to him. He is just not bringing any move in me. Too flat. No kicks. Thus i wonder how he got all the attention. And by todays standard, that anything that hype is the deal, which is a shit standard, is the more reason i held my ground. Too left 🤣 . Sorry for bringing pc culture in to this 😅
@@freeyoutube8298 then we gotta agree to disagree, because even though i profoundly admire the classics, govan still makes music that i find evocative and moving. not flat at all with all the rhythm, tone, accent variations and even references to other pieces of music, even making "musical jokes" live. when i got to watch him live it was straight up awesome. hope you come to like his style in some other time, but if it doesn't happens that's ok too
80's guitar has to be some of the best musicians ever.
Na late 40s and 50s Jazz musicians still untouched to this day
Not only they had amazing technique, but also were so musical and tasteful, that has been lost nowadays a lot, in exchange for robot like technique.
Some of best guitarists, not musicians.
@@KalosPVP musicians really, because a guitarist that can compose and work around a band to create good music, not just to flex his ability, is a good musician, he understands music and how to work on it.
@@TrochezCovers capable of that, certainly.. but saying that's true for 80s guitarists is inaccurate.
I’m convinced Greg is from another world, absolutely outstanding! He has always been under rated and deserve much more exposure. Thanks for the post.
Greg came in late to the party at a time when shred guitar was saturated (pun intended) and would soon become "cheesey." The internet eventually brought it back but guitar solo albums in the 90s were a hard sell and mainstream bands moved away from competent guitar solos into a more Cobain style, IF ANYTHING.
That's my observation anyway.
I totally agree. My simple little brain can not comprehend because it just blew up.
He is so good in shredding fusion
He's a good player but didn't really bring anything new to the table. All he does had already done to death by all the eighties shredders.
@@dstfnohe was a kid here. He didn’t really have a sound, but if you go listen to “introspection” it is amazing. He found his sound by then.
What an absolute beast. He’s so unbelievably good he scares me. Stellar player.
That is because you suck.
😮 yeh greg howe 2 - stand on line ,bach mock , strat o mania ,complex stuff with koyzen , many fusion stuff he jams , Come n get it , Ascend , various mood he has just like Frank Gamble plays complex stuff but so melidous another great player
@@metal2020Vinnie Moore also underrated
I finally able to play the first 30 seconds of that intro after all this years of practicing.
how many years??
@@sorinciobanu4561 10 years but I stop play this for a year mow ! I forget all the scales , didn’t play this scale tho , I played the master Buckethead scales
I am coming here from Sr. Cesar Huesca's video. 👏👏
Y si
Thanks for coming
also thank him.
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@@SuperXtoon siii cual ? x2
Greg howe is an amazing player I remember watching this on VHS when I was about 13 and been playing around 3 years, obviously it scared the hell out of me, now it's 32 years later and I'm 45 years old and I'm so glad to have rediscovered this classic reh instructional video. Thank you, now I am blazing along with Greg's expert training. What a monster player with a great personal feel and style. One of my favourites. Awesome
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Greg is one of the greats. Absolutely phenomenal musician!
I bet 90% of guitarists quit after watching intro.
"Yeah screw this".
"Fuck it, I came here to learn some licks not to be ashamed"
😂
Imagine the kids buying the tape back then. Some were probably encouraged, but most just wanted to throw the guitar away with the tape😆
Yeah, I quit
Not me , no way i am hungry for these skills , speed., tenique and flawless solos
Who else bought one of those Strats in the 80's and do you still have it ? Man what a great guitar. I played that guitar for 1000's of hours.
I have the guitar exactly like this because of Greg since I use toblive in Allentown neighbors to Easton where Greg lived at the time Still have the guitar but now live in Central Florida and still play it
@@roboravitz5572 🎉wow
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I did. I need to get it fixed though. Great guitar. Fender HM Strat
My friend HATED it though. Something about the fretboard he couldn't stand said it'd hurt his fingers. But I never had any problem with it
He used an Ibanez 550 which I also liked.
The only thing we both couldn't understand was how Greg was getting that tone out of a Fender Dual Showman amp.
Because I think I saw him live once with that thing and it didn't sound as full as it does here
In his first album though he did some crazy amp alchemy by recording with a cheap Marshall mini amp with a distortion pedal boosted into it. That's the best time he had. He shoulda stayed with that imo
Another underrated guitar was that one Yamaha guitar I forget the model. Was quite similar.
And then I also had a Fender Heartfield Talon guitar but I didn't like that one
Very under appreciated. That intro is more intense than PG Intense Rock 1. And I'm a fan of PG more than of Greg.
crazy to see how his whole style has just evolved completely
Greg has added so much technique to the world of guitar it's insane. He and Mattias Ecklund are true innovators for all coming generations..
Says you.
After 4 years the TROLLs finally come out🖕
@@mehditayshun5595 do you have something original to say? I have heard that many times before and it wasn't that cool the first time someone said it and it definitely won't be cool after low iq dumbasses have repeated it millions of times all over, because they don't have the intelligence to come up with something themselves.
You need to work on your stress levels, they're getting to high, go watch some of your videos.
Ps. I really do not care what some idiot stranger on the Internet has to say or thinks about me.
Two hand "hammer from nowhere"@@basdfef4775
I use to have this in dvd. I had so many others on vhs. I wore them out. Now all the kids today only have to go on TH-cam and you can find all the hot licks and reh stuff. The intro still to this day makes me go wow. What a great player.
problem is that 90% there is on youtube is bullshit and only stops you from progressing. I rather watch these old lesson videos than some new bullshit
@@uroboric I agree with you there. I had to copy tapes by ear as there was no internet around and had to order cds from America etc. so in a way it helped with your learning and you had to really work at it. Don’t get me wrong there are some amazing players today and I really enjoy some of there videos. But like you say. I still go back to the old players as I feel they are still much better players.
@@beedomguitars Yea. If you know what you're looking for you find good stuff on youtube. But as a beginner it's hard to tell what's good advice and what's not
1989: Greg Howe plays a Fender HM Strat.
2020: The internet plays Fender HM Strats.
I completely missed the boat on this guy. His ability to incorporate all shred techniques and still sound musical is impressive. His method for alternate picking straight through scales is also pretty damn smart!
It's because he thinks in harmony instead just playing linear scales. When you play classical guitar piano and use the same code in electric guitar it's totally different approach. So i don't recommend to base the whole time just learning scales and non sense sequences.
Insanely clean hand synchronization and a unique style.
Thanks a lot!
Its amazing that it looks like such little effort for him to play and blaze. Super efficient shred.
Indeed!
Outstanding!! One of my favorites- if not my very favorite of the "shred" era players (I'd say neoclassical, but Greg had that bluesy/jazzy/fusion approach). Totally awesome player! I was hooked after getting his debut album, and really loved the 2nd one with his brother Al on vocals- Howe II. Thanx for posting this! I can't touch his playing, but it will be a fun challenge to try and work through this thing. I wish I had the original DVD of this- or a hard copy.... Rock on, Brother!
first time I heard kick it all over I was a Greg Howe fan. His approach was very different than the other shedders. I loved how he always did his own versions of the what the other guys were doing. Obviously he has his bluesy progressiveness (more so these days), but his clever sliding and hammering achieved all the same results as the other shrapnel artists, but also kept him distinct sounding. Its strange how that initial group of shredders (yngwie, gilbert, kotzen macalpine, moore, becker, howe, and friedman) seem to come out of nowhere so fully realized. In my book no one has topped that initial group.
How could you forget Michael Angelo Batio from that group? He is the Godmaster of shred.
And Shawn Lane !
Really! We got Rising Force, Passion & Warfare, Surfing With The Alien, Speed Metal Symphony, Minds Eye, Shrapnel years were the best.
Remember that Yngwie burst onto the scene with the Steeler album in 1983, then the Rising Force album in '84. All of the major Shrapnel releases from guys like Vinnie Moore, MacAlpine, Gilbert, etc., started a couple of years after that, with guys like Howe and Becker's releases coming in the late 80's. And Paul Gilbert is quoted at saying that after hearing Yngwie for the first time, it basically sent him back to the woodshed for a year to expand and hone his chops. So I think there was definitely a time cushion there for guys to hone their technique prior to releasing their solo albums. Yngwie innovated that neoclassical style emphasizing alternate picking and sweeps within the metal context, and everyone else clearly followed..
The strange thing is that running parallel to all of these and yet completely separate (and unknown!) was Shawn Lane, who is still and will probably never be topped as having the most mind-blowing technique and speed. And you have videos of him as 16 year old kid playing this mind-boggling stuff in the late 70's (th-cam.com/video/ZcRHVkjLub4/w-d-xo.html). I'll never forget when I first heard those demos of him in the late 80's, and once his REH videos came out on VHS you got to see up close exactly what a monster player he was (th-cam.com/video/K2QIxv5UhII/w-d-xo.html)..
Don't forget Reb Beach and Vito Bratta.
I’m dying laughing for some reason. This intro is so insane! And it doesn’t stop 😂
it's a nice way to get demotivated from watching the whole thing 😂
josiah core I wasn’t it expecting it to be so long, the man really owned that intro holy shit 😂
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josiah core check my latest guitar vid :)
hes got his own style.for sure
Classical guitar trained,thumb and hand positions, plays ON his fingertips, cool arpeggios throughout....my god!
Greg is the most complete guitarrist of the all world. Super underrated. This is a little bit of his full insane potencial.
I remember buying his first album not knowing what to expect and i was blown away.
my fav
Greg and Tony MacAlpine are ones of the most underrated guitarists out there! (and we know why!) They are genuine and their melodies are straight to the soul! Happy that I am living in their Era
Hello, I am sharing this for fans of Greg Howe and Gambale.
and instrumental metal.greetings have a good 2024
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Very odd vortex they got trapped in when you had others in other genres like BB King, Albert Collins, Albert King, George Benson, Django Reinhardt, and even Jimi Hendrix get way more respect and recognition. Hell even. Vernon Reid of Living Color and guitarist from Rage Against Machine .
But alas I was throwing in some pioneers in there which tbh probably isn't fair and also commercial band guitarists often get more praise than virtuosos.
It's why Rolling Stone magazine posted Kirk Hammett of Metallica a 'better' guitarist than Joe Satriani (his teacher actually) and Steve Vai (the better student of Satch) in terms of top 100 guitarists of all time list even though anyone with an ear and common sense knows that's bs 😂
I used to have that exact guitar, color and everything. My friends would give me shit about my pink guitar. Damn it! It's not pink, it's RAZZBERRY!!!
Why? Pink guitars look sick
@@joshmuz9018 I agree!
You were getting razzed over your "Razz"berry guitar.
I've been following Greg for about 20 years and I am still amazed all the time.
dido!
Greg the kind of guy to shred so fast the credits are played at the beginning.
I still have this REH video on VHS 📼 in my basement 😃
Watching this in 2023has made my year better!!
Greg Howe is no doubt one of the greatest guitarist ever and he has a non stop wealth of chops, legend.
love this guys phrasing and tone, fucking amazing guitar player
I've just been downloading as many of these instructional videos I can find and putting them on a DVD lol. This one is up there in terms of video quality and content, thanks for the upload!
this is good insight into his foundation.
The final part of the introductory solo feels like I am playing Galaga in NES. Amazing!!!! You rock Greg!
Wow , blown Away this guy is from out of space , no way human.....too intelligent just Amazing Playing non-stop.....Wow ♥️😳♥️😳♥️😳
When I found this clip I was blown away by his arpeggio work on the fretboard. Amazing guitarist!!!
How come I never heard of Greg Howe. He's totally excellent. 🙂
We need more content of guitarists isolating these intro licks! It is just phenomenal to think that Greg was playing this good in the eighties? It would be good to see some of these astonishing licks broken down and tought at a level us mere mortals have a chance of grasping. In saying that Greg's right picking and tapping hand might be the most impossible thing to get ,let alone the monstrosity of notes,appegios,wide interval licks rythmic patterns of the left hand. His playing is at a level that seems unattainable. He must of practised very hard I know that much.
I always find these late 80s/early 90s instructional VHS’ hysterical because you basically have to be good enough to have your own instructional VHS to play anything in them.
Found this today and now I finally have the feeling, after six years, that this kind of excercises are the key to get my playing on the next level. Good to have the 80' and all that awesome players.
Yeah the first exercise is the my favorite it gets you around the fretboard and it flows.also you can just transfer it to any scale
That run starting at 1:30 is great. Dudes hands glide across that fretboard. Love Greg.
THIS IS AWESOME!!! I use to have this original video lesson on VHS tape back in 1989 when I was a kid!! The only thing missing is Columbo coming in at the beginning trying to remember who he is before it goes into his lead intro!!! Someone stole this tape from me and I haven'[t seen it in over 25 years!!! Flashbacks!!!!
First time to discover all about Greg Howe was long ago, because of this video. Thanks for posting.
Our pleasure!
The one and only, maestro Greg Effin' Howe! That intro jezuz! Infreakinsane playing!
These are the lessons i couldn't afford back in the day.
This man should've been as big as Vai or Satriani...just so fucking good.
He chose to go jazz fusion instead and lost some media exposure
The intro gave me fever followed by a deep depresion😩😔
LOL...
Gave me great hope. But funny as F mate
For his time this guy sounds very humble and is a natural teacher. You will watch guys like Yungie who can't teach just give you demo demonstration of their songs
Just bought re-issue white swapping out trem and pickup swap and was told about this artist who made this with fender amazing virtuoso 🤘🎸
Rock on!
Gracias Anthony por subir a youtube esta joya de este gran guitarrista,saludos desde Argentina..
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuck!!!!!!!! That intro melted my nuts!!!!!!!!
lol
I was beginning to believe that the intro shred would never end.
😂 love the Peter Falk comic relief, nice touch.
Very cool. We don’t see enough of this stuff these days.
Thank you very much for posting! Greg Howe is amazing!
Beast! He’s more refined now, but one hell of a player!!
Spot the wrong note? Spot the edit? NO. Just very accurate different clean playing. Need to try some of this!
Greg is amazing!!!
One comment though: 50 minutes video, 45 minutes warmup :D
Hoje em dia é outro Greg Howe! Toca um estilo, um timbre e uma técnica totalmente diferente
It’s crazy because this is Greg before he actually became Greg. After this he released instrospection with much more jazz/fusion influence!
Great instructional video, plus periodic visits from various TV icons from my childhood. What more could I ask for?
Killer savage intro to become a jazz/fusion amazing guitarist.. my idol about all
Making that Strat HM sing with those arpeggios and sweeps!!
I have the same guitar in white. The fingerboard is much more large than a nornal fender. It plays very good!!
It's crazy how Greg Howe is one of the most incredible technical guitarists imaginable, but yet he is so humble and never trash talks other musicians and is never pretentious like Guthrie Govan.
pretentious like Guthrie Govan? Never seen that.
THIS IS JUST MASTERY ON ANOTHER LEVEL ITS SO GOOD IT MAKES ME JUST LAUGH ✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸😌😌😌🤯🤯🤯🤯😉😉😉☺️☺️🥰🥰😍😍😍😘🤣😂😂😂😭😭😭🤣🤣😂🌎🌎🌎90s guys were just different!!!!
Honestly, in so glad I learned to play guitar…the way it came to me was so serendipitous ❤❤❤
What a Fkn monster on the guitar. Brings me back to being a teen with a mullet mid 80s thinking I was gna be a rock star lolol Fender has reissued these Strats 2020...I think it's only a limited run. They r calling the The "Heavy Metal" Strat lol
I had one of those Fender HM models back in the day.
so... many .... notes... and i love it! first 'shred' video i ever saw, still love it. This would be up there with Brett Garsed's early instructional vid!
I love Garsed.
The Slide..."Get Used to it" ...THAT is the "Trick" to a COOL RIFF !!
Hang on, Greg, I’ll get right back to tuning as soon as I return from the ER, that intro scorched my face to the point where medical attention was required, I’ll return momentarily…🤯😳🎸🔥🔥🔥
The classic HM Strat! When anyone says “remember 90’s music”? People thing grunge, guitar oriented rock and pop, techno. While all of that was going on you had the shredders all getting big at the same time. Music was much more interesting before the world of social media.
Damn i wish i discovered this sooner, what an amazing player. And that's an insanely merciless right hand !
Absolutely love GH...Awesome guitar player with Mozart-like musical instincts !! His first album an Absolute Sizzler 🎸🎶🎵🎼🎨🍷
I remember this was part of the REH guitar instructional videos, I have learnt some lessons from guys like Malmsteen, Chris Impellitteri, MAB. Regret to not have checked this guy, back in our days, shred means good guitarist.
Best personal introduction ever. No hellos, no whats up TH-camrs just meeeleee meeleee meeeleee meeeeeee! I also imagine this is how he picks up chicks on a date.
damn the intro already shows u a combination of mixes neo-classical ,bit of blues n tapping thrown in plus fast phrases n jazzy eleement ,
yeh in 1 interview he shared how young he n a fren watch EVH on stage n then went on to try 2 handed techniques in time to come 😊🎉
This dude was always the best shredder Varney had. All the techniques of the others but with phrasing like Beck!
thanks for sharing high quality material
Great guitarist. Very unique fretting and picking techniques.
Amazing! But I gotta say, whoever uploaded this needs to figure out a way to STOP TH-cam form plastering this with nonsensical ads. I counted TWENTY EIGHT ridiculous ads and THE FIRST ONE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE of the most amazing intro of this video! NOT COOL, TH-cam! Have some respect! Maybe there's a way under "settings" to disable anyone from plastering such genius with complete nonsense. I think we ALL agree that 28 ads during a 54 minute videos is BEYOND EXTREME!
im on it.thanx for the feedback.l need the subs more than i need the revenue.
Install AD BLOCK PLUS on your computer .... problem solved.
I'm surprised that so many people STILL are not aware of this software. It makes TH-cam and many other sites usable again.
its called "ADBLOCKPLUS"
I remember that vision street wear shirt in the stores back then... good times
I'm here after fender announced the revival of the HM strat HAHAHAH
Did you see the prices? XD
Go and get a used one.
@@claudiocruzat7667 Imma sell my kidneys now HAHAHA
@@rowenae.bagongon7979 jaj.. its not worthy my friend. If you live in the USA you could by a used one, from 1988 or 89. Anyway ibanez has many options. Fender and gibson are overpriced.
If this video series has taught me anything, it's that every 80's metal guitarist was a friendly nerd.
Greg is one of the few musicians I know of that can make even silence sound good.
PHENOMENAL..
EACH AND EVERY TIME I SEE THIS VIDEO..
I AM TRANSPORTED RIGHT BACK TO 1988..
I WAS AND STILL AM A MR.GREG HOWE DEVOTEE...
Who needs an AI to play any song when we have Greg Howe. How' bout it.
Amazing shred great lesson ❤🎉😊
Damn that is the most beautiful guitar I’ve ever laid my eyes on 😍. I have the 2020 frozen yellow reissue but I would rather own that red one with a maple neck
I just discovered this guy. I have a new hero
This guy is A Beast, it's scary
Paul Gilbert, Tony MacAlpine, Chris Impeletteri, Vinnie Moore, Ritchie Kotzen, Jason Becker, Shawn Lane, Michael Angelo Di Batio, Michael Romeo, Greg Howe - each one of many 80’s shredders but am sure I’m missing a few due to old age, memory loss! Had the style of playing been deemed as necessarily musical? Am not entirely convinced but ‘twas certainly fun to listen to and more so to watch when it was fairly new and happening! As influential in the instrumental heavy rock and metal sub genre - Mr. Malmsteen had certainly managed to create a monster lol
I have that same Fender "Strat," but in white. Though it may not be so white anymore, after "35" years. It's more of a smoky, smoke-stained off-white from all those bars I've played in over the years. And for over one year, it remained in a police evidence room, because it was stollen from me, and was needed as evidence untill the court was able to convict the home burglars. It smeeled like every drug known to man. Pot, and choclate, for some reason. My brave litle guitar has had a much more adventurous life story than I will ever have, sadley. But it's still an amazing instument, standing the test of times. The best of times. Though I think it looks so much better in Black.
Love the HM Strat. I have the Blue colored one. Classic
Never heard of this guy.I've been listening to hard rock ,glam rock ,metal and all sorts of death metal ,but this guy is a Guiterist I've not heard .
How in THE FUCK can you play like that!!??! That's God Level